Bronwen Downie
Executive Coach & Consultant
As an Olympian and dual World Champion (Rowing), Bronwen brings an acute understanding of how psychological safety and the quality of dialogue impact sustainable high performance. Bronwen’s facilitation and intervention experience spans corporate team and executive coaching, tertiary education and elite sport. This unique blend of athletic insight, educational pedagogy, and coaching psychology enable Bronwen to provide interventions that are impactful, thought provoking, and participant centric. Enabling leaders and teams to build self-insight and sustainable high performance leadership models through experiential learning is a core part of Bronwen’s approach.
Bronwen’s interest is guiding teams through explorations of their dynamics, often through the lense of psychological safety. Surfacing insights on how teams can improve their ways of working to meet high performance outcomes, as well as raising behavioural insights that support individual shifts for greater wellbeing at work is a core element of what Bronwen delivers. The result is to equip leaders and teams with the communication skills they need to pursue high performance outcomes while feeling engaged, valued and motivated.
Bronwen has stood on various NFP boards and is currently the Chair of Sport Integrity Australia’s Athlete Advisory Group. She is the lead instructor for the Fearless Certified Practitioner program in APAC, and a proud advocate for the value of creating high levels of psychological safety in pursuit of any high-performance outcome.
Qualifications
Bronwen has a Coaching Psychology Master’s Degree, Bachelor of Education, Human Movement & Health.
Bronwen represented Australia in Rowing at the 2012 London Olympics in the Women’s Lightweight Double and held the title of World Rowing Champion in 2007 and 2008 in the Women’s Lightweight Quad scull. She was also a World Rowing Championship bronze medalist in 2003.
Registrations and Memberships
Bronwen is a member of the University of Sydney Coaching Masters Association, World Olympians Association.
Instrument Accreditations
Kantor Baseline Behavioural Profile • Fearless Organization Scan
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