The Standard
Show up the same steady way under pressure, on purpose, not by luck.
8-Week Live Program · Starts October 13
Be a measurably better leader in 8 weeks.
Score your baseline in week 1. Practice the highest-leverage tools for 8 weeks, live, with a cohort that holds you to it. Score again in week 8. See the difference. Your team will too.
90 minutes a week. 8 weeks. A measurably different leader.
Sessions are live every Tuesday at 10:30am CT (11:30am ET). Can't make it live? The recording is in your inbox the same day.
- Our group is keeping it going
- Dreaded the topic, left inspired
- Loved doing the work live
- Love the concrete action focus
- So helpful to connect and share
- Loved seeing Michael teach live
- Beautifully curated
More is being asked of you, with less to go on
You know what good leadership looks like. Doing it on a hard week is the gap.
What got you here was your own output. What the new scope asks for is different, and nobody handed you the manual. You can name the leader you want to be. The gap now is being that person on a hard week, not just a good one.
What most leadership programs get wrong
- 60 hours of frameworks you never finish
- Tactics for managing others, nothing for leading yourself
- Take our word for it that it worked
- More to know, on a calendar that's already full
What this program gets right
- 8 live 90-minute sessions you actually complete
- Work on the one instrument your whole team experiences: you
- Measure the change in your own numbers
- The highest-leverage work, and nothing else
Bring your one thing
You don't leave with notes. You leave different.
Pick one way you want to lead better. Over 8 weeks, with the same cohort holding you to it, we help you make it real, so it holds when the week gets hard, not just when it's easy.
The Energy
Stop leading on empty. Protect the energy your team feels first.
The Presence
Be fully in the room, so your team has you when it matters.
The Follow-Through
Finish the initiative that's been stuck at 80%.
What this actually is
8 live workshops, not a course you'll never finish.
Every Tuesday at 10:30am CT (11:30am ET) for 8 weeks you join Michael, your Heroic Programs lead, and your cohort live for 90 minutes. Short instruction, then guided practice and small-group breakouts where you apply it to how you actually lead. You do the work in the room, before you leave. There is not a lot of lecturing.
90 minutes, live
8 sessions. Miss one and the recording is in your inbox the same day.
Practice, not lecture
Teaching is the short part. Most of the session is guided work on your own leadership.
Materials the Sunday before
Workbook, notes and slides arrive early, so you walk in ready.
One focus, all 8 weeks
You choose it in week 1. Every session gets applied to how you lead.
The Differentiator
Measurable change, in your own numbers.
Most leadership development asks you to take its word for it. This one proves it on you.
- Week 1 you score your baseline across 8 facets. Week 8 you score the same 8 again, and the change is in your own data.
- The instrument is the Diener Flourishing Scale, used in peer-reviewed well-being research. These 8 numbers are what your team feels before you say a word.
- It is the only Heroic program built around a measurable before-and-after.
The leader's baseline
Watch it move.
Week 1Week 8
4.5average baseline, week 1 → week 8
Illustrative example
The 8 weeks
One high-leverage area a week, applied to how you lead.
1.5 hours a week to change the other 142.5.
Live every Tuesday at 10:30am CT (11:30am ET) · Can't make it live? The recording lands in your inbox the same day.
Week 1
Clarify Your Purpose
Get crystal clear on what you want most, and why it matters.
When your direction is clear, your team stops guessing and starts moving.
Week 2
Become Antifragile
Grow stronger from challenge instead of being knocked down by it.
Stay steady under pressure and your team stays steady with you.
Week 3
Be Your True Self
Lead as the person you are at your best, even under pressure.
Lead as yourself and people trust you faster.
Week 4
Make Every Day a Masterpiece
Run your best day on autopilot.
Run your own day well and you set the pace for everyone.
Week 5
Increase Your Energy
More vitality, and the knowledge to protect it.
Bring more energy and your team feels it before you speak.
Week 6
Build Rewarding Relationships
Give the people who matter most more of you.
Invest in the people who matter and the work gets easier.
Week 7
Lead in Creating the Future
Stop waiting. Start authoring the life and the team you want.
Stop reacting and start setting the direction your team follows.
Week 8
Make a Difference
Turn outward, serve, then re-score and plan what's next.
Leading yourself well is how you lift everyone around you.
"Absolutely loved it. This program is impacting me more than any other Heroic program. Thank you!"
Who this is for
Built for the leader who's done collecting frameworks.
This is for you if
- You're a rising leader or a high-impact individual contributor stepping into bigger scope, and your own development is the thing that keeps getting deprioritized.
- You've read the books and taken the courses. The gap now is doing, not knowing.
- You want change you can measure in your own numbers, not a vague sense of progress.
- You'll protect 90 minutes a week, live, for 8 weeks, and do the work in between.
- You want a cohort that holds you to it, not another solo download.
This is not for you if
- You want passive content to consume whenever, with no live commitment.
- You're after a quick hack or a 1-week fix.
- You can't protect 90 minutes a week for the full 8 weeks.
- You want a big, dense curriculum. This is deliberately the opposite.
- You'd rather keep learning more than apply what you already know.
What you get
Everything you need to actually finish. Nothing you don't.
- 8 live 90-minute workshopsWith Michael, your Heroic Programs lead, and your cohort, recorded, so one missed week doesn't end your run.
- Your materials the Sunday beforeWorkbook, notes and slides land early, so you walk in ready to work.
- A workbook built for doingAn exercise set you work through, not a reading list you fall behind on.
- Your baseline scorecardThe before-and-after that tells you, in your own numbers, whether this worked.
