When the life that defines you disappears
who do you become?
I work with individuals and organisations navigating identity, purpose, and what comes next, when the questions that once had easy answers no longer do.
Kersten Stengel
Author | Speaker | Reinvention Mentor | Leadership, Identity & Organisational Advisor
THE PATH THAT BROUGHT ME HERE
For most of my adult life I knew exactly who I was.
A leader. A responder. Someone who believed deeply in the systems she served and gave everything to them.
Then a workplace assault took that life away.
What followed was the slow, disorienting process of finding out who I was without the role that had defined me.
The answer took more than a decade to live and almost a year to understand.
What emerged was a body of work I could not have designed from the outside: clinical nutrition, yoga therapy, nervous system science, coaching, leadership advisory, and the writing of a memoir that tells the full story. Seen as a list, the pieces look separate. They do not feel separate anymore.
They are all expressions of the same questions: who are we when the roles and structures that have defined us begin to shift, what actually matters, and how do we decide what comes next?
THE ALIGNED RESET METHOD™
The Aligned Reset Method™ is the structured methodology I developed from years of clinical practice, scientific study, and my own experience of rebuilding identity and capacity from the ground up.
It integrates clinical nutrition, yoga therapy, nervous system regulation, and leadership recalibration into one evidence-informed approach, delivered across three deliberate phases:
Recalibrate, Rebuild, and Realign.
The science creates the conditions for clarity. The coaching creates the space to use it. The lived experience I bring is the part that is hardest to replicate from a textbook.
The method forms the foundation of my private 1:1 mentoring and informs the wider body of my work.
HOW I WORK
PRIVATE 1:1
Mentoring
Structured,
evidence-informed reinvention mentoring for individuals navigating identity, purpose, and what comes next.
ADVISORY
Corporate
Advisory, keynote, and leadership workshops for organisations navigating the human cost of sustained pressure.
AUTHOR
The Book
Broken by the System. Rebuilt by My Soul.,
my forthcoming memoir.
Read the first chapter free.
IMMERSION
Retreats
Immersive reinvention and reconnection experiences. Join the waiting list for upcoming dates.
Meet Kersten
Kersten Stengel is a Clinical Nutritionist (BHSc), Yoga Therapist, and ICF Coach with a scientific foundation built across thirty years. She is a former Deputy Principal with over two decades of senior educational leadership, and served for eight years as a volunteer first responder with Surf Life Saving South Australia and the South Australian State Jet Boat Rescue Crew.
She is a number one bestselling co-author, author of the forthcoming memoir Broken by the System. Rebuilt by My Soul., and is Clinic Supervisor in Clinical Nutrition for a tertiary education institution.
Her podcast appearances include Leading Our Own Way with Andrew White, The Healthy Menopause with Clio Austin, and How to Be a Hero in Real Life with Marco Robinson.
Her work is grounded in contemporary clinical science alongside traditional wisdom, particularly Ayurveda and the Krishnamacharya lineage of yoga therapy.
"What qualifies me for this work is not only what I have studied.
It is what I have lived."
NOT SURE WHERE TO BEGIN?
Read the first chapter of
Broken by the System. Rebuilt by My Soul.
It begins with the question that sits underneath much of my work, and the rest of the book exists to explore what happened when I had to answer it.
RECENT FEATURES
A selection of recent conversations and collaborations.
Episode 113, Leading Our Own Way with Andrew White, Spotify Top 10
The Healthy Menopause Podcast with Clio Austin
How to Be a Hero in Real Life with Marco Robinson
#1 Bestselling Co-author in the Bestselling Start Over series
Whatever brought you here today, I am glad you found your way to this page.
If any of this reflects where you are right now, I would love to hear from you.
Let's talk.
Suite 229, 222 Mount Barker Rd, Aldgate, SA, Australia.
www.kerstenstengel.com.au
