Leading in Uncertainty
Stay steady, see a way forward, and get stronger from what's hitting you right now: AI, reorgs, and a role bigger than the one you had.
Next session: Tuesday, September 22
Live attendees get the one-page field card.
- Free No cost, no card
- 75 minutes, live Pick your session at sign-up
- Practice You do the work in the room
Nobody handed you a manual for this.
The org chart changed twice this year. AI is rewriting what your team does, and what it's for. And somewhere in the middle of it you got more scope, more people, and more of the decisions that used to be someone else's.
You're expected to be the steady one. Most days you're figuring it out in real time, like everyone else.
This masterclass is the seventy-five minutes I'd want if I were in your seat. Five practices for leading when the ground keeps moving. You'll run each one live, in the room, on whatever you're facing this week.
You can't lead others past where you've led yourself.
Your team reads your state before they hear your words.
Five practices, run on your own situation.
You pick one real thing you're leading through before we start. Every practice gets run on that, in the room, with Michael.
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Regulate
A sixty-second reset you run before the hard meeting. Under pressure the body decides before the mind gets a vote.
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See what's true
Look straight at what's happening, without the story on top of it. You don't have to like it to see it clearly.
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See a better future
You cannot lead people somewhere you can't see. Name the better future, then the first move toward it. Hope is a skill you can practice.
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Find what's stable
When the org chart, the tools and the plan all move, something has to not move. Name what that is for you.
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Grow from the obstacle
The reframe that turns this stretch into the thing that makes you a better leader, instead of the thing that wears you down.
You'll leave with the one you're starting this week.
For leaders who didn't choose the change they're leading through.
Leaders and rising leaders in tech, consulting, creative and professional services. A new role, a reorg, an AI mandate, a team looking to you for a steadiness you're not sure you have yet.
- You got more scope, more people, or more decisions than you had a year ago.
- The thing you're leading through was decided somewhere above you.
- Your team is watching how you hold it, and you can feel that.
- You've read the books. What's left is the doing.
No prior Heroic experience needed.
Michael Balchan
CEO and Head Coach at Heroic
Michael has practiced the Heroic framework every day for fifteen years, alongside founder Brian Johnson.
The Heroic approach was measured in a randomized controlled trial by Sonja Lyubomirsky, a world-leading positive psychologist at UC Riverside: 23% more energy and a move from the 53rd to the 70th percentile of flourishing, in 30 days. It's used by Notre Dame Football, US Navy SOCOM, the Chicago Bulls, and teams in over 100 countries.
Those figures describe the Heroic approach, measured on the daily practice and the app. They are not results from this masterclass.
4.66 out of 5
average rating across 430 responses, over seven live sessions. 96% rated the two most recent sessions a 4 or 5.
- Loved making us do stuff in the moment.
- I dreaded today's subject, blown away it was so much fun and fulfilling.
From anonymous polls taken after each session with our last live cohort.
Choose a session.
You'll get your joining details, plus the one thing to prepare: a sentence on the real situation you're leading through.
Five live runs: Tue Sep 22, Thu Sep 24, Wed Sep 30, Mon Oct 12 and Mon Oct 19. Pick yours below.
These sessions have run. Register below and the replay goes to everyone who signed up.
Free. One email with your session details, and reminders before we go live.
Questions
Is it really free?
Yes. It's a free live masterclass, and there's no card and no purchase to register.
When does it run?
You choose the session that fits your week when you register. The dates are listed just above the registration form. Your joining details come straight back to you by email.
What actually happens in the seventy-five minutes?
Michael teaches five practices for leading through uncertainty, and you run each one live on a real situation you're facing. You pick your situation before we start, and you leave with one practice to begin that week.
What if I can't make it live?
Register anyway and the replay goes out to everyone who signed up. Live is better. The practices are things you do, and the room is where you do them.
Do I need to know anything about Heroic first?
No. It's built to stand on its own, and you don't need any prior Heroic experience to get the full seventy-five minutes out of it.
Is this a pitch?
The teaching comes first and stands on its own. At the end Michael shows you The Leadership Accelerator, the eight-week program this work comes from, in case you want to go further. Staying for that part is up to you.
Bring the thing you're leading through.
Five practices. Seventy-five minutes. One real situation, worked on live.
Live attendees get the one-page field card.
Free. 75 minutes, live with Michael.