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The 5-Minute Leader Academy
Lead the people
who lead your teams.Your library.
Your next move.
For directors, VPs and executives. Handle the difficult conversation, build judgement in your managers and bring a clearer approach to the decisions ahead.
Welcome back. Continue a course, revisit a useful tool or choose the leadership situation in front of you.
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Created and narrated by Andreas Pettersson
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What leadership means once you lead leaders
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What Is Leadership? Part 1: The Leadership Mastery Quadrant
What leadership means once you lead leaders
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- 18 courses
- For the situations leaders face
- 80 lessons
- About five minutes each
- Your pace
- Watch, listen or read
- One call
- 45 minutes with Andreas, included
Start with what is on your desk
A library you can use
before your next meeting.
You do not need another long programme to work through. Choose a real situation, learn a useful approach and take it into the room.
A team that needs you for every answer
Move from solving their problems to developing their judgement. Build ownership in the leaders around you.
Explore team and culture →A bigger room. Higher stakes.
Communicate your thinking, handle disagreement and prepare for the negotiation that matters.
Explore influence and negotiation →Your leadership library
18 courses. Pick the one
you need today.
Each course stands on its own. Every lesson includes video, audio, the written lesson and a practical move to make before the next one.
18 courses. Every one included.
01 / Lead with intention
- Course 01 / 18
What Is Leadership? Part 1: The Leadership Mastery Quadrant
The Leadership Mastery quadrant, the line between managing and leading, and the quadrant you still hide in.
4 lessons · 16 minExplore the course →0 of 4 lessons completeStart course → - Course 02 / 18
What Is Leadership? Part 2: Developing Your Personal Leadership
The What, How and Who of personal leadership, the four leader types, and a twelve statement self-assessment.
6 lessons · 22 minExplore the course →0 of 6 lessons completeStart course → - Course 06 / 18
Understanding Your Leadership Style
The four common styles, what each buys and costs you when you lead leaders, and your own default under pressure.
3 lessons · 11 minExplore the course →0 of 3 lessons completeStart course → - Course 07 / 18
Adapting Your Style to the Situation
Read the person, the task and the moment, then switch style on purpose. Three executive scenarios to practice on.
5 lessons · 19 minExplore the course →0 of 5 lessons completeStart course →
02 / Help other leaders grow
- Course 03 / 18
Feedback, Part 1: Why It Matters and How to Give and Receive It
SBED feedback with its mandatory demand, and how to receive hard feedback from your CEO and board without flinching.
7 lessons · 26 minExplore the course →0 of 7 lessons completeStart course → - Course 04 / 18
Feedback, Part 2: Feedback as a Leader
Feedback as a culture you run: blind spots, psychological safety at your table, candid conversations and politics.
7 lessons · 26 minExplore the course →0 of 7 lessons completeStart course → - Course 05 / 18
Feedback, Part 3: Measuring Feedback Impact
Three signals, four metrics and a simple loop to prove your feedback changes anything.
2 lessons · 7 minExplore the course →0 of 2 lessons completeStart course → - Course 08 / 18
Getting started with coaching as a manager
Coaching separated from advising and fixing, and five sentences that move directors from problems to decisions.
3 lessons · 10 minExplore the course →0 of 3 lessons completeStart course → - Course 09 / 18
Mastering the COACH mindset
COACH: Concern, Objective, Actions, Commitment, Help. A conversation that ends in a dated commitment, not a nod.
2 lessons · 8 minExplore the course →0 of 2 lessons completeStart course → - Course 11 / 18
Leadership coaching for executive leaders
Coaching people who lead leaders: four helping roles, the techniques and traps, and four session agendas.
6 lessons · 22 minExplore the course →0 of 6 lessons completeStart course →
03 / Speak with clarity and influence
- Course 10 / 18
Ethos, Pathos, Logos: Persuasion at the Executive Table
Credibility, emotion and evidence at the executive table: board updates, all hands and the vision pitch.
3 lessons · 11 minExplore the course →0 of 3 lessons completeStart course → - Course 13 / 18
Assertiveness: Leading with Confidence and Respect
The assertiveness spectrum, three core techniques, and Situation, Emotion, Request for peers and bosses.
