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Curious, Connected & Calm

A guide to building high performing teams
and realising team synergy.

Together is better, but only if you turn up and lean in.

High performing teams are teams in synergy, where independent thinkers work together to leverage collective capacity.

In her second book, Stephanie Bown demystifies team dynamics and explores:

  • How to build a high performing team and avoid ‘dysfunction junction’
  • How to be an independent thinker and stay relevant in the age of AI
  • How to leverage collective intelligence to unlock creative potential.

This is especially important for leaders and leadership teams who set the tone from the top. Success depends on their capacity to show up, have courage, welcome open dissent, and explore new solutions to adaptive challenges.

This book empowers leaders and aspiring leaders with the tools to bring talented people together in ways that ensures the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.

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Purpose, Passion and Performance

A guide to creating
high-performance systems for
high-performance teams

Explore Stephanie Bown’s systematic approach to high-performance, where systems create habits, which create results.

Awarded top-three Leadership books published in Australia in the 2021 Australian Business Book Awards,  Stephanie is an internationally recognised author, conference speaker and  performance specialist, with clients across her native Australia, as well as Europe and The Middle East. Stephanie’s life-long obsession with performance and helping individuals, teams and organisations operate at their performance edge, was the catalyst for this book.

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Whitepaper: Re-Ignite

Are you a business leader navigating your team through a hybrid working environment?

My new White Paper RE-IGNITE is here to help you through that process. A hybrid working dynamic has given everybody more freedom, but with great freedom comes great responsibility.

The re-ignite framework asks us to think about how to navigate this new paradigm across the four dimensions I think are critical to creating a successful hybrid work environment.

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Whitepaper: Leading High Performing Teams

There’s something really beautiful, even joyful, about a team of people finding their performance flow.

We see it watching an orchestra, a ballet, a live band, a game of elite football, chefs at service at a 3-hatted restaurant, or even an emergency response team.

In this White Paper Stephanie Bown discusses her systems of leadership which underpin high performing teams and individuals:

SET STANDARDS to inspire high performance and connect people to purpose
NORMALISE FEEDBACK to create safety and a focus on results
COACH STRENGTHS to develop capabilities and leverage natural talents 

Leading High Performing Teams: How to transform team performance from simply functioning to fully flourishing in the new era”.

 

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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

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)

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

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

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

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