‘When you are born in a world you don’t fit in, it’s because you were born to help create a new one’
Are you ready to step into Brave Leadership and to create a culture of Courage within your organisation? Do you wish you could courageously live a life of purpose and meaning? Is it time you realise not just your full potential but how about your staff and greater teams as well?
Brave leadership involves overcoming perfectionism. Being able to flourish after a crisis and lead through mistakes and corporate detours is now essential. Brave leadership involves ensuring everyone feels and knows that they are making a difference in the world. Ensuring you and your staff are connected to a greater purpose is essential for the conscious corporate leader. Sheila is an expert on brave, intuitive and authentic leadership.
She has appeared on Seasons 1 and 2 of Channel 9’s powerful and deeply moving 6-part documentary series, Big Miracles. She is a demonstration of her values and ethos of bravery and courage, as she shared her IVF journey with Australia.
Sheila is a renowned speaker and is recognised nationally and internationally as an intuition and leadership expert. Her internationally bestselling book, Brave: Courageously Live Your Truth has been described as a ‘comprehensive spiritual guidebook’ for the conscious corporate leader. She is known for her artful, humorous and deeply moving presentations on leadership, change management and empowerment.
In fact, she gives her audiences a powerful dose of truth, they can’t but honour themselves. She imparts her spiritual wisdom that makes them feel connected to their own intuition and their inner truth.
Sheila has the playbook on how to achieve your goals against the odds. She achieved great success in the corporate world as a Commercial and Finance Director. She holds an MBA (with Distinction).
Less than 12% of Finance Board positions are held by women. And only a handful of these are women of colour.
During her corporate ascension, Sheila had an awakening.
At the age of 38, Sheila experienced her own life-changing sequence of events. She fell into a serious depression, triggered by a relationship breakup and breakdown at work after years of striving for perfection. Everything in her life had to crumble to make way for a new life. During this time, she started speaking and connected to the ‘other side,’ being deceased souls. Sheila is a rare individual who combines her spiritual wisdom with her skills and experience from the executive-level corporate world.
She has been featured in the media sharing her insights and strategies for an empowering and courageous successful life from Thrive Global, Sydney Morning Herald, Body + Soul, CEO World Magazine, New Idea, Women’s Agenda, CFO Australia, just to name a few. She has spoken on the main stage at the Mind Body Spirit Festival.
Sheila is a cutting-edge leader in the movement towards conscious leadership within the corporate setting and is passionate about mentoring and coaching talented senior leaders and Executives to exceed their potential.
Talking Points
Brave Leadership
What does the new paradigm of brave leadership look like?Brave Leadership
Key Takeaways:
- Intuition as a superpower of the modern-day leader
- How to flourish after a crisis How to create a strong social tribe of support at work
- How to lead through mistakes and corporate detours
- How to bravely master your mindset.
Be Bravely You!
The modern definition of courageous living.Be Bravely You!
Key Takeaways:
- Stop self-abandoning in the workplace
- Why 'black sheep' syndrome is not real
- How to honour yourself by listening to your intuition
- How to take leaps of courage in work and in life
- Why and how to heal the mother wound
Bravely Imperfect - How to Courageously Live in an Uncertain World
During her keynote, Bravely Imperfect, Sheila V will discuss why perfectionism is a universal issue and how we overcome it. She will show you how to flourish after a crisis and how to lead through mistakes and corporate detours. Finally, how to master a brave mindset and lead with courage. Bravely Imperfect - How to Courageously Live in an Uncertain World
Bravely Imperfect is the new paradigm of leadership.
- The degree of bravery embodied by employees directly impacts productivity. When staff are not brave, they stay in their comfort zones. This results in a dramatic negative impact on productivity and innovation. Bravery is needed for staff to step beyond their comfort zones and innovate and explore new ways of working.
- High-performing company culture necessitates bravery. Employee happiness and fulfilment are significantly impacted by how aligned they are with their values and how brave they are in living them.
- Research has shown that when a company culture is one of bravery, employees trust the Executive and Senior Leaders' decisions.
- Managers and employees need to be able to have brave conversations about flexible working arrangements, Diversity & Inclusion.
Audience:
This is for all Levels of Leadership. If I am speaking to an exclusive executive group, this can be a tailored keynote. My keynote is versatile and highly adaptable to the audience.
Key Takeaways:
- Learn the power of taking Little Brave Acts (LBAs) every day, to live an extraordinary life and to create sustainable change
- Learn how to have courageous conversations both professionally and personally as a tool for Brave living.
- Learn to accept failure and imperfection as necessary to create a Brave Culture and Brave Leaders
- Learn to thrive through a crisis and flourish on the other side.
Little Brave Acts: A High Performance Culture Require Brave Leaders
In this keynote, Sheila V will address:Little Brave Acts: A High Performance Culture Require Brave Leaders
- How the power of Little Brave Acts (LBA)s every day can lead to a culture of high performance and adaptability.
- Developing resilience to handle challenging situations and conversations.
- The power and impact of Brave Conversations
- Believing in your boldest life and career vision and creating an action-oriented master plan to ensure success.
- Overcoming burnout, imposter syndrome and the need to be perfect.
- Building your influence at work to become a courageous, effective, and inspirational leader.
- Thriving in your career when a company is going through a challenging time or a time of great change.
Little Brave Acts is required for the new paradigm of leadership in 2024.
- The degree of bravery embodied by employees directly impacts productivity. Brave leaders are more likely to inspire their teams to take healthy risks and embrace change.
- High-performing company culture necessitates bravery. Employee happiness and fulfilment are significantly impacted by how aligned they are with their values and how brave they are in living them.
- Research has shown that when a company culture is one of bravery, employees trust the Executive and Senior Leader's decisions.
- Managers and employees need to be able to have brave conversations about contemporary issues including flexible working arrangements and Diversity & Inclusion.
Video
Sheila Vijeyarasa | Keynote Speaking Reel | Saxton Speakers
Sheila Vijeyarasa | Big Miracles Interview | The Today Show
For some couples, the journey to parenthood isn't an easy one. While falling pregnant is a breeze for some, for others it can be a heartbreaking road and can often involve IVF. In 2023, Channel 9 is going to explore the most emotional human experience through the new show, Big Miracles. A first look at the new series gives a raw insight into the heartache and joy of pregnancy, which you can watch in the video at the top of this article. The Today Show caught up with Sheila and her partner Tyson, who will feature on this series Big Miracles airing in early 2023.Sheila's presentation to our members was incredibly popular. Her presentation was highly engaging and very impactful to the community of women in banking and finance. Her personal stories, i ... keep reading Women in Banking & Finance (WiBF)
Sheila is an inspiration on stage! She exudes grace, warmth, integrity and charisma. Somebody please...TED Talks must be next for this incredible speaker!
Every once in a while, we meet someone in life who is truly inspirational. She’s one of those people. She’s authentic, she’s down to earth, and combined her experience in business, in finance, the very unusual spiritual side that left our audience absolutely mesmerized. If you’re looking for a speaker who can move your audience, get them to think outside the box, Sheila's your woman. I highly, highly, highly recommend her, and I’m really grateful that we found her and she came and left her nuggets of wisdom with our community. Thank you.
