Aimee Bernstein
Aimee Bernstein is a transformational coach, trainer, and consultant dedicated to helping individuals, leaders, and teams thrive in times of disruptive change. She is the founder of the Women’s Mastery Institute and president of Open Mind Adventures, organizations focused on cultivating authentic leadership, emotionally intelligent teams, and wellness-driven organizational cultures. Her work has guided executives and emerging leaders from global corporations such as Chanel, Colgate Palmolive, MasterCard, EA Sports, Novartis, and Dolce & Gabbana, as well as nonprofit and municipal organizations, in unlocking potential, fostering collaboration, and embracing high-impact transformation.
Aimee’s journey began over 40 years ago, transitioning from a music teacher to earning a master’s degree in psychology and becoming a psychotherapist. She completed her internship at Massachusetts General Hospital under Harvard Medical School, working with Matt Dumont, then Commissioner of Mental Health for Massachusetts. Initially focused on addictions and life counseling, she became interested in understanding power dynamics, leading her to found Amy Burns Senior Associates in 1982. Her notable achievements include transforming Chanel’s R&D division into a high-performing, collaborative environment and fostering unprecedented union-management cooperation at Broward County’s EMS Division. Drawing on her training in Aikido with master teacher Robert Nadeau, Aimee integrates energy mastery, mindfulness, and psychology to teach leaders to harness the energy of change to boost performance, creativity, and well-being.
In 2015, Aimee authored Stress Less, Achieve More: Simple Ways to Turn Pressure into a Positive Force in Your Life, published in English, Mandarin, and Arabic, and recognized by Thrive Global in 2017 as one of the most inspiring books of the year. She continues to empower women through the Women’s Mastery Institute, offering programs such as Ready for More: The Art of Transformation and her eight-week series The Roar of the More, utilizing tools like the Enneagram, stages of transition, and energy work. She is expanding her impact by bringing transformational practices to disadvantaged teens through a nonprofit partnership with Rhode Island School of Design, reinforcing her lifelong commitment to cultivating leadership, resilience, and personal mastery across generations.
• Edgewalker Certified Coach
• M.F.C.C.
• Boston University - M.Ed, Counseling & Organization Development
• Hunter College - BA, Music
• Author, Stress Less, Achieve More
• Edgewalkers International
• Working with Rhode Island School of Design family nonprofit to help disadvantaged teens through stress reduction and personal development programs
What do you attribute your success to?
I follow my intuition and trust that I'm being taken care of spiritually and energetically. Instead of forcing my will to make things happen, I look for the clues. I've created relationships throughout my career - people have come into my life and referred me to new opportunities. For example, I worked with an attorney at a law firm who referred me to Sports Authority. The vice president of HR from Sports Authority got the job at Dolce & Gabbana and took me with her. She liked my work so much that she went to lunch with the Senior Vice President at Chanel and told them about me, and then I was working at Chanel. It's been about trusting my intuition, trusting that the universe has my back in some way, and creating relationships with people. Having integrity and speaking my truth, but speaking it in a way that is gentle and kind, has been essential to my success.
What advice would you give to young women entering your industry?
I would say to get specific about what nourishes you and what it is you want to learn, because what you need to learn is what you need to teach. That means if you're a life coach and you want to deal with marriage or family, yes, you need to have some expertise in it, but it's a continuous evolvement to study. You need to have the curiosity, the courage, and the commitment to keep on learning, and to let it be embodied in your own self. Self-care is really important too - if you're trying to help other people, how are you taking care of yourself? These days, you can take a course for 2 months and you're a coach, and there are tons of coaches out there with all these programs promising you'll make ten or twenty thousand dollars a month. But what a coach needs to do is find what really nourishes them, where their spark is. Start to create relationships with people, because social media is wonderful, except it doesn't really get you work. You might get 10,000 followers and you're on the computer all day long. It's about creating relationships with people and sometimes giving a little bit more than you're charging for, so that you can begin to get that kind of reputation that you're a giver, that you really help. The money will flow as you develop yourself.
What values are most important to you in your work and personal life?
Integrity is very important to me. Compassion is very important to me. Centered groundedness is very important to me. These values guide both my professional work and my personal life, shaping how I interact with clients, colleagues, and the people around me.
Locations
Open Mind Adventures and Author of Stress Less Achieve More
Boynton Beach, FL 33437