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The editorial argues that the post-pandemic online education landscape will be shaped by three leadership groups—New Kids in Town, Savvy Shifty Shifters, and Retrenchment Innovators—and that leaders must make major organizational decisions. 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This editorial suggests that the post-pandemic period will be dominated by three primary groups – The New Kids in Town, The Savvy Shifty Shifters, and the Retrenchment Innovators. Leaders in these groups will need to make major organizational decisions about their future in the online learning market. Leaders will need to lead their organizations through three main phases – Phase 1-emergency response; Phase 2 – decision matrix; and 3) embedding the new organizational culture. Leadership will be crucial to navigating a highly competitive higher education landscape where more providers in online learning will create more options for students to pursue their higher education goals. Competition will be fierce and intense in higher education. Leaders will need to differentiate their organization from competitors and ensure that culture and context are considered in their vision. The game changer in this new normalcy will be visionary and transformational leadership.  \nKeywords: Leadership, transformational change, disruption, empowering, planning  \nIntroduction  \nIndeed, there is nothing like kicking off your virtual happy hour with The Eagles Life in the Fast Lane to relax and clear the mind. After all, now that the global online revolution has arrived and that brave new world that seemed so elusive for so long is here, it’s time to celebrate…or so the story goes.  \nThe collegial response and collaboration of educational institutions, associations and global aid organisations across the world has been nothing short of remarkable. The spirit and commitment by educators worldwide to keep the engines of learning running are a credit to our entire global educational community. A virtual shout out for this continuous collegial collaboration is warranted and most deserving.  \nAs we nestle into our protective quarantined lockdowns, many questions linger about this alleged online revolution or evolution in teaching and learning. The history of distance education over the past thirtyfive years has usually been one of revolutionary rhetoric and evolutionary implementation. This was accentuated recently in an article by Bozkurt & Sharma (2020) . The authors suggested that perhaps once again what appears to be a revolutionary response to the Covid-19 pandemic is not a brave new world (Huxley, 1932) . One almost comes away current from the flurry of recommendations from futurists and experts with the feeling that everything should be easy from here on out. Today’s generation of distance education practitioners often equate online and distance education as synonymous having little understanding of this profession from the early 20th century.  \nWe have heard this call to digital arms before that the distance education evolution-revolution had arrived only to the sound fading trumpets in the distance. The rhetoric did not match expectations nor reality. The futurists and enlightened experts will tell us this time is different…or so the story goes.  \nPerhaps the most disconcerting aspect in the current flurry of un-planned, un-prepared scale-up is there appears to be this carte blanche assumption that the online revolution is over, mass adoption will occur  \nacross the world by autumn, and this will be but one embedded shift in the new normalcy predicted postcrisis. The mass predictions and rhetoric are deafening and leave one exhausted trying to transverse what decisions and actions to take next. First things first right…or so the story goes.  \nEach year the world’s greatest mountain climbers descend upon the Swiss Alps in their quest to stand atop the Eiger. First things first in this quest is which path will one take to reach the top? There are many. Climbers new to the Eiger will opt for less hazardous and difficult paths. 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