About

The Healthy Road Warrior is a resource to help and support business travelers (road warriors) in maintaining a healthy lifestyle while on the road. We provide healthy travel tips, information and resources around all aspects of your trip: Traveling (Go), eating (Eat), staying at your destination (Stay), staying fit (Workout), and maintaining relationships and managing stress (Recoup).

Founder – Brett Blumenthal

Brett Blumenthal is founder of Sheer Balance (founded in 2007), a wellness education and media company dedicated to help people find health and wellness easily. Most recently, she started Be Healthy, Inc., a wellness event and promotion company, with a mission to create a healthier America one city at a time.  She has more than 15 years of experience in wellness promotion and almost 10 years experience in management consulting; including branding, and training strategy and development for Fortune 100 companies. Ms. Blumenthal is a regular guest speaker at conferences, expos, spas and wellness centers around the world. She also consults with individuals, corporations, spas and wellness organizations on business strategy, and frequently delivers workshops to consumers on topics of health and wellness. Ms. Blumenthal writes for several online media companies, and is regularly featured on popular sites including: Yahoo!, Shine from Yahoo!, Divine Caroline, Intent and Gather. Ms. Blumenthal is author of Get Real and STOP Dieting! – a #1 Bestseller on Amazon and BarnesandNoble.com, and 52 Small Changes: One Year to a Happier, Healthier You, due to be released January 3, 2012.  Ms. Blumenthal has appeared on NBC, FOX and CBS, and is a regular contributor on Better Connecticut on WFSB – CBS, Hartford, Connecticut and MyFox – 25 in Boston, Massachusetts.

Early in Blumenthal’s career, she achieved road warrior status, traveling all over the world for business. As a management consultant with PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting and Deloitte Consulting, she delivered communications and training strategies and programs to Fortune 100 companies within retail, banking and manufacturing.  And, as a Senior Lifestyle Strategist for Gensler, she worked with clients such as Marriott, MGM-Mirage, Wyndham, Starwood and Intercontinental Hotels to deliver strategic planning, branding and communication services.  Over the course of her career, she has logged more than 1,000,000 miles in business travel and as a result, is keenly aware of how challenging it is to maintain a healthy lifestyle on the road.

Ms. Blumenthal has received numerous awards including: Shine from Yahoo!’s “Woman of the Year” for her influential writing; Divine Caroline’s Love this Site! award in the Body and Soul Category for Sheer Balance; Intent’s Best Healthy Living Site Award; and Healthy Heart from Nature Made.

Ms. Blumenthal received her MBA from Johnson at Cornell University, where she graduated as a Park Fellow; she also earned her bachelors degree from Cornell University. She is certified by WELCOA (Wellness Council of America) and AFAA (Aerobics and Fitness Association of America). Blumenthal resides in Cambridge, Massachusetts where she enjoys being active, healthy and spending time with her husband.