“To be and become evermore a healthy muse: to radiate love, wisdom, and power in service to humanity and the planet.”

Best-selling author Catherine Bell is a serial entrepreneur, business leader, public speaker, wife, and mother.

Based on the best-selling book of the same name, Catherine is the founder of The Awakened Company, where she helps organizations develop culture strategies by igniting and sustaining the fire within, with passion, purpose, and playfulness. She's consulted around the world with Fortune 500 companies, and the book has received numerous accolades, including the Nautilus Book Award in Business & Leadership, a spot on "8 Best Leadership Books," Amazon Best Seller status, and praise from leaders around the world.

As a wife of 25+ years and a mother, Catherine is passionate about learning new cultures and losing herself in whatever book she's reading, all while making time for yoga, tennis, surfing, windsurfing, walking, and friends.

A little more about Catherine

Catherine founded BluEra, a Profit 500 executive search firm. As a top 200 growing company in Canada and top 10 in Alberta, and a certified great workplace, BluEra was a shining example of the Awakened Company System in action, and it was successfully sold. She now helps organizations develop culture strategies.

Catherine has been published in Fortune, HBR, Profit, Conscious Company Magazine, and Women of Influence, and has written for the UN. She has worked around the globe, from the UK to Cuba, with organizations ranging from Fortune 500 companies to serial entrepreneurs. Catherine holds an MBA from the Smith School of Business at Queen's University and a sociology degree from Western University, is certified in the Enneagram, and is a yoga instructor. She was a Jarislowsky Fellow at the Haskayne School of Business and sits on the Expert Panel for the Canadian Centre for the Purpose of the Corporation.

She also started The Awakened Project, a jewelry line that helps women get out of poverty by starting their own businesses through microloans. Catherine has served as a Board Member of the Distress Centre and Open to Grow, and currently advises the Impact Society and Telus Spark. She has completed the Institute of Corporate Directors' Not-for-Profit Essentials Program.

Catherine teaches in the Master of Innovation and Entrepreneurship program at Queen's Smith School of Business.

Her latest work

Catherine's newest book, The Creative Moment: Awaken Creativity Through the Enneagram, co-authored with renowned Enneagram teacher Russ Hudson, releases May 18, 2027.