Who It’s For
Designed for organisations where leadership directly affects safety, culture, trust and performance.
Best suited to:
- Supervisors, managers and senior leaders responsible for people and performance.
- Leadership teams working across different sites, teams or divisions.
- Organisations managing growth, change, complexity or pressure.
- Teams that rely too heavily on a few key leaders.
- Organisations looking for lasting leadership capability, not a one-off training event.
“It’s been the most rewarding and challenging training I’ve done...
I wish I had done this course 10 years ago."
— Kent
Team Leader, VOS Group
Program Snapshot
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6 months
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In-person delivery (onsite or offsite)
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Group-based learning
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3 full-day workshops
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Individual coaching
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Structured to fit within your work schedule
"Overall, I have found Ben to be professional, thoughtful, and effective in his work with leaders. I would confidently recommend him for leadership development in operational settings where practical leadership capability and strong culture are critical."
- Matthew Anderson
Grange, Mine Manager
More than just training...
Leader Training
- More information
- More tools
- More skills
- More models
- More behavioural tips
Leader Formation
- Wider and longer perspective-taking
- More self-awareness and choicefulness under pressure
- Better judgment in complexity
- More compassionate, mature when working with difference
- Deeper integration into real leadership challenges
Qualified
Master’s-trained coaching psychologist and accredited counsellor—deep experience across leaders, teams, and organisations.
Evidence Based
Grounded in contemporary research across coaching psychology, adult development, and organisational systems.
Developmentally Informed
Our work is guided by adult-development theory, supporting leaders to grow not just skills, but capacity.
Collective Learning
Individual insight becomes shared language inside teams and cohorts—building capability across organisations, not just within one person.
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How Leader Formation works
Leader Formation supports developmental growth through three interwoven elements:
Developmental clarity
Understand how you are leading now—and what your next stage of growth requires.
We begin by helping leaders see more clearly how they interpret their role, relate to others, make decisions, and respond to pressure.
Challenges that feel repetitive—such as conflict, over-responsibility, avoidance, frustration, or feeling stuck—can often point to a deeper developmental edge.
Using evidence-based assessment tools and guided reflection, we help leaders identify:
- Current leadership strengths and capacities
- Recurring patterns and automatic responses
- Hidden assumptions shaping behaviour
- Areas where existing ways of leading may no longer be enough
This gives leaders a clearer and more meaningful focus for their development.
Formation Practices
Build the presence, awareness, and steadiness needed to lead well under pressure.
Leadership Formation goes beyond teaching new behaviours. It strengthens the inner capacity from which effective leadership arises.
Leaders develop practices that help them notice what is happening within themselves, regulate their reactions, remain open under pressure, and respond with greater clarity and choice.
Practices may include:
- Reflective practices that strengthen self-awareness
- Somatic awareness and nervous-system regulation
- Conscious Leadership frameworks
- The iEQ9 Enneagram, used to distinguish habitual personality patterns from deeper presence and choice
These practices help leaders become less reactive, more grounded, and more capable of responding constructively in demanding situations.
Coached Integration
Apply insight to the real challenges of leadership.
Insight is valuable, but leadership changes when new awareness is practised in real situations.
Through one-to-one coaching, leaders work directly with the current challenges of their role, including:
- Conflict and difficult relationships
- Accountability and performance
- Decision-making under pressure
- Influence across teams and functions
- Challenging conversations
- Team culture and leadership consistency
Coaching helps leaders translate insight into action, test new approaches, reflect on what happens, and build more effective ways of leading over time.
This is where development becomes lived leadership—not simply something leaders understand, but something they can consistently practise when it matters most.
The Tools we Use:
Evidence-based insight is not an optional extra in Leadership Formation, it is the starting point for insight and integration.
Each participant engages in a structured developmental assessment process, which forms the foundation of coaching and group learning.
The tools available include:
- iEQ9 Enneagram Report
- A 360° Leadership assessment
- An adult stage of development diagnostic
“The assessments gave me language for things I’d sensed for years, and the coaching helped me actually change them.”
- Luke
Grange Resources Tasmania
About Ben Pangas
Ben Pangas works with leaders who carry significant responsibility for people and culture within their organisations.
His approach combines leadership coaching, reflective practice, and practical leadership development to help leaders navigate pressure without losing clarity, integrity, or relational strength.
Ben has worked with leaders across a range of sectors and is known for creating thoughtful, honest spaces where leaders can engage deeply with the real challenges of leadership.
