Who This Course Is For For chefs and hospitality professionals ready to turn kitchen experience into confident leadership.

👨‍🍳 Chefs & Sous Chefs

Ready to understand costing, margins, and how business decisions impact the kitchen.

🍽️ F&B Supervisors & Outlet Managers

Who want to inspire their teams and improve daily operations.

🧾 Aspiring Head Chefs & Culinary professionals 

Transitioning into management roles in hotels, resorts, or group operations. No business degree required — just curiosity, ambition, and a desire to lead better.

Master Financial Literacy

Learn food costing, P&Ls, and profitability to lead with confidence.

Develop Leadership Skills

Build communication, team dynamics, and time management.

Think Like an Owner

Make decisions that improve service, profit, and accountability.

Unlock Your Leadership Potential

This course is built for chefs, sous chefs, and hospitality professionals ready to step into leadership. You’ll master food costing, P&Ls, strategic thinking, people management, and communication with owners and GMs. Each module is practical, rooted in real kitchen scenarios, and ends with a personalised 90-day leadership blueprint.

Meet Your Mentor,  Chef Hemant Dadlani

Hemant has built and led award-winning kitchens for over 25 years with Shangri-La, Rosewood, and Marriott. He now mentors chefs and hospitality leaders through practical training rooted in real-world kitchen experience. His teaching blends financial literacy, leadership psychology, and communication frameworks — helping chefs transition from managing stations to managing teams.

Every module is built around real hotel and restaurant operations — not theory. You’ll learn through true kitchen challenges and leadership moments.

Understand P&Ls, profitability, and communication frameworks that bridge the gap between chefs, management, and investors.

Finish the course with a personalized plan to strengthen your financial literacy, team culture, and leadership mindset.

Course Curriculum

11 Chapters · 56 Lessons

  1. 1

    Introduction to Culinary Leadership

    1. Welcome and Course Overview Free preview
    2. How to Navigate This Course Free preview
    3. Set Your Leadership Goals Free preview
  2. 2

    Costing, Margins & Profit for Chefs

    1. Module Overview: Costing, Margins & Profit for Chefs Free preview
    2. Food Cost Basics Free preview
    3. (Included in full purchase)

      Advance Menu Costing

    4. (Included in full purchase)

      Download the Chef to Leader Costing & Finance Toolkit

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      Quiz: Food Cost % & Margins

  3. 3

    Kitchen Finance 101

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      Chapter Goal

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      Understanding the P&L

    3. Gross Operating Profit (GOP) Explained Free preview
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      Quiz Kitchen Finance 101 — P&L and GOP

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      Wrap-up

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      Kitchen Finance 101 — Case Study & Instructions

  4. 4

    Strategic Thinking for Chefs

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      Chapter Goal - Strategic Thinking for Chefs

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      Module overview - Strategic thinking

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      What Strategic Thinking Means in the Kitchen

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      Frameworks & Examples

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      Quiz: Strategic Thinking in the Kitchen

    6. Reflection: Strategic Thinking in Your Kitchen Free preview
  5. 5

    From Cook to Leader: The Mindset Shift

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      Chapter Goal

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      The Mindset Shift: From Cook to Leader

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      Quiz: From Cook to Leader — The Mindset Shift

  6. 6

    Change Management in the Kitchen

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      Chapter Goal

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      Module overview: Change Management in the Kitchen

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      Change Management in the Kitchen

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      Why change fails in Kitchens

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      Handling Resistance

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      Communicating Change

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      Quiz: Handling resistance in the kitchen

  7. 7

    Managing Up

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      Chapter Goal

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      Managing Up in the Kitchen

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      Case Challenge - The Sous Vide Pitch

    4. Quiz: Making the Pitch – Sous Vide Case Free preview
  8. 8

    Crucial Conversations in Hospitality

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      Chapter Goal — Crucial Conversations in the Kitchen

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      Crucial Conversations in the Kitchen — Module Overview

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      The 3P Framework: Prepare, Practice, Perform

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      Quiz: The Late Pastry Chef Conversation

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      Leading into the next chapter

  9. 9

    Building & Leading a Rockstar Kitchen Team

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      Chapter Goal: Build a rockstar team

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      Why Build a Solid Team

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      People first . Training & Growth . Recognition & Loyalty

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      Interview Techniques

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      Interview Techniques – Hiring for Attitude & Team Fit

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      Chef de Partie Onboarding Plan – The First 5 Days

    7. Quiz: Building a Rockstar Team Free preview
  10. 10

    Entrepreneurial Thinking for Chefs

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      Chapter Goal — Entrepreneurial Thinking

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      Entrepreneurial Thinking for Chefs: How to Think Like an Owner

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      Core Lesson – Ownership in Action

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      Quiz: Entrepreneurial Thinking for Chefs

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      Reflection: Entrepreneurial Thinking for Chefs

  11. 11

    Your Chef Leadership Blueprint

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      Chapter Goal - Your Leadership Blueprint

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      Your Leadership Blueprint

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      Bringing It All Together

    4. (Included in full purchase)

      Reflection: Your Leadership Blueprint

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      Quiz: Your Leadership Blueprint

What Early Cohorts Are Saying

These testimonials come from our early cohorts — chefs, sous chefs, and exec chefs who completed the first release of Chef to Leader and shared how it transformed their approach to leadership and business mindset.

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The leadership tools are practical — not theory. I applied one of the communication techniques from the course the very next shift, and the difference in team flow was immediate.
Ashutosh, Head Chef

Melbourne

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Before this course, I’d never been comfortable talking about numbers. Now I can walk into management meetings with confidence, explain margins, and make decisions that impact the business. It’s made me a stronger leader — not just a better chef.
Ashley, Executive Chef

Sydney

”
Course is very useful and the way you explain it makes me more confident and easy to understand. Thank you, it’s very impressive and inspiring work.
Shriya S, CDP

Amora Sydney

Running the pastry section used to mean juggling endless details. The Chef to Leader course helped me structure my systems, train my team better, and manage costs without losing creativity.
Radha A, Exec pastry chef

Mumbai

This course is the missing link every chef needs when stepping from line cook to leader. The lessons are practical, real, and instantly usable. Within days, I felt a shift — from thinking like ‘just a chef’ to thinking like a business leader. Cost control, people management, accountability, leadership… everything is broken down clearly and made easy to apply in a real kitchen. It changed the way I run my team and my operation. Highly recommended for any chef, sous chef, or supervisor who wants to grow into leadership with confidence and understand the business side of hospitality.
Gary T.

Executive Chef, Amora Hotel Sydney

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