Your intentions are good but the impact you have doesn't always agree. If that's ever happened to you, give me three minutes.
After more than 10,000 hours in the cockpit, the biggest lesson I've learned up there had nothing to do with flying an airplane. Leadership isn't a title. Leadership is influence. And influence doesn't come from trying to influence the people around me. It comes from learning to lead myself in a way that maximizes my influence in the world.
In practice, that's the art of catching my own reactions and choosing a response that's more in line with the person I want to be. That skill is emotional intelligence and Take the Lead is how you build it. You don't need to fly a plane or manage a team for this. It works in a meeting, an operating room, on the golf course and at the kitchen table.
I've had hundreds of moments where I reacted and wished I'd responded. I read the books and learned the concepts and none of it clicked. Not because it wasn't useful but because it was too much at once and none of it was there when I needed it most. Take the Lead simplifies all of it. It's not the answer to every situation. It's the tool that points you toward the answer.
Here's the picture. Imagine you're in the cockpit and an engine catches fire. Pilot or not, if nobody ever trained you on the engine fire drill, you'd react. You'd probably make things worse. But you wouldn't think something's wrong with you. You'd just think, nobody taught me the drill yet.
That drill is simple. It's the same few steps every time on purpose because under pressure it's really hard to think. Pilots get trained on it. But in our day to day with people, nobody trains us. There's no drill for the moment a conversation goes sideways.
Take the Lead is that drill. Something's off. You notice it. You don't need to know why yet. You choose to take the lead and you take one action toward the person you want to be instead of just reacting. Same steps every time.
That's why the app is called Copilot. In the cockpit there's a captain and a first officer who are in it together. One flies while the other keeps an eye on things, catches mistakes and keeps the other honest. Copilot doesn't do the work for you. It helps you notice the moment sooner, run the drill and take one step toward the person you want to be.
Your first 30 days are free and you don't need a card. In about two minutes you'll learn the whole drill and run your first rep. Tonight you'll do your first debrief. Tap the orange button below and let's get you started.
