FirstHumanCoaching Extraordinary Performance™
Starting May 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.
We’ll share with you the practices and distinctions we use to coach senior executives across 5 continents and 15 countries to achieve breakthrough results in their businesses and their lives.
Through helping you to ask the tough questions of yourselves, we enable you to do ‘the work’ that will form the foundation of your coaching stance.
A path to extraordinary team performance
Corporate culture is in transition.
Employees expect new behaviours from their leaders.
They want to be engaged.
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 create new relationships with their team members with human growth at the core.
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 ways of being that have stopped you getting the most from others.
Help coachees re-frame challenges and difficulties.
Redesign your leadership to incorporate a coaching orientation.
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 can see that the most effective way to achieve this is through coaching others into their greatness.
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 under the participant’s stewardship.
Accelerated
Leadership
Leadership
Promotion to senior management position within 18 months through elevated performance of their team.
Enhanced
Reputation
Reputation
Invitations to speak at 5 industry-leading conferences for one participant as a result of organisational breakthroughs caused through her newfound leader-coach stance.
Course outline
Twelve impactful 2-hour core sessions.
Interactive exercises and weekly coaching practice sessions.
To get you into action, you’ll take on a ‘Breakthrough Project’ to achieve an ambitious business goal that will create the opportunity for you to flex your coaching skills as you build a team around you.
Week 1
- Creating a learning community
- What is extraordinary leadership?
Week 2
- Power of context
- Learning to tune in
Week 3
- Deepening listening
- Revealing what’s possible for others
Week 4
- Breakthrough thinking
- Breakthrough Projects
Week 5
- Engaging others
- Helping others to commit in the face of not knowing how
Week 6
- Speaking to inspire
- Eliciting commitment
Week 7
- Reframing problems and reactions
- Facts versus interpretations
Week 8
- Where people get in their own way
- How to get people back on track
Week 9
- Helping others to see what they 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 May 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 1, 2025 | Thursday | Main Session #1 | 12.00-14.00 BST |
| May 6, 2025 | Tuesday | Coaching Practice Clinic | 12.00-14.00 BST |
| May 8, 2025 | Thursday | Main Session #2 | 12.00-14.00 BST |
| May 13, 2025 | Tuesday | Coaching Practice Clinic | 12.00-14.00 BST |
| May 15, 2025 | Thursday | Main Session #3 | 12.00-14.00 BST |
| May 20, 2025 | Tuesday | Coaching Practice Clinic | 12.00-14.00 BST |
| May 22, 2025 | Thursday | Main Session #4 | 12.00-14.00 BST |
| May 27, 2025 | Tuesday | Coaching Practice Clinic | 12.00-14.00 BST |
| May 29, 2025 | Thursday | Main Session #5 | 12.00-14.00 BST |
| June 3, 2025 | Tuesday | Coaching Practice Clinic | 12.00-14.00 BST |
| June 5, 2025 | Thursday | Main Session #6 | 12.00-14.00 BST |
| June 10, 2025 | Tuesday | Coaching Practice Clinic | 12.00-14.00 BST |
| June 12, 2025 | Thursday | Main Session #7 | 12.00-14.00 BST |
| June 17, 2025 | Tuesday | Coaching Practice Clinic | 12.00-14.00 BST |
| June 19, 2025 | Thursday | Main Session #8 | 12.00-14.00 BST |
| June 24, 2025 | Tuesday | Coaching Practice Clinic | 12.00-14.00 BST |
| June 26, 2025 | Thursday | Main Session #9 | 12.00-14.00 BST |
| July 1, 2025 | Tuesday | Coaching Practice Clinic | 12.00-14.00 BST |
| July 3, 2025 | Thursday | Main Session #10 | 12.00-14.00 BST |
| July 8, 2025 | Tuesday | Coaching Practice Clinic | 12.00-14.00 BST |
| July 10, 2025 | Thursday | Main Session #11 | 12.00-14.00 BST |
| July 15, 2025 | Tuesday | Coaching Practice Clinic | 12.00-14.00 BST |
| July 17, 2025 | Thursday | Main Session #11 | 12.00-14.00 BST |
| July 22, 2025 | Tuesday | Coaching Practice Clinic | 12.00-14.00 BST |
| July 24, 2025 | Thursday | Main Session #12 | 12.00-14.00 BST |
Questions and Answers
Managers and leaders seeking to:
- Become a “leader-coach”.
- Get ahead in their career through developing high performing teams.
- Unlock challenging work situations by elevating others’ contributions.
- Have people around you step up in their role.
- Create 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 to practice your coaching skills.
You’ll commit to a ‘Breakthrough Project’ to achieve an ambitious business goal that will create the opportunity for you to flex your coaching skills as you build a team around you.
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.
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.
Trusted by global leaders
We assist many organisations – from start-ups to major enterprises – elevating their leaders to new levels of performance effectiveness.
Testimonials
From those who can attest to the power of our coaching approach.
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FirstHuman’s coaching enabled an immediate shift in performance and set us on a journey that brought the desired results, excitement and energy back.
Leigh Pomlett
Executive Director, CEVA Logistics
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The coaching fundamentally changed my life and I use what I learned literally every day. Over 3 years, we achieved 30% cost savings. Setting bigger goals became a way of life. I learned how to deal with my own fears, how to dream, collaborate and deliver.
Gretchen Haskins
CEO, HeliOffshore
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FirstHuman has the expertise and courage to take on any challenge. Their profoundly insightful and pragmatic approach has delivered extraordinary results for our business and leadership. Any organisation or individual would reap massive benefit from working with them.
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Group Executive, FTSE 10 Company
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
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 FirstHuman’s transformative coaching firsthand, he became a dedicated coach himself and has been profoundly impacting clients ever since.
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