VUCA Leadership
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Volatile
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The world middle managers lead in every day, not just on the bad days.

They promoted you. Nobody trained you to lead.

A six-week leadership program for middle managers and team leaders carrying the pressure from above and below. Built by a former Commando Captain who has led under real pressure, not taught it from a slide deck.

Founding cohort starts Monday 9 November. $50 a week. 15 seats.

The forgotten middle

Organisations spend on executives at the top and graduates at the bottom. The people in the middle get handed a team, a target and a lot of uncertainty. Then they're left to figure it out.

You were good at the job, so they made you responsible for the people doing it. Now you're absorbing pressure from above and below, with the least say in the decisions creating it.

Most leadership training doesn't help. It teaches frameworks for a stable world, and skips the part that decides whether those frameworks hold under pressure: you.

The plan won't survive contact with reality unchanged. The purpose will.

This is for you if you're

  • A team leader, supervisor, department head or project manager
  • Newly promoted, or leading for years without real training
  • Leading through change, restructures, pressure or uncertainty
  • The person people look to when something goes wrong
  • Ready to look honestly at how you lead, not just collect another framework

It isn't for you if

  • You want a certificate more than a change in how you lead
  • You're not willing to do an hour of applied work each week

Led in the real world. Not taught from theory.

  • 21Leading 30 soldiers on overseas operations
  • 25Commanding hostage rescue and counter-terrorism teams as a Commando Captain
  • DynamiqFounded a 24/7 crisis response company handling 12,000+ emergency cases a year across 155 countries, later acquired by IAG
  • VUCA RiskManaging Director of a Lloyd's of London-backed people-risk insurance platform

Anthony Moorhouse has spent more than 20 years leading through situations where the plan failed and the outcome wasn't guaranteed. VUCA Leadership is the leadership development arm of VUCA Risk, built on what actually holds teams together under pressure.

Six weeks. Six modules.

  1. Week 1

    Purpose-Led Leadership

    Use purpose as your anchor and decision filter when the plan changes.

  2. Week 2

    Foundations

    Build the trust, healthy conflict and accountability a team needs to hold under pressure.

  3. Week 3

    Leading Self

    Recognise the patterns that run you under pressure, and choose your response.

  4. Week 4

    Leading Others

    Give people the what and the why, then trust them with the how.

  5. Week 5

    Leading Stakeholders

    Influence up, across and outside the org chart without formal authority.

  6. Week 6

    Leading Through Adversity

    Hold your team together when information is incomplete and the outcome isn't guaranteed.

Required reading: The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni, before week 2.

Skills and self-awareness

Most programs teach the frameworks and stop there. Under pressure, your defaults take over and the frameworks go out the window. VUCA Leadership works on both: the skills to lead through volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity, and the inner work of knowing what you bring into the room.

Each week

  • A one-hour live online session with Anthony, on Mondays from 9 November
  • An hour of applied work on your real team and real challenges
  • Conversations with middle managers from other organisations and industries dealing with the same things you are

After the six weeks, graduates can join the ongoing VUCA Leadership community, a paid membership for continued peer support and mentorship.

Founding cohort pricing

This price won't be offered again. Enrolment closes Friday 6 November, or when seats run out.

Core

$300

$50 a week for six weeks, paid once at enrolment. AUD. From cohort two: $497.

  • Six live online sessions with Anthony
  • Weekly applied work on your real team
  • A peer cohort of middle managers from other organisations

Premium

$1,200

$200 a week for six weeks, paid once at enrolment. AUD. Eight seats. From cohort two: $1,997.

  • Everything in Core
  • A private 15-minute call with Anthony every week, on what you're actually facing

Leading HR, People & Culture or a senior team?

VUCA Leadership also runs as a curated program for your organisation's middle managers. Start with a free 60-minute Middle Management Clarity Session: an honest conversation about where your mid-level layer is most exposed, and what that's quietly costing you. No pitch. Just clarity.

Questions

What is VUCA Leadership?

VUCA Leadership is a six-week online leadership program for middle managers and team leaders, run by former Commando Captain Anthony Moorhouse. It teaches how to lead through volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity, combining practical leadership skills with self-awareness work.

I'm really busy. Can I fit this in?

It takes about two hours a week: one live hour and one hour of applied work. The applied work is done on your real team, so it's part of your job rather than extra to it.

Can my employer pay for it?

Yes, but you don't need them to. At $50 a week, the founding price is set so you can decide for yourself. If your organisation wants a program for its whole management team, book a Clarity Session.

Is this just more theory?

No. Every module is built on Anthony's experience leading in military operations and crisis response, and each week's work is applied to the challenges you're facing now.

Where is it run?

Online and live, so you can join from anywhere.

What happens after six weeks?

Graduates can join the ongoing VUCA Leadership community, a paid monthly membership for peer support and continued mentorship.