Principals Australia (formerly Australian Principals Professional Development Council) developed the L5 Frame in 2003, and published Learn:Lead:Succeed in 2004, to assist principals with the development of leadership in schools. 

The purpose of the leadership is twofold: to ensure that schools give students the best education possible for them to lead fulfilling, purposeful and productive lives, and to strengthen communities of professional practice across sectors and levels of education.

Learn:Lead:Succeed was revised in 2007 following its success as a professional development resource used in a range of leadership contexts in schools across Australia. The first part of the text examines issues around leadership succession and school-based leadership development programs. The focus of the second part is the five propositions of the L5 Frame, and is based on the concept that a whole-of-school approach embeds the capacity and the potential for a distributive, sustainable model of leadership.

Principals Australia (PA) is committed to supporting principals and other school leaders to expand opportunities for leadership through Learn:Lead:Succeed and the L5 Frame. To enable principals to use the resource, the National Coordinator of Leaders Lead and a small number of consultants have successfully delivered professional development sessions on Learn:Lead:Succeed in the past three years. There is a rapidly increasing need to involve more people in the delivery.  To meet the increased requests from schools a system of endorsing facilitators to deliver Learn:Lead:Succeed would provide Principals Australia branches and principals' associations with more opportunities to access the leadership development programs.

Many principals and other school leaders are using Learn:Lead:Succeed in their own settings. Principals Australia encourages principals to use the resource in this way within the terms of the permission specified on the imprints page of the book.

To maintain some consistency of approach and quality, APAPDC has decided to establish a two tier system of endorsement for people wishing to facilitate Learn:Lead:Succeed outside of their own settings.

• The first tier, facilitator endorsement, is intended for people who wish to work as facilitators outside of their own settings, but not for commercial gain.

• The second tier, consultant endorsement, is intended for those who wish to work as consultants, and for commercial gain. Facilitator endorsement is a pre-requisite of consultant endorsement. The consultant endorsement process is yet to finalised.