Catherine R BellCatherine Bell is an author who has created organizations that last. Her work weaves practical know how, wisdom traditions, and business research. She is a serial entrepreneur, business leader and best-selling business author. As Founder of Th Awakened Company, Catherine helps organizations build healthy corporate cultures. Inc. Magazine recently named her as one of the top 10 innovative CEO's revamping the future.

Catherine's revolutionary business book, The Awakened Company, was awarded the Nautilus Book Awards in Business & Leadership, a best seller one week after its release, a best seller on Amazon, chosen as "8 of The Best Leadership Books of 2015", and recognized as a top book combining business and mindfulness. Catherine has been published in Fortune, HBR, Profit, Conscious Company Magazine, Women of Influence and written for the UN. She has taught the Awakened Company Process in over 23 countries. She also teaches at Smith, Queen's School of Business.

Catherine has an MBA from the Smith School of Business at Queen's University, a sociology degree from Western University, is certified in the Enneagram, and is a yoga instructor. She is a former Jarislowsky Co-Fellow at the Haskayne School of Business. She has launched an app called Awakenly - designed to wake up people's inner wisdom.

She is an Advisor to the Science Centre and Impact Society, and created the Awakened Project to provide microcredit to entrepreneurs.

Catherine has been married 27 years, has two sons, loves playing tennis and windsurfing.

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