Being Human is the Foundation of Work

A learning experience that strengthens how people approach work — together

The Being Human at Work program is a foundational learning experience designed to strengthen people-work capability — supporting clearer judgment, more grounded decision-making, and greater confidence in navigating real-world people situations with care and accountability.

This course is designed for business owners, executive directors, managers, HR and People & Culture practitioners, coaches, facilitators, and others responsible for people decisions — many of whom are already doing this work without formal training or support.

Drawing on over 25 years of experience teaching, guiding, and supporting people in complex workplace roles, the course brings together theory, lived experience, and practical application across key areas of people work:

Grounded in Human Resources Management, Organizational Behaviour, Workplace Culture, and Systems Thinking
Integrates the full human experience — including identity, emotions, power, and lived reality
Features a comprehensive people-work curriculum aligned with the book, How to Be Human at Work

The program is facilitated live online by Jodi Rai, HR and Organizational Behaviour practitioner, author, and educator, and is designed to support learning that feels relevant, thoughtful, and immediately applicable to real work.

Advance Your People-Work Capability

The next live cohort of the Being Human at Work Program runs
September 15 – December 15, 2026.

Next Session Sept 2026

What You Will Gain

By the end of the Being Human at Work program, participants leave with stronger judgment, clearer language, and greater confidence in navigating real-world people decisions. Benefits include:

Deeper people-work capability: Build a practical understanding of HR, organizational behaviour, and culture that goes well beyond policies, procedures, or compliance.
Greater confidence in people decisions: Learn how to think through performance, conflict, change, and accountability with clarity — even when situations feel messy or high-stakes.
Emotional Intelligence assessment included: Gain insight into how emotions influence behaviour, communication, and decision-making — and how to work with them more effectively.
DISC personality profile included: Understand behavioural tendencies (yours and others’) to improve communication, collaboration, and leadership impact.
Practical frameworks you can actually use: Learn how to approach people decisions with enough clarity and structure to act consistently and confidently — without overcomplicating the work.
Improved communication and relational skills: Strengthen how you listen, respond, give feedback, and hold difficult conversations.
Systems-level understanding: Learn to see individuals, teams, and organizations as interconnected systems — and make decisions that account for that complexity.
Live learning and guided reflection: Engage in facilitated sessions that deepen understanding, surface insight, and support real application.
Your copy of How to Be Human at Work: The book is included and woven directly into the Academy, reinforcing concepts and extending learning beyond the sessions.

This program is designed to help people feel more capable, grounded, and steady in the people decisions they’re already being asked to make — not by adding more rules, but by strengthening how they think, relate, and act.

Who This Program Is Designed To Support

The Being Human at Work program is foundational learning for people who are responsible for people decisions — and want to do that work with more confidence, clarity, and care.

Participants often include:

Business owners and Founders
Executive Directors, Managers, Supervisors, Team-leads
HR, People & Culture, and Organizational Development Practitioners
Coaches, Educators, Facilitators, and Consultants working at the intersection of humans, systems, and work

The program is especially well-suited for people who:

Are responsible for HR or people decisions, even if HR isn’t their formal role
Sense that people work is more than policies, compliance, or hiring — and want a deeper, more human-centred approach
Want practical frameworks to navigate performance, conflict, culture, and change with confidence
Value thoughtful conversation, reflection, and learning grounded in real workplace experience
Are looking to strengthen their judgment, language, and decision-making in complex people situations
Want to feel more capable, credible, and steady when people decisions matter most

This training is accessible for those without formal HR education, while still offering depth for experienced practitioners who want to strengthen how they think about and practice people work.

It is designed to support people who are already carrying responsibility — and want to feel more grounded and capable in how they hold it.

What You Will Learn

The Being Human at Work course is a structured, building-block learning experience designed to strengthen people-work capability from the organizational system, to teams, to the individual.

Each part builds on the last — helping participants understand how people experience work, how decisions ripple through systems, and how to act with clarity and confidence in real workplace situations.

How people work happens within systems — whether we name them or not. This section focuses on the organizational forces that shape behaviour, decision-making, and experience at work.

Participants will explore:

Organizations as social systems — and why culture is never “soft”
Human-centred HR beyond policies and compliance
Power, identity, and lived experience at work
Equity, access, and responsibility in people decisions
Culture as something created through everyday actions, not statements

By the end of this section, participants will have:
A clearer understanding of how organizational structures, norms, and decisions shape human experience — and where change is actually possible.

Teams are where people work becomes visible — and complicated. This section focuses on how humans interact in shared spaces, especially when expectations, power, and communication collide.

Participants will explore:

Communication, misunderstanding, and meaning-making
Conflict as information, not failure
Diversity of thought and decision-making
Trust, accountability, and psychological safety
What high-performing teams actually require (beyond buzzwords)

By the end of this section, participants will have:
Greater confidence navigating team dynamics, addressing tension, and supporting healthier collaboration without avoiding hard conversations.

