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Lianne Bridges

About Lianne Bridges

Lianne Bridges (MBA) is a Transformation Guide, Author, and Soul Midwife who walks beside people at life’s thresholds — guiding them as they cross from confusion, restlessness, or transition into deeper clarity, alignment, and purpose. After decades as a strategist and consultant in the corporate world, a profound personal loss awakened her deeper calling: to help others reconnect with their inner wisdom and design lives aligned with their soul’s truth. Since founding Designing Transformation in 2009, Lianne has supported clients across diverse seasons and stages — from young adults seeking direction, to midlife seekers navigating reinvention, to elders anchoring their legacy. Her memoir, Love Will Keep Us Alive, shares her own story of loss, awakening, and re-emergence — an invitation for others to trust their own path of remembrance. Today, Lianne blends Earth wisdom, deep listening, and multidimensional presence to create spaces where people feel deeply seen and supported. Whether through one-on-one mentorship, retreats, or her upcoming podcast, The Bridge to Soul Remembrance, her work is an invitation to step into the sacred alignment of a soul-led life.

March 2010

Using technology to make a difference

By |2017-07-13T17:44:05-04:00March 16th, 2010|Shifting Perspectives|

What is Cloud Computing? In plain terms, Cloud Computing refers to working with a variety of software applications that are available online (for free or limited fee) to fit your specific need.  In the case of a socially conscious enterprise or not-for-profit organization, this means using a combination of online software (SaaS or Software as a Service) designed to help communicate with stakeholders inexpensively.   This allows social entrepreneurs to leverage the latest communication techniques that currently exists without having to rely on IT knowledge or investing in expensive software. By using free or low cost web-based software to build web sites, blogs, emails, etc., social entrepreneurs have access to their own virtual workbench to design, build, deploy and measure their own communications and campaigns. New social media, personalization technologies coupled with marketing automation, all available online, provide the power tools to cost-effectively create, manage and deploy communications that can adapt to new information, interactions and data. Especially in light of the recession, forward thinking organizations are seeing the large cost savings that can be realized from the cloud [...]

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Finding beauty in an empty canvas

By |2017-07-13T17:44:05-04:00March 10th, 2010|Crisis, Loss and Renewal|

Rebuilding my life from the ruins of loss Five months ago, when my husband passed away, I started to spiral downwards. For a year and half prior to his death, I had tried to keep it together, to be the strong and supportive wife, mother, bread-winner and care giver. I couldn’t imagine how I would heal my broken heart or how I would fill the gaping hole that his passing left behind. When faced with such a dramatic life changing event, my whole world literally turned upside down. […]

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February 2010

An unforgettable journey of service

By |2017-07-13T17:44:05-04:00February 8th, 2010|Education, Community and Leadership|

Air Canada swaps paid seats for much-needed relief for Haitians As I was pursuing my friends' updates on Facebook this past weekend, I learned that one of my friends, Sue, had been down to Haiti and back on a volunteer mission with her employer, Air Canada. When I mentioned to her that this was an awesome thing for her to do, she humbly replied, "I truly felt honoured to be able to go".  In fact this was an awesome thing for Air Canada to do. The benefit to the hundreds, if not thousands of earthquake victims are enormous. Of course, it doesn't hurt their brand image either. But, this relief mission will profoundly impact the lives of the volunteers, their valued employees; something that could never have been done with a mere pay cheque. This type of win-win-win thinking is necessary for today's organizations to be successful and sustainable in the future. Way to go Air Canada and way to go Sue! This is her incredible story: This weekend I was privileged to be a member of the Air Canada volunteer [...]

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Standing up for what you believe in

By |2017-07-13T17:44:05-04:00February 6th, 2010|Connecting To Nature, Education, Community and Leadership|

A fitting legacy Last Monday night, the town of Hudson ratified a recommendation to name a new nature trail after my husband, the late councilor Robert Parkinson. Our family is very grateful that the town saw fit to honour Bob’s service in this way (Gazette article). I couldn’t have thought of a more fitting tribute. We are also so grateful to the dedication and passion of a small but mighty local organization that helped create this new trail: Sentiers Vaudreuil Soulanges (SVS). Almost four and a half years ago, Bob was drawn to local politics by his passion to protect the local beauty of the nature parks and trail system. He saw this as a unique asset of Hudson that required support. His campaign platform was based on this concept. Once elected, he quickly got involved in green space preservation issues, which he continued to do until the end of his tenure as councilor. Early on, Bob worked with the town and residents to protect and rebuild the Apple Glenn dam, which was a pivotal element in protecting the wetland and [...]

