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 is open now. DEPN Fast Track opens next on August 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 | Open Now |
| August 1, 2026 | DEPN Fast Track | Next Release |
| September 1, 2026 | ACE Fast Track | Scheduled |
| 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.
Open Now
Decision Execution and Problem Navigation Fast Track
Level 102
Navigate Obstacles Rapidly
Operating Focus: Obstacle Navigation
DEPN helps leaders identify the obstacle, determine what kind of obstacle they are facing, and select the correct engagement path before wasting time, effort, or control.
Use DEPN when the situation is clearer, but the path forward is still blocked, delayed, redirected, or uncertain.
Opens August 1, 2026
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
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.
Training for teams and organizations
Most learners can begin through the individual Fast Track pathway.
Teams and organizations may need shared access, facilitated instruction, coordinated application, or a training structure built around their operating environment.
Small team or small business
For frontline managers, supervisors, department leads, small businesses, and leadership groups that need a shared way to assess situations, make decisions, assign ownership, communicate direction, and execute with control.
Group access helps teams build:
- Shared operating language
- Stronger decision quality
- Clearer ownership
- Better handoffs
- Consistent accountability
- More disciplined execution
Enterprise or organizational training
or healthcare organizations, public agencies, school systems, nonprofits, manufacturing operations, logistics organizations, retail and hospitality groups, and larger organizations that need a more structured delivery model.
Organizational training may include:
- Cohort-based access
- Facilitated training sessions
- Role-based learning paths
- Team application exercises
- Leadership workshops
- Implementation support
- Progress reporting
- Customized 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