FirstHumanCoaching Extraordinary Performance™
Starting April 2025.
A 12-week transformative online programme to equip managers to become ‘leader-coaches’.
What will you learn?
This programme distils 65 years of our faculty’s work. We’ve transformed leadership in every kind of organisation, worldwide.
This programme isn’t about theories or philosophies.
No fluff.
No gimmicks.
No preaching.
It’s about asking the tough questions.
It involves powerful exercises to help you unleash your magic and ignite it in others.
A path to extraordinary leadership
Corporate culture is in transition.
Employees expect new behaviours from their leaders.
They want to be engaged and inspired.
They want to grow and be developed.
They’re looking for connection, authenticity and a coaching approach from their managers.
But managers can’t learn these skills from a book or in a traditional management training.
Instead, we create an immersive coaching environment to equip managers to show up as a new version of themselves.
To inspire their team.
To become a leader ready for the next level of their career.
After the programme you will be equipped to
Inspire bold action and elevate accountability in those you lead.
Occupy the ‘leader-coach’ stance to bring the best out of your team.
Let go of your habituated ways of being that have held you back.
Re-frame challenges and difficulties to accelerate business delivery
Redesign your leadership and how you show up in the world.
Who is this for?
Our programme is for ambitious managers and leaders.
It is for those who want to cause an impact across their organisation and beyond their immediate area of expertise.
It is also for those who can see that taking on a coaching style in their approach could allow them to generate new levels of performance in those they lead.
What’s the time commitment?
2-hour mandatory development session per week.
1-hour optional, drop-in coaching clinic per week.
What else do I get?
Membership of a thriving online community of fellow professionals dedicated to exceptional leadership.
What measurable results can I expect?
Some examples of the extraordinary outcomes our executive programme graduates have achieved:
Top Line
Performance
Performance
20%+ annual sales uplift by the team
Accelerated
Leadership
Leadership
Promotions to senior management positions within 18 months
Enhanced
Reputation
Reputation
One graduate was invited to speak at 5 industry-leading conferences post programme
Course outline
Twelve impactful 2-hour core sessions.
Week 1
- Creating a learning community
- What Is extraordinary leadership?
Week 2
- Power of context
- Tuning out to tune in
Week 3
- Deepening listening
- Revealing what’s possible
Week 4
- Breakthrough thinking
- Breakthrough Projects
Week 5
- Committing in the face of not knowing how
- Engaging others
Week 6
- Speaking to inspire
- Eliciting commitment
Week 7
- Reframing problems and reactions
- Facts versus interpretations
Week 8
- Where you get in your own way
- How to get back on track
Week 9
- What I rely on to succeed
- Embodying authentic leadership
Week 10
- Engaging others deepened
- Coaching others
Week 11
- What is possible for you
- Your development as a Breakthrough Project
Week 12
- Reflections on programme
- Structures for my success
Session Schedule
The next cohort starts their journey with us in April 2025.
There are two live sessions per week: Our main session and an optional coaching clinic.
Recordings of the live Q&A sessions will be made available.
| Date | Day | Session | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| April 24, 2025 | Thursday | Main Session #1 | 15.00-17.00 CET |
| April 29, 2025 | Tuesday | Coaching Clinic | 15.00-16.00 CET |
| May 1, 2025 | Thursday | Main Session #2 | 15.00-17.00 CET |
| May 6, 2025 | Tuesday | Coaching Clinic | 15.00-16.00 CET |
| May 8, 2025 | Thursday | Main Session #3 | 15.00-17.00 CET |
| May 13, 2025 | Tuesday | Coaching Clinic | 15.00-16.00 CET |
| May 15, 2025 | Thursday | Main Session #4 | 15.00-17.00 CET |
| May 20, 2025 | Tuesday | Coaching Clinic | 15.00-16.00 CET |
| May 22, 2025 | Thursday | Main Session #5 | 15.00-17.00 CET |
| May 27, 2025 | Tuesday | Coaching Clinic | 15.00-16.00 CET |
| May 29, 2025 | Thursday | Main Session #6 | 15.00-17.00 CET |
| June 3, 2025 | Tuesday | Coaching Clinic | 15.00-16.00 CET |
| June 5, 2025 | Thursday | Main Session #7 | 15.00-17.00 CET |
| June 10, 2025 | Tuesday | Coaching Clinic | 15.00-16.00 CET |
| June 12, 2025 | Thursday | Main Session #8 | 15.00-17.00 CET |
| June 17, 2025 | Tuesday | Coaching Clinic | 15.00-16.00 CET |
| June 19, 2025 | Thursday | Main Session #9 | 15.00-17.00 CET |
| June 24, 2025 | Tuesday | Coaching Clinic | 15.00-16.00 CET |
| June 26, 2025 | Thursday | Main Session #10 | 15.00-17.00 CET |
| July 1, 2025 | Tuesday | Coaching Clinic | 15.00-16.00 CET |
| July 3, 2025 | Thursday | Main Session #11 | 15.00-17.00 CET |
Questions and Answers
- Managers and leaders committed to taking their leadership to the next level.
- Those who want to become high-performance leaders
- Those committed to becoming a “leader-coach”
- Those looking to get ahead in their career
- If you want to find the key to unlock a challenging work situation
- If you want to have people around you step up in their role
- For entrepreneurs who see that taking their leadership to new heights represents the next breakthrough for their business.
A 1-hour onboarding and orientation call.
A weekly mandatory 2-hour development session.
An optional weekly coaching clinic in case you get stuck or have questions.
You’ll commit to a ‘Breakthrough Project’ to stretch you in your leadership’ that you’ll design and deliver as part of the programme.
No, each session builds on the next sequentially. To enjoy the full impact of the programme, you must attend all mandatory sessions. If through extenuating circumstances, you are unable to keep up with the programme, we may be able to offer you a place on a forthcoming programme.
You will have access to recordings of all the development sessions until up to 6 months after the programme.
Yes, please click here for information on our flagship in-house programme.
We are happy to invoice your company directly for your participation or give you a full receipt including applicable taxes if you will be charging the cost back as an expense.
If you work for a non-profit or charitable, we will assess your request. All requests will addressed on case-by-case basis.
Thursday, April 24, 2025 15.00-17.00 CET
Yes, recordings will be available to all participants for six months after the close of the programme.
Graduates will receive discounted access to new courses.
Yes, you will automatically become enrolled in our FirstHuman Academy Community. Here you’ll be able to connect with not only your fellow ‘Coaching Extraordinary Performance’ participants, but other leaders who are community members.
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Meet the team
Oddi Aasheim
A former operational, strategy and Organisational Development leader who co-founded FirstHuman 14 years ago. He has supported leadership teams, CEOs and developed talent on all continents. BBC’s CEO Secrets and the Financial Times have sought out his leadership expertise.
Richard Atherton
A partner in FirstHuman with over 15 years of coaching and facilitation experience with a particular ability to work at depth. After many years in programme leadership he transitioned executive coaching. He has coached senior leaders from organisations as diverse as HSBC and the IOC.
Phillida Fleming
Phillida is a former entrepreneur and law lecturer before finding her calling as an executive coach. She has over three decades of experience coaching at the highest levels, including several leaders who have become household names. She has an extraordinary ability to achieve rapid, unprecedented impact with her clients.
Gary Borland
A former fighter pilot and chief test pilot for the MOD, Gary had a spectacular military career before becoming a CEO in the defence industry. After experiencing the transformative power of FirstHuman’s coaching approach, he decided to become a coach himself. He has been having a profound impact with his clients ever since.
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