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A YPO Certified Forum Facilitator (CFF) with a difference

 

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Stephanie has been a Certified Forum Facilitator (CFF) since 2018. She is a skilled and perceptive facilitator working with YPO groups to deepen Forum connections through fostering greater vulnerability, openness and trust.

Stephanie is a YPO facilitator with a difference. Stephane is an inspirational speaker, award-winning author, and facilitator to executives and their teams around the world. She regularly works with boards, executive teams and YPO forums to strengthen their collective capacity to solve adaptive challenges.

Stephanie offers a suite of YPO programs:
• YPO Retreat sessions to strengthen forum health
• YPO Retreat sessions to strengthen leadership depth
• YPO Chapter sessions

Qualifications & Accreditations

Qualifications

  • Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (GAICD)
  • Masters of Organisation Dynamics
  • First Class Honours in Neuropsychology
  • Bachelor of Applied Science – Psychology and Psychophysiology
  • Diploma of Positive Psychology
  • Certificate IV in Training and Assessment

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

Facilitation Style

Steph is a professional facilitator trained in managing group dynamics. She is described as a trust-builder, energetic, friendly, effortless, engaging and intuitive. Her facilitation style fosters openness, respect and enjoyment within groups. Steph is experienced in working with CEO’s and their teams to lead with authenticity and affect positive change within their businesses, lives and relationships.

 

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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

One of the best forum refreshers/trainings I've had. Feel like I left with a lot of ideas and resources.

YNG Member

ANZ Forum Summit March 2021

A wonderful day spent with our forum group and Stephanie. It cemented our commitment forum and reinvigorated the group.

YPO Spouse QLD member

Supercharge Retreat, July 2021

She is engaging, enthusiastic and articulate. Helped guide the group to share deeply personal experiences quickly and with genuine empathic engagement.

YPO Global Forum Basics Participant

YPO Global, October, 2021

Stephanie led the discussion with confidence while remaining attune to the different personalities in the room. Stephanie was clearly well versed on the organization she was lecturing on, and knew the subject matter well.

YPO Melbourne Forum Basics Participant

YPO Melbourne Chapter, October, 2021

Stephanie was really well received by our YNGers and both groups (one less than a year old and one a few years old) have been refreshed and refocused in their forums. They all really enjoyed the day with her, and it was the topic of conversation at that night. Stephanie was amazing, I cannot praise her enough.

YPO Chapter Manager

Brisbane, 2020

Steph delivered solidly on the key objectives of the day. It was a well-run day and Steph was always in control.

YPO Melbourne Yarra Chapter Member

October 2019

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.

YPO Education Chair

Melbourne Chapter 2018

We spent a full day with Stephanie Bown digging down into our needs and values and found the whole process to be educational, insightful and a bit confronting. Stephanie facilitated the day in both and a strategic and empathetic way to allow us to gain ‘psychological air’ to get to a granular level and then implement an action plan to move forward. A great process and a credit to her skills and knowledge!

YPO Chapter Chair

2018

Explaining and practicing self-curiosity in presentations with her input and guidance, led instantly to amazingly more openness of participants.

YPO Gold Member

July 2019

Engaging empathetic style.

YPO Gold Member

Melbourne Chapter, July 2019

Stephanie is the equal or better than any facilitator our forum has used over nearly 2 decades.

YPO Gold member

July 2019