Purpose, Passion and Performance

Stephanie Bown’s award winning first book

Awarded top-three Leadership books published in Australia in the 2021 Australian Business Book Awards, Stephanie is an author, conference speaker and performance specialist, consulting to some of Australia’s most inspiring entrepreneurs and business leaders. Stephanie’s life-long obsession with performance and helping individuals, teams and organisations operate at their performance edge, was the catalyst for this book.

In her book, Purpose, Passion & Performance – How systems for leadership, culture and strategy drive the 3Ps of high performing organisations, Stephanie explores how business leaders can build a system of performance that creates the internal requisite variety to adapt to any market condition.

Stephanie discusses her systematic approach, where systems create habits, which create results. Where Leadership drives purpose, culture drives passion, and strategy drives performance. Together, the 3Ps – purpose, passion and performance – translate to profit.

Through her career Stephanie has used an evidence-based approach to embed performance cultures in businesses. Throughout her journey her approach has yielded billion-dollar sales, double digit growth, and happier and healthier places of work. She has worked with start-ups, SMEs and global powerhouses – and her motivation is always the same – to help people move from simply functioning to fully flourishing.

Things you will learn

A systematic approach

High-performance teams are crafted through systems of culture, leadership and strategy, creating habits, which in turn create results.

Find your performance edge

Living at our performance edge is a dynamic process of learning that takes place when your capacity meets the challenge, when performance meets potential.

Unlock the leadership code

Leaders inspire high-performance through setting standards, normalising feedback, and coaching to strengths.

A kaleidoscope of wonderful ideas, Purpose, Passion and Performance is an easy read and moves at a pace that enables you to really think about each insight and its relevance to your business. The delivery is measured and considered, giving you the opportunity to implement learnings and integrate them into your existing practices. Whether you are an aspiring or recently appointed CEO, or a seasoned veteran honing your skillset, this book will give you the tools to implement high-performance systems within your own organisation.

Radek Sali – BOOK

Chairman of Light Warrior Group & Lightfolk Foundation
(Former CEO of Swisse Wellness)

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

Steph brings an authenticity to her teaching and writing, this shines through in the three P’s. I love the commitment to leaders who make a difference woven throughout.

Matt Church

Founder Thought Leaders Business School

There is something about this book that I cannot get out of my head. It is the realness of it, the practical nature by which Steph goes about communicating the message. I found it super relatable and to the point. Time poor CEO’s and leaders, need to grab this book and use it to get to the point with their team.

Steve Kloss – BOOK

CEO Pentana Solutions

I can think of no greater testimonial for this book than the fact that it will become required reading for any Founder we back. In our dynamic world this book helps provide tools to help leaders align their team with the vision…and when true alignment exists we all know spectacular things can happen.

Michael da Gama Pinto – BOOK

Managing Director, Benjamin Duncan Group

Steph is a natural at simplifying the complex with clear concepts and models, but it’s the combination of that along with her warm and engaged presence that have made all our sessions with her so effective and energising. It’s a delight to see that her book also brings her best to life as well.

Ben Summons

Former CEO, Stone & Wood

As a business owner, strategist and culture practitioner I ate this book alive. If you lead a business that wants the roadmap to create high performance then this is it. Steph has craftily helped us understand the why we need it, with plenty of stories and case studies and shown us how to do it. It's bigger than high performance though. We all aspire to that. Steph has generously given us the systems we can put in place to get there. If you lead a business and you implement this, you'll be number 1 in your field. Without doubt.

Georgia Murch

Author, Speaker, Mentor

All great businesses are built on systems, however most of us think of systems in terms of manufacturing, production, finance, marketing, service etc. In this book Stephanie Bown teaches us how to implement the leadership systems that underpin sustained high performance. Compulsory reading for any leader who wants to produce extraordinary results with their team and organisation.

Pete Cook

Chairperson, Thought Leaders Business School

Steph Bown epitomised purpose, passion and performance through her professional life at Nous Group and beyond. Now in this book, she explores her ideas in extensive, well-researched depth. There is a lot in Steph’s thinking to absorb and reflect on. And happily she writes beautifully too.

Tim Orton

Founder and Managing Director, Nous Group

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