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Jeanette Bronée

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To care is human. Let’s care more together. Author of The Self-Care Mindset | TEDx & Global Keynote Speaker | Culture Strategist & Advisor

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I’m so very excited to share my new speaker reel!

After a transformative year of conversations about leadership, resilience, and the human advantage, I’ve captured the essence of what I bring to stages and teams around the world.

The key message? In a world obsessed with speed, the real competitive advantage lies in our ability to pause, observe, and respond with wisdom rather than react from fear.

When we stop depleting ourselves and start regenerating our energy throughout the day, we unlock our capacity for trust, creativity, and genuine connection—the very things that make us irreplaceable in an AI-driven world.

Watch the full reel by going to the link in the bio

What’s one way you’re choosing wisdom over speed as we head into 2026?

#Leadership #HumanAdvantage #KeynoteSpeaker #TrustBuilding #culturechange #futureofwork #PowerPausing
#teamperformance by @jeanettebronee

It’s time to pause.

The tension keeps building. The changes keep coming. The ground is moving.

AI is reshaping how we work, uncertainty has become the permanent condition, and the pace of disruption won’t slow down anytime soon.

The old mental model — push harder, do more, keep up — is burned out. And the next era of leadership is searching for an identity to hold onto, because what we knew about leading people is not going to work in tomorrow’s workplace.

We need to reset and recalibrate. But most don’t know what that means. Or whether there is room to pause long enough to create the space needed to think forward with care, not urgency.

That space exists. But we’ve been taught to look for it outside ourselves — in the next strategy, the next tool, the next answer someone else provides.

The Self-Care Mindset® starts with a different premise.

Our human intelligence has never been recognized for its full capacity. With AI as a thinking partner, we are the advantage. Our wisdom, not our speed. AI can process — only humans can care with intention and choose where to put our attention.

For too long we have let the machine fuel the fear of not being and doing enough. We have lost our attention to overwhelm. Our thoughts have become disruptive of our own sense of peace and agency — instead of shaping the direction of our choices and impact.

The ground moving around you doesn’t have to mean the ground moving beneath you.

When we learn to work with our thoughts instead of being driven by them — when we recognize overwhelm as a signal rather than a verdict — we stop reacting to the noise and start responding from something steadier.

Not certainty. We don’t get certainty right now.

But clarity. Discernment. The capacity to think, engage, and act from a place of wisdom rather than fear.

That’s what self-care actually builds. The human intelligence to navigate what’s real — and lead from the inside out even when everything outside is shifting.

The ground is moving. You don’t have to move with it.
The Self-Care Mindset® (Wiley) gives you the tools to find that ground within yourself.

#selfcaremindset #powerpausing #mentalhealth

Photo @heavenmcarthurphoto by @jeanettebronee

Yesterday I spent the day at Thinkers50 in London, exploring leadership in a fast changing and fragmented world with thinkers and leaders who create impact together. The questions we asked reminded me of the conversations I had with my dad.

It was also the 25th anniversary of my dad’s passing which became the big change that forever changed my life. My mother had died shortly before, and I spent five months being with my dad while he was dying. Together we questioned what success looks like, what we care about, and what we look back on and remember.

My dad received letters from business leaders during that time that he had had conversations with, and they all thanked him for listening, asking questions, and helping them rethink their lives.

That led me to leave the fashion business and become a coach.

Seeing how hard people are trying to survive work eventually became my next step focusing on culture change, because business is about relationships, and it starts with the one we have with ourselves, and it becomes the culture we live in every day. It can be a toxic and competitive one or a care-driven and collaborative one.

That is why I wrote The Self-Care Mindset®, a book of questions for self-reflection, not a book of answers.

Power-Pausing is foundational to my work. It is inspired by my dad’s encouragement to pause more, listen more, and ask more questions. It is how we change culture by being more discerning individually and care-driven together.

Looking back today, the red thread throughout my life, even before that big change 25 years ago, is that I was always curious about what drives people, and finding what we truly care about.

