A practical leadership programme for leaders running the day to day.
Build the confidence and skills to lead well, whether you're new to the role or finding your feet. Learn practical tools, build habits, and apply them in real leadership moments.
FirstUp Leadership goes deeper: the habits, mindset shifts and real-world conversations that help capable operators lead people with more confidence. Over three workshop days, participants learn how to:
- Make the shift from doer to leader: clarify what matters and remove what's in the way
- Build self-awareness, flex their style, and create a high-trust team
- Ask better questions and communicate in a way that makes people feel heard
- Handle tough conversations, delegate clearly, and recognise the good stuff
- Run 1:1s and coach their people to perform at their best
- Build the routines that keep their team performing week after week
Everything in the programme.
The programme runs three workshop days across 12 weeks, with six practical modules and ongoing coaching, so you can learn it, practise it, and apply it in your real role. Here's what's included:
Three workshop days
Spaced across the programme. Learn it, try it, and come back better, turning skills into habits you'll use in the moments that matter.
FirstUp Leadership Toolkit
Simple tools for real moments, designed for you to dip into when you need it. No theory, just what to do when it matters.
Three 1:1 coaching sessions
Support from an expert leadership coach. Talk through real challenges and turn learning into action, one habit at a time.
Six practical modules
Step In, Connect, Communicate, Conversations that Count, and Make it Stick: the building blocks of leading people, worked through over the programme.
Access to the Leaders Network
Stay connected and be part of a growing community. Jump on to get what you need, when you need it.
Celebrate and graduate
Share your learning, celebrate the good stuff, and lock in what's working so you can keep building momentum.
Simple, all-inclusive pricing.
$2,350
+ GST · fully paid one month before the programme begins
$2,650
+ GST · standard registration
FirstUp gave me practical tools to lead without authority. It helped me take a step back to reassess how I contribute, and gave me valuable perspective and clarity to realign my priorities, along with tools to recognise different communication styles. It's made a real difference in how I influence and collaborate.
Next cohort: Auckland.
The next Auckland-based cohort runs across three modules: 30 September for Module 1, 21 October for Module 2, and 18 November for Module 3.
What leaders say.
Best leadership programme to join.
100% do FirstUp! It's the first course I've really taken away a lot of learnings. Loved it!
Want to run the Programme for your whole team?
If you've got a group of new leaders to bring through together, we can deliver the FirstUp Leadership Programme as a private, in-company cohort, tailored to your team and run on dates that suit you.