FirstHumanA program to transform leadership performance
Equip your people to lead authentically, navigate complexity effectively and achieve breakthrough results for your business.
Tackle your most complex leadership challenges
Transforming leadership poses an ongoing challenge for many organizations.
23%
of employees think leadership is poor at explaining changes.
87%
of employees are not engaged at work, mainly citing micromanagement.
14%
of CEOs have a high level of confidence in their leadership pipeline.
The quality of your people’s leadership is the foundation of business performance.
We equip your leaders to expand their view what’s possible for your business. They learn to move beyond their limiting beliefs about themselves, their business and the market circumstances.
As they step up, they inspire their teams execute on your strategy in powerful new way.
Trusted by global leaders
We assist many organisations – from start-ups to global corporates – to elevate their leaders to new levels of performance effectiveness.
Transform leadership
and catalyse growth
Navigate any challenge and foster adaptive, resilient leadership.
Build a
bigger vision
Create a space where leaders dare to dream far beyond their current constraints and learn to inspire others.
Navigate
challenges
Equip your leaders to creatively tackle setbacks, to resliently solve problems.
Increase
profitability
Empower your leaders to be bold in developing innovative strategies to transform profitability.
Enhance
collaboration
Develop your people to elevate team psychological safety, and foster powerful team working.
Strengthen
dynamics
Cultivate the ability in your people to tune in to others to create what we call potent environments.
High
performance
Inspire your leaders to take on accountability at a new level, driving breakthrough results.
Unify team
objectives
Train your leaders to align diverse perspectives toward a shared vision to foster collective purpose.
Retain and
attract talent
Develop a culture where talent thrives, people are trusted and find meaning in their work.
What participants will gain in a nutshell
Effective leadership is founded on the art of communication, with listening as its cornerstone. We develop participants’ ability to listen generously and generatively, fostering empathy and connection. This promotes inclusion, respect, and amplifying the leader’s ability to inspire and guide with impact.
We guide participants in crafting bold personal visions. We help them recognise where they limit themselves in what they see as possible, and we help them create ‘breakthrough’ goals that expand their impact beyond their immediate area of expertise.
Our programs encourage self-reflection through exploring thought-provoking perspectives on leadership. Participants develop a greater level of appreciation for the ‘space’ they create around them. This helps leaders to become more authentic and self-aware in their communication and inspires lasting positive change within themselves and their teams.
We equip leaders to re-examine their current circumstances and find new perspectives. We help people learn how to separate interpretations from facts; to come up from the dancefloor and onto the balcony. This opens up new pathways forward and new sources of opportunity in any situation.
Participants learn to ask powerful questions, provide constructive feedback and cultivate an environment that calls people to take up self-accountability. By embracing coaching principles, leaders not only elevate their own effectiveness but also create a culture where every team member feels supported, valued, and motivated to excel.
Testimonials
Frequently
asked questions
Programmes typically span over three to six months and includes three to four residential sessions, each lasting three days. This format allows for immersive learning during the sessions, complemented by ongoing engagement throughout the duration of the programme.
We tend to work with groups of twelve to sixteen people in a single cohort. For larger groups, we can work with multiple cohorts symultaneously.
Most importantly, they will have elevated their capacity to notice what limits their leadership, realise what is possible in any circumstance and deliver breakthrough results for themselves and their organisations. In addition, they will significantly enhance their ability to listen, connect, and influence others. They’ll be equipped to foster accountability, open challenge and constructive dialogue in the high-performance terms they’ll lead.
We provide individual sessions with the Leading Extraordinary Performance™ open programme. You can learn more here.
Our approach
The programmes we deliver for our clients are always ultimately co-creations.
We work with you to tailor a curriculum that’s right for where you’re at as a business and the leadership maturity of your people.
With the right programme design in place, we engage participants in deep personal enquiries. We ask key questions about what it takes to build powerful human connections, provide leadership, and mobilise organisations into action that produces a new level of results.
We do not teach answers to these questions. We present views that provoke thought. They lead to an exploration that causes powerful insights that people can’t un-see. It opens up new choices about who to be and their leadership.
Our approach is firmly rooted in human transformation. We prioritise creating a profound shift in individuals the sustains long after the programme concludes.
13 years
in the leadership development business.
65 years
combined experience coaching executives.
100%
of our work comes from referrals and recommendations.
97%
of participants quote insights that provide a new level of performance.
Meet the team
Oddi Aasheim
Richard Atherton
Phillida Fleming
Gary Borland
Get in touch
to find out more
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FirstHuman