Bron Stephens

Leadership Team Development

Supporting Organisations to Create Powerful Leaders

Custom leadership programs for regional organisations — building confident leaders, engaged teams, and real performance shifts.

You’ve invested in leadership training before. So why aren’t you seeing results?

You’ve tried workshops and and sent people to training. Yet you’re still suffering from low accountability and underwhelming results. Worse yet, you’re spending WAY too much time on ‘people issues’ and the best talent is leaving. 

It’s not about finding better people. It’s about ditching the leadership training and models that don’t get results.

Sound familiar:

      • High-potential leaders burning out or leaving
      • Low accountability despite expensive development sessions
      • Inefficiency and rework causing cost and time over-runs
      • Dealing with ‘people issues’ burning your time and energy

Leadership transformation that actually works

I work with Northern Australian organisations when leadership starts creating real risk — cost overruns, delays, hidden issues and growing frustration.

One-off leadership event presentations and training. 

Timeframe: 

Custom based on requirements

Best For:

Organisations running specific events or programs looking for meaningful outcomes in a short timeframe.

Session Ideas:

These are ideas only, final products will be determined with the organisation based on their needs.

–  Conquering the Confidence Crushers;

–  Team and/or Personal Values;

–  Owning the Inner Critic;

–  Leadership with AI – understanding bias, ethics and getting great outcomes; 

–  Understanding personal values to create an authentic leadership brand.

Tailored solutions for leadership challenges unique to your organisation.

Timeframe: 

1-3 months (depending on team size)

Best for:

–  Cost constrained organisations seeking a quick leadership “boost” to get them started.

– Organisations facing specific challenges that require incremental change (vs transformation)

–  Organisations with strong existing leadership development looking for specific expertise

Program Ideas:

These are ideas only, final products will be determined with the organisation based on their needs.

–  Individual and team 360 degree feedback and development planning

– Creating values based leadership teams

– Group coaching for accountability

Embed learning, build capability and sustain results to transform performance and leadership in your organisation.

Timeframe: 

12 months

Best For:

– Organisations seeking transformative leadership development

– Organisations with senior/executive leaders who need ongoing support in developing their team’s capability.

Sample 12 Month Program:

Focus is on defining group priorities and supporting individual development.

–  Individual leadership 360° feedback

– Collective 360° team assessment   

–  Executive debrief and development planning

–  Tailored group coaching modules based on client needs

–  Ongoing bi-monthly coaching for leaders

–  Ongoing executive coaching to support team development

Leadership that gets Regional Australia

Most leadership programs don’t understand Northern and Regional Australia. The challenges are different. The opportunities are unique. Generic solutions don’t cut it.

Bron’s Journey: Born in Mount Isa, raised in Townsville, trained in Brisbane, now based in Darwin with global experience. She’s led teams of 500+ and managed $500M portfolios across Australia and internationally.

The Credentials: GAICD, MBA, Executive Coaching Diploma, Leadership Circle Certified.

The Difference: World-class credentials meet regional authenticity. Bron doesn’t just understand your challenges—she’s lived them and brings it together to create human-centred accountability. Click here to learn more.

From frustration to confidence

My approach is practical and human-centred:

Rebuilding accountability and clarity through values, behaviour and honest conversations that reset how leaders lead.

Longer engagements help you uncover what’s actually going on beneath the surface and stabilise the whole leadership system. This allows us to focus on the real issues driving things off track:

      • hidden problems that surface too late and become expensive

      • leaders avoiding the hard conversations and tough decisions

      • people doing the work they prefer, not the work that’s needed

      • cost and time overruns created by unclear expectations

      • frustration, resentment and conflict simmering beneath the surface

      • good people leaving because behaviour doesn’t match the values

The fix isn’t complicated. Update the model, everything shifts.

If things feel like they’re slipping, I help you reset leadership, rebuild accountability and restore confidence across your teams.

