Imagine...

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

Our offerings

At FirstHuman, we partner with you to create Potent Environments where new things are possible. It’s an environment where you build deep relationships, hold powerful conversations and accomplish ambitious missions.

Leading Extraordinary Performance (LEP) Programme

Our Leading Extraordinary Performance (LEP) Programme enables your people to create environments in which they equip others around them to achieve extraordinary results. They learn how to expand their view of what’s possible, to motivate and inspire their teams. They learn to confidently deal with uncertainty, resolve problems and hold people accountable. They build committed leaders and powerful communities.

Performance
Interventions

Our Performance Interventions help your organisation break away from current constraints, align around a purpose and goals and powerfully engage and mobilise others to create the commitment, creativity and accountability they need to deliver breakthrough results. You have our promise that through this process, we will leave you with a legacy of high-performing leaders equipped to take on a new level of challenges.

Cultural
Transformation

We create highly agile ‘human-first’ cultures where people are free to bring all of themselves to work. Our approach uniquely blends equipping your people with key leadership skills, whilst taking a data-led view of your organisation as a complex system. We help you get clear on the tensions within the system as it is today, while emboldening your people to take the actions needed to evolve how you work.

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 performance interventions, cultural transformations and leadership development programmes that deliver extraordinary results.

Oddi Aasheim

Richard Atherton

Phillida Fleming

Gary Borland

More about the team

Articles

Granular Leadership – Leadership for a New Era

Intrapreneurs – Empower Your Corporate Insurgents

6 Lessons Learnt from an Award-Winning Business Transformation

It is going to take more than ‘team-building’

Podcasts

Being Human podcast

Be inspired by extraordinary leaders telling their stories.

#228 The Vedas For Everyone – with Narada Kush

A conversation with Vedic teacher and author Narada Kush.

#227 Communicating Beyond Language – with Richard Newman

A conversation with author and communication trainer Richard Newman.

#226 My Meditation Journey (So Far) – with Richard Atherton

A solo episode where Richard talks about his meditation journey.

#225 One People One Planet – with Michael Glauser

A conversation with author Michael Glauser.

#224 Re-Humanize Now – with Chuck Blakeman

A conversation with author Chuck Blakeman.

#223 The Seismic Shift in Leadership – with Michelle K. Johnston, PhD.

A conversation with leadership expert and author Michelle K. Johnston, PhD.

Events

Extraordinary things happen when connections are made.

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Executive Roundtable – Beyond Budgeting

6 September 2022

In 2005 Equinor (formerly Statoil - the Norwegian State oil company), decided to abolish traditional budgeting and Bjarte led this effort, called ‘Beyond Budgeting’. The effects of this decision and what they learned has gained international attention and Bjarte became the Chairman of the Beyond Budgeting RoundtableEurope.

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Executive Roundtable – Leading By Letting Go

14 March 2022

What would happen if you literally lost your voice as a leader? Kevin Hancock was the traditional boss of his family lumber company, knowing the business inside-out, having a well performing team and a successful company. One day he lost his voice and could barely exchange a few words with his people. Changing his leadership approach completely as a result, he experienced a team and business that flourished like never before. What did he do and what were his learnings?