Direct Action System Courses
A practical training path for leaders who need to assess accurately, navigate obstacles rapidly, choose deliberately, and execute with control.
Direct Action is released in stages so you can start with the pressure in front of you and build the system one capability at a time.
The first release layer is Fast Track.
Fast Track gives you the compressed module sequence so you can start using each capability quickly without waiting for the full system to be complete.
Start with CSA Fast TrackStart with the first module. Build the system one step at a time.
Direct Action is built as a progression. You do not need to take everything at once.
Start with Comprehensive Situation Assessment because leaders need to assess accurately before they navigate obstacles, evaluate the move, manage risk, build backup options, communicate direction, assign ownership, or execute with control.
From there, each module adds another layer of operating discipline.
The current Direct Action operating flow is:
CSA → DEPN → ACE → PRO → BRAIN + PACE → TMC → FLS → ALC
Fast Track gets you started.
Each module strengthens the next.
Deep Dive comes later as the advanced application layer, after the Fast Track pathway is complete.
CSA Fast Track Founder Pricing Is Open
Start with the first Direct Action module.
Comprehensive Situation Assessment is the Level 101 entry point into the Direct Action System because leaders need to assess accurately before they navigate obstacles, evaluate the move, manage risk, build backup options, communicate direction, assign ownership, or execute with control.
CSA Fast Track gives you the compressed sequence for reading the situation clearly and making the next controlled move.
CSA Fast Track
Level 101: Assess Accurately
Fast Track gives you the essential CSA sequence without waiting for the full advanced application layer.
- Core CSA operating sequence
- Practical field application
- Designed for immediate use
- Built for leaders who need the tool now
- Advanced Deep Dive layer comes later
Fast Track Founder Pricing
Founder pricing is available to everyone through January 31, 2027.
Every Fast Track course available during the founder pricing window is offered at the same founder price.
Founder Price: $25
Available to everyone through January 31, 2027.
No LinkedIn connection is required to receive founder pricing.
Regular Pricing Begins February 1, 2027
Founder pricing ends after January 31, 2027.
On February 1, 2027, all available Fast Track courses move to regular pricing.
LinkedIn Member Price: $35
Available to people connected through my LinkedIn network.
Public Price: $50
Applies to buyers who arrive outside the LinkedIn network.
If you are not connected yet, connect with me on LinkedIn before regular pricing begins to qualify for member pricing.
Fast Track Is Built for Leaders Who Need the System Now.
Fast Track gives leaders the essential operating sequence without unnecessary delay or theory.
Use Fast Track when you need:
- A practical starting point
- A clear method you can begin using immediately
- A structured way to approach pressure and uncertainty
- A repeatable operating sequence
- A foundation you can build on as the Direct Action System expands
Fast Track is built for:
- New managers
- Assistant managers
- Shift leaders
- Team leads
- Supervisors
- Frontline leaders
- Project and program leads
- Small business leaders
- Operators moving into leadership
- Experienced leaders who need a clearer operating system
- People responsible for decisions, direction, ownership, risk, and results
Fast Track gives you the core sequence.
Deep Dive comes later as the advanced application layer.
Release Schedule
Every Fast Track opens before the advanced Deep Dive pathway begins. CSA Fast Track and DEPN Fast Track are open now. ACE Fast Track opens next on September 1, 2026. Each remaining Fast Track then opens in the Direct Action operating order.
| Release Date | Course Release | Status |
|---|---|---|
| July 1, 2026 | CSA Fast Track | Available |
| August 1, 2026 | DEPN Fast Track | New Release |
| September 1, 2026 | ACE Fast Track | Next Release |
| October 1, 2026 | PRO Fast Track | Scheduled |
| November 1, 2026 | BRAIN + PACE Fast Track | Scheduled |
| December 1, 2026 | TMC Fast Track | Scheduled |
| January 1, 2027 | Field Leadership Sequence Fast Track | Scheduled |
| February 1, 2027 | Action Learning Cycle Fast Track | Final Fast Track |
| March 1, 2027 | CSA Deep Dive Level 201: Advanced Application | Deep Dive Begins |
All Fast Track modules are released before the advanced Deep Dive pathway begins. CSA Deep Dive is the first Level 201 course and opens after the complete Fast Track pathway has been released. Dates may adjust as course material is refined, but the operating order will remain the same.
CSA → DEPN → ACE → PRO → BRAIN + PACE → TMC → FLS → ALC
Comprehensive Situation Assessment Fast Track
Level 101
Assess Accurately
Operating Focus: Situation Assessment
CSA helps leaders understand what is actually happening before they react, correct, delegate, escalate, or make the next call.
It provides a structured way to separate useful signals from noise, select the right assessment approach, and build a clearer operating picture before action begins.
Available
Decision Execution and Problem Navigation Fast Track
Level 102
Navigate Obstacles Rapidly
Operating Focus: Obstacle Navigation
DEPN helps leaders determine how to engage a known obstacle and select the lowest-risk path before losing time, effort, or control.
Use DEPN when CSA has clarified the situation, but the path forward remains blocked, delayed, disrupted, or uncertain.
New Release
Analytical and Creative Evaluation Fast Track
Level 103
Choose Deliberately
Operating Focus: Decision Evaluation
ACE helps leaders evaluate the move before commitment.
