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How this masterclass works

Three parts, sixteen chapters, eighteen films, two rooms.

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This masterclass is How to Lead People and Influence Horses by Zachary Leyden with Kalea Leyden, taught as film. It teaches leadership the way horses teach it, and carries every lesson into the rooms where you actually lead: the sales call, the sprint, the boardroom, the kitchen table.

Watch
A film for each chapter, mixing the barn, the office and the quiet places between, with Zachary's own illustrations from the book.
Read the field guide
Where you will use it, step by step, watch outs, and the lines from the book worth keeping.
Practice in two rooms
Two practices for the barn and two for the office or home, each with a clear success check.
Check yourself
Five questions per chapter. Signed in, they earn XP. Not signed in, use Check yourself.

The three parts

1
Part I. The Inside Game
The read, the ego, the lead mare, the breath, and peace that has structure. Chapters 1 to 5.
2
Part II. The Trade
The release, the four phases, diagnosis, soft hands, arrangement, and what to do when the trying stops. Chapters 6 to 11.
3
Part III. The Long Ride
Trust, the wreck and the repair, shutdown, the lifetime team, and becoming someone worth following. Chapters 12 to 16.
4
The Horseman's Agreement
Ten promises, adapted for the people you lead. Read it, mean it, sign it.
Pro tip
Finish the sixteen chapters and the Agreement, then take the Leyden Certified: Leadership Masterclass exam: 33 questions, 80% to pass. The practice exam needs no sign-in.

The Leyden Standard

Leave every horse, and every person, calmer, safer, and more willing than you found them. The response adapts. The standard holds.

Who teaches it

Zachary Leyden served in the U.S. Army in Afghanistan, came home at twenty two and found his way back through horses. With Kalea Leyden he runs Ocean View Stables in Daly City, California, where veterans ride free, and works in enterprise software by day. He believes horsemanship makes a person better at leadership, parenting, communication and de-escalation, and that the horse is the wisest teacher he has ever met. Kalea Leyden is the architect of the Leyden Horsemanship Process and co-author of Soft Is Strong. The work stands in the lineage of Tom Dorrance, Bill Dorrance, Ray Hunt and Buck Brannaman, and the California vaquero tradition before them.

Note
The office stories in the films are illustrations drawn from the book. Names and details are composites.
Safety first
Equine activities are inherently dangerous. This course does not replace hands-on instruction from a qualified professional. You work with horses at your own risk.
Up next: Chapter 1: The Read

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