Lucas Atkins Novert Group
Calm on command.Drive on command.
Bring your full drive to work.
Be fully present for life.
The Regulated Operator. Eight weeks of private coaching with Lucas Atkins for business owners and professionals who carry responsibility.
Eight weeksOne to oneLive online
Former Australian Federal Police
Prime Ministerial Close Personal Protection Officer.
The Regulated Operator
Three positions.
A range you can train.
Some moments ask for stillness. Others need your full drive. Learn to recognise your state and practise choosing what the moment calls for.
Select a position to explore the range.
The demand ends. You come back.
The Return brings you back to On Post, ready for the next task, conversation or person. Moving between the positions is part of the training.
Private coaching / Live online
Work directly
with Lucas.
Eight weeks to understand your patterns, practise your range and build a State Protocol around the demands of your life.
One private 60 minute live video call each week. Join from anywhere in the world using your laptop or phone and an internet connection. Between calls, practise briefly on at least five days each week. We work with breath, body, awareness and strategic coaching.
01AdvanceWeek 1
Understand how you operate.
Identify your current patterns, triggers and early signals. Define what you want to change and begin your first practical tool.
02BuildWeeks 2 to 7
Train the range. Practise the Return.
Develop your recovery and activation sequences, practise moving between the positions, and build routines you can use in everyday situations.
03HandoverWeek 8
Make the method yours.
Review your progress against where you started. Finalise your personal State Protocol and a 90 day plan for continued practice.
Your State Protocol
Your recovery sequence. Your activation sequence. Your triggers, early signals and daily routines. A practical reference, written around you, that you keep using after the eight weeks.
The Regulated Operator is coaching and education, not medical or psychological treatment. Suitability is discussed before enrolment.
A free first step
Leave work
at work.
The laptop is shut. The meeting is still running. Try a five minute routine to finish your working day and give the next part of your life your attention.
- Give unfinished work a next action and a time.
- Decide what genuinely needs you before tomorrow.
- Choose what deserves your attention next.
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Years across protection, operations and specialist training.
Serving Australian Prime Ministers protected.
Australian diplomatic posts within my security operations remit.
Meet Lucas Atkins
The man behind
the method.
For more than two decades, my work has centred on people under pressure. Protecting them. Preparing them. Leading them when the consequences were real.
As an Australian Federal Police close protection officer, I protected two serving Prime Ministers, including accompanying the Prime Minister to Afghanistan twice. My work spanned high threat and warlike environments, alongside diplomatic engagements where discretion, polish and protocol were essential. On Australia Day 2012, I was part of the team that extracted Prime Minister Julia Gillard through a crowd of protesters in Canberra.
I later trained AFP specialists, helped develop Papua New Guinea’s close protection capability for APEC 2018, and trained and advised government and media teams operating around the world. I went on to lead security operations across four Australian diplomatic posts in Indonesia.
Alongside that career, I studied human behaviour and strategic coaching. My qualifications include a bachelor’s degree in Policing Investigations, Master Practitioner qualification in NLP, a Diploma of NLP Strategic Coaching, and a Certificate in Psychotherapy & Time Based Therapy. I am also a qualified personal trainer and a 250 hour yoga teacher.
Today, I bring that experience into strategic coaching, helping you understand your patterns, build composure and choose how you respond when the pressure rises.
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