Pauline Nguyen

Pauline Nguyen is a bestselling author, award-winning businesswoman, and acclaimed keynote speaker whose journey from Vietnamese refugee to one of Australia’s most successful entrepreneurs exemplifies the power of resilience and reinvention. As the owner of Red Lantern – the most awarded Vietnamese restaurant in the world – she won the 2012 Australian Telstra Business Award for Medium Business. She is the author of the critically acclaimed memoir Secrets of the Red Lantern, which earned the Debut Writer of the Year award.

From Adversity to Achievement
Pauline escaped Vietnam on a boat as a child and survived a Thai refugee camp before building a new life in Australia. She has overcome these adverse beginnings by re-engineering her beliefs, questioning the status quo, and hacking cultural norms to forge her own path to success. Named one of Australia’s Top 50 Influential Female Entrepreneurs and selected among 200 Women Who Will Change the Way You See the World, Pauline brings a unique blend of high-performing Western business acumen and Eastern spirituality to her work.

The Spiritual Entrepreneur
Pauline’s keynote, The Way of the Spiritual Entrepreneur, presents a no-nonsense methodology of business, life, and spiritual practice designed to disrupt standard ways of thinking. She brings the unconscious into the conscious, catapulting audiences into an optimistic mindset of abundance and possibility. Her approach empowers people to change their story for a better future through key alignment of thoughts and intentions.

Pauline’s warmth, humor, and profound ability to connect with audiences make her an exceptional storyteller who transforms how people think about success, resilience, and personal fulfillment.

The Red Lantern Story – From extreme adversity to success.

Having escaped Vietnam on a boat and survived a Thai refugee camp, Pauline Nguyen has learned to reframe the events of her tumultuous childhood and often describes her upbringing as her ‘training’ to become a master of her thoughts, behaviors and emotions – learning to approach everything with an unshakable spirit to become the owner of the most awarded Vietnamese restaurant in the world, Red Lantern.

In this keynote you will learn:

• to overcome adversity and transform an approach to success by re-engineering beliefs, questioning the status quo and hacking cultural norms.
• Apply the mindset of sustainability to all aspects of business to master customer service, employee retention, customer retention, supplier retention, and leadership.
• to Build a Business Brand as well as a Personal Brand

Calm Courage, Resounding Resilience, Tacit Grit – Navigating through change and disruption.

As a thought leader, Pauline’s unique life experiences have given her a distinctive insight into the minds of individuals and businesses alike, allowing her to pass on the invaluable skills of self-mastery, courage, resilience and grit. As Pauline says, ‘If we can learn the tools of self-mastery, we can better practice the art of influence over others.”

When Pauline talks of commitment driving outcomes, people listen.

Key takeaways:

• Navigating through change and disruption.
• Developing personal and organizational Courage, Resilience and Grit
• How to maximize joy and enhance personal performance in Business Leadership and Life Leadership

Mastering Influence in Business and Life – The Game of Business Mastery is the Game of Mastering Influence

Named as one of ‘Australia’s Top 50 Influential Female Entrepreneurs’, and one of the hand-selected ’200 Women Who Will Change the Way You See the World’, Pauline understands how to use the Weapons of Influence in business and in life. Her day-to-day professional life was in orbit around her life principles, and not the other way around.

This self-actualisation has carried her to prosperity while running the awarded restaurant Red Lantern, (the most awarded Vietnamese restaurant in the world) and authoring bestseller, Secrets of the Red Lantern, (Winner Debut Writer of the Year).

The Way of The Spiritual Entrepreneur – The 7 Secrets to Becoming Fearless, Stress-Free and Unshakable in Business and in Life

This keynote is a no bones, honest and forthright methodology of business, life and spiritual practice designed to disrupt standard ways of thinking, bringing the unconscious into the conscious and catapulting the audience into an optimistic mindset of abundance and possibility. Any person or organization who follows The Way of The Spiritual Entrepreneur is destined to have a competitive advantage in business and in life.

Key takeaways:

• How to master your emotions to stay cool under pressure
• Finding inner peace amongst the chaos and confusion.