Career Change and Re-training
A practical, fun and inspiring workshop designed to help you through those first key steps of changing careers and make a realistic action plan.
Are you ready for something else?
Looking to find the job that works for you and your family?
Then this workshop is for you. As actually we meet lots of working mums who are exactly at that stage. In fact women find they re-invent themselves several times throughout their careers.
In our experience it’s not easy to come up with something new and change direction. It really does help to stop, think, and get some outside input to help you take that next step.
This workshop will let you be inspired, learn about your passion and help you through those first mental steps to just go for it!
What you will get out of the workshop
- Clear and structured overview of your options
- Know your own drivers for changing careers
- New insights and inspiration on your own passions
- Motivation/Drive/Inspiration to go for it!
- Real insights on what it’s like to go back-to-school and formal learning and find out if it’s for you
- Learn about other ways of developing new skills
- Know if starting your own business or going free-lance is an option for you
What we will cover in the workshop
- What makes it different for mums
- Motivations for changing career
- How to find your passion or ideal career
- Returning to university and formal learning
- Tips and ideas for making studying work around children
- What does it take to start your own business or go free-lance
- The killer idea for a new business
- Making money from your own business
What the workshop will be like
You will find a mix of speakers and interactive activity. A key feature of the evening is to get the opportunity to meet, share and learn from other mums.
Who the workshop is for
Especially suitable for full-time working mums looking for more flexibility, mums returning to work after maternity leave and mums returning to work after a career gap.
Great speakers, professional working mums, selected for you
All speakers have changed careers themselves, sometimes several times, and most of them are professional working mums. They are selected for their experience with working mums, and a great belief in mums’ capabilities to re-invent themselves.
Liz Lugt – Liz is a passionate and inspiring speaker, trainer and mentor. She is passionate about helping people transform their lives. In her talks she not only inspires people to fulfil their potential but empowers them with the necessary tools to do so and live life to the full. Her ability to communicate in a clear, understandable and highly engaging and entertaining manner, keeps her audiences captured throughout her talks. She likes to draw from her own experiences as a Chartered Accountant, a businesswoman and mum.
Wendy Kerr, Corporate Crossovers - Wendy is an experienced business coach and mentor, who is known for being inspiring, motivating, yet realistic. If you have left your job and set up your business or are on the verge of leaving corporate to be self-employed, she’s the one who loves helping you thrive. She bases her talks and coaching on her own experience of slowly building a business, to accelerating and finding the ways that helped her make it work. She certainly did make it work as her business now is a successful six-figure enterprise! In addition she brings a wealth of general management marketing experience from working with famous brands; Colgate Toothpaste, Smirnoff Vodka, Tia Maria, Quicken and Apple. She is also a mother and works from home.
Inge Woudstra – Inge is a working mums expert, qualified facilitator and experienced tutor. She is also the founding director of Mum & Career. She is passionate about showing women combining career and children can be done. In her talks she mixes research, statistics and real-life stories skilfully to create awareness of ’the mums dilemma’. As a mum she has worked part-time, full-time and also stayed at home. She has a background in consulting / research in leadership, change management and Corporate Responsibility.Recommendations for Mum & Career Workshops
“Attending the workshop on Career Change and Re-training has given me the drive to start researching a business start-up, as I had previously been to worried/ unsure about doing this. Small steps, but at least I’m doing something about it rather than always talking about wanting to make a change.”
“A very well-targeted event with great and approachable speakers. I gained a lot of confidence, focus and motivation.”
“It was a fantastic event! I realised I am not the only person to feel the way I do.”
“Listening to other people made me start to clarify my own position and feelings about my position as a mum returning to work.”
“I really liked the variety of speakers, it helped me think about my own situation in new ways.”
“All speakers were engaging and inspiring. I gained lots of practical information too.”
Workshop details
Date: TBD
Venue: Richmond/ Twickenham
Price: £25,- coffee, tea and biscuits included, drinks available from the bar
For more information just e-mail: ingewoudstra@mumandcareer.co.uk
