Meet the Founder
Ernesto Alcantara
Leadership Coach & Consultant
I know what it feels like to achieve the goals you set while sensing that something inside you is quietly falling apart. I’ve experienced it myself, and I’ve walked alongside countless leaders carrying the same invisible weight.
After serving more than two decades at the intersection of executive leadership, ministry, creativity, and organizational development, I’ve become convinced of one important truth:
Success can outpace formation.
That conviction led me to establish FORMED Leadership Advisory, where we equip leaders with practical tools to strengthen the environments they lead in while developing the inner capacity to sustain the lives and organizations they are building.
Through private advisory, leadership cohorts, organizational partnerships, workshops, and speaking, I help leaders uncover hidden patterns, navigate pressure and transition, strengthen relationships, and develop sustainable rhythms for lasting success. Leadership isn’t only about what we build. It’s about who we become while building it.
EXPERIENCE
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Mega Church Executive Team
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3,500+ Coaching and Advisory Hours
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2,500+ Individual Worship Services
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8 Church Campus Launches
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4 Distinct Church Mergers
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75+ Leaders and Pastors Trained
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2 National Christian Conferences Developed and Launched
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6 Albums Vocally Produced
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3 Singles Released
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3 Christian Films In Starring Roles
Our Mission
FORMED partners with leaders, teams, and organizations inside the realities of their work and lives to cultivate the emotional, relational, spiritual, and leadership capacity their season requires. Through private advisory, leadership cohorts, organizational partnerships, workshops, and transformational experiences, we help people uncover hidden patterns, strengthen relationships, align with purpose, and establish sustainable rhythms—forming healthy leaders who build strong families, thriving cultures, and a lasting legacy of meaningful impact.
our VISION
We see a day when leaders are no longer defined first by what they produce, but by who they are becoming. When self-awareness, emotional maturity, relational health, spiritual depth, and alignment with purpose become the expected fruit of a life formed from the inside out.
We see leaders building an inner world capable of sustaining the life, leadership, and influence entrusted to them. Their formation will ripple beyond the workplace and into their homes. We see fathers becoming present, marriages growing whole, relationships deepening, and generational cycles of dysfunction being interrupted and replaced with health, love, and stability.
We see churches, teams, and organizations transformed by healthy leaders who create strong cultures and sustainable impact. The defining question will shift from “What are they building?” to:
Who are they becoming while they build it?
Ultimately, we see FORMED becoming a movement of whole and deeply formed people whose inner transformation becomes a catalyst for lasting change in their families, organizations, churches, communities, and generations yet to come.