Lianne Bridges (MBA) – Founder, Designing Transformation
A soul-rooted guide for women navigating midlife’s most powerful threshold.
Lianne is a Transformation Guide, Author, and Midwife of the New Earth — helping purpose-driven women in midlife reclaim themselves, realign their lives, and design what comes next with clarity, courage, and soul.
As the founder of Designing Transformation, Lianne draws from over four decades of experience across business leadership, personal development, and spiritual awakening. She is known for guiding women through profound life transitions — not just to heal or cope — but to consciously create a life and work that reflect who they’ve become.
Her mission is simple and powerful: to help women in midlife reconnect with their inner wisdom, actualize their life’s purpose, and step into their next chapter feeling aligned, empowered, and free.
A Lifelong Quest for Truth, Purpose, and Transformation
I’ve been a seeker for as long as I can remember….Curious. Adventurous. Always asking the deeper questions. My early career followed a more traditional path — shaped by business school, leadership roles in multinational companies, and a drive for success that carried me across industries and continents.
I received a Bachelor’s degree in Social Studies and Economics from the University of Western Ontario, and a Masters of Business Administration (MBA) from Rotman School of Management — education that taught me how to navigate complexity, strategy, and systems change.
But I was always searching for something more.
That search led me from the corporate world into humanitarian service with Plan International — working on global initiatives to reduce poverty and advance women’s rights. It later inspired me to launch my own consulting business, helping entrepreneurs and organizations align their work with purpose.
Yet my greatest transformation wasn’t born in boardrooms or strategy sessions — it happened in the most human way possible: through loss, motherhood, and the quiet unraveling of everything I thought I was.
A Personal Journey of Loss, Reinvention, and Return
Life brought me to my greatest threshold with the loss of my husband — a moment that changed everything. I found myself standing at the edge of grief, motherhood, and profound uncertainty — raising my two young boys while navigating heartbreak and identity loss.
It was this season of midlife — raw, real, and dismantling — that became the doorway to my deeper work. I travelled. I studied ancient wisdom traditions. I immersed myself in spiritual practice, healing, and reconnection.
And through that journey — I didn’t just find myself again. I became the woman I was always meant to be.
The Threads That Weave Through It All
My work is shaped not just by what I’ve studied — but by what I’ve lived.
Through every chapter of my journey — corporate leadership, humanitarian work, motherhood, personal loss, spiritual awakening, and entrepreneurship — I’ve gathered a body of wisdom that now forms the foundation of Designing Transformation.
These Eight Pillars represent the heart of my work — a holistic approach to guiding women in midlife through life’s most powerful thresholds with clarity, compassion, and courage.
The Eight Pillars I Guide From:
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Consciousness & Energy Awareness
Supporting women to expand their awareness, trust their intuition, and reconnect with their inner wisdom. -
Personal Growth & Emotional Resilience
Facilitating deep self-discovery, healing, and the release of limiting patterns that keep us small. -
Sacred Parenting & Family Dynamics
Honoring the role of parenting as a spiritual path — and healing our inner child as the foundation for conscious relationships. -
Soulful Life Design & Purpose Alignment
Helping women design lives and careers that reflect who they truly are — with meaning, passion, and freedom. -
Love, Relationships & Authentic Connection
Guiding women to create loving, conscious relationships rooted in truth, compassion, and healthy boundaries. -
Entrepreneurship & Creative Expression
Supporting soul-led entrepreneurs, creators, and visionaries to bring their ideas to life — with clarity, courage, and heart-centered strategy. -
Leadership and Purposeful Impact
Guiding purpose-driven leaders to navigate change, lead with integrity, and create conscious impact — bridging the practical with the profound. -
Sacred Feminine Leadership & Earth Wisdom
Helping women embody their power, reconnect with nature’s cycles, and lead from a place of presence, love, and inner authority.
These pillars are not separate — they are woven into everything I offer. Because true transformation is never just about one part of life — it’s about who we become in the process.
A Sanctuary for Midlife Reinvention
Designing Transformation was born from my own lived experience — a space where life’s challenges became portals, and every threshold called me deeper into who I was becoming.
This is the space I now hold for other women.
Here, I weave together decades of strategy and leadership with a deeply personal and spiritual approach to transformation. My work blends soulful mentorship, life design, business guidance, and community connection — supporting women in midlife to remember who they truly are and create lives that reflect their wisdom, gifts, and truth.
Whether you’re seeking clarity, connection, or a complete reinvention, Designing Transformation offers a sanctuary for your next becoming — grounded, soulful, and purpose-led.
Join Me on the Journey
“Life’s purpose isn’t something we find — it’s something we become, again and again.” — Lianne Bridges
My memoir, Love Will Keep Us Alive, shares the intimate story of my own sacred unraveling and re-emergence — a journey through grief, awakening, and the profound beauty of becoming who we were always meant to be.
I believe we all carry this capacity for transformation — to meet life’s thresholds with courage, to align with what matters most, and to create a life that feels like home.
If you’re standing at the edge of what’s next — I would be honored to walk beside you.
This is your time.
This is your becoming.
And it begins within.
