A 10-week live online programme for the managers your business needs to grow. Built around real frameworks, real coaching, and the work they're actually doing this week. Starts Tuesday 12 May.
Built by Arran Russell · 15 years inside a business that scaled from 25 to 100+
They got the role because they were good at their old job. Then someone handed them a team and said "good luck."
That's not a criticism. It's just what happens. 82% of UK managers have never had any formal training. So they figure it out as they go, hoping nobody notices.
Meanwhile, the conversations that need to happen aren't happening. The person who's drifting is still drifting. The team that should be growing is stuck. And the manager who's meant to be leading them is exhausted, second-guessing themselves, and quietly wondering if they're doing it right.
Being a manager without any training is lonely. You don't know if you're doing it right. You avoid the hard conversations because you don't know how to have them. You watch your best people leave and can't put your finger on why.
This isn't about being a bad manager. It's about never being given the tools to be a good one.
Every module is practical. If they can't use it on Monday, it doesn't make the cut.
Including the one shift that changes everything, and almost nobody makes it.
Leadership mindset, energy management, self-awareness, leadership styles, and the delegation habits that stop you being the bottleneck. Builds: a Working With Me document your team reads on day one, and an AI Leadership Coach calibrated to your style.
How you turn a group of individuals into a team that works without you hovering over it.
Psychological safety, shared purpose, trust, and the operational clarity that stops things falling through the cracks. The conditions every high-performing team needs.
The practical, do-it-on-Monday content.
Hire well, onboard properly, run 1:1s people actually value, give feedback that lands, and have the conversations most managers avoid. Builds: an Ideal Colleague Profile, a Career Development Framework, and an AI Talent Toolkit that generates hiring profiles on demand.
The difference between someone who manages tasks and someone who actually leads.
Strategic thinking, managing up, cross-functional influence, and connecting your team's work to the direction of the business. Builds: a "What Does My Manager Value?" diagnostic that maps where you're delivering and where you're wasting effort.
This isn't a self-paced course. It's a live programme designed around the way adults actually retain and apply new skills.
Starting Tuesday 12 May. A 2-hour kick-off followed by weekly 1-hour sessions, every Tuesday at 10am. Recorded teaching content available on the platform, but live sessions are where the work gets done.
Two during the programme, two within six months after. McKinsey's research is clear: leadership programmes that pair training with follow-up coaching deliver more than double the ROI. The coaching is what turns frameworks into habits once you're back in the chaos of the week.
Deeper dives on every topic, templates you can use, and a community of managers at the same stage. 2 years' access included. Your platform for going deeper between sessions and long after the programme ends.
Stuck on a hard conversation? About to make a hire and want a sense-check? Got a team problem you're not sure how to handle? Send me a message. Response within 24 hours.
Half-day morning session to go deeper once the group already knows each other. Not an icebreaker. A deepener.
By week 8 you'll know each other from the online sessions. This is where we take it further. Can't make it? No problem. The core programme is online. This is a bonus, not a requirement.
I'm not a founder. I was the senior exec inside a business that grew from 25 people to well over 100, the person the founder relied on to develop the management layer beneath them. I started managing two people. I ended up responsible for over 60 across the UK and Europe.
I made every mistake in the book. Hired out of desperation. Avoided the hard conversations. Let small problems become crises because I didn't want to be "that" manager.
This programme is everything I wish someone had given me in year one. I'm running the founding cohort small, and at a fraction of full price, because your feedback shapes how it runs for everyone after.
Most management training is written by people who've never managed a team through a hard year. This is the opposite.- Arran Russell, founder
This is the only time it'll be this price. Your feedback shapes how the programme runs for everyone after.
If you show up to the first 3 sessions and feel this isn't worth your time, I'll refund you in full. No questions, no awkwardness.
If you've read this far and you're on the fence, email me and tell me what's going on. No pitch. I'll give you an honest answer about whether this programme is the right move, or whether something else fits better.
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