HR done different.
Whether you’re building HR from the ground up, energising an internal team, or scaling across continents, Natalie offers three practical ways to get the HR your business actually needs.
Meet Natalie Cairns on a mission to shake up outdated HR
With her proven P.L.A.Y. Formula, she delivers practical, people-first strategies that drive real business results.
No corporate fluff, just powerful insights that reconnect HR with its human heart.
HR for HR Subscription
Like Spotify Premium – but for your HR.
Startups, scale-ups and SMEs: you wouldn’t settle for ads and limited skips on your playlist — so why settle for limited, under-resourced HR?
Natalie’s subscription model gives you on-demand HR expertise without the full-time cost. High-quality support, ready when you are.
What's Included:
🚀 On-demand HR expertise – when you need it most
📞 1 hour of monthly coaching – ideal for upskilling your in-house HR or leaders
📂 Proven HR frameworks – designed to grow business, not just file paperwork
We start the journey with checking your organisational health, we identify the risks and areas to focus on and use that as our foundation.
Why It Works:
✅ Avoid costly mistakes, like poor hires or legal claims
✅ Boost team performance, engagement, and culture
✅ Get expert-level guidance for a fraction of the cost
Perfect for: Startups, Scale-Ups, and SMEs
The P.L.A.Y. Formula™
An eLearning programme for HR professionals who are ready to move from the bench to the pitch.
This isn’t about law, compliance, or governance. There are no geographical boundaries here — no jurisdiction-specific rules, no regional legislation, no country-by-country caveats.
The P.L.A.Y. Formula is built around the one thing no automation can replace: the judgement, credibility, and commercial confidence of the HR professional in the room.
Level 1: From the Bench to the Pitch
This is where it starts.
Not with theory. Not with a certificate to frame on your wall. With a genuine shift in how you think, how you show up, and how the business experiences you as an HR professional.
The P.L.A.Y. Formula Level 1 is a self-paced eLearning programme built for HR professionals who are a few years into their career and already doing work that matters but still waiting for the room to notice. It is not a law course and it does not teach compliance, governance, or jurisdiction-specific legislation. There are no geographical boundaries, no regional caveats, no small print that only applies in certain countries.
What it does teach is the how. How to lead with people without losing the business. How to use the data you already have to build real influence. How to shape culture on purpose. How to make your impact impossible to overlook.
Five modules.
Self-paced.
Delivered in English, with Arabic coming soon.
CPD accreditation pending.
This is the foundation. Everything else is built on it
🟨 P – Put People before Policy
Most HR professionals were never taught the difference between applying a rule and making a judgment call. This module is where that changes. You’ll learn how to move from default-to-policy thinking to genuine people-first decision making how to read a situation, weigh individual context against business need, and influence the outcome without losing structure or consistency. Not softer HR. Smarter HR.
🟩 L – Leverage Data, Not Drama
You’re already sitting on data you’re not fully using. This module teaches you how to find the story inside your HR numbers leave patterns, tenure trends, headcount gaps and turn that story into something leadership actually listens to. You’ll also be asked a question most HR professionals have never been asked directly: do you understand where your business makes its money and what it costs to run? Not a finance lesson. A commercial awareness check that changes how you show up in every meeting that matters.
🟧 A – Activate Culture by Breaking the Mould
Culture isn’t a values poster. It’s what people do when nobody’s watching. This module shifts you from thinking HR owns culture, it doesn’t to understanding your real role as its custodian. You’ll learn to spot where culture is drifting, how to challenge misalignment between what the business says it values and what it actually tolerates, and how to shape the environment deliberately rather than by accident.
🟦 Y – Yield Commercial Wins, Not Compliance Ticks
HR that can only speak in process will always be overlooked. This module teaches you how to translate your work into business language how to connect what you do every day to what the business actually cares about: performance, cost, risk, and growth. The difference between an HR professional who gets a seat at the table and one who’s still waiting to be invited in is rarely about knowledge. It’s about how they communicate what they know.
Delivered in English. Arabic coming soon.
CPD accreditation pending.
HR Consultancy
Big business, bold change.
Natalie brings global HR experience and a strategic lens to your toughest challenges — no generic playbooks, just real, workable solutions.
For large corporates needing an experienced hand with:
🧩 Restructures & organisational redesign
📈 Global scaling & transformation
🔄 Change management with a human heart
Perfect for: Corporates needing high-level HR transformation
Unstressable ⚠️
Natalie works with Mo Gawdat & Alice Law, Authors of Unstressable. Together they have brought Unstressable to the workplace. A mix of in-person and online workshops and a leadership series that dives deep into the current challenges in leadership and ultimately being under-pinned by a deep level of understanding the stress machinery and how stress can work for you and not against you.
Mo Gawdat is an entrepreneur, the former Chief Business Officer of Google and the bestselling author of Solve for Happy, Scary Smart, That Little Voice in Your Head and Unstressable. Mo has co-founded more than twenty businesses in fields such as health and fitness, food & beverage, and real estate. He served as a board member in several technology, health and fitness and consumer goods companies as well as several government technology and innovation boards in the Middle East and Eastern Europe.
More About Us:
Mo Gawdat is an entrepreneur, the former Chief Business Officer of Google and the bestselling author of Solve for Happy, Scary Smart, That Little Voice in Your Head and Unstressable. Mo has co-founded more than twenty businesses in fields such as health and fitness, food & beverage, and real estate. He served as a board member in several technology, health and fitness and consumer goods companies as well as several government technology and innovation boards in the Middle East and Eastern Europe.
In recent years has worked with META, Abu Dhabi Government, Microsoft, Goldman Sachs, Saudi Aramco, Coca, Cola, HSBC and many more.
Alice Law is a Stress Management Consultant, Sunday Times Bestselling Author, Speaker, Reiki Master and host of the podcast Unstressable with Alice Law. She has worked internationally with a multitude of private clients and large organisations, helping them to both manage and prevent stress, so that they can reach their greatest potential. Working with clients such as, Fidelity Investments, The Bvlgari Hotels, Richard Mille, META, Coutts and The British Embassy, Washington.
Together they co-founded Unstressable LLC, which aims to take 1 million people a year out of stress, through their online membership platform, corporate speaking engagements and their bestselling book Unstressable.
See the difference real HR makes in your bottom line
Her early career commenced in finance, then to operations before finding her ‘home’ in HR, where she has been for the last 20 years.
AVAILABLE FOR:
- In-office Sessions
- Organisation-wide talks
- Keynotes
- Online Workshops
- Conferences