An award-winning community builder, entrepreneur and podcast creator, Sian Simpson has dedicated her career to connecting people, fostering innovation and exploring what it means to live a rich and meaningful life.
A recipient of the New Zealand Women of Influence Award, Sian spent more than a decade at the forefront of technology, entrepreneurship and community development, helping build businesses, networks and global communities across New Zealand and internationally. Her work has centred on bringing people together, creating opportunities for collaboration, and championing ideas that drive positive change.
Drawing on her experience as an entrepreneur and community leader, Sian founded Bountifull, a globally recognised podcast that explores how people can create lives filled with purpose, fulfilment and abundance. Through thought-provoking conversations with inspiring individuals from around the world, Bountifull has attracted more than 1.6 million YouTube views and built a growing international audience.
Alongside her work in media and community building, Sian is the creator of Bountifull Kitchen, an extension of her passion for food, wellbeing and connection. Having lived gluten-free for more than 15 years, she shares her knowledge through gluten-free workshops, recipes and immersive food experiences that celebrate the joy of growing, preparing and sharing nourishing food.
Across every aspect of her work, Sian is driven by a deep curiosity about human potential, connection and wellbeing. Whether building communities, creating conversations or bringing people together around the table, she is passionate about helping others cultivate lives that feel abundant, connected and full of possibility.
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How to Live a Bountiful Life, Gluten-Free
Living gluten-free can easily become a story about restriction: what you can’t eat, where you can’t go and what you might miss out on. After 15 years of eating gluten-free and travelling extensively around the world (68+ countries), Sian Simpson has found the opposite can also be true.How to Live a Bountiful Life, Gluten-Free
In this positive and practical talk, Sian explores the emotional and social side of living gluten-free, from travel and eating with others to confidence, creativity and learning to focus on what is possible rather than what is missing. Drawing on her own experience, her work exploring what makes a bountiful life, and a genuine love of cooking, she’ll share ideas for making a gluten-free life feel bigger, richer and more abundant, rather than smaller.
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Remote Working Best Practices During Coronavirus
Very relevant to what we as principals need to be aware of when developing our curriculum for students as the world is evolving very quickly with ICT ... keep reading Hawkes Bay Primary Principals Association
Sian is a dynamo and articulated the vision, priorities and commercial context of Kiwi Landing pad with energy, intellect and grace. She is creative, fun and memorable in her approach and she had a very astute audience of 30 global women leaders mesmerised by her questions and insights - we look forward to spending more time with her in 2018.
