Human First
Human First
The Workplace Edition.
Sometimes the most important thing a leader can do is simply show up for their people.
Not with a strategy. Not with a plan.
Just with something real, from someone who genuinely understands what humans need when the world around them feels uncertain.
Right now, your people need something that is faster than your procurement process.
Human First: Workplace Edition is how you show up for them.
Four Live Expert Sessions
Delivered exclusively for your team. This month.
Twelve World-Class Practitioners
Across leadership, performance, neuroscience, inclusion, behavioural change and physical wellbeing.
Whatever Your Industry
Whatever your people are carrying, there is something here for them.
Human First: Workplace Edition is delivered in partnership with Brainwave Research UK
Neuroscience-based technology that supports how your people think, focus and recover.
The science is straightforward. The brain naturally responds to structured sound through a process called neural synchronisation. Brainwave's technology uses carefully layered audio to guide the brain away from overactive, high-stress patterns toward calmer, more focused states. No training required. No extra time needed. It works in the background while your people get on with their day.
It was built for exactly the environment your people are in right now. 🖤
The Situation
We're all navigating something
nobody was trained for.
And we are doing it at work, in meetings, in decisions, in the quiet spaces between one thing and the next. The people in your organisation are remarkable, and they are human.Both things are true at the same time.
Most organisations want to support their people through moments like this. The gap is usually not intention, it is knowing what that support should actually look like. A webinar nobody asked for is not support. Something generic that could have been sent at any time is not support. Your people know the difference between something that was built for them and something that was built for everyone else.
Human First was built because of this moment, not in spite of it.
Human First: Workplace Edition brings that same experience exclusively to your organisation. A private, live series built around where your people actually are right now, and who they need to hear from to move through it.
A private, live series built around where your people actually are right now, and who they need to hear from to move through it.
475+
People Joined
Over 475 people joined the first series.
88%
Stayed For Every Session
88% stayed for every session they attended.
100%
Would Recommend
100% said they would recommend it to someone they cared about.
That is what happens when people feel genuinely met.
What You Get
Twelve world-class perspectives. You choose four.
No two organisations are the same. No two teams are in the same place. And no two people inside your business are navigating this moment identically.
That is exactly why Human First does not offer a fixed programme. We have built a roster of twelve world-class human performance experts spanning leadership, neuroscience, inclusion, physical performance, personal brand, focus, self leadership, sleep and finance. Regardless of your industry or the size of your organisation, there are four speakers who speak directly to where your people are right now.
You choose them. We deliver them.
Your team gets something that was genuinely built for them, not adapted from something built for everyone else.
This is not one size fits all. It never was.
Exclusively Yours
This is not a public webinar. This is a private series, booked for your organisation. Your people, your schedule, your context. Nobody else in the room.
Completely Turnkey
Platform setup. Speaker briefings. Run of show. Live facilitation. Post-session resources and reporting. We handle everything. You show up for your team.
Choose Your Four
Every Industry. Every Challenge. Every kind of human your organisation contains.
Anisha Joshi
Award Winning Osteopath, Keynote Speaker and Author
THE PHYSICAL COST OF HOW WE WORK, AND HOW TO STOP PAYING IT.
Anisha Joshi is an osteopath and clinic founder based in London. She has spent over a decade treating the physical consequences of how people work and what she sees repeatedly is that most of it was preventable. She runs a multi-clinic group, works closely with workers with demanding professional lives, and speaks on the gap between how we treat the body at work and what the evidence says we should be doing instead. Her sessions are practical, clinically grounded, and built around one core belief: your body is giving you information. Most people just haven't been taught how to read it.
Ben Bolger
Co-Founder, Squirrel Education
FINANCIAL WELLBEING - THE MISSING LINK IN HIGH PERFORMANCE.
Ben Bolger is a Chartered Wealth Manager and Financial Wellbeing Specialist, and founder of Squirrel Education, a platform focused on improving financial behaviour at scale. He helps high performers build financial wellbeing so they can think clearly, make better decisions, and perform consistently. Without clarity, control, and confidence around money, even high earners struggle to perform at their best.
Benjamin Owen
Leadership Coach & Creator, Masterful Journaling Method
HOW TO GROW BY DOING LESS.
Benjamin Owen is a leadership coach, entrepreneur and creator of the Masterful Journaling Method a simple, practical approach to self-reflection that takes just a few minutes a day. Based in Dubai, he began his career in the world of body transformation coaching, where he saw firsthand how physical change often triggered a much deeper shift in confidence, identity, and life trajectory. Over the past decade Benjamin has built multiple 6 and 7 figure coaching businesses, led teams, sold a successful fitness company, and coached leaders across the world. His work focuses on helping ambitious individuals close the gap between who they are being and who they are capable of becoming.
David Singleton
TEDx Speaker & Executive Performance Coach
YOU HAVE MASTERED THE WORK. THE NEXT LEVEL IS YOU.
