The founder of The Huffington Post news website is to visit Bermuda to give a presentation on the urgent need to take personal wellness seriously.

Arianna Huffington is being brought to the Island by Colonial Medical Insurance to speak at two events next month.

Naz Farrow, Colonial Group International’s chief operating officer for health, said: “Arianna is a world-renowned author, speaker and entrepreneur. We are delighted that she has agreed to visit Bermuda.

“She will speaking about her latest book, Thrive — The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder, which makes the case for redefining what it means to be successful.

“Ms Huffington is also a passionate supporter of personal health and has adopted the Virgin Pulse wellness programme, which is part of the Virgin empire, in The Huffington Post offices.”

Ms Huffington is the chairwoman, president and editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post Media Group and author of 14 books.

In May 2005, she launched The Huffington Post, a news and blog site that quickly became one of the most widely read, linked to, and frequently cited media brands on the internet.

In 2012, the site won a Pulitzer Prize for national reporting. She has been named on Time magazine’s list of the world’s 100 most influential people and the Forbes Most Powerful Women list. Originally from Greece, she moved to England when she was 16 and graduated from Cambridge University with an MA in economics. At 21, she became president of the famed debating society, the Cambridge Union.

She serves on several boards, including HuffPost’s partners in Spain, the newspaper El País and its parent company Prisa, Onex, the Centre for Public Integrity and the Committee to Protect Journalists.

Her latest book was published by Crown in March 2014 and debuted at No 1 on The New York Times bestseller list.

“Thrive was inspired by my own wake-up call, when I collapsed from exhaustion and lack of sleep and found myself lying on the floor of my home office in a pool of blood,” Ms Huffington said. “I realised, in terms of the traditional measures of success, which focus on money and power, I was very successful. But I was not living a successful life by any sane definition of success. I knew something had to radically change. I could not go on that way.

“I am delighted to come to Bermuda to share some of my experiences and hopefully help people avoid having painful wake-up calls of their own.”