Built for the leaders your business needs tomorrow.
Formation Academy offers two distinct programs — one for individuals, one for teams. Both are built around the same belief: that leadership is developed through ongoing practice, honest challenge, and genuine community. Not a single event. Not a certificate. A sustained commitment to growth.
Executive Coaching
For Vice Presidents, Senior Vice Presidents, Managing Directors, and Chief-level executives.
You have reached a level where the problems are complex, the stakes are high, and the number of people you can be fully honest with is very small.
Executive coaching at Formation Academy gives you a structured, confidential space to think clearly, challenge your assumptions, and develop the specific capabilities that matter most at your level — with someone who has sat where you are sitting.
This is not therapy. It is not a performance review. It is a working partnership with a practitioner who has spent more than thirty years leading through the same pressures, decisions, and challenges you are navigating now.
At the executive level, the hardest work is rarely technical. It is knowing how to scale — yourself and the organisation around you — without losing clarity on what matters most. It is connecting the dots across functions, teams, and stakeholders when no single person has the full picture. And it is learning to lead by principles rather than by instinct — so that your decisions are consistent, your team knows what to expect, and your leadership compounds over time rather than fluctuating with circumstance.
What We Work On
Navigating organisational complexity and stakeholder dynamics.
Building and sustaining high-performance teams.
Leading through uncertainty and change.
Scaling yourself as a leader as the organisation around you grows.
Connecting strategic intent to operational reality.
Developing a clear set of leadership principles that guide your decisions and define your impact.
Making better decisions under pressure.
Developing your leadership identity and executive presence.
Preparing for the next step.
Format
One-to-one sessions, cadence agreed based on your needs and schedule. In person or remote.
The Formation Program
For rising managers and teams below Vice President level.
This is the program Formation Academy was built to deliver.
Most leadership development treats managers as individuals — sending them on courses, giving them books, running occasional workshops. The Formation Program treats them as what they actually are: a future leadership team. And it develops them as one.
Over the course of a structured ongoing engagement, your managers come together regularly to work on real challenges, build genuine trust, and develop the habits and mindset of collaborative leadership. By the time they reach the executive level, they will not just be capable leaders. They will already know how to lead together.
What the Program Covers
Leading others — giving feedback, managing performance, having difficult conversations, building psychological safety within a team.
Working together — collaboration across functions, influencing without authority, navigating conflict, making decisions as a group.
Real problem solving — every session is anchored in live challenges your team is currently facing. No case studies. No hypotheticals.
Hard skills that matter — calendar and workload management, running performance reviews, handling escalations, managing up.
What Makes It Different
Every program is tailored to your organisation — your culture, your stage of growth, your specific challenges. We do not deliver a generic curriculum. We build a program that fits.
Sessions are ongoing. The learning compounds. And the team that comes out the other side is not just better at their individual jobs — they are better together.
Format
Group sessions with your management cohort, supported by individual touchpoints where needed. Programs run across three, six, nine, or twelve months depending on your goals.
Choose the level that fits where you are.
Free
Access to the Formation Academy blog — leadership thinking, practical frameworks, and honest reflections from the front line of building and scaling teams.
Newsletter
A regular email with anonymised coaching insights and leadership themes drawn from real client situations — the kind of thinking that usually stays in the room.
Pro
Three one-to-one sessions with Joe, each followed by a written summary covering the frameworks discussed, key takeaways, and your recommended next steps. A focused, practical start.
Executive Coaching
One-to-one coaching for Vice Presidents, Senior Vice Presidents, Managing Directors, and Chief-level executives. Cadence, format, and scope are shaped around your goals. Pricing reflects that.
Enterprise — Pricing on Request
A fully bespoke Formation Program for your organisation — six to eight rising managers developed together as a cohort over three, six, nine, or twelve months. Tailored to your culture, your team, and your stage of growth. Pricing on request.
Leadership development is not a cost. It is the highest-returning investment your business can make.
Every one dollar invested in leadership coaching returns seven dollars in business value.
— International Coaching Federation and PricewaterhouseCoopers Global Coaching Client Study
First-time managers who receive structured development deliver a four hundred and fifteen percent annualised return on that investment — with twenty-nine percent of that return visible within the first three months.
— Training Industry Magazine
Organisations that invest in leadership development report a twenty-five percent increase in business outcomes.
— McKinsey and Company
A structured leadership development programme delivered a four hundred percent return on investment — independently measured and verified.
— Harvard Business Publishing
The question is not whether you can afford to invest in your managers. It is whether you can afford not to.
Formation Academy works with three types of organisations.
Scaling Startups
You are growing fast — somewhere between fifty and five hundred people — and the managers you promoted to get here are not yet the leaders you need to get to the next stage. We help you build them into one.
Investment-Backed Companies
Whether you are a private equity, venture capital, or growth equity firm, your portfolio companies share a common challenge: the management layer was built for an earlier version of the business. We help you fix that at scale.
Enterprises Investing in the Middle
You have world-class executives at the top and strong individual contributors at the base. The layer in between — the managers who hold everything together — has been underdeveloped for too long. We are built for exactly this.
Not sure which program is right for you?
Start with a conversation. We will listen to where you are, what you are trying to build, and whether Formation is the right fit. No pressure. No pitch.