The skills no one teaches you when you get promoted.
The number one thing that will determine your success — in any industry, at any level — is how well you manage and lead people.
How long that takes you to learn is up to you.
Leadership training teaches you about leadership. Management training teaches you about systems. Neither teaches you how to actually manage and lead people.
That's why I created Managership.
As my career took me from doing to leading to training, I learned something important that is now the foundation of Managership. In every case the most valuable learning happened outside the training room — in conversations and emails about how to actually manage people, behaviour and situations, in the wisdom of a good mentor, and in the 'how to' of building teams, changing cultures and fixing problems.
The 'how to' that nobody writes down. That gap is what Managership exists to fill.
This is Managership — Practical, Proven, Immediate.Teaches about leadership
Conceptual frameworks built for executives and senior leaders. Theory-heavy, expensive, and disconnected from the day-to-day reality of managing real people in operational environments.
Teaches systems & process
Finance, compliance, organisational structure, policy. Important — but it doesn't tell you how to handle the person who won't listen, the team that's lost trust, or the culture that needs to change.
Teaches how to lead people
The practical skills of actually managing and leading the people in front of you. Built for new and operational managers in the real world — not the boardroom.
25+ years in the trenches before the training room.
I'm not a guru. I'm not a polished corporate consultant who learned leadership in a classroom. I started as someone who was good at the work — got promoted — and had absolutely no idea how to lead people.
I figured it out. The hard way. Over years. Across major construction and infrastructure projects, in remote locations, managing teams who didn't ask for me and didn't owe me anything.
I made every mistake you're either making right now or about to make. And I spent the rest of my career learning from other leaders, observing what works and what doesn't, why some are great and others are not — and I've built this into the framework I wish someone had handed me in week one.
Built for the people who actually do the work.
Managership is delivered through the New Boss Club — a practical leadership ecosystem built for new and operational managers in industries like construction, mining, utilities, healthcare and infrastructure or anywhere else where things need to get done and productivity counts.
The content is field-tested. The language is plain. The frameworks work on Monday morning — not just in the classroom.
From a $9 book to live cohort programs to corporate delivery through Irvine Training Group — every format is built around the same core idea: give people the skills they actually need to lead the people in front of them.
Why Managership is the Missing Piece
People Skills
- Communication styles
- Difficult conversations
- Empathy in practice
- Leading former peers
- Delegation done right
Personal Skills
- Emotional intelligence
- Mental fitness under pressure
- Self-awareness
- Decision making
- Time management
Business Skills
- Finance basics
- Safety leadership
- Recruitment and risk
- Critical thinking
- Problem solving
"This is like having a pocket mentor. I constantly go back to this book when I need to tackle something new or difficult."
"I wish I had this when I first stepped up into leadership — it would have saved me a lot of time and effort."
"Andy's style is no-nonsense, calm and very practical. It's like having a coach in your corner."