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.
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.
500+
People Joined
Over 500 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, behavioural change, inclusion, physical performance, stress mastery, personal brand, focus and self-leadership. Whether you are a financial services firm, a hospitality group, a startup or a global enterprise, there are four speakers on this roster 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.
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
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 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
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
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
For this monthly 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. This is not a rolling programme. 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.
Choose Your Four
Twelve world-class perspectives. Every Industry. Every Challenge. Every kind of human your organisation contains.
Kelly Lundberg
2x TEDx Speaker & Personal Brand Strategist
How you show up right now matters more than you think.
Dr Katherine Iscoe
Scientist, Author & Keynote Speaker
How to slow a busy mind.
David Singleton
TEDx Speaker & Executive Performance Coach
How to find clarity when the world won't slow down.
Anisha Joshi
Principal Osteopath of the Year
& ITV This Morning.
The Physical Cost of How We Work, and How to Stop Paying It
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Harri Periera
Mindset coach for Founders & Leaders
The Hidden Reason High Performers Keep Getting In Their Own Way
Team AngelWolf
4 Guinness World Records & Inclusion Specialists
Leave nobody out.
Dr Oudi Abouchacra
Amazon Bestselling Author & Performance Expert
Courage isn't the absence of fear. It's knowing what to do with it.
Benjamin Owen
Leadership Coach & Creator, Masterful Journaling Method
A few minutes. A clearer mind.
Natalie Cairns
Strategic HR Professional & Founder, The Human Performance Lab
HR is hard at the best of times. Right now, it's harder.
Natalie Cairns
Executive, VVIP and Leadership High Performance Coach.
Performing under pressure. What the elite do to stay calm, focused and alert. How we train leaders and F1 drivers to sustain high performance over time and under pressure.
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Meet The Founder
Natalie Cairns
HR First & The Human Performance Lab Founder
Human First was not built to launch a business.
Natalie Cairns is a strategic HR professional, talent agent and founder of The Human Performance Lab. She has spent over 20 years showing up for people in their hardest professional moments, the redundancies, the restructures and the moments nobody plans for.
When the world shifted, she put her launch plans down and built Human First in four days because the moment called for it. 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 for the first series. 88% stayed for every session. 100% would recommend it.
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?
Book A Disovery Call
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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Twelve World-class Speakers
Natalie Cairns
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.
Kelly Lundberg
Kelly Lundberg has spent her career helping people understand the power of how they show up. A twice TEDx speaker, personal brand strategist, keynote speaker, author and former celebrity stylist, she works with CEOs, entrepreneurs and global brands to help them show up with clarity, confidence and intention. In a moment when the world is watching its leaders more closely than ever, Kelly's work has never felt more relevant.
Team AngelWolf, Nick & Tia Watson
Nick Watson and his daughter Tia are the people behind Team AngelWolf a story of family, sport, and what it truly means to leave nobody behind. Together they have completed hundreds of races and achieved four Guinness World Records, racing alongside Nick's son Rio, who has disabilities. Their session is for anyone who has ever felt on the outside and anyone who wants to understand what it really means to show up for others.
Dr Katherine Iscoe
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.
David Singleton
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.
Dr Oudi Abouchacra
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.
Benjamin Owen
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.
Anisha Joshi
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.
Harri Pereira
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.
Matthew Lewis
Executive, VVIP and Leadership High Performance Coach. Supporting and coaching sustainable high performance under pressure. Working with governments, CXO, billionaires and athletes.
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