It provides a structured way to compare options, challenge assumptions, identify tradeoffs, examine competing perspectives, and prevent the first reasonable answer from becoming the automatic answer.
Opens September 1, 2026
Personal, Role, and Organizational Risk Fast Track
Level 104
Choose Deliberately
Operating Focus: Risk Evaluation
PRO helps leaders understand what a decision could cost the person, the role, the team, and the organization before risk becomes damage.
It makes personal exposure, professional responsibility, operational consequences, reputation, relationships, and organizational impact visible before commitment.
Opens October 1, 2026
BRAIN + PACE Fast Track
Level 105
Choose Deliberately
Operating Focus: Option and Contingency Planning
BRAIN helps leaders examine benefits, risks, alternatives, information, and necessity before committing to the next move.
PACE helps leaders establish primary, alternate, contingency, and emergency paths before changing conditions remove their options.
Together, BRAIN and PACE help leaders strengthen the decision, preserve flexibility, and prepare controlled responses before execution begins.
Opens November 1, 2026
Task Management and Communication Fast Track
Level 106
Execute With Control
Operating Focus: Direction, Ownership, and Communication
TMC helps leaders translate a decision into clear direction, ownership, expectations, communication, and accountability.
It helps determine who owns the work, what result is required, how the direction should be communicated, what support is needed, and how progress will be controlled.
Opens December 1, 2026
Field Leadership Sequence Fast Track
Level 107
Execute With Control
Operating Focus: Field Execution
FLS helps leaders receive intent, alert the team, build the plan, begin preparation, check conditions, communicate direction, adjust during execution, and recover cleanly for the next action.
It connects planning, preparation, communication, execution, adjustment, and recovery into one controlled leadership sequence.
Opens January 1, 2027
Action Learning Cycle Fast Track
Level 108
Execute With Control
Operating Focus: Operational Learning and Improvement
ALC helps leaders resolve the issue, capture what happened, identify what changed, improve the next move, and begin the next cycle with greater control.
It turns experience into operating improvement so lessons are captured, corrections are applied, and the same failure pattern does not continue unchecked.
Opens February 1, 2027
Start With the First Two Capabilities
Level 101 & 102
Assess Accurately. Navigate Obstacles Rapidly.
Operating Focus: Situation Assessment + Obstacle Navigation
CSA helps leaders understand what is actually happening before they commit to action.
DEPN builds on that read by helping leaders determine how to engage the obstacle, select the appropriate level of response, and keep the objective moving.
Together, they build the first two Direct Action capabilities: understand the situation, then choose the response that fits the problem.
Founding Access Pair: $45
Available Now
Access stays with you.
When you purchase a Direct Action course, you receive access to that course for the life of the course.
As the course is improved, clarified, or expanded, your access updates with it. You do not need to purchase the same course again.
Your course access includes:
- Improved lessons
- Updated worksheets and application tools
- Expanded examples
- Clarified instruction
- Corrections based on learner feedback
- Refinements to the course experience
Lifetime access applies to the specific course you purchased.
It does not automatically include separate Fast Track modules, future Deep Dive courses, paid community access, live workshops, private coaching, custom consulting, or premium advisory services unless they are specifically included in the offer.
Leadership Development for Teams and Organizations
The Direct Action System gives leaders and teams a shared structure for assessing situations, navigating obstacles, choosing deliberately, and executing with control.
Organizations may also need development beyond the Direct Action System.
A team may need stronger frontline managers.
A department may need clearer ownership and better handoffs.
A growing business may need supervisors who can delegate, coach performance, communicate expectations, and resolve conflict.
A larger organization may need a structured leadership pathway across multiple roles and levels.
Direct Action provides leadership development, team training, coaching, mentoring, workshops, and organizational learning solutions built around the problem your people need to solve.
Organizational development may address:
- Frontline leader readiness
- Manager and supervisor development
- Communication and alignment
- Accountability and ownership
- Delegation and workload control
- Performance coaching and feedback
- Team trust and conflict resolution
- Change leadership and adaptability
- Decision quality under pressure
- Emerging leader and succession development
Programs can be delivered through budget-conscious digital access, live remote instruction, onsite workshops, facilitated cohorts, individual or group coaching, and high-touch immersive development.
Direct Action Group Access
For organizations that want a shared decision and execution system.
Group access can help teams build:
- Shared operating language
- Stronger decision quality
- Clearer ownership
- Better handoffs
- Consistent accountability
- More disciplined execution
Custom Leadership Development
For organizations that need development around a specific leadership, team, communication, culture, or execution problem.
Programs may include:
- Leadership workshops
- Manager development series
- Team application exercises
- Scenario-based training
- Cohort learning
- Coaching and mentoring
- Role-based learning paths
- Implementation support
- Progress and completion reporting
- Customized remote or onsite delivery
Not Ready to Start a Course Yet?
Start with the Direct Action Starter Sheet.
Use it before the next decision, correction, handoff, escalation, obstacle, or recovery move.
The Starter Sheet gives you a practical field prompt to help you:
- Assess what is happening
- Identify the pressure
- Separate useful signals from noise
- Locate the obstacle
- Examine the immediate risk
- Choose the next controlled move