David Singleton is the founder of Oraculi and creator of the BEYōND Boundaries coaching frameworks. A TEDx speaker with a career spanning 40 countries, he works with C-suite leaders and senior executives across the GCC on the intersection of neuroscience, behavioural change and high performance. His session is for anyone who knows what they are capable of but keeps losing sight of it in the noise.
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Harri Pereira
Mindset coach for Founders & Leaders
THE HIDDEN REASON HIGH PERFORMERS KEEP GETTING IN THEIR OWN WAY.
Harri Pereira is a mindset coach with 8 years of experience and over 1,250 served clients across some of the world's leading organisations. He helps high-performing founders & leaders get out of their own way & begin to master their inner world. Most people don't fulfil their potential because of the internal environment: mindset, beliefs & emotions.
Dr Katherine Iscoe
Scientist, Author & Keynote Speaker
HOW TO REDUCE MENTAL SPIRALS AND BUILD A CALMER, CLEARER WAY OF THINKING... (WITHOUT NEEDING TO BECOME A MINDFULNESS GURU)
Dr Katherine Iscoe is a speaker and author who has dedicated her work to helping people understand their own minds and be kinder to themselves in the process. Behind a career that includes speaking for global organisations and being published in Vogue and Cosmopolitan, she navigated a debilitating eating disorder and severe depression.
Today she helps people stop overthinking, get unstuck, and move forward not by pushing harder, but by understanding what is actually happening inside their heads.
Kelly Lundberg
2x TEDx Speaker & Personal Brand Strategist
YOUR BRAND IS YOUR LEVERAGE HOW TO INCREASE YOUR VISIBILITY,
INFLUENCE AND VALUE INSIDE THE BUSINESS
Kelly Lundberg is a 2x TEDx speaker, multi-award-winning entrepreneur, bestselling author, and founder of Brand YOU Creators, the consultancy turning personal branding into a globally recognised professional discipline, and the creator of the world’s first CPD-accredited Personal Brand Strategist Certification (CPBS™).
Matthew Lewis
Executive, VVIP and Leadership High Performance Coach
PERFORMING UNDER PRESSURE. WHAT THE ELITE DO TO STAY CALM, FOCUSSED AND ALERT. HOW WE TRAIN LEADERS AND F1 DRIVERS TO SUSTAIN HIGH PERFORMANCE OVER TIME AND UNDER PRESSURE.
Matthew Lewis is an Executive, VVIP and Leadership High Performance Coach. Supporting and coaching sustainable high performance under pressure. Working with governments, CXO, billionaires and athletes.
Natalie Cairns
Strategic HR Professional & Founder, Human First & The Human Performance Lab
HR IS HARDER RIGHT NOW THAN IT'S EVER BEEN, LET'S FIX THAT TOGETHER.
Natalie Cairns is a strategic HR professional, talent agent and the founder of two businesses built on one belief, that people, when truly supported, are capable of extraordinary things.
Through HR, Done Different, she partners with founders, CEOs and HR leaders who are ready to rethink what HR can and should be. Through The Human Performance Lab, she brings together the world's leading human performance experts to create immersive, evidence-informed experiences that change the way people lead, think and perform.
Dr Oudi Abouchacra
Amazon Bestselling Author & Performance Expert
COURAGE ISN'T THE ABSENCE OF FEAR. IT'S KNOWING WHAT TO DO WITH IT.
Dr Oudi Abouchacra is an Amazon bestselling author, former chiropractor and performance expert who has spent over two decades helping people understand the relationship between their inner world and their outer results. The founder of Inspired Results a global performance coaching and training company headquartered in Abu Dhabi he has dedicated his career to helping professionals get more from their time, energy and potential.
In his book Fear Forward, he reframes fear not just as something to overcome, but as one of the most powerful signals available to us. In a time when fear is something many people are living with daily, his session offers something rare - genuine understanding, and a practical way forward.
Team AngelWolf, Nick & Tia Watson
Speakers on Inclusion, Belonging, and Leaving Nobody Out
LEAVE NOBODY OUT
Every team wants people to feel valued, included, and able to contribute - but real belonging does not happen by accident. It takes awareness, intention, and the willingness to truly see people. Nick Watson and his daughter Tia bring a powerful lived perspective to that conversation. Together with Rio - Nick’s son and Tia’s brother, a Person of Determination - they have completed hundreds of races, achieved multiple Guinness World Records, and built Team AngelWolf around one simple but important belief: nobody should be left behind.
Their session is not a talk about inclusion as a buzzword or policy exercise. It is a real and deeply human story about family, resilience, teamwork, mindset, and what becomes possible when people feel seen, valued, and included.
Honest, uplifting, and thought-provoking, their talks share a remarkable family journey while encouraging audiences to reflect more deeply on inclusion, human connection, and the role each of us plays in creating true belonging.
