The Overwhelmed Leader: How to Move from Chaos to Control with ACT! Leadership Development
Unlock Your Organisational Momentum Through Targeted ACT! Academy Offerings
As a leader, you are expected to navigate complexity, ensure strategic alignment, and drive performance—all while fostering employee well-being. Yet, many leaders feel stuck in a cycle of "firefighting," endless meetings, and uncertainty about where value truly lies.
This is the barrier to organizational flow known as the "Blocked Achiever."
The ACT! Leadership System is your roadmap out of this chaos. Our targeted offerings for leaders are designed to deliver practical, evidence-based shifts that make leading feel lighter and more effective.
Phase 1: Gaining Strategic Clarity and Prioritization
Many leaders suffer from "mixed messages" and "unclear goals." The ACT! Academy offers immediate solutions to anchor your leadership:
The Pain Point (FROM)The Solution (TO) – ACT! Academy CourseFocus KeywordsUnclear Priorities and misalignmentClarity of Direction: Setting a compelling North Star and shared strategy.Strategic Vision, North StarChaotic Firefighting and distractionPrioritise What Matters: Rigorous tools to focus only on the work that counts.Prioritization, Time ManagementUncertain Value and vanity metricsSuccess You Can Measure: Balanced metrics that drive meaningful action.Data-Driven Results, Balanced Scorecard
These courses directly address the Aspire and Thrive! pillars, transforming ambiguity into confident, clear action.
Phase 2: Mastering Team Collaboration and Organizational Flow
Friction and blame destroy organizational momentum. The ACT! framework provides the tools necessary to embed psychological safety and smooth out collaboration:
Flow of Value: Learn how to map and manage value streams to connect strategy with real outcomes, eliminating hidden bottlenecks.
Teams that Thrive Together: Focus on fostering psychological safety and mutual accountability to build confident, capable teams.
Foundations for Collaboration: Shift from mismatched expectations to shared agreements that simplify how work gets done.
By investing in these courses, you are directly implementing the Collaborate pillar and embedding adaptability into your everyday work.
Phase 3: Personalized Acceleration: Leadership Coaching and Workshops
For leaders facing specific, immediate barriers, personalized support is key to cutting through the overwhelm.
One-to-One Coaching for Leaders
Tackle the real challenges getting in your way. Our coaching offers simple, practical shifts, rooted in organizational psychology, that accelerate your personal impact and confidence, moving you from inconsistent leadership behaviors to role-modelling that builds trust.
Workshop: Unblocking Momentum
Designed for the Blocked Achiever, this workshop helps you recognize and break free from the specific behavioral and systemic barriers holding you back, providing practical steps towards tangible momentum and impact.
Start Your Leadership Transformation Today
The journey to making work better—so that both organizations and people thrive—begins with a single step. Whether you need the structure of the ACT! Academy courses or the personalized support of Coaching for Leaders, we have the resources to unlock your next stage of leadership journey.
ACT! Now: Explore our full list of offerings for leaders, download your free North Star template, or join the ACT! Community to connect with leaders committed to change.
Leah Stockley - Organisational Psychologist - Creator of the ACT! Leadership System (Aspire, Collaborate, Thrive!) - Founder of Lets Flow