Imagine a new level of leadership that frees up individuals, organisations and communities to deliver the extraordinary.

At FirstHuman, we partner with you to create Potent Environments where new things are possible. We offer a customised, collaborative approach with a set of leadership principles designed to first and foremost address the human element. We help your people build deep relationships, hold powerful conversations and accomplish ambitious missions.

Leading Extraordinary Performance™ (LEP) Programme

For businesses or individuals looking to transform their leadership capability

Our Leading Extraordinary Performance™ (LEP) leadership programme enables your key people to create environments in which they equip others around them to achieve extraordinary results. Through experiencing the LEP; participants gain the skills to confidently navigate uncertainty, resolve challenges, motivate and hold individuals accountable. What's more, they build committed leaders around them.

Business Performance
Interventions

For businesses or teams seeking a performance breakthrough

Our Performance Interventions help your organisation break away from current constraints, align around an ambitious purpose and goals, and powerfully engage and mobilise to create the commitment, creativity and accountability needed to deliver breakthrough results. You have our promise that we will leave you not only having achieved major performance break-throughs but a legacy of high-performing leaders.

Embedded Business
Coaching

For businesses seeking world-class coaching for individuals or teams

Our embedded, tailored Business Coaching helps your people take their game to a new level. We work alongside your business, coaching individuals, and teams to unleash their potential. We get to know your flaws and scan for untapped possibilities. We catalyse a shift in the working environment. We foster a climate that encourages bold thinking, improved relationships, and breakthrough creativity.

Our clients

Our team

We don’t work with a conventional management consultancy playbook; you won’t find blueprints, best practices or peer-group comparisons. Instead, with business and HR leaders, we co-create bespoke business performance interventions, leadership development programmes and business coaching that deliver extraordinary results.

Oddi Aasheim

Richard Atherton

Phillida Fleming

Gary Borland

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Newsletter

Level up your leadership

Dive into our thought-provoking insights.

Articles

Unleashing Your Potential: Triumphing Over Limiting Beliefs

The Myth of ‘Great Leadership’

Are you leading or interfering?

Self-Managed Organisations Have a Lot to Teach Us

Granular Leadership – Leadership for a New Era

Our Amazing Clients – Fittleworth Medical

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Being Human podcast

Being Human podcast

Be inspired by extraordinary leaders telling their stories.

#316 Serving with Purpose and Leading at Starbucks – with Howard Behar

A conversation with Howard Behar, former president of Starbucks and author of 'It's Not About The Coffee: Leadership Principles from a Life at Starbucks'.

#315 The Power of Kindness in Business – with James Rhee

A conversation with James Rhee, leader of the extraordinary reinvention of the Ashley Stewart clothing brand, Harvard Law School graduate, private equity investor, and author of 'red helicopter'.

#314 The Attributes You Need for Success – with Rich Diviney

A conversation with Rich Diviney, a retired US Navy Commander and former Navy SEAL, who, over his illustrious career, has become a thought leader in optimal performance, authoring the influential book "The Attributes: 25 Hidden Drivers of Optimal Performance".

#313 They Call Him Oneness – The Grand Illusion with Brendan D. Murphy

A conversation with Brendan D. Murphy, author of 'The Grand Illusion', a book that synthesizes the paranormal with today’s hard science.

#312 Discover the Art of Compassion – with Stephanie Mines, Ph.D.

A conversation with Stephanie Mines, Ph.D., shock and trauma researcher, and author of 'The Secret of Resilience'.

#311 Surviving Cancer and Building a Business – with Hollie King

A conversation with Hollie King, a cancer survivor and entrepreneur who mixes traditional wisdom with modern science.

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Events

Extraordinary things happen when connections are made.

Now Booking

Extraordinary Leadership

6 November 2024

Discover the secrets of extraordinary leadership in our interactive masterclass. We will share with you the principles of how to achieve the extraordinary, no matter the circumstances. Gain insights on how to navigate an uncertain world, unlock what is possible and inspire others to greatness. Don’t miss out on this opportunity to elevate the impact of your leadership and drive success.

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Executive Roundtable – Listen or Lead?

18 November 2024

Join our Executive Roundtable with Tim Rolfe, CEO of HeliOffshore, for insights on safety, collaboration, and leadership.

Past event

Executive Roundtable – A Strategy for Uncertainty

28 February 2024

Adaptive strategy applies complexity thinking to the art of high-level planning to enable firms to build resilience in the face of uncertainties.