Sara Bronfman

Sara Bronfman has always been an entrepreneur at heart, starting her business career very early in life, owning and operating various small companies in her late teens and early twenties. Although primarily a student at the time, these initial enterprises instilled a passion for personal growth, creativity and leadership that would underlie her future endeavors. In 2002, Ms. Bronfman completed an intensive international program at New York University's School of Professional Studies and began a search for practical tools to help her grow as an individual and further her professional ambitions. In September, she attended a seminar with Executive Success Programs, Inc. (ESP), a company offering trainings in personal, ethical and professional development. There she experienced the practical applications of Rational Inquiry™, the company's proprietary technology created by founder Keith Raniere. Moved by the immediate yet profound benefits Rational Inquiry™ could provide, Ms. Bronfman decided to begin a career with the New York-based company. Within only two years, Ms. Bronfman became one of the company's top-ranked international trainers and was elected to serve as the Minister of Humanities on the company's executive board. In this capacity, she oversees all humanitarian activities within the company’s thirty-three-country network. In particular, Ms. Bronfman opened ESP's activities in Ireland and Great Britain in 2005, and has been responsible for many of the organization's European endeavors. Working closely with ESP's president, Nancy Salzman, Ms. Bronfman founded the company's VIP Programs, which provide distinguished individuals with specialized training and coaching. In addition to her work with ESP, Ms. Bronfman has continued to build several businesses in the areas of real estate, private jet travel and investing. Inspired by the humanitarian and philanthropic endeavors of her father and grandfather-Edgar M. Bronfman and the late Samuel Bronfman, respectively-Ms. Bronfman seeks to find innovative, cause-oriented ways to promote the welfare of others. Most notably, she strongly supports individuals and organizations promoting ethics, the ethical use of resources, and the furtherance of humanity. In 2007, Ms. Bronfman and her sister Clare founded the Ethical Humanitarian Foundation, a non-profit organization promoting the evolution of humanity through ethics. In late 2008, Sara and Clare Bronfman, together with conceptual founder Keith Raniere, created the World Ethical Foundations Consortium, a highly directed, non-profit initiative dedicated to the building of a compassionate, ethical humanity. Sara Bronfman is Chair of the initiative’s first high-profile gathering to take place in the New York Capitol Region in February 2009.

compassionate ethical solutions to global conflicts

Would any of the problems we experience today exist if it weren't for humans? In solving a problem are you likely to be more successful if you focus on the cause - what initiated the problem - or the effect - the problem itself? If your answers were "No!" and "Cause" then wouldn't it also make sense to say that the problems we face are effects of us? And in order to solve those problems we will be more effective if we look to understand ourselves and why we do what we do? Each of us as part of a collective? Why we chose to destroy. whether it be ourselves with our bad habits, each other with violence and oppression or the world around us? Wouldn't that be a valuable exercise? A Chinese proverb says "If we keep going the way we are going, we will end up where we are heading"! Perhaps we need to stop and re-evaluate? My idea? Seek to understand yourself and through the process, humanity.