You don’t leave your humanity at the door — and neither does anyone else. This section centres the individual as a system within systems, helping participants understand how their own patterns shape people work.

Participants will explore:

Core human needs, emotions, and stress
Identity, values, and personality in decision-making
Emotional intelligence and capacity
Mindsets, habits, and self-leadership
Awareness of ego, bias, and blind spots

By the end of this section, participants will have:
Stronger self-awareness and emotional literacy — so people decisions feel steadier, less reactive, and more grounded.

The program concludes by bringing everything together — culture, teams, and self — into a practical, usable way forward.

Participants will:

Connect intention, action, and impact in people work
Apply learning to real workplace situations
Develop a personal, usable approach to people work
Create a learning plan to carry the work forward

By the end of this section, participants will have:
A clearer, more confident way of approaching people work — grounded in awareness, responsibility, and care.

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How the Program Works

The Course is designed to support deep learning without overwhelming busy people. It combines self-paced learning with live, facilitated sessions so ideas aren’t just absorbed — they’re explored, questioned, and applied to real people work.

Online lessons
Content is delivered through short, pre-recorded lessons that are clear, visual, and focused on practical application. Each lesson introduces key concepts in human behaviour, systems, and HR work in an accessible way.

Resources & learning materials
Participants receive access to an extensive resource library, including curated open-access research papers, books, TEDx talks, and articles. Lesson summary notes and worksheets make it easy to revisit key concepts and apply them in practice.

Live learning sessions
Weekly live Zoom sessions bring the material to life. Each session includes:

a 45-minute micro-training focused on applying concepts to real people work
followed by a 45-minute Q&A and group discussion

These sessions create space to clarify ideas, work through real scenarios, and learn alongside others navigating similar challenges.

Learning rhythm
The course runs over 12 weeks, balancing structured learning with time for reflection and integration. Content unfolds in guided stages — culture → teams → self → integration — with each phase building on the last.

Application to real work
Participants are encouraged to apply learning directly to their own workplace contexts throughout the course. This is not hypothetical learning — it’s designed to support real decisions, real conversations, and real people work as it’s happening.

Access throughout the course
Participants have access to:

all recorded lessons for the duration of the course
live weekly Zoom sessions
summary notes, worksheets, and applied tools
an extensive, curated resource library
to the course facilitator, Jodi via the weekly live Q&A sessions and dedicated office hours for deeper questions and application support

Learning environment
The course is fully online and accessible from anywhere. It’s designed for professionals who value depth, reflection, and meaningful dialogue — without pressure to perform, overshare, or have everything figured out.

Participant Experience

Jodi, you did an amazing job! I can’t thank you enough. As our keynote speaker your presentation was inspiring and educational. You rock! - Anonymous Participant

I would love to participate in any other talks/workshops with Jodi, her poem and presentation were excellent. She spoke about a lot of topics that I am so interested in working on right now, both personally and professionally!
- Anonymous Participant

Wow! I had a big cry with Jodi's keynote address. Her talk, allowed me to see my North Star more clearly and more vibrant.
- Anonymous Participant

Past participant reflections speak to Jodi’s teaching and facilitation style across courses, workshops, and speaking engagements. They reflect learning experiences that are thoughtful, grounded in real work, and designed to support both reflection and practical application.

Jodi’s ability to facilitate this staff engagement session was masterful.
— Jason Knight, Team Lead

Jodi has a way of speaking that makes you feel you are having a coffee in her living room.” — Christina Cann, Program Manager

Jodi was one of the best facilitators I’ve ever had. She interacted with everyone and answered every question asked.
— Gilles Verret, Executive Director

Your training was great to have our staff engage with one another in a comfortable and fun way and I learned lots about myself and others which will help me be more strategic and effective in my leadership style.
- Monte Bromley, Detachment Commander

Attending your workshop really has me thinking in terms of setting up an ‘intentional framework’ – not just at work, but for a complete life. The parts of this framework will be composed of the dimensions of wellness, future intentions mapped out with a vision and plan to get there, and progress measured by both achievement of the plan , and the impact it has on myself, my family and my team. The Intentification graphic on your website really portraits this super accurately. Of course, self-care and the cultivation of resilience will support this framework along the way.

Responding to your question is actually the first time I’ve put all this down in writing, which is in and of itself empowering. Thank you for this opportunity, as well as having delivered such a profound session.
- Erik Lieut, Officer in Charge

Amazing! Thank you for bringing the humanity to the conference. This presentation energized me and validates how important it is to remember that we are humans being, not humans doing. This is important work! Thank you, thank you!!!
- Anonymous Participant, HR Conference 2023

Thank you for promoting emotional intelligence and acknowledgement of emotions in the work place! I love this shift and this will make work authentic and genuine for everyone. This was a very important presentation. - Anonymous Participant, HR Conference

Another great session! Jodi was very knowledgeable and engaging. Looking forward to receiving the recording so I can view again and take better notes this time!
- Anonymous Participant, HR Conference 2023