5 lessons · 20 minExplore the course →0 of 5 lessons completeStart course → - Course 14 / 18
Being Assertive in Challenging Situations
Pushback from your CEO, a hostile peer, a dismissive board member, a promotion turned down: keep your footing.
5 lessons · 18 minExplore the course →0 of 5 lessons completeStart course → - Course 17 / 18
How to negotiate with confidence, Part 1: the psychology
The psychology under every executive negotiation: naming emotion, spotting bias, steering with questions.
5 lessons · 18 minExplore the course →0 of 5 lessons completeStart course → - Course 18 / 18
Tactical mastery for negotiations, Part 2: the tools
The tools, live: an honest no, the hidden constraint, five step preparation, silence, and agreements that hold.
5 lessons · 19 minExplore the course →0 of 5 lessons completeStart course →
04 / Build the team that scales
- Course 12 / 18
Building the Ideal Team for Scaling
Assess your leadership team against next year, develop who you have, hire who you lack, decide who scales.
4 lessons · 14 minExplore the course →0 of 4 lessons completeStart course → - Course 15 / 18
The Foundation of Culture, Part 1
Culture is what you tolerate in your own leadership team. Behavior, safety before performance, design that holds.
5 lessons · 19 minExplore the course →0 of 5 lessons completeStart course → - Course 16 / 18
Leading Culture for Growth, Part 2
Culture as a growth system: the five stage path from fear to impact and the moves that lift a team one stage.
3 lessons · 11 minExplore the course →0 of 3 lessons completeStart course →
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Everything in one membership
Useful in five minutes.
Yours to come back to.
- Learn in the gaps in your day.Watch a short video between meetings, listen on a walk, or read when you need quiet.
- Find the words when you need them.The full written lesson sits under every video. Return to the exact question, framework or sentence.
- Take your library offline.Download each course as an audiobook to listen on your phone, on a flight or on your commute.
- Keep building your skills.One payment covers the full Academy and every course added later. No renewal and no monthly bill.
A real situation. A conversation with Andreas.
Your membership includes one optional 45 minute call with Andreas Pettersson. Talk through the challenge on your desk and choose a starting point that fits. Book after you join.
5-Minute Leader Academy
$497 USD, once
Build your leadership library for the decisions ahead.
- 18 courses and 80 short lessons
- Video, audio and written lessons
- Audiobooks to listen offline
- Lifetime access, future courses included
- One 45 minute call with Andreas
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Built for leaders
who lead leaders.
For directors stepping toward VP, VPs taking on broader responsibility, and executives whose decisions shape a whole team. The examples meet you there: a difficult peer, a director who needs to step up, a board conversation that needs to land.
Created by Andreas Pettersson from the Leaders ADAPT course library developed with Martha Spalding.
Before you join
A few things you may be wondering.
Is this a subscription?
No. Pay $497 USD once. You get access for as long as the Academy exists, with every course added to the Academy later included. There is no renewal charge.
Can I try it before I buy?
Yes. Watch the first lesson free, including the audio, written lesson and practical exercise. No email or account is needed.
How do I get access?
Pay securely through Stripe and return to your welcome page. On another device, request a sign in link with the email you used at checkout. No password to remember.
What is the included call?
One optional 45 minute Zoom call with Andreas Pettersson. Bring a real leadership situation and choose the courses that fit it. Book from your welcome page or welcome email. The courses are complete without the call.
Will this work on my phone?
Yes. Watch or listen in your phone browser, with no app to install. Members can also download all 18 courses as MP3 audiobooks for offline listening, about 5.0 hours in total.
How much time do I need?
Most lessons take about five minutes. Pick the situation you face today, watch one lesson and use the move at the end. You do not need to finish the library in order.
How is this different from the free courses?
The five free Power Without Permission courses cover the foundations. The Academy adds 18 courses for directors, VPs and executives who lead other leaders. The free courses remain free.
Who created the lessons?
Andreas Pettersson, founder of Leaders ADAPT, adapted the material for executives from the library developed with Martha Spalding. Created and narrated by Andreas Pettersson. The narration uses an AI model of Andreas's own voice.
Need help with a purchase?
Contact Leaders ADAPT using the email you paid with. We can help you find your access.
Your next leadership moment
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Start with one lesson. Take one useful move into it.
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