BIOGRAPHY
Known for her ground-breaking 9 Principles of Change, Ariane de Bonvoisin delivers game-changing insights on navigating professional and personal transitions, inspiring teams through the next frontier of leadership, bringing a more human and authentic dimension to work in the age of AI, and ensuring health and well-being during peak performance.
She has spoken and coached at companies such as Google, Twitter, Morgan Stanley, Investec, The IDB, KPMG, Essilor, Amazon, Nestle and Redbull amongst others. She has also been a keynote at events including Oprah’s Conference, Maria Shriver’s Women’s Conference, the Multimillion Dollar Roundtable (MDRT) and other international conferences.
Ariane has written articles for media outlets including Fast Company, Business Week, Oprah Magazine, Good Housekeeping, Yahoo, Town & Country, Advertising Age, the New York Daily News, Huffington Post and Reader’s Digest among others. She has also been written about in Forbes and USA Today.
Ariane grew up in 6 countries across 3 continents. With a degree in economics and international relations from the London School of Economics at the age of 19, Ariane began her professional career at The Boston Consulting Group working in over a dozen countries. After an MBA from Stanford University, she moved to New York, working with media companies Bertelsmann and Sony. In 2000, she joined Time Warner as the Managing Director of a new $500 million digital- media venture fund.
She now focuses on life skills, change and transition, wellness and overall transformation and is an active coach and advisor to businesses of all sizes.
She founded and was CEO and Chief Change Optimist of First30Days.com, a New York City- based media company focused on guiding people through all types of changes.
Ariane has appeared on dozens of TV and radio shows, including NBC’s Today Show, the CBS Early Show, CNN and ABC News Now. Ariane’s book entitled, The First 30 Days: Your Guide to Making Any Change Easier was published by Harper Collins and reached the bestseller list. The book has now been translated into over a dozen languages. Her most recent book series, Giggles and Joy: Spiritual Life Lessons for Kids, covers important life skills for children age 2-10.
She was selected to be a TED Resident in NYC in 2018, exploring various media initiatives to teach life skills to young children, resulting in her TED Talk, The skills we need to teach our kids (see opposite).
Her most recent work involves leading the Executive Women’s Leadership Program for Union Square Ventures (USV) in NYC, a six-month program for startup executives looking at personal transformation and life skills.
She is also the co-founder of Mindful365, a website and smart phone app that helps people live consciously one day at a time.
ARIANE DE BONVOISIN: SPEAKER
Ariane’s most popular speaking topics include:
The 9 Principles of Change
Change & Adaptability: Helping People Thrive Through Disruption
Practical frameworks for building resilience and managing change in ways that energize rather than exhaust people, and provide real inspiration for the organization.
The Human Revolution in the Age of the AI Revolution
Human Connection & Elevated Teamwork (The Counter-Balance to Tech Talk)
Four New Skills for the Next Decade. Strategies for combating burnout, achieving digital balance, and developing emotional intelligence as a core leadership skill—keeping teams grounded amidst constant technological change.
The New Frontier of Leadership
What are the new requirements of leaders?
Following her viral post about the importance of authentic leadership, Ariane shares her lessons from more than a decade of coaching and advising leaders in all industries and across multiple continents.
Health as the main KPI of Business
Health and Mental Wellness for High-Performance Teams
A paradigm-shifting exploration of why physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual health aren’t luxuries to pursue after success—they’re the prerequisites that make sustainable achievement possible.
Feisty: New Guidelines for Female Leaders
What women in business need to know now.
An extraordinary talk that will leave your female executives feeling alive and inspired! Ariane discusses core themes found in all echelons of leadership, specifically targeted to empowering women and helping them achieve both success and balance.