Formation Inventories
For leaders and teams who want to steward well what God has entrusted to them.
Stewardship, Not Performance

Steward what you have been entrusted with.

A Christian leader is a steward entrusted with the gospel, with people, with a team, and with a mission. These inventories are designed to help you reflect on where you have been faithful in that stewardship — and where there may be opportunities for growth, maturity, and deeper dependence on God.

Two formation inventories and a reflection journal.

Each is facilitated by someone who has worked alongside leaders in church planting, pastoral ministry, and parachurch leadership across more than twenty countries. The data creates the conditions for a good conversation. The facilitator is there to make it count.

For Leaders

Steward
Leadership
Inventory

A formation inventory for individual leaders. You reflect on your own leadership, invite people who know your work to offer their perspective, then meet with a trained facilitator to work through what the results reveal.

  • 13 leadership categories
  • Self and observer perspectives
  • Six-point developmental scale
  • Personalised report
  • Facilitated conversation
Begin My Inventory
For Teams

Team Culture
Inventory

A formation inventory for teams. Every team builds patterns over time. Some of those patterns serve the mission well. Others get in the way. The Team Culture Inventory helps your team name what you have been building together, so you can decide with intention what to keep and what to change.

  • 5 team culture categories
  • Team and leader dimensions
  • Aggregate results only
  • Facilitated conversation
Register Your Team
For Leaders & Teams

A Grace-Shaped
Journal

Ten weeks of guided reflection for leaders and teams. Not focused on fixing what is wrong, but on noticing what grace makes possible. One reading, one question, one prayer at a time.

  • Ten weeks of content
  • Read · Reflect · Pray
  • Facilitated or self-directed
  • Formation-focused, not performance-driven
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A guided process. Led by someone who has been there.

These are not self-service diagnostic tools. Every inventory is led by a trained facilitator who brings experience in pastoral ministry, church planting, and working with leaders under real pressure.

01Register

Register.

For the Steward Leadership Inventory, you register as an individual. For the Team Culture Inventory, you add your whole team — each member receives their invitation automatically.

≈ 5 minutes
02Complete

Complete privately.

Each participant completes the inventory privately using their own unique link. For the SLI, this includes both you and each observer you nominate.

≈ 20–35 minutes each
03Prepare

Facilitator prepares.

Your facilitator reviews the results. For the SLI, this means your self and observer responses together. For the TCI, only the aggregated team picture — never individual responses.

≈ 1 week
04Conversation

A real conversation.

A guided session — with you individually, or with your whole team. The goal is not to review a report. It is to name what is true and decide what faithful next steps look like.

≈ 90–120 minutes

For leaders who take seriously what they have been entrusted with.

These inventories were shaped over forty years of working with leaders in church planting, pastoral ministry, and parachurch leadership across more than twenty countries. They are built for the realities of ministry.

I.

Senior leaders & lead pastors

For the leader who senses something beneath the surface — in themselves or their team — and wants language for it.

  • A clear picture of your leadership from multiple perspectives
  • A foundation for a real conversation with your team
  • A baseline you can return to over time
II.

Whole staff & eldership teams

For teams ready to look at the culture they have been building together. Not to assign blame, but to name what is true and decide what is worth keeping.

  • Aggregate results only — not individual
  • Self and team views alongside each other
  • Designed for the conversation, not just the report
III.

Networks & church planting movements

For networks running formation inventories across multiple teams, with a facilitator cohort and a consistent process.

  • Multi-team facilitator dashboard
  • Consistent inventory across contexts
  • Facilitator coaching and support
From the practice of Your Leadership Coach

40 years of insights from Christian ministry.

Tim Keller observed that a Christian leader is a Steward. A steward takes what has been entrusted to them and asks: how do I grow this? How do I cultivate it for God’s glory, not just my own? These inventories were built from that conviction.

For more than forty years, we have worked with leaders in church planting, pastoral ministry, and parachurch leadership across more than twenty countries. The inventories were shaped by those leaders and refined by what the conversations revealed.

Every inventory includes a trained facilitator. Our facilitators are experienced supervisors, coaches, church planters, and pastoral leaders. They have carried the same weight you carry.

40+
Years in ministry
leadership
20+
Countries,
leaders coached
2+1
Inventories & a
reflection journal

When you are ready to lead from what you have been entrusted with — this is where that conversation begins.

Tim Keller taught that a Christian leader develops resources for God’s glory, not their own. These inventories are a practical step in that direction.