Jess Kyle is the founder of Human First, a Tulsa-based practice built on a simple but radical premise: that the way people treat each other at work actually matters — and that most organizations are failing at it.Jess started Human First after years of watchig companies espouse values they had no intention of living. The gap between what leaders said and how they acted wasn’t a communication problem — it was a character problem. She built Human First to address both.
At the center of her work is Say the Hard Things, a framework that goes far beyond difficult
conversations. It’s a practical method for the full range of things women in leadership are taught to avoid: setting boundaries without apology, advocating for themselves without shrinking, accepting where they are without performing certainty they don’t feel, and speaking with the kind of directness that gets mistaken for aggression when women do it.
Jess came to this work from a background in data engineering — she thinks in systems, not platitudes. Her workshops and coaching are concrete, specific, and built for leaders who are done with advice that sounds good but changes nothing. Her newsletter, The Front Porch, reaches professionals who are building work lives that don’t require them to leave half of themselves at the door.
Jess lives in Tulsa, OK with her husband, two amazing teenagers, and two cats.
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