We can spend our lives avoiding what we fear or pursuing what we care about. That doesn’t mean we will not have fear, but what we care about becomes the North Star that leads us through change. When what we care about gives us the clarity and self-trust, we can always find our way forward, no matter when things fall apart.

My publisher @wiley_global was also @thinkers50_global so we could cheer and celebrate my book, the 25 year anniversary of the beginning of Thinkers50 and celebrate my dad and his lessons to me by @jeanettebronee

Breast-Cancer Awareness doesn’t end when October does. We think of awareness as something we get or arrive at, a moment of “now I know.” But awareness is how we keep showing up, paying attention to what matters, and it keeps moving with us as keeps going and growing through life.

Sometimes we get distracted. Stress takes over, worry gets loud, and the small signals go unheard: a tightness, a flicker, a feeling that something is asking for our attention. We dismiss them because there’s too much to do. But the body that carries us through every single day is also the one thing we can’t outsource.

I lost my mother to breast cancer. And I’m considered high risk. For a long time the message I carried was that it was only a matter of when and I’ve learned to live in that awareness instead of fear.

In this picture she’s about the age I am now. She was 64 when she died and I will be 64 this year. It feels a bit odd to consider and at the same time I’m also grateful that my body and I have learned to be a team.

I’m getting tested now, and whatever the result is, it won’t worry me more than I have already been worried. Because worry and care are close companions. What we worry about is also what we care about. When we stay with the worry long enough to listen, it can become care: how we rest, how we move, how we pay attention to what the body is telling us.

What we do every day leaves traces. The science of gene expression suggests that how we live may shape how our genes speak. I don’t take that as a promise. I take it as an invitation to care about the body that brings me through life, and therefore to care for it.

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Let’s make it more than a ribbon. Let’s listen to the small signals, make the appointment we’ve been putting off, and turn our worry into caring about ourselves, and therefore caring for ourselves and each other.

I invite you get feel into the freedom of caring, not carrying, the fears and the worries that can keep you from getting closer to yourself and your very own body.

#cancerawareness #selfcaremindset by @jeanettebronee

It’s said that home is where the heart is, and yet the reality is that the heart can live in my places and it can adore many people.

To me the meaning of that sentence is that home is within ourselves.

However, belonging has been a challenge for me my entire life. I love exploring new worlds, people, places, food and the culture that makes up what we experience when we visit. And I love feeling part of a community too.

When I was back in Denmark this time, after 37 years in New York, it still felt like home.

It has invited me to reflect on how we build lives, workplaces and communities that allow us to remember who we are and also explore who we are becoming with every choice we make.

I’m grateful for friends and family who are still part of my life, even with so many miles and years between my visits. Belonging is where the heart is.

#denmark #copenhagen #friendsandfamily #community #belonging by @jeanettebronee

The past year has been filled with reflection about how to best do the work I love and not add more noise to an already crowded conversation about being human in an AI driven world.

I’ve been deliberate about the conversations and the communities I have chosen to be part of and sought out thinkers and voices who look beyond while also holding space for the challenges of today.

We are in a complex relationship with ourselves, each other, the world we live in, and the future our choices are shaping.

I’m spending a month in Europe to reconnect with who I am as a Dane and European, living in America, and navigating the FUD that we are constantly being exposed to, while also staying grounded in what I believe in. FUD is fear, uncertainty and doubt and it fast distracts us from what matters.

I’m excited to finish my month in Europe attending the @nbforumhq and explore the conversation about Human Participation (white-paper on the this theory coming up). I’ve come to recognize that the red thread of what I care about, and have cared about for a very long time, is in all its earnestness rooted in that topic.

Can’t wait to be in Helsinki and meet other thinkers and do’ers who care about the Human Edge too.

If you are going to be there too—let’s find each other and have a chat!!

#humanedge #humanparticipation nordicbusinessfo by @jeanettebronee

Today is World Suicide Prevention Day.

