Business owners
You're preparing to hire or have recently employed your first team member and want to establish strong leadership foundations from the beginning.
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Six-week first-time leadership program
The First Ripple: Lead from Day One
Your first hire. Your first team. Your first leadership rhythm.
You know how to do the work. Now it's time to lead others to do it.
Whether you're hiring your first employee or stepping into your first people leadership role, being good at what you do doesn't automatically prepare you to lead others.
The transition starts with a shift in mindset.
The First Ripple: Lead from Day One is a practical six-week leadership development program designed to help first-time leaders build the mindset, confidence and capability to lead people effectively.
Combining weekly learning videos, a practical workbook, personalised leadership insights and individual coaching, you'll learn how to lead others while developing the habits that support long-term success.
- Format
- Six weeks: weekly learning, workbook, leadership insights and 1:1 coaching
- For
- First-time leaders and business owners hiring their first people
- Next intake
- February 2027
- Live sessions: Fridays, 5 Feb 2027 to 12 Mar 2027
- Investment
- $1,499 + GST
- per leader, AUD
- GST applies subject to Onda's current GST registration status.
This is for you if…
- You're about to hire, or have just hired, your first team member
- You've been promoted because you were great at the work
- You find it quicker to do it yourself than to hand it over
- Feedback and harder conversations feel unfamiliar
Already leading a team for a while and want to sharpen how you lead? The Confident Leader is the better fit.
Next available intake
February 2027 intake
Six live 90-minute weekly sessions on Fridays, with weekly learning videos, a participant workbook, your personalised Leadership Profile and 30-minute debrief, and two individual 1:1 Coaching & Integration Sessions.
$1,499 + GST per leader, AUD
GST applies subject to Onda's current GST registration status.
Enrol now- Live sessions
- Fridays, 5 Feb 2027 to 12 Mar 2027
- Opening coaching and Leadership Profile debrief
- Booked individually, before or around your first live session
- Closing coaching
- 15 Mar 2027 to 19 Mar 2027
- Places
- Capped at 10 participants
Why The First Ripple: Lead from Day One?
Every leadership journey starts somewhere. Every action creates a ripple.
The moment you begin leading others, your decisions, communication and behaviours start influencing more than your own work.
They shape how people experience their workplace, how confidently they contribute and how they develop.
For first-time leaders, this responsibility can feel unfamiliar.
You might be comfortable doing the work yourself, but less confident delegating, providing feedback, setting expectations or navigating a difficult conversation.
The First Ripple: Lead from Day One helps you make that transition.
Not by turning you into someone else, but by helping you understand yourself, recognise the mindset shifts required and develop practical skills you can use from day one.
Who is this program for?
Taking your first step into people leadership?
First-time managers
You've stepped into your first management or supervisory role and are now responsible for guiding and supporting others.
Technical experts and high performers
You've been recognised for your expertise and promoted into a role that requires you to lead people, not just deliver the work yourself.
New team leaders
You're taking responsibility for a team and want the mindset, tools and confidence to get started on the right foot.
The leadership mindset
Before you change how you lead, understand how you think.
What made you great at doing the work isn't always what will make you great at leading it.
Strong leadership starts with self-awareness.
The way we interpret situations, respond to pressure, communicate expectations and approach challenges can influence how effectively we lead others.
This is why mindset and human behaviour sit at the centre of The First Ripple: Lead from Day One.
Beginning in Week 1 and continuing throughout the program, you'll explore how your thinking, assumptions and habits shape your leadership approach.
You'll learn to recognise the shift from being responsible for your own performance to creating the conditions for others to perform.
This isn't about getting everything right from day one.
It's about becoming more aware, intentional and capable in how you lead.
What's included?
Practical learning. Personalised insight. Real-world application.
Six-week leadership development journey
Six connected learning modules covering the essential mindset, behaviours and practical skills of leading people for the first time.
Weekly learning videos
Focused videos designed to introduce key leadership concepts, challenge thinking and help participants connect learning to real workplace situations.
Participant workbook
A practical workbook with guided reflections, exercises, leadership tools and activities that participants can apply directly to their own workplace.
Personalised Leadership Profile + 30-minute debrief
Gain greater awareness of your natural leadership preferences, strengths and development opportunities.
Your individual debrief helps you understand what your profile means for your leadership and how these insights can support your development.
Two individual 1:1 Coaching & Integration Sessions
An individual session at the beginning of the program to explore your leadership mindset, current challenges and development goals.
A second individual session at the end to reflect on your progress, integrate your learning and establish practical next steps.
Your six-week journey
Six weeks to build your leadership foundations.
Mindset and self-awareness run through every week, not just Week 1. Each module starts with how you think, then moves to what you do.
- Week 1Foundation
The Leadership Mindset | From Doing to Leading
Understand the fundamental shift from delivering your own work to achieving results through others.
Explore your leadership identity, mindset, beliefs, responsibilities and the behaviours that influence how you show up as a leader.
- Week 2
Setting Expectations and Building Trust
Learn how to establish clarity, communicate expectations and create strong working relationships from the beginning.
Explore the importance of trust, communication and creating shared understanding.
- Week 3
Training and Delegating
Build the skills to transfer knowledge, delegate with clarity and develop capability in others.
Move away from doing everything yourself and towards helping your people become confident and capable.
- Week 4
Giving Feedback Early
Learn how to recognise good performance, provide meaningful feedback and address concerns early.
Develop a constructive mindset around feedback and the confidence to have conversations that support growth.
- Week 5
Accountability and the Harder Moments
Explore how to manage your own state and responses when leadership becomes challenging.
Learn practical ways to approach difficult conversations, maintain expectations and balance support with accountability.
- Week 6
Building Your Leadership Rhythm
Bring the learning together into consistent leadership habits.
Create practical routines that support communication, reflection, performance and ongoing people development.
Included in every program
Leading people and AI
AI is changing how work gets done. It hasn't changed what people need from the person leading them.
Woven into the weeks: delegating well when AI can do part of the task, and making sure your new people still build real skill.
Judgement stays human
Use AI to speed up the work, while you stay the one who decides, explains and owns the call.
Building skill, not skipping it
Help your people keep learning the hard stuff, so AI supports their growth instead of replacing it.
Clear, fair expectations
Talk openly with your team about where AI fits, what good looks like and where the lines are.
How the learning comes together
Understand yourself. Develop your capability. Make it stick.
- 01
Understand Yourself
Personalised Leadership Profile, individual debrief and initial coaching conversation to identify your starting point.
- 02
Develop Your Capability
Six weeks of learning videos, practical workbook activities and real-world leadership application.
- 03
Apply and Embed
Final coaching and integration conversation to reflect, strengthen learning and plan your next steps.
The First Ripple: Lead from Day One is designed to help you move beyond knowing what good leadership looks like.
It's about building the awareness, skills and habits to put it into practice.
What you'll walk away with
Strong foundations for what comes next.
By the end of the program, you'll have developed:
- Greater self-awareness and understanding of your leadership mindset.
- The confidence to step into your new responsibilities.
- Practical tools for communication, delegation, feedback and accountability.
- A stronger ability to develop others rather than doing everything yourself.
- A clearer approach to handling common people leadership challenges.
- A personalised plan to continue developing your leadership capability.
Your first ripple starts here.
Great leadership doesn't begin when you have all the answers.
It begins when you choose to build the awareness, skills and habits that help you lead others well.
Understand how you lead. Learn how to lead others. Build the habits that make it stick.
$1,499 + GST per leader, AUD