For leaders, teams, and organisations, this talk offers more than inspiration. It invites reflection, strengthens connection, and leaves audiences with a more thoughtful understanding of what it really means to leave nobody out.
Dr Teresa Arora
Chartered Psychologist with the British Psychological Society and an Associate Fellow
EMPLOY YOUR SUPERPOWER: SLEEP LIKE A PRO.
Dr Arora is a Chartered Psychologist with the British Psychological Society and an Associate Fellow. She gained a PhD in Sleep Behavioural Medicine from the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom in 2012. She has extensive research experience as a Sleep Scientist and has published more than 50 peer-reviewed articles as well as several book chapters.
Dr Arora is skilled in unraveling the depths and complexities of sleep science and conveying this to the general public with practical tips that can be easily implemented into daily lives to enhance health, wellbeing and performance outcomes.
The Format
Simple By Design.
Built On Evidence.
45 minutes is the optimum window for online learning. Not because it is convenient, but because it is what the research on attention and retention tells us works. Every Human First session is structured around four parts, each with a specific neurological purpose.
The Hook
Every session opens with a data-backed reframe of the problem your people are already living. Not opinion. Evidence. Something that makes the room think: I did not know it was that serious. Attention drops sharply after the first ten minutes of any online session. Starting with a statistic that reframes a felt experience activates both cognitive attention and emotional engagement simultaneously, which are the two conditions the brain needs to store new information.
The Science
The speaker explains the mechanism behind the problem. What the research says. Why most people's instinctive responses make it worse. People do not change because they are told to. They change when the mechanism makes sense to them. This is the difference between compliance and genuine behaviour change.
The Framework
A practical, evidence-backed approach that your people can begin using before the session ends. Not seven steps and an acronym. The specific thing they can do before the week is out, with an element of practice built into the session itself. Information paired with immediate application is retained at significantly higher rates than information presented alone.
The Commitment
Your people will be asked to make one commitment and share it in the Zoom chat. Named. Witnessed. When people articulate a commitment in writing and in front of others, the likelihood of follow-through increases substantially. The most effective learning is always active, not passive.
Then 15 minutes of live Q&A. This is not a formality. This is where the deepest learning consolidates. Questions force active retrieval of new information, which is the single most powerful memory consolidation tool available in a live session.
The Investment
Less than you think.
More than you expect.
One month. One flat fee. No per-seat cost. No cap on numbers.
AED 40,000
This price for this month only!
Four live expert sessions delivered across the month.
Your choice of four speakers from the full roster.
Unlimited team access.
A personal 60-minute debrief with Natalie Cairns at the end.
To contextualise:
Team of 25
AED 1,600 per person.
That's less than two therapy sessions.
Team of 50
AED 800 per person.
That's less than two PT sessions.
Team of 100
AED 400 per person.
That's Less than one executive coaching hour.
For this month only. The world is moving. Your people need support now, not when the next budget cycle aligns. After this month the price increases. This is the moment to move. Your people are already spending this on themselves. Human First gives it to them as a team.
Who Is This For?
Whilst your company is focused on strategy, let us support you and your people.
The Leader Who Wants To Show Up For Their Team
You want to do something meaningful for your people right now. Not next quarter. Not when procurement signs off. This month. Human First gives you a way to do that and the gift of it is that it tells your team you see them.
The HR Director Who Is Done Delivering Programmes Nobody Remembers
You need something credible, immediate and impactful. Something you can put in front of your leadership team and your people and stand behind completely.
Human First is that.
The Team That Is Not Waiting For Their Them
You do not need your employer's permission to grow.
A team of 50 splitting AED 40,000 is AED 800 each. Own the experience yourselves.
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Meet The Founder
Natalie Cairns
Founder, Human First & The Human Perfomance Lab
Natalie Cairns has spent over 20 years in HR. Not the version of HR that hides behind policy. The version that shows up in the hardest moments, the conversations nobody wants to have and does it with honesty, with care and without the red tape.
She has always done it differently.
Today that looks like several things at once. She works as a talent agent representing some of the most credible human performance experts in the region. She created HR for HR, support for the people who spend their careers looking after everyone else. She developed The PLAY Formula, a framework for professionals who are ready to close the gap between where they are and where they know they could be. And she founded The Human Performance Lab the home for all of it.
Human First came next. When the world shifted and launching a business felt like the wrong thing to do, she put her plans down and built something else entirely. In four days. She called seven world-class experts and asked if they would show up for people who needed them. Every single one said yes immediately.
479 people registered. 88% stayed for every session. 100% said they would recommend it to someone they cared about.
That is not a training metric. That is what happens when HR is done differently.
Human First: Workplace Edition exists because what happened in that series deserved to reach further. Into the organisations where people spend most of their time. Into the teams that are carrying the most. Into the hands of the leaders who are ready to do something about it.
Interested?
Speak to Natalie
Tell us which four speakers feel right for your team. We will take care of everything else. Right now, your people need something faster than your procurement process.
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