From Expert to Leader: The First 90 Days of Management
Ante Orbanić
PhD, SaaS founder & leadership educator
Most experts are promoted before they are prepared to lead
Many professionals become managers for one reason: they were excellent at their work. They were the expert, the problem-solver, the person everyone trusted to deliver. But once they become responsible for a team, the rules change.
What made them successful as experts often becomes the thing that holds them back as leaders. They keep solving everything themselves. They struggle to delegate. They avoid difficult feedback. Their team depends on them for every decision. Over time, they become the bottleneck.
This course matters because most new managers are never formally taught how to lead. They are expected to figure it out while managing pressure, people, priorities, and performance.
From Expert to Leader gives professionals a practical leadership system they can use immediately. Students will learn how to set clearer expectations, delegate without micromanaging, give useful feedback, run better 1:1s, and build accountability in their team.
This is not an abstract leadership theory course. It is a practical transition program for professionals who need to stop carrying the work alone and start leading with clarity, structure, and confidence.
What you’ll learn
Move from being the expert everyone depends on to a leader who creates clarity, ownership, and accountability.
Identify the habits that made you successful as an expert but now make you a bottleneck.
Learn the difference between doing, helping, coaching, and leading.
Learn the difference between doing, helping, coaching, and leading.
Turn vague expectations into clear standards, priorities, and ownership.
Define what good work looks like before performance problems appear.
Use simple expectation-setting language your team can actually follow.
Decide what to keep, delegate, or stop doing yourself.
Transfer ownership with clear outcomes, decision rights, and check-ins.
Follow up without taking the work back or controlling every step.
Use a simple feedback structure: situation, behavior, impact, expectation, next step.
Prepare for difficult conversations without avoiding or overreacting.
Give corrective and positive feedback that improves performance.
Use a repeatable 1:1 structure for alignment, coaching, and accountability.
Ask better questions instead of giving all the answers.
Spot early signs of confusion, overload, or disengagement.
Create a weekly leadership rhythm for priorities, delegation, feedback, and follow-up.
Connect your tools into one practical system you can use after the course.
Leave with a clear 90-day plan for leading with more confidence and consistency.
Learn directly from Ante
Ante Orbanić
PhD, founder, educator, healthcare and digital leader
Who this course is for
New managers who were promoted for their expertise but never taught how to lead.
Team leads who feel like the bottleneck and want to delegate, give feedback, and build accountability.
Senior professionals, founders, and specialists who now manage people and need practical leadership tools, not theory.
What's included
Live sessions
Learn directly from Ante Orbanić in a real-time, interactive format.
Lifetime access
Go back to course content and recordings whenever you need to.
Community of peers
Stay accountable and share insights with like-minded professionals.
Certificate of completion
Share your new skills with your employer or on LinkedIn.
Leadership playbook
Practical leadership playbook you can use immediately with your team
Delegation templates
Delegation templates to help you transfer ownership without micromanaging
Feedback scripts
Ready-to-use feedback scripts for difficult conversations
90-day leadership system
Your personal 90-day leadership operating system for leading with more clarity
Maven Guarantee
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Course syllabus
6 live sessions • 5 lessons
Week 1
Sep
8
Stop Leading Like the Best Expert
Sep
10
Set Clear Expectations Before You Demand Performance
Exercise: Bottleneck Audit
Week 2
Sep
15
Delegate Without Micromanaging
Sep
17
Give Feedback That Builds Trust and Performance
Exercise: Delegation Map + Feedback Script
Schedule
Live sessions
3 hrs / week
Two 90-minute live sessions per week focused on practical leadership tools, discussion, and real workplace application.
Tue, Sep 8
4:00 PM—5:30 PM (UTC)
Thu, Sep 10
4:00 PM—5:30 PM (UTC)
Tue, Sep 15
4:00 PM—5:30 PM (UTC)
Projects
1 hr / week
Complete practical exercises including a bottleneck audit, delegation map, feedback script, and your final 90-day leadership operating system.
Async content
1 hr / week
Review short course materials, reflection prompts, and leadership templates before and after live sessions.
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