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Stephanie Bown is obsessed with the collective capacity for all humans to come together in small groups and make a difference. By exploring the bonds that tie and the moments that break, Stephanie inspires leaders to fully turn up, lean in, and leverage collective capacity achieve outstanding results.

As a performance partner to leadership teams, Stephanie works with start-ups, scale-ups and leading market disruptors to fundamentally change the way leaders connect, align and inspire.

Stephanie draws on her experiences as an accredited YPO facilitator, company director (GAICD), award winning author, and performance practitioner to explore the collective capacity of a small group of people to create lasting positive impact. 

Drawing deeply on systems thinking and positive psychology, she understands that until the real you stands up, your group can’t be better together.

The Challenge

Directors and executive teams face unprecedented challenges. The pace of change is rapidly increasing. There are no known answers. Individual and organisational success depends not just on hiring great leaders, but on how well those leaders show up and combine their talents problem solve, innovate, test, learn and adapt.

Directors and leadership teams have the greatest accountability to driving organisational success. How leadership teams interact and collaborate directly impacts the culture and performance of the organisations they lead. In current times, it is especially important for leaders to rigorously test ideas, leverage collective capacity and ultimately realise the potential of their people, teams and organisations.

Thought Leadership

Stephanie is the acclaimed author of two leadership books on high performance.

Her first book Purpose, Passion & Performance: how systems for leadership, culture and strategy drive the three 3Ps of high-performing organisations was awarded one of Australia’s top three leadership books in 2021. This book guides leaders on building profitable, purpose-led, values-based businesses that deliver long-term sustainable growth.

Her second book, Curious, Connected & Calm: how leaders are better together demystifies team dynamics and empowers leaders with the tools for bringing talented people together in ways that ensures the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.

As a series, these books provide leaders with simple and empirically tested methods for creating the conditions for thriving teams and thriving organisations.

Stephanie's Programs

In the current climate of constantly shifting market dynamics and workforce trends; how leaders connect, align and inspire is mission critical.

Stephanie Bown is a Performance Partner to top business leaders, founders and entrepreneurs both in Australia and internationally. She delivers a suite of programs that build high performance teams and embed high-performance habits.

Her programs are tested across geographies and industries.

Stephanie adopts empirically proven methods that deliver measurable changes to culture and engagement results.

High Performance programs for leaders and leadership teams

Find out more about how Stephanie Bown partners with business leaders, founders and entrepreneurs to build high performing leadership teams and embed high-performance habits.

Insights

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