Recruitment, HR & training — for people with places to be
Training that doesn't make you want to stare at the exit sign.
HUMN helps organizations build stronger teams: recruitment, HR outsourcing, and training that treats grown adults like grown adults. Real problems, real conversation, zero slide-reading — and it all starts by sitting down with you.
Built for founders, HR teams, people ops and hiring managers who've sat through one too many "synergy" sessions and are done pretending.
- Coffee, chaos & an honest check-in
- Feedback without the cringe — the starter
- Break (snacks, not slide-buffering)
- The conversation you've been avoiding — rehearsed live
- Lunch. No networking bingo, we promise
- Your actual current mess, workshopped
- The Monday plan — written, owned, real
Zero slides were harmed
The manifesto
We've officially declared war on soul-crushing corporate HR workshops. You know the ones: the endurance tests where everyone silently rehearses their exit.
We think professional growth should feel like it was designed for actual humans. So we built HUMN on a simple swap: take the content that matters, drop the corporate theatre, and run it like real people are in the room.
You're an adult.
We run sessions like it. No participation trophies, no trust falls, no dumbing things down.
Monday is the test.
If a skill can't survive the real work week, it doesn't make the agenda. Full stop.
Energy is a tool.
People retain more when they aren't fighting to stay awake. That's science, not spin.
HUMN People, but better.
Why it doesn't suck
Three reasons people stay awake and actually learn.
We're not going to pretend training is easy. We just refuse to make it boring.
- 01
Zero monotone slide-readers, ever.
Your facilitator is chosen because they can read a room, hold attention, and take a joke. If they can't keep you awake and thinking, they don't get to run a session.
- 02
Rooted in your actual workplace chaos.
No abstract theories that look great in a textbook and are useless by Monday. We build from the mess you're actually living in: your cases, your conflicts, your culture.
- 03
Interactive, and slightly unhinged (in a good way).
Shockingly, people retain information better when they aren't dying of boredom. Expect to talk, practice, mess up, and laugh at yourself. That's the point.
Side by side
Suffered through vs. actually useful.
Your average workshop
A HUMN session
- The delivery
A slide deck read aloud for three hours
Zero decks. Live, messy, real.
- The theory
Textbook models nobody asked for
Your actual workplace chaos
- The energy
Praying for the fire alarm
Awake, talking, occasionally laughing
- The takeaway
A certificate you'll lose
Skills you use on Monday morning
- You
Pinching yourself to stay awake
Present, because it's worth it
What we do
Three ways we fix the people side of your business.
From one great hire to running your whole HR function to training the team you've got. It all starts the same way: we sit down with you first.
A message from the founder
“We actually sit with you before doing anything, which apparently counts as revolutionary in this industry.”
Hi, I'm the founder of HUMN, and I'd like to formally apologize for every terrible training session, ghosted job application, and HR nightmare you've experienced before finding us.
So we built something better. We actually sit with you before doing anything, which apparently counts as revolutionary in this industry. We find people who fit, not just people who applied first. We train teams in ways that don't make them check the clock every four minutes. And we'll happily take your entire HR headache off your hands if you ask nicely.
Founder, HUMN— professionally serious, occasionally not
Next step
Let's fix your HR & training.
Drop us a note before your team falls asleep standing up. A real human replies within one business day, and no, we don't have a drip campaign.