- A cohort going through it with youThe people in the breakouts are the reason you cross the line.
- A weekly planner and habit trackerThe rhythm that turns 8 weeks into a default you keep.
The Proof
The research is real. So is the method.
23%Rise in reported energy
53rd → 70thPercentile of flourishing
In just30 days
“These are some of the largest effects on energy and flourishing I've measured outside of major life events.”
Sonja Lyubomirsky, UC Riverside
From a randomized controlled trial run by Sonja Lyubomirsky, a world-leading positive psychologist at UC Riverside, on the Heroic approach and app. The Accelerator applies that same method, live and in a cohort. These figures are the method's results, not the Accelerator's.
Trusted by the teams that can't afford to guess.
Notre Dame Football · US Navy · SOCOM · Chicago Bulls · Teams in 100-plus countries
From Cohort One
Composite flourishing, week 1 to week 8.
208People enrolled
89%Of participants improved
32% → 71%Scoring in flourishing range
Directional, single cohort, self-reported. Purpose, the week 1 theme, moved most.
Why Michael leads it
15 years of practice, not theory.
Michael Balchan has practiced and applied the Heroic framework every day for 15 years, working alongside founder Brian Johnson through every program Heroic has built.
Brian's framework is the foundation of everything in the program. Michael is the one who knows where people get stuck, and how to close the gap between knowing and doing. You get the framework, and someone who has walked the path you are walking.
In their own words
Cohort One participants and Heroic members.
"So grateful for this program. I hadn't realized how far off my protocol I had drifted, and wondered why I wasn't performing at the level that I can. Why? Because my protocol works if I work it. Boom."
"I increased my level of flourishing in every domain, 77% to 88% overall. I'm stronger now, with greater antifragile confidence I'll carry forever to serve and lead myself, my family, and community at the next level."
"Gaining purpose. From week one it was a game changer and really helped drive who I am and where I am going."
"I was already a high-performer, but Heroic pushed me to an entire new level of greatness. My mental, physical, spiritual tanks are all humming as a result of the things I've learned over the past year."
"This program has helped me more than any personal development resource I've ever used in my life. And that says a lot. Because I have spent thousands of dollars, and hundreds of hours consuming other personal development resources."
"Do it. Commit to the program and it will absolutely and unequivocally change your life for the better. There are few feelings that can compare to that of self-actualizing."
"I'm now super clear that these two habits, or rather my many past failures to install them, are exactly what stand between me and the person I most aspire to be. I've carried them for years, and the thought of eight focused weeks with a cohort holding me to it feels like precisely the structure I've not managed to build for myself."
Enrollment
Be a measurably better leader in 8 weeks.
8 weeks · Starts Tuesday, October 13 · Live every Tuesday at 10:30am CT (11:30am ET)
$999
or 4 payments of $250
$125 a week, for 8 weeks.
- 8 live 90-minute workshops, plus the full framework
- Access to the live group coaching calendar and the AI coach while you're in the program
- Lifetime access to Heroic Basic Training
- Heroic OS Plus app access for the duration of the program
Doors close Monday, October 12
Want to bring several leaders or aspiring leaders from one team? Talk to us about group enrollment →
One more thing
Make AI work for your leadership, on your terms.
You'll build a personal operating system file that makes AI tools serve your leadership instead of flattening your voice. The program works completely without it. This is an optional tool, not a requirement.
You encode your wisdom. AI serves it. You stay the author.
Questions
Everything you might be wondering.
What actually happens in a session?
90 minutes, live, with Michael, your Heroic Programs lead, and your cohort. Short instruction, then guided practice and breakouts where you apply it to how you lead. You do the work during the session, not just after it.
How much time does it really take?
One live 90-minute session a week, plus focused work in between. 8 weeks. The highest-leverage work and nothing else, not another 60 hours you never finish.
Are the sessions actually live?
Yes, every one, with Michael, your Heroic Programs lead, and your cohort. That's the part that makes you finish.
What if I miss a session?
The recording is sent the same day. You'll also have the slides, notes and workbook, which arrive the Sunday before.
Is this a leadership course or a personal-development course?
Both, in the right order. You can't lead others past where you've led yourself. We work on the person because the person is the instrument your team experiences.
Is this Heroic Mastery again?
No. Mastery is our full 26-module library you go through on your own. The Accelerator is built for a different job: 8 live sessions, a cohort that holds you to it, and a measured before-and-after, focused only on how you lead. If you've done Mastery, this is where you put it to work. If you haven't, you don't need it first.
Do I need prior Heroic experience?
None. Lifetime access to Heroic Basic Training is included, along with Heroic OS Plus, our app, for the duration of the program, so you start with everything you need.
What happens to my access when the program ends?
You keep the Accelerator materials: the notes, workbooks and slides, and your access to Heroic Basic Training is yours for life. Heroic OS Plus, the live group coaching calendar and the AI coach run for the length of the program, and continue with an active membership after that.
What if it doesn't work for me?
Do the work. If your score hasn't moved, you don't pay. You rate yourself across eight areas of your life in week one, and again in week eight. If your total hasn't gone up, we refund your tuition in full. All we ask is that you complete both scores, join or watch six of the eight sessions, and tell us within a week of the final session.
Cohort Two · 8 live workshops · Starts Tuesday, October 13
90 minutes a week. 8 weeks. A measurably different leader.
Bring the way you want to lead. We'll handle the rest.
Sessions are live every Tuesday at 10:30am CT (11:30am ET). Can't make it live? The recording is in your inbox the same day.