Second Level Leadership
A 11-week operating system for the people side of leadership nobody trained you for – so your team runs without you carrying it.
NEXT COHORT BEGINS:
Monday 5 October, 2026
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The Key Barrier
The job changed.
You didn't fail.
You were a high-performing individual contributor.
You understood the work.
You were the one who got things done, who could be relied on when it mattered.
So, you got promoted, and found yourself with a team.
That’s when you realised that the skills that made you great aren't the skills the job needs now.
That gap isn't a personal failing. It's just untrained territory, and it shows up everywhere in your week.
The Key Barrier
Nobody handed you a manual...
Now your week looks nothing like it used to:
There’s the feedback you've been meaning to give someone for a month and keep delaying.
There's the work you quietly took back because it was faster to do it yourself than explain it.
There's the meeting that ran an hour and decided nothing.
There’s the new recruit that has been sitting idle without a structured onboarding plan.
There’s the high-performer who just resigned and you are unsure why.
By the end of the week you’re feeling exhausted, having done double the work yet not getting ahead.
And underneath all of it, the quiet sense that you're busier than you've ever been and somehow moving slower.
Here's the part nobody says out loud: you're not bad at this. You're untrained for it.
The new position didn’t come with a manual on how to lead a team.
The job changed underneath you, and the hard work that got you here is now the thing keeping you stuck.
The Key Barrier
You can't out-operate a Leadership Problem
The instinct is to work harder.
Longer hours, tighter grip, do the important bits yourself.
It's the move that's always paid off, so of course you reach for it.
But effort is exactly the trap. The harder you work IN the team, the more you become the bottleneck it can't function without.
Your results now ride on other people, and no amount of personal output fixes that.
What got you promoted has quietly become the ceiling you're stuck under.
What you need isn't more effort. It's a different operating system.
Most Leadership Training Gives You Idea.
This Installs a System.
You've probably sat through the workshops. Inspiring for an afternoon, gone by Monday. The problem was never the ideas, it's that ideas don't survive contact with a real week.
Nothing gets installed.
Second Level Leadership is built the other way around.
You get eleven connected modules and a library of practical toolkits you run inside your actual week that helps you deal with:
The Monday meeting you're about to waste
The difficult conversation you're having on Thursday
The delegation you're botching right now
Most Leadership Training Gives You Idea.
This Program Installs a System.
You've probably sat through the workshops. Inspiring for an afternoon, gone by Monday. The problem was never the ideas, it's that ideas don't survive contact with a real week.
Nothing gets installed.
Second Level Leadership is built the other way around.
You get Eleven Connected Modules and a library of practical toolkits you run inside your actual week that helps you deal with:
The Monday meeting you're about to waste
The difficult conversation you're having on Thursday
The delegation you're botching right now
And other real day-to-day team leading scenarios
The 11-Weeks Move Through
Four Stages
Lead Yourself First
✓ Foundations and mindset
✓ Self-leadership (managing your time, energy and focus)
✓ The culture and standards you accept
✓ Building your personal operating system
You can't run a team from chaos.
Run The Team Well
✓ Facilitating meetings that actually decide things
✓ Recruiting and onboarding for performance
✓ Setting expectations and role clarity
So that your people know what good looks like.
Handle the Hard Part: The People
✓ Performance, accountability and dealing with underperformance
✓ Feedback and handling difficult conversations
✓ Coaching, delegation and developing your people
So they grow past needing you for everything.
Lead Beyond Your Team
✓ Influence
✓ Managing up
✓ Stakeholder engagement
Learn how to lead sideways and upwards, not just down.
Second Level Leadership
A 11-week supported program that installs the operating system
A system installed, not Just a spark.
Not just theories or fleeting motivations.
This program is field-tested, built by someone who ran it at scale, not theorised by someone who read about it.
On top of the 11 Weekly Modules that unlocks each week, you also get Weekly Live Coaching with Andrew, the builder himself.
This is an entire system delivered, so you are not left to figure it out on your own.
These aren't concepts to remember, but deep mental shifts you learn and routines you install, so the behaviour holds after the 11 weeks are over.
By the end of our 11-weeks together, you'll have
A team that performs without you as the bottleneck.
Where feedback is normal instead of dreaded.
Where you delegate without it coming back broken.
Standard that's set and held, and you finally have the ability to deliver through others.
How The Program Works
Live, 11-Week Cohort
Start the program with your cohort with support throughout the 11-weeks.