We talk about more support and hotlines and we need them. But that’s for those who know how to ask for help.

Too many people don’t even get there. They’re carrying their secret alone long before a crisis line becomes the next step.

So the real question isn’t just where people go in crisis, it’s how we make space for the conversations before it becomes the last resort.

When we see someone struggle, we might say “you’ve got this.” We mean for it to sound like encouragement but what they hear is: you’re on your own.

Depression doesn’t need cheerleading or positivity. It needs company.

Let’s make more space for the conversations that come before the crisis that leads to the final choice. The conversations that help someone know they are not alone and can find their way forward.

#WorldSuicidePreventionDay #MentalHealthIsHumanHealth
#PauseToCare by @jeanettebronee

We worry because we care.
We fear because we care.
We hurt because we care.
We grieve because we care.

We gather because we care.
We create because we care.
We act because we care.
We participate because we care.

The fact that we can care is the most extraordinary thing about being human.

Without being connected to what we care about we would be lost. Our actions would not be aligned and we would not have clarity about what matters.

What we care about defines us.

Let’s remember why we are here and how to human, because people who care create positive change and sustainable impact together.

#worldhumanitarianday #carematters by @jeanettebronee

I love this picture so much. I met @anjanetteharper many years ago when she helped me work on my first keynote.

I have since followed her work with authors, helping them understand what makes a great book.

The reason why AJ knows that is because she’s been in this business from many years, but it’s actually because she understands how human beings work from the inside out.

I met her at @bookthinkers event in Boston a couple of weeks ago, where we shared a moment of joy over reconnecting, and both still being very passionate about working with people to realize that their inner power is stronger then they realize and why we need each other to do our best work.

Photo @dematophoto by @jeanettebronee

People who pause together, care together.

In a busy day, it’s not easy to remember: human connection is the work. It’s how we build strong cultures—and how we do what AI cannot.

A shared pause. Mutual listening. A moment that says: I see you. I’m with you. We care together.

For International Friendship Day - Let’s take a pause to care, celebrate our friendships, and remember that we need each other to keep growing through adversity. by @jeanettebronee

With so much change and uncertainty going on these days it’s easy to feel that we don’t know how to best handle what’s happening.

That also means that it’s more important than ever to trust ourselves and that our human intelligence is what matters as we are figuring out how to collaborate with AI

We are not going to outsmart or out-speed AI —but we can be wiser. That takes pause.

I want to remind you that being human is not a problem to solve. We are the advantage and we can do what AI cannot —we can care with intention and put our attention on what matters.

Let’s remember how to human.

#humanai #humanity #humanintelligence by @jeanettebronee

This little girl—Satya—changed not just my life but also me when we first met in 2004. This picture is from 2016, right before she left this earth on this day.

We met in the street. She was part of an adoption event, and I was on my way to meet a client and she just sat there and looked overwhelmed and confused but also just observing in silence.

I stopped to say hello and I knew in that moment that I had to adopt her. I was already running late for my client meeting, so I left, hoping that she would still be there when I came back. I told the rescue people that I would come see her on my way back.

She was still there. We went for a walk around the corner. I gave her some food and water and I said yes.

I will never regret that. Satya taught me so much about being gentle and strong at the same time.

She knew when to open her heart and she knew when to put her paw down. She knew when to trust and let you in and she knew when to keep her distance.

She would come with me to the office as my therapy dog, and I had clients coming in laying down on the floor with her for a snuggle as part of how we would start a session. Or she would sit by their side just leaning in to tell them they were safe loved and that they mattered.

She also knew when it was time to leave their side and go sit by the door to say goodbye when they were ready to leave.

Power-Pausing™ came from my practice of mindfulness, metacognition, Felt Sense Focusing and hypnotherapy— however somehow Satya was able to help me cultivate.

She would push my buttons that made me pause for the unconscious to become conscious. I’m not sure how a dog can be such a teacher, but she was.

Maybe because her name means truth in Sanskrit. by @jeanettebronee