The Relational Leadership Method · Self-paced

You've been leading on instinct. It's got you this far.

The Relational Leadership Method gives you the language and the practice for the moments wearing you down: feedback that won't land, the person who's checked out, the conversation you've avoided for three weeks. Personalised from a diagnostic of how you actually lead, built from 20+ years in the field.

Start my RLM pathLifetime access · $897 AUD or 6 monthly payments of $159
Brooke Baxter
The real problem

Nobody taught you this.

You've been working it out as you go. Copying the managers you had, keeping the good bits, quietly trying not to repeat the rest.

That gets you a long way. It runs out at the hard moments, the ones where you need language, not instinct.

The RLM is built for the moments you're actually in.

The feedback that keeps not landing.
The team member who's checked out.
The conversation you've been avoiding for three weeks.
What it costs to keep going like this

Instinct works until it doesn't.

Without a method, every hard moment costs you twice. Once in the room, and again at 10pm when you're replaying it.

Over a year, that's what quietly wears good managers down. Their teams feel it first.

Why this one is different

Most training treats you like a blank slate. This doesn't.

Most leadership development teaches you what to do. The Relational Leadership Method teaches you how to relate. That's where trust is built, hard conversations get easier, and your influence as a leader becomes real. The RLM is personalised to how you already lead, built from the RLM Diagnostic Tool. It strengthens the gaps in your knowledge and leadership practice while naming and backing what you're already doing well.

So you're not starting over. You're building on yourself.

The principle underneath every lens

Connection Before Correction.

The Relational Leadership Method framework
What's inside

Six lenses, and the self-leadership everything stands on.

Four foundational practices, six lenses, 30 practice guides in all. You'll work through the relational skills that make up the full framework, with tools and conversation prompts for each one.

Foundational Base · Self-Leadership · 4 practices
Lead From Your ValuesOwn Your AuthorityManage Self-DoubtSustainable Boundaries
The Six Lenses · 26 Relational Skills
Lens 1

Reading Context

Understanding what's happening before you act.

Lens 2

Addressing Behaviour

Naming things clearly and early.

Lens 3

Leading Conversations

The conversations that actually matter.

Lens 4

Leading Without Carrying

Developing others while holding accountability.

Lens 5

Decision-Making Under Pressure

Thinking clearly under load.

Lens 6

Leading Change

Leading the human side of change.

  • The RLM Diagnostic, so the course shapes itself around your strengths and gaps
  • Tools and conversation prompts you can take straight into your next 1:1
  • The RLM Coaching Community space
  • Lifetime access, so it's there for the issue you're managing in six months, not just this week
Using the RLM with a client
How you'll actually use it

This isn't a course you finish and forget.

It's structured so you come back to it live. Before a hard conversation, you pull the module and the prompts. After it, you go back in to unpack how it went and what you'd do differently.

That's the difference between knowing about leadership and actually shifting how you lead.

What leaders are saying

Not our words. Theirs.

“

The RLM leadership training has been wholeheartedly different from other leadership trainings I have attended, in the best way possible. The information and resources are engaging, direct and authentic, with a clear connection to the actual day to day moments in my role as a TL. The modules link knowledge to practice really well, and the tools and conversation prompts have been really effective in my 1:1's. The uniqueness is how the RLM is personalised to your individual skillset, it strengthens your gaps while also acknowledging what you already do really well. I love that I can return to it during live issues I'm managing, to prepare for harder conversations and to reflect afterwards. Couldn't recommend it any more.

LaraTeam Leader · NFP
“

I signed up for 6 coaching sessions with Brooke and the best surprise was access to the RLM online course. The RLM diagnostic and LSI assessment gave me real awareness of my strengths and where I was holding myself back, and we used that to guide the coaching. Between sessions I could build on the work through the RLM online, so I had prompts and strategies I could use in the moment. Brooke even gave me permission to share some tools with my direct reports, which helped build their leadership too. Worth every penny.

CaraProject Manager · Education
The proof

See the change leaders make.

Every leader is scored on how consistently they show up in the moments that count, before coaching begins and again at the end. Here's the movement.

Average score, out of 5
2.8→4.1
Group average, before & after
Behavioural consistency
+49%
lift in behavioural consistency across the group

Every leader improved on both halves of the method: their own self-leadership, and how they lead the people around them.

Five leaders, before and after.

The teal shows where they started. The rust shows the ground they gained.

Where they started Ground gainedScale: 0–5
Leader A
Team leader, community services
+58%
2.64.1
05

Stopped carrying the team's problems as her own. Started naming issues early instead of absorbing them.

Leader B
Manager, family violence sector
+43%
3.04.3
05

Held harder conversations without letting them escalate. Boundaries that stuck under pressure.

Leader C
New leader, NDIS provider
+65%
2.33.8
05

Grew into his authority. Less second-guessing, clearer decisions when the team looked to him.

Leader D
Senior manager, mental health
+41%
3.24.5
05

Stayed steady in high-stakes moments. Read the room before reacting to it.

Leader E
Coordinator, child & family services
+43%
2.84.0
05

Led her team through a restructure without losing their trust.

Self-leadership · Leading yourself first
2.8→4.2
05
Leading others · The six leadership lenses
2.8→4.0
05
About Brooke

The RLM didn't come from a whiteboard.

It came from more than 20 years in social work and community services leadership, family violence, mental health, child and family work. The places where relationships either hold or fall apart under real pressure.

I built the Relational Leadership Method to give managers what those settings taught me: how to stay connected to people while still holding the line on what matters.

Brooke Baxter

What you get

Start where it suits you.

The RLM Self-Paced Course

$897 AUD

What's included

  • All six lenses plus the foundational self-leadership section
  • The RLM Diagnostic, with a re-test at 4-6 months
  • Tools and conversation prompts for every lens
  • The RLM Coaching Community space
  • Full lifetime access
Start my RLM path Or 6 monthly payments of $159

Coaching + RLM

$3,500 AUD

What's included

  • Six 1:1 coaching sessions with Brooke
  • Full access to the RLM self-paced course
  • Your diagnostic and LSI assessment guiding the work
  • Prompts and strategies to use between sessions, and targeted leadership development

 

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A lower-cost way in

Pick the leadership moment you're stuck in.

Start there. This is your solution. Three focused RLM bundles, each built around one specific moment, at a fraction of the full method. $129 each.

Having the Hard Conversation

$129 AUD

RLM Bundle 1

You already know the conversation you're avoiding. This is how you finally have it. For managers watching standards slip, losing a team's trust, or stuck in a conflict that won't resolve.

  • 4 workplace challenges, broken down step by step
  • 7 full RLM leadership practice guides
  • 9 practical tools, ready to use the same week
  • Lifetime access
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Stepping into Authority

$129 AUD

RLM Bundle 2

For managers leading former peers, chasing deadlines that keep slipping, or realising they're doing half their team's job for them.

  • 3 workplace challenges, broken down step by step
  • 9 full RLM leadership practice guides
  • 7 practical tools, ready to use the same week
  • Lifetime access
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Staying Clear

$129 AUD

RLM Bundle 3

When everything's shifting, your team watches how you hold it. This keeps you steady. For managers leading people through change without losing the trust they've built.

  • 3 workplace challenges, broken down step by step
  • 9 full RLM leadership practice guides
  • 10 practical tools, ready to use the same week
  • Lifetime access
Get this bundle

A few questions people ask

Before you start.

Picture Monday.

The tension's still there and the hard conversation still needs to happen. The difference is you know what you're doing, and you walk in steady.

Start my RLM path

$897 AUD or 6 monthly payments of $159 · Lifetime access