About Stephanie

Stephanie Bown helps individuals and teams find their performance edge.

Our performance edge is where full capacity meets the complexity of challenge. At the edge, we push past what we know, to the “unthought known”. We dig deep, forge new neural pathways and make new connections. Our potential is never fully realised. The brain is continuously changing and dendritic cells (brain cells or neurons that look like tiny trees) never stop reaching for more connections. The internal landscape of possibility is never one that is fully explored. What a beautiful, endless plane of possibility lies within?

Our challenge as leaders and change makers is helping people to discover their performance edge and safely hold them there.

Stephanie has an exceptional gift of breaking down complex business concepts into simple, digestible tasks. Tasks and items that are well understood by the entire team and business. She helps create a safe environment for all to contribute to which ensures full buy in from the business. We have successfully worked with Stephanie for over five years and plan on continuing to do so long into the future.

Michael Da Gama Pinto

Chief Executive Officer, The Foundry

I am profoundly grateful for the amazing job done by Stephanie and her team in relation to planning, managing and facilitating our group retreat in Byron Bay.  Her extensive career experience, professionalism, academic knowledge and in-depth understanding of YPO protocols, combined with a natural and easy-going style quickly established her credibility and trust with the group, enabling people to open up and truly go deep with themselves and others in an honest, authentic and genuinely bonding manner. The powerful processes that Stephanie utilised gave all of us a far greater understanding of ourselves and each other, our forum group has become a much stronger and closer unit as a result. We feel like we have now discovered our group identity, values and purpose as a result. The retreat was a peak experience for me and I have come away with a renewed passion for my business, my family and my life.

Ron Selkirk

Director Selkirk Group and YPO Forum Member

Steph was simply awesome. She provided very refreshing forum facilitation on our retreat, spending time on theory as well, which helped not only in the forum but had very practical business application.

James Cotton

Education Chair Melbourne Chapter 2018, Young Presidents Organisation (YPO)

Steph is an incredibly relatable coach that builds and drives high-performance cultures. She has and continues to have a significant impact in my business. We initially engaged Steph to deliver a 2-Day workshop where she introduced Mastering Feedback and Coaching framework to our senior team. The outcomes were extraordinary, we all walked away with a strong understanding of how to create a culture where people feel safe to speak up, offer ideas, challenge the status quo and address performance gaps with candour. Steph continues to coach myself and the senior team on a monthly basis so that we can cascade the learnings to our teams and reach our full potential

Todd Foster

Managing Director, Novas and YPO Melbourne member

Stephanie Bown

Stephanie Bown is obsessed with performance and helping people move from simply functioning to fully flourishing. Since she was in her early teens, Stephanie has studied the deep inner workings of the mind and how people survive or thrive at work.

Having completed over nine years of tertiary education in psychology, neuropsychology, positive psychology and organisation dynamics; as well as five professional accreditations in validated psychometric tools; Stephanie has devoted her life to discovering the dynamics of individuals, teams and organisations at work and lives to share her insights with her clients.

With a strong grounding as a management consultant with Nous Group for seven years, Steph became the in-house Performance Partner at Swisse Wellness, where she coached the executive and senior leadership teams over a number of years to sharpen their focus and achieve a record company sale of $1.6 billion in 2014.

In 2015 Stephanie founded her own practice in Byron Bay, NSW, and delivers strategy creation and leadership development initiatives with CEO’s spanning all industries, helping their teams achieve greater alignment, clarity and commitment for their cause.

Her mission is to deliver life changing learning experiences.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor of Applied Science – Psychology and Psychophysiology
  • First Class Honours in Neuropsychology
  • Masters of Organisation Dynamics
  • Certificate IV in Training and Assessment
  • Diploma of Positive Psychology

Professional Accreditations

  • Young Presidents Organisation (YPO) Certified Forum Facilitator (CFF)
  • Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) Personality profile tool
  • Human Synergistics Life Styles Inventory (LSI); Organisational Culture Inventory (OCI), and Customer Service Styles (CSS)
  • Genos Emotional Intelligence (EI) Accredited Practitioner