Introduction

Omada was founded by Chris Brennan to support mission critical and sporting teams.

Chris is a former team leader, senior instructor and advisor within Australia’s Special Air Service Regiment. His experiences broadly include; building, mentoring and training emerging leaders and elite teams, leading teams in ambiguous environments, advising government on complex security challenges.

Chris holds a Master of Business from UNSW Business School and is currently completing his Master of Science in Human Performance Optimisation. He combines his experiences with academic rigour and maintains a passion for leadership, team dynamics and adult learning.

Omada consultants bring extensive experience across military special operations, tactical policing, fire and rescue, and resource sector emergency response. 

Our work combines operational experience with academic research in human performance, coaching psychology, and education. We strengthen team dynamics, develop adaptable leaders, and build a cultures that drive growth and innovation. 

Who it’s for: Tactical, response and sporting teams seeking to develop a high performance culture.

Key Focus Areas:

• Culture design and sustainment
• Aligns individual and collective purpose
• Explores the traits of high performing teams
• Culture design
• Dynamic decision making
• Debriefing

End State: Attendees will have a strong understanding of what it means to be a member of a high performing team and the core values that drive culture and behaviours within these teams.

Who it’s for: Emerging or current team leaders, leadership group members, and supervisors responsible for leading, coaching and performance development.

Key Focus Areas:

• High performing leadership behaviours 
• Building team culture and cohesion
• Performance coaching, mentoring and developing others
• Scenario based leadership training
• Dynamic decision making
• Debriefing

End state: Attendees will be equipped with the necessary tools to lead, mentor, and cultivate a high performing team while driving a positive organisational culture. Engagement in tabletop and practical scenarios designed to enhance their ability to navigate dynamic decision making and conduct post event debriefing.

Who it’s for: Tactical trainers, emergency services instructors, leadership coaches, and those training in high risk environments.

Key Focus Areas:

• Designing, delivering and reviewing training
• Instructional design and adult learning theory
• Experiential learning and scenario based training 
• Effective communication and feedback coaching
• Leadership in learning
• Feedback and debriefing for growth

End State: Attendees gain a comprehensive understanding of adult learning principles, training design and delivery, coaching methodologies, and instructional strategies.

Who it’s for: All critical response professionals required to make decisions that impact lives or property. Also suited for sporting leaders who must read, adapt and inform in real time. 

This is an expanded, stand alone offering in addition to the DDM modules that are incorporated into each package.

Key Focus Areas:

• Physiological stress responses
• Cognitive Biases and heuristics
• Making decisions, dynamic principles, informing decision making
• Threat and task prioritisation
• Delivering intent and effective communication

End State: Attendees gain an understanding of the human responses to stress, how they impact high consequence decision making, and how to apply principles based decision making solutions.

Who it’s for: Any team or organisation requiring support to training or exercise planning, conduct and review. Used in conjuction with any offered service as a practical consolidation or as a stand alone option for third-party observation and assessment .

Key Focus Areas:

• Designing, delivering and reviewing training
• Reality Based Training Design
• Scenario and exercise design
• Third-party observation and feedback
• Facilitation of After Action Review
• Post engagement reporting 

 We deliver our programs through the methods that best suit your organisation:

• Contract based consulting: Embedded, long term advisory support including culture diagnostics, leadership training and sustained performance coaching. 

• Modular professional development packages: Scalable programs (Fundamentals → Leading → Instructor) that integrate seamlessly into existing training calendars. 

• On site practical scenario support: Field embedded facilitation, observation, debriefing and coaching during exercises or operations. 

• Fully tailored packages: Custom solutions blending team dynamics, tactical leadership, instructor development and performance immersion (currently supporting multiple government emerging leader programs). 

• Half and full day workshops: Focused sessions on culture, leadership behaviours, dynamic decision making or instructor skills. Ideal for upskilling, refreshers or corporate team building.