Next cohort starts on Monday 5th of October, 2026
One Module a Week
A new module unlocks every week on Monday.
These modules are designed to work in order so it compounds.
Weekly Live Group Call
This is where we go deeper and you get your specific situations solved. Call are recorded if you can't make one.
Calls are on Fridays 5:30pm –6:30pm AEST.
A Community for Your Cohort
For accountability, questions and network with the other leaders going through it with you.
Direct Acccess to Andrew
Via the community and group calls across the 11 weeks so you can get support when you need it the most.
2-3 Hour of Your Work Week
Is enough to go through the modules and install the system. This operating system is built for people with real jobs and little time to spare time.
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Founding Cohort Price That Won't Be Repeated!
This is the first live run of Second Level Leadership, and I'm running it small and personally. That comes with a special price that won't be repeated!
Founding Cohort
Pay-In-Full
$2447
$1997
1 x Payment
11 Connected Modules
11 Weekly Live Coaching Sessions led by Andrew
Session Recordings
Private Cohort Community Access
Library of practical Toolkit
3-Months post program access to the content so you can revisit as often as you need
Save $500 as a Founding Cohort Member!
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* Price is in AUD and excludes GST.
GST will be added at checkout
Founding Cohort
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$400
now
+ 2 x Monthly Payments
of $845
11 Connected Modules
11 Weekly Live Coaching Sessions led by Andrew
Session Recordings
Private Cohort Community Access
Library of practical Toolkit
3-Months post program access to the content so you can revisit as often as you need
Join at the lowest price it'll ever be!
Backed by a Full-Refund Guarantee
* Price is in AUD and excludes GST.
GST will be added at checkout
Next Cohort Begins
Monday 5 October, 2026
The Key Barrier
Delivered by an operator, not just a consultant
Andrew spent the better part of two decades in the Australian resources sector, leading operations with thousands of people and running multi-hundred-million-dollar budgets.
Along the way he earned an MBA, got certified in Lean Six Sigma, and developed a real appetite for building things, which is what he does now: scale businesses, coach leaders, and writes Second Level Thinking newsletter to share what he learns along the way.
Andrew is not a consultant who studied leadership from the outside.
He led at-scale and in an environment where getting the people side wrong was expensive, and sometimes dangerous.
Everything in this operating system came out of doing the job, not describing it.
If you want something extremely practical, something you can implement tomorrow and have impact, some battle-tested under pressure in large scale environments - this program is for you.
Straight Answers to
What You're Probably Thinking
"I don't have time for a 12-week course."
Then you're exactly who it's for.
It's built around a busy week, not on top of one: roughly 2–3 hours per week, most of it spent solving things already on your plate. And the delegation work alone tends to hand people more time back than the course costs them.
The weekly cadence and live cohort is the point: it's what makes you actually finish this, when the self-paced courses you've bought before are still sitting unopened.
"Is this just another leadership course?"
Fair question. The difference is who's teaching and how it's built.
This isn't lecture theory from someone who's never carried the consequences. It's the operating system I used running large operations where the people side had real stakes. And it's a connected system you install, not a stack of ideas you forget.
"Why pay this when there's endless free leadership content?"
Because free content is fragments, and fragments don't change anything. You get stuck consuming them, feel briefly motivated, and go back to Monday unchanged.
This is a complete system, installed with live accountability, direct access, and a room of peers. The reason free content hasn't fixed this yet is the reason this works.
"Will it work for my industry?"
The people problems are universal; feedback, delegation, accountability, standards, managing up.
The system is sector-agnostic, and because the cohort is small with direct access, you get help applying it to your team specifically, not a generic playbook.
So, yes, I'm sure regardless of which industry you're in, as long as you're managing a team and having to work with others, then what you'll learn in this program will work for you.
"Can my employer pay for it?"
Often, yes, it's straightforward professional development, and we can provide an invoice for approval. Plenty of people expense it.
"Can I join a future cohort if I’m not ready?"
Yes, but this price will not be repeated, so you will pay more. Additionally, we only have limited seats per cohort to maximise the experience, so you may not always get in.
The Key Barrier
The job changed.
It's time your approach did too.
You don't need to work harder. You've proven you can do that, it's what got you here.
You need the operating system for the part of the job you were never trained for, so you can lead a team that performs without running you into the ground.
The founding cohort starts Monday 5th October.
Founding price, most access, with a Full-Refund Guaranteed.
You have nothing to lose and so much to gain.
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