Step 1 Book a Free Strategy Call
Step 2 Define a Future Model
Step 3 Transform Leadership Systems

Bron’s ability to pick up on recurring patterns led to a significant moment of insight which not only prevented me from going down a similar path as I had done in the past but had me grounded and confident enough to hold to the “new way” when It came to a challenging situation. This led to an extremely positive outcome, both financially and professionally. I would highly recommend Bron as a coach.

~ Kate C ~

I would recommend Bron to anyone that needs help, especially in business. When I was looking for a coach I wanted someone with corporate experience who ‘knew what they were doing’ but also wasn’t going to be cold and steely. Bron was perfect in that she was professional, had her head screwed on but was really approachable and friendly. 

~ Lorna R ~

Let’s make space for your best leadership

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is a Leadership Strategist?

A leadership strategist goes beyond traditional executive coaching. While coaching remains the heart of the work, it’s paired with strategic insight, education, and evidence-based practices that uplift both the individual leader and the broader organisation.

Think of it as coaching with extra firepower: yes, there’s space for deep reflection and mindset work, but also practical tools, strategic planning, and mentoring to strengthen leadership capability, decision-making, and organisational impact.

Whether you’re navigating a pivot, shaping culture, or building a future-ready leadership pipeline — a leadership strategist helps you lead with clarity, not just confidence.

How do I know if it’s the right time for me to be coached?

Knowing your goal or feeling ‘ready’ isn’t a prerequisite for coaching. Sometimes it’s simply knowing something isn’t right and wanting to figure out what. Coaching can be messy and part of the process is sorting through the ‘spaghetti’ in our heads to figure out our goals.

The only prerequisite to coaching is being ready to invest the time and effort in your growth. If you’re happy with the status quo, don’t want anything to change and everything is going ok, now is not the time for coaching. 

What’s the difference between coaching and mentoring?

Great question — they’re related, but they serve different purposes.

Coaching is focused on helping you find your own answers. It’s reflective, forward-focused, and grounded in the belief that you already have the insight — you might just need space, the right questions, and a bit of support to uncover it. Coaching builds clarity, confidence, and capability from the inside out.

Mentoring, in the way I practise it, is less about war stories over coffee and more about sharing structured, evidence-based approaches to leadership that actually work. It’s about passing on proven strategies, research-informed tools, and real-world perspective — especially when they can shortcut the trial and error.

In my work as a leadership strategist, you’ll get both: powerful coaching to unlock what’s already within you, and structured mentoring to strengthen your leadership with tools that support both you and your organisation.

I want to work with you, but I am looking for something different, do you offer custom programs?

I can, let’s book a free call call and talk through what you’re looking for to see if I can help you.

This feels like a big time and/or financial commitment, what guarantees do I have?

You’re right — this is a big commitment. You spend a huge part of your life at work, and investing in making that experience better is absolutely worth it. You are worth it. And what you discover about yourself through this work won’t just shift your leadership — it’ll ripple into every part of your life. I promise.

While there are no guarantees in life, I do offer this: if after the first two sessions you don’t feel like it’s the right fit, I’ll refund you in full. No awkwardness, no hard feelings. I also have a fee-free cancellation policy — if at any point you’re not getting value from our work together, you can walk away.

I'm not yet a senior or executive leader, will you still work with me?

Whilst my primary focus is on women who are already senior, executive and C-Suite leaders, I also support women who are aspiring to senior leadership as their next promotion. Book in a strategy call and we can discuss if I’m the right coach for you or I can refer you to a better fit from my network. 

Why do you also work with Founder CEOs?

Because building a business is one thing — leading it well as it grows is a whole new game.

Founder CEOs often start out wearing every hat in the business. But as the team grows (usually around that 8–12 person mark), things shift. Suddenly, it’s not just about the product or service — it’s about people, leadership, vision, and strategic direction. And that can be deeply confronting. The role changes, the pace quickens, and the old ways of working start to hold the business — and the founder — back.

That’s where I come in.

Through The Founders Way, I support clarity-driven CEOs who are navigating this critical stage. We work together on leadership strategy, team dynamics, decision-making frameworks, and the mindset shifts needed to stop doing and start leading. It’s structured, evidence-based, and built to grow with you — because your business needs your leadership, not just your hustle.

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