Leading with a PeopleFirst Mindset
3-Session Live Learning Cohort for Leaders Who Want Teams to Thrive
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Leading with a PeopleFirst Mindset is a three-week live learning cohort designed for leaders who want to build thriving, high-performing workplaces by putting people at the heart of everything they do. Created by Positive Foundry in partnership with Inspiring Workplaces, this interactive programme blends the science of human flourishing with proven people-first leadership practices that drive culture, wellbeing, and performance.
Across three energising 50-minute sessions, leaders from around the world come together in a small-cohort experience to learn, reflect, and practise practical skills that strengthen purpose, connection, and impact at work. Each session combines expert facilitation, peer dialogue, and simple, actionable tools you can apply immediately with your teams.
Offered in two limited-availability cohorts of three back-to-back weekly sessions, this programme provides a focused, supportive learning journey where leaders can deepen self-awareness, share real challenges, and build a community committed to creating inspiring workplaces where individuals and organisations flourish.
This session is ideal for CEOs, Chief People Officers, and people leaders who are ready to move to a strategic, human-centered approach that helps individuals—and organizations—truly flourish.
Benefits for You, Your Team & Your Organisation
Participants will:
- Develop a PeopleFirst leadership mindset grounded in the science of wellbeing and human flourishing
- Gain practical tools to support wellbeing, engagement, and sustainable performance
- Build confidence to lead through change with a more human, inclusive approach
- Increase effectiveness with improved self-awareness and new skillsets
Organisations will benefit from:
- Leaders who model people-first behaviours that strengthen culture and psychological safety
- Improved employee engagement, wellbeing and retention
- Stronger alignment between purpose, performance, and workplace culture
- More resilient, motivated teams equipped to thrive in today’s complex world
Limited availability – sign up now
We only have 25 spaces – so don’t delay.
You have to commit to all three sessions as we are limiting it – you’ll stop others from attending.
Session Dates: September 22, September 29, October 6, 2026
Your Cohort leader
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Laura Cooke, CEO and co-founder of Positive Foundry, is an entrepreneur, national keynote speaker, author, and mother of four daughters who helps leaders build lives rooted in resilience, wellbeing, and sustainable performance. Her mission is to create generational change through teaching the skills that lead to joyful and meaningful living, and her work blends positive psychology with real-world practicality, reminding us that thriving happens when we create the conditions for our best selves to show up.
Laura Cooke
CEO
Positive Foundry
Cohort
Sessions
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Session 1: September 22, 2026
4pm BST | 11am New York EDT | 8am San Francisco PDT
When Life Knocks You Down — Navigating Setbacks with Resilience
There’s no way around it: adversity and hardship are part of the human experience. The real question isn’t whether we’ll face setbacks, but how we respond when we do. This session opens the resilience conversation by getting honest about what setbacks actually do to us — physiologically, emotionally, and professionally — and why our instinct to push through or shut down often backfires. Participants will leave with a clearer sense of how to process a setback without being defined by it, plus a first set of tools they can apply immediately the next time things don’t go as planned.
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Session 2: September 29, 2026
4pm BST | 11am New York EDT | 8am San Francisco PDT
The Resilience Toolkit
This session digs into the mental models that separate people who stay stuck after a hard experience from those who move through it and grow. We’ll explore the connection between mindset and recovery speed, including how self-compassion (versus self-criticism) changes the way our brains process failure and stress. Participants will examine their own default thought patterns under pressure and learn reframing techniques grounded in positive psychology and neuroscience research. Rather than generic “stay positive” advice, this session offers a grounded, practical look at how shifting perspective, especially around what a setback means about us, can genuinely change our capacity to bounce back. Attendees leave with language and lenses they can use the next time their mindset needs a reset.
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Session 3: October 6, 2026
4pm BST | 11am New York EDT | 8am San Francisco PDT
Techniques for Building Lasting Resilience
Recovering from a setback is one thing; using it to become a stronger, sharper version of yourself is another. This closing session moves from concept to action, equipping participants with concrete techniques to not just recover, but to recover better than before. We’ll share practical routines that help teams and individuals get ready to be resilient. The focus here is on sustainable practice: small, repeatable habits that compound over time, rather than one-time fixes. Participants will walk away with a personal resilience toolkit built from the full arc of the series, tools to process setbacks, mindsets to support recovery, and techniques to move forward stronger.
About Positive Foundry
We are business professionals passionate about the science of well-being, using personal development to unlock human potential, and improving corporate cultures. Positive Foundry’s BetterYet corporate well-being training system is grounded in the science of positive psychology and is proven to help individuals learn the skills to increase well-being.
Why positive Foundry Exist
We help companies build stronger teams and cultures and help individuals live their best life; a life of meaning, well-being, joy, and success. In today’s world, where employee experience, well-being, mental and physical wellness, corporate purpose ,and business performance all matter coupled with the rise of hybrid work, we believe companies that flourish create value in both financial and human terms. They enhance the lives of employees, families, customers, owners, and the community at large.
BetterYet Teams
We put proven research from the fields of positive psychology, neuroscience, and behavior change into impactful programs to help teams learn to thrive in all aspects of life. Employees and leaders will learn 12 scienced-backed skills while building stronger teams through dialogue and connection. Our micro-learning sessions are designed to enhance well-being and group cohesion without sacrificing productivity.