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Stephanie Bown is a performance curator, skilled in enhancing business performance by activating the potential of individuals, teams and organisations - through integrated systems of leadership, culture & strategy.

Stephanie is a personal trainer for business – working with founders and leaders to improve their leadership fitness and the performance of their people. Regularly consulting with some of Australia’s most inspiring entrepreneurs and business leaders, Stephanie’s evidence based approach embeds performance cultures and yields outstanding results.

The Challenge

In disconnected and disjointed systems, people waste effort and energy on self-protection instead of getting on with the task. Organisations with disconnected or disjointed systems deliver sub-average market performance.

The Solution

In connected, coherent, and integrated systems, people are enabled to bring their full selves to the completion of their work. The business becomes the focal point of energy. Connected systems meet market performance, while coherent and integrated systems deliver superior market performance.

The High Performance System

Leadership, Culture and Strategy are the three critical elements that connect the activities of people across an organisation. They determine what people work on, and how they work together to achieve maximum potential. For each of these, there are proven ways of working that drive performance:
  • A leadership system – fuels purpose
  • A culture system – fuels passion
  • A strategy system – fuels performance

When working together and integrated into business practices – a high-performance system is created.

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Leadership Solutions

Leadership fuels purpose by connecting people to their purpose in the organisation, and the organisation’s purpose in the market. Leaders light the fire and guide the way for their people by continuously harnessing and developing talent.

Culture Solutions

Culture drives engagement and ignites passion for your purpose. High-performance organisations prioritise culture by putting their people first, and building their businesses around talent.

Strategy Solutions

Strategy fuels performance by ensuring all team members set and are accountable to results.

High performance is one of those catch phrases that every organisation aspires to but is so hard to get a firm grip on. Steph's book ‘Purpose, passion & performance’ lowers the veil on where success comes from. Her ability to simplify the complex and make it achievable for every business (or individual) makes this a must read for anyone with a desire for building a high performance teams.

Sam Mitchell

Senior Coach Hawthorn Football Club, 4x AFL Premiership Player (Hawthorn FC),
Brownlow Medallist (2012), 3x All Australian

As our high performance partner since 2016, Stephanie has worked closely with the Pentana Solutions Executive Team and myself facilitate both the creation of our 5-year strategic vision and execution of this vision through quarterly strategy and leadership sessions. Through 360-degree feedback and ongoing coaching, Stephanie has helped us adopt more constructive styles of leadership, engage our Top 50 leaders in strategy execution, and truly take ownership of our roles as executives. With Steph’s guidance and support, we’ve become a stronger, more aligned executive team, demonstrating measurable improvements in both our leadership and our business performance. I am very comfortable recommending Steph to both my YPO peers and my business partners.

Steve Kloss

CEO, Pentana Solutions

Stephanie has done great things with us. Thanks to her planning, coaching and support, we had an award-winning team and a business that was hugely successful.

Radek Sali

Former Chief Executive Officer, Swisse Wellness (now founder Light Warrior Investments)

If you want to lead a high performing team, "Purpose, Passion & Performance" is the book to read. It unlocks 3Ps that serve as tools for engaging and empowering employees to reach their full potential. The book explains how to implement three keys system that contribute into a high performance: a leadership system, a culture system and a strategy system. 

Tina Ghafurian

General Manager, Tips & Toes, UAE

Stephanie has been great at giving our company and leadership team language & tools for measuring and shaping culture! She is a big enabler to ensure our rapidly growing business is developing & performing at its best - knowing that people & culture are at the core of our past & future success! Also as a personal coach Stephanie is great to work with!

Florian Isermeyer

Head of Gastrointestinal Health Venture, Europe

Steph is a great listener and has developed some really practical programs for improving organizations and teams. Steph has a rare talent for distilling information, organizing that info in a structured and logical manner and then presenting back a set of key action items. I'd highly recommend engaging Steph to add real value to your people and business.

Stewart Cairns

Chief Executive Officer

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