An 11-week operating system for building a team that performs without you.

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.


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.
You’re feeling exhausted, done double the work yet you're 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:
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.
Your 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...

THE SECOND LEVEL LEADERSHIP DIFFERENCE
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.



Each stage builds on the one before it, moving through the parts of leading a team most people are never actually taught.

STAGE 01
✓ 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.
STAGE 02
✓ 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.
STAGE 03
✓ 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.
STAGE 04
✓ Build your influence
✓ Learn how to manage up
✓ Improve engagement with stakeholders
Learn how to lead sideways and upwards, not just down.
STAGE 01
✓ 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.
STAGE 02
✓ 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.
STAGE 03
✓ 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.
STAGE 04
✓ Build your influence
✓ Managing up
✓ Ace engagement with stakeholders
Learn how to lead sideways and upwards, not just down.

This program doesn't just create a spark.
It's 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 unlock 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.




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. Calls are recorded if you can't make one.
Calls are on Fridays 8am –9am AEST.
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. Calls 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.
A Community for Your Cohort
For accountability, questions and network with the other leaders going through it with you.
Direct Access 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 Hours
Per 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.
Direct Access 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 Hours
Per 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.

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!
$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
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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!
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* Price is in AUD and excludes GST.
GST will be added at checkout


I've 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, I earned an MBA, got certified in Lean Six Sigma, and developed a real appetite for building things, which is what I do now: scale businesses, coach leaders, and write Second Level Thinking newsletter to share what I learn along the way.
I'm not a consultant who studied leadership from the outside.
I 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Often, yes, it's straightforward professional development, and we can provide an invoice for approval. Plenty of people expense it.
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.
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 Guarantee.
You have nothing to lose and so much to gain.
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