LEADING FROM THE MIDDLE

From NoTosh, in partnership with AAIE

We believe great leadership isn't rocket science or about your personality.
It's about understanding tried and tested frameworks and developing simple skills.

You can go beyond just "managing"

This immersive course is designed for aspiring and current middle leaders who want to do more than just manage their teams.

With timeless, proven leadership principles the course will teach you how to turn your ideas into strategic components of your school’s work.

For decades, middle leadership in schools has been misunderstood and underutilized.

Research shows it’s seen as a thankless stepping stone to senior leadership or an administrative job to keep a small team organized and accountable to senior leaders’ directives.

Nearly 50% of middle and senior leaders don’t take up any opportunities to develop their leadership skills and knowledge.

We believe great leadership isn't rocket science or about your personality. It's about understanding tried and tested frameworks and developing simple skills. Join us to learn them and put them into action from day one.

Over 700 successful alumni

Our alumni say they’re more effective at:

managing their time;
building stronger relationships with peers;
prioritizing what really matters;
pushing back on busywork;
understanding their role in the strategic plan;
seeing how to create a shared impact.

Since its launch in 2020, the flexible online format of Leading from the Middle has resulted in a 100% satisfaction rate of participants from hundreds of schools in over 50 countries.

The Course

One course. Three sprints.
16 live sessions.
Hundreds of profound takeaways.

What's in the course?

Three sprints develop personal, team and organizational leadership skills, with an emphasis on immediate application in the field and capturing evidence of impact. Each sprint kicks off with five days, where participants meet for one hour each day, to focus on one key aspect of quality leadership. Sessions are recorded so you can catch up.

Between each sprint, the course leaves you at least a month to apply what you learn to your own project in school.

16 live hours of course facilitation, online resources, bonuses and live one-on-one or small-group drop-ins.

New year, new pricing.
Join the course for only $997pp.

For five or more participants we offer a discount of 10%.

Imagine this

You walk into your day with clarity, knowing exactly what to focus on, and how to navigate every conversation and challenge ahead. No more getting bogged down by endless emails or feeling overwhelmed by constant demands. You’re ready to lead with confidence, and your team feels it.

Here’s what you’ll gain:

Stop letting email control your day and maximize your most productive hours
Get people to buy into your ideas — without worrying about pushback
Communicate exactly what’s needed, with no extra fluff, and win over your team
Clear the clutter in your mind so you can focus on the work that matters most
Prioritize like a pro and free yourself from the feeling that everything is urgent
Test your ideas before launching, so you know how they’ll land in advance
Spot where collaboration can speed up progress and get things done faster
Tackle disagreements with ease by anticipating them and designing stronger conversations
Turn pushback into a chance to create even stronger initiatives
Save time, clear your head, and deliver more value in every project
See ‘no’ as a stepping stone, not a setback
Overcome resistance to your ideas and negotiate like a true leader
Lead with a small team and make a big impact across your school

This is the kind of leadership that moves projects forward, builds trust, and turns challenges into opportunities for growth.

Discover the course

The Facilitators

Join for live sessions and one-on-one drop-ins throughout the course.

Ewan McIntosh

"Senior leadership teams are stretched thin, juggling management tasks alongside running a school. The solution? Tapping into the untapped potential of middle and aspiring leaders—going far beyond traditional training to truly share the load. Real leaders don't want to learn about the theory of leadership alone - they want to put ideas into action right now."

With a life path that involved narrow misses with investment banks and the British Army, Ewan's love of learning and teaching was the dream job that led him to start NoTosh in 2009.

Since then he's worked with hundreds of schools in over 70 countries, and taken over 700 educators through Leading from the Middle.

Ewan was a classroom teacher who ended up as Commissioner at broadcaster Channel 4 Television Corporation. He’s led design projects with countless schools and major corporates (Burberry, BBC, Channel 4, talktalk plc, thyssenkrupp).

Jeremy Weinstein

“The face of training our people and of education itself is changing drastically, and will continue to do so as technology progresses. I've really enjoyed helping teams to embrace these changes, while ensuring they remain true to their values and their humanity.

"Leading from the Middle has been a chance to reinvent how educators learn while also making an impact in their school right at that moment."

Born and raised in Melbourne, and a mechanical engineer by training, Jeremy’s career has seen him take on a wide range of roles and challenges and, after a decade as an award-winning film maker, he cemented his passion for media and communications by completing a PhD in this field. With a wealth of experience in industry and in university teaching, Jeremy brings unparalleled depths of knowledge, ideas and connections to the leaders taking part in Leading from the Middle.

Kate Wadsworth

"Wherever you focus your attention, that becomes your reality. After 20 years of teaching, I dare not think about the number of staff meetings I sat through where the focus was anything but focussed:

tweaking the curriculum (again); prioritising short-term gains for accountability purposes; obsessing about conformity rather than alignment around a common idea of success...

"All that instead of focusing on the only way a school can truly improve: by listening to and responding to the needs of the people in it."

Kate has been an elementary teacher and school leader for over 20 years and is a qualified "Coaching Within Education" specialist. When she realised that her "outstanding" performance came at the expense of "feeling outstanding" she wanted to do something about that.