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Wisdom from Indigenous People

By |2017-07-13T17:44:05-04:00February 5th, 2010|Connecting To Nature, Education, Community and Leadership, Shifting Perspectives|

Western cultures have ignored the wisdom and voice of indigenous people for a very long time. We are just starting to wake up to it now, thankfully. We still have a long way to go toward mutual respect and understanding. One of things we do need is a better ways to communicate. I recently had the privilege of listening to Mohawk council representative, Stuart Myiow, speak. I was at a day-long retreat about environmental protection. We listened to him speak and sing. He had us riveted for hours. The wisdom and insight that this man shared with us was profound. I felt like I was listening to a sage. Yet, he admittedly has no formal education and doesn't hold a "money economy" job. I have attached a one-page imperative that the Five Nation Iroquois Confederacy has developed. It summarizes some of the knowledge that Stuart imparted on us that day. But, I have to warn you, the language is harsh and the tone of voice will be foreign to most. While it touches on the main point of his discussion with [...]

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August 2009

The 3 P’s of the New Economy

By |2017-07-13T17:44:06-04:00August 10th, 2009|Career and Business, Shifting Perspectives|

Much has been written about the unprecedented global economic crisis, including the causes - greed, selfishness, financial and loan schemes, rampant consumerism. As I hear talk of the recession easing, I am a bit concerned that we will come out of it too quickly to make real change. Our current economic model is not sustainable. Many of us are waking up to this fact. We have a chance to create a new economy based not only on the profit bottom line, but also on the social and environmental bottom lines - referred to as the triple bottom line of People, Planet and Profit.

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Are you Participating in Smart Follower-ship?

By |2017-07-13T17:44:06-04:00August 5th, 2009|Education, Community and Leadership, Shifting Perspectives|

We are observing evidence of the shift as we awaken to the power of follower-ship. This means that responsibility for everything about our lives lies within. We can no longer look outwards to blame anything on anyone, ever again. Follower-ship and leadership are merging. This makes follower-ship powerful because we want to be worthy of the ideals that our leaders communicate so charismatically.

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Why Right-Brainers will Rule the World

By |2017-07-13T17:44:06-04:00August 4th, 2009|Career and Business, Shifting Perspectives|

  Daniel H. Pink has created a body of inspiring and thought-provoking work in his book A Whole New Mind. This is a book that Oprah gave to 4500 graduating students from Stanford last year, because it offers a whole new perspective on the skills and apptitudes that will be required for the next generation of leaders.  In his book, he argues that a “Whole New Mind” is required to thrive in the future, one that is more holistic, balancing both the attributes of left and right brain thinking. […]

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July 2009

The Dalai Lama is Following my Tweets!

By |2017-07-13T17:44:06-04:00July 30th, 2009|Shifting Perspectives|

"The Dali Lama is now following your tweets on Twitter." Less than a year ago I wouldn't have even understood the meaning of this phrase. The word "Twitter", let alone the concept of Tweets from the Dalai Lama were not in my lexicon a short year ago. Everyone talks about the power of the Internet and new social media. Receiving this message in my morning inbox is one of the most wonderful examples of this I have experienced to date !

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January 2009

New Media – Is it Creating Social Transformation

By |2017-07-13T17:44:06-04:00January 7th, 2009|Education, Community and Leadership, Shifting Perspectives|

Can we really create a social consciousness revolution? We finally have the tools, but will we use them wisely? There is a lot of talk today about the new social media, which includes: YouTube, Wikipedia, facebook, Delicious, MySpace, blogs, or the Smartboards that are bringing the transformative potential of the Internet into our children’s classrooms. It is clear that social technology is increasing the amount of interaction and information sharing happening globally. […]

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