As Director at an Australian brewery, Brad Howatson knew that the personal performance of the sales and marketing teams was critical to their company’s success.

If he could unearth the genuine, innate strengths of his team members, he could reconfigure their roles to match.

That’s when a hallway conversation with Chief Financial Officer Sylvia Flimm in 2017, changed everything. She used her expert profiling skills to give accurate insights into the character traits of Brad’s teams, and pinpointed key times when each of them would be best positioned for success.

The results were astounding. Brad’s team learned things about themselves that they’d never before considered. And it opened up opportunities to build roles to suit the individuals, rather than forcing individuals to fit the roles.

The improvements in morale, job fulfilment and business performance were so noticeable that Brad and Sylvia knew they were on to something special.

And so Solfile® was born.

Sylvia Flimm was always destined to co-found a concept like Solfile. It’s where the two sides of her character come together.

With over 20 years’ experience in executive leadership across finance, operations and project management, she takes a very structured approach to organisational science.

But Sylvia is also highly skilled in personal development. Her interest in natural health and emotional wellbeing led her to study the ancient subject of astrology. In many ways, astrology is no different to accounting, being based on specific, mathematical inputs giving precise data outputs.

In her expert hands, this planetary based performance data can map key times when an individual has the greatest potential for personal or professional success.

It’s not surprising that Brad Howatson was quick to identify the strategic appeal of a more detailed method of human understanding.

For 30 years, he’s championed the value of cultural development in organisations as an executive leader, business mentor and industry advisor. A natural team builder, Brad works hard to identify the potential of individuals, so they can make a positive impact on the wider team’s success.

Brad has been pivotal in enhancing dozens of individual careers and creating sustainable success stories for large Australian businesses, by ensuring that team goals match individual capabilities.

His natural talent for engaging people’s passions, skills and aptitude with the needs of the organisation has enabled him to build thriving, world-class teams, time after time.

We can identify the performance peaks of individuals, teams and entire organisations.

We map out a schedule for their professional success.

We advise individuals and organisations on strategies to best leverage their strengths at any given time and provide clear measures for success.