Barb Stegemann Author & Social Business Innovator

Winston Churchill said, “Never waste a good crisis.” During a pandemic that drastically hobbled so much of the economy, Barb Stegemann shares in this virtual presentation how to apply the stoic principles used by world leaders to thrive and advance to a higher level during a crisis. Resilience is the #1 trait of successful entrepreneurs and leaders. Cultivating the stoic principles can help you further develop this trait that will reignite your creativity, fuel innovation, and extinguish apathy and despair.

In spite of store closures and supply chain disruptions, Stegemann is leading her organization The 7 Virtues to massive sales increases and is preparing for a UK launch. Using her own experiences as proof, she shows how this is a moment of untapped business opportunities for anyone ready to capitalize on them.

For centuries leaders drew on the wisdom and guidance of great philosophers, like Plato and Marcus Aurelius. In this virtual talk, Barb Stegemann guides audiences through the curated insight she gathered for her bestselling book The 7 Virtues of a Philosopher Queen. Go from surviving to thriving by learning about the essence of important ideas from throughout history.

Barb Stegemann wrote her book, The 7 Virtues of a Philosopher Queen: A Woman’s Guide to Living and Leading in an Illogical World, to help reverse the equation for women. As the nucleus of the family, Stegemann says it’s time for women to finally put themselves first before then taking care of the needs of those around them. This virtual presentation outlines how her primary goal with her company The 7 Virtues is to combine products and philosophy together to create self-guided remedies for the body, mind and soul. Stegemann will help audiences understand that whether they are feeling stuck, lonely or overwhelmed, they are not alone — and they have permission to focus on and care for themselves. Cultivating the stoic principles can help you further develop resilience that will reignite your imagination and extinguish apathy and despair.

Once a single mom trying to launch a start-up from her garage, Barb Stegemann has built an international brand thanks to intuition, innovation, and smart risk-taking. Now she shares her incredible story and hard-earned wisdom, as a CEO who continues to steer The 7 Virtues through both unexpected road bumps and surprising growth.

Drawing on the story of her own accomplishments and relevant examples from other industries, Stegemann shares a presentation that’s equally suited to equip leaders and team members with the skills they need to face daily challenges and perform their best. Her message of thoughtful leadership, collaboration, and clearly defined ambition can help any organization find new heights of success, while maintaining the crucial balance of serving others while taking care of ourselves.

Barbara Stegemann shares the story of how she launched The 7 Virtues Peace Perfumes out of her garage and on her visa card in Nova Scotia — a brand that is now not only competing with other luxury perfumes, but has created a new movement of Clean & Conscious beauty at Sephora, the fastest growing beauty retailer in the world.

With compelling storytelling, she shines light on her approach to business, and explains how social enterprise can be used to help reverse global issues, such as war and poverty, around the world. She shows us that the Return on Investment and the Return on Love are not mutually exclusive. We can (and must) have both together.

“Nine out of ten Millennials will switch brands for one with a cause. We have a cause.”
– Barb Stegemann

Best selling author, Barb Stegemann shares how living the stoic virtues that guided warriors through war and strife for thousands of years stand the tests of time and if followed, will lead you to success and joyful living guaranteed. She shares how wonder instead of judgement will lead you to all of the resources you need. She shares stoic wisdom that Churchill and Aurelius used from Plato and Socrates to Mary Wollstonecraft. These principles apply to our lives today, they just manifest themselves in different ways. The root is following your ethics and the daily practice of the virtues.

Barb shares how she too uses this wisdom successfully in her own social enterprise, The 7 Virtues was experiencing retail challenges as many businesses try and navigate the generational buying shift to Millennials. She herself had to adapt and she ended up launching a new contemporary peace perfume line with the fastest growing beauty giant in the world, Sephora.

“I wrote a book on the stoic virtues and I still am in awe that if you follow it, these principles will lead you to success and joy guaranteed.”

– Barb Stegemann

Barb Stegemann dives deep into how to brand to engage the millennial market, when it’s time to rebrand, and how to change your image with the least financial impact. Her socially-conscious enterprise has spoken to the millennial generation, as seen through her perfume line’s success. She’ll show you how to win over this new wave of consumers and help you rebrand for better business.

Barb Stegemann had a dream to help rebuild the lives of farmers in war-torn countries. She didn’t know how and she didn’t know what it would take, but she was determined to make a difference. She identified a method, rolled up her selves and began outsourcing ingredients for perfume from war-riddled countries. Let Barb take you on her journey from conception to international success, all while making a socially-conscious impact on the world.

Winston Churchill said, “Never waste a good crisis.” During a pandemic that has drastically halted a great deal of the economy, Barb Stegemann shares in her best selling book how to use the stoic principles used by Churchill and many great world leaders to thrive and advance to a higher level during a crisis. Her own social enterprise saw 600 retail doors shut. By applying the guaranteed principles she teachers to her own business, her company, The 7 Virtues has tripled sales, despite the massive store closures and despite the inability to cross the USA border she  is retailing directly to 110 million Americans on QVC. With plans to launch in the UK, all during the pandemic! There are untapped business opportunities right in front of you. If you are present.

For centuries leaders drew mental strength from the wisdom of the great philosophers from Plato to Marcus Aurelius. Philosophy guided leaders through war, strife and hell on earth and inspired them to keep going. Barb Stegemann has curated the great wisdom from the philosophers.

Barb Stegemann wrote her book, The 7 Virtues of a Philosopher Queen – a woman’s guide to living and leading in an illogical world, to reverse the equation for women, the nucleus of the family to finally put themselves first and then take care of the needs of those around them. She teaches how her company’s natural perfume aromatherapy and philosophy together creates self-guided remedies for the body, mind and soul. Whether you are feeling stuck, lonely or overwhelmed, you are not alone and will find the wisdom in this program become unconquerable.