Sheila Vijeyarasa
Sheila Vijeyarasa empowers leaders to embrace courage, authenticity, and transformation through her Brave Woman™ leadership movement.
Sheila Vijeyarasa empowers leaders to embrace courage, authenticity, and transformation through her Brave Woman™ leadership movement.
Sheila Vijeyarasa is an internationally acclaimed author, leadership expert, and the visionary founder of The Brave Woman™ program. With decades of corporate experience as a Finance and Commercial Director, she brings a unique combination of strategic insight and emotional intelligence to her talks. Sheila’s mission is to empower leaders, especially women, to embrace courage, authenticity, and transformation. Through her bestselling book Brave: Courageously Live Your Truth and her inspiring global keynotes, she has become a leading voice in conscious, high-performance leadership that changes how leaders think, act, and lead.
Sheila Vijeyarasa is one of the most dynamic voices in high-performance and conscious leadership. Her work centers on empowering leaders, particularly women, to step into their authentic power and lead from a place of courage and clarity. Through The Brave Woman™ program, Sheila has created a proven framework for personal and professional transformation, guiding audiences to break self-imposed barriers and create impact with purpose. Her speaking style is engaging, grounded, and deeply motivating, leaving audiences with tools that ignite immediate change.
Sheila’s journey began in the corporate world, where she served as a Finance and Commercial Director for over two decades. Her experience navigating complex business environments has shaped her practical yet compassionate leadership style. With an MBA (with Distinction) and credentials from The Institute of Executive Coaching and Leadership, she bridges the gap between performance excellence and emotional intelligence. Sheila’s talks provide frameworks for:
Building resilience in high-pressure environments
Developing conscious communication strategies
Aligning corporate success with personal authenticity
Cultivating high-performing, values-driven teams
As the bestselling author of Brave, Sheila has become a voice for those seeking authenticity in leadership and life. Her work has been featured in Thrive Global, Sydney Morning Herald, CEO World Magazine, and Body + Soul. The book and her talks, invite audiences to explore courage as a skill that can be learned and applied daily. She equips leaders with practical strategies to build confidence, improve self-awareness, and create alignment between purpose and performance.
Millions have witnessed Sheila’s journey on the Australian television series Big Miracles, where she openly shared her IVF experience across three seasons. Streaming globally on Apple TV+, the show offered an unfiltered look at courage, vulnerability, and transformation in real time. Sheila’s willingness to share her truth continues to inspire audiences to face their own challenges with openness and bravery, reinforcing her message that authentic leadership begins with self-trust.
Booking Sheila Vijeyarasa means bringing powerful energy, insight, and real transformation to your audience. Her keynote topics include:
Brave Leadership: Leading with authenticity and confidence
Conscious High Performance: Balancing achievement with purpose
Empowered Communication: Building influence through clarity and courage
She tailors every talk to your organization’s goals, ensuring each session delivers lasting motivation and actionable change.
Through The Brave Woman™ movement, Sheila continues to inspire women worldwide to redefine leadership on their own terms. As a certified NLP practitioner and executive coach, she provides leaders with practical tools for decision-making, confidence-building, and communication. Her message is clear: brave leadership is not about fearlessness, it’s about acting with purpose despite uncertainty. Sheila’s legacy is a growing network of empowered, conscious leaders ready to make meaningful change in the world.
Keynote by Sheila Vijeyarasa:
In The Power of Little Brave Acts, Sheila Vijeyarasa explores how everyday acts of bravery shape high-performance leadership and create a culture of growth and inclusivity. She highlights how small, intentional steps of courage build adaptability, resilience, and the ability to thrive in times of challenge and change.
Sheila empowers individuals to believe in their boldest career visions and develop actionable strategies to bring them to life. By cultivating influence and embracing courageous leadership, professionals at every level can foster a workplace culture that drives productivity, innovation, and fulfillment.
In today’s fast-evolving leadership landscape, bravery is not about grand, unattainable leaps, it’s about the consistent, intentional steps we take each day. Sheila reveals how small acts of courage accelerate action, inspire teams to take risks, embrace change, and align with their core values—ultimately shaping a more resilient, high-performing future.
Key Takeaways:
Small Brave Acts Accelerate Action – Everyday courage fosters adaptability, resilience, and professional growth.
Bravery Fuels High-Performance Mindsets – Courage dissolves negativity, unlocking optimism, creativity, and innovation.
Overcoming Perfectionism with Bravery – Small, brave acts help break the cycle of hesitation and perfectionism, driving real progress.
Your Career Demands Bravery – Bold career moves are achieved through intentional, courageous action.
Bravery Fosters Inclusive Leadership – A courageous mindset is key to creating workplaces that value diversity and belonging.
Sheila’s keynote provides practical, actionable strategies to help women and men to step into courageous leadership, accelerate action, and create a culture of bold, high-performance success.