Meet our members


Members constantly tell us that meeting talented, like minded people is an unexpected bonus of membership. Each guided workshop will allow you to build your network whilst you explore your future career options.

Member outcomes 9-12 months after joining:

Over 30% negotiate changes to their work: e.g. moving to a new department or role
Nearly 20% make a total career change: different job, different sector
Over 25% secure a similar job in a different sector
Around 20% make no change for varied reasons


The make up of our members:

Over 80% join for 'positive' reasons: curiosity, a desire to explore their options and wanting to meet new people
- 40% work full-time
- 20% contract or work part-time
- 18% are actively looking
- 14% are entrepreneurs
- Over 90% have a higher education qualification
- Many have Masters, PhD's, MBAs or chartered professional status

- 40% are men
- 60% are women

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Our Brave Starters

These are just a few of our awesome members who have been through our programmes and found what their next steps can be with the support our community!

Debbie Johnson

After a 40 year career as an account and sales manager for large brands, such as Reebok Debbie retired. Finding retirement wasn't what it was all cracked up to be and wanting to be part of something she believed in, we helped connect her with a sector she found interesting (coaching and well being). She joined a small consultancy and last year brought in their largest account! Skills are indeed transferable :) Listen to Debbie tell you her story.

Debbie Johnson
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Rachel Smith

When we started working with Rachel, she'd done a variety of business analyst jobs across a range of financial services businesses. She wanted a change but recruiters kept pigeon holing her – none wanted to help her 'shift' into something new. We worked with her to help her realise she loved the technical, specialist side of work and was really open minded to learning and was happy to do coding courses. She's now a technical analyst at Pepper Financial Group and if you watch this video you'll see for yourself her happiness is palpable. She had to sell herself and convince them she was the asset they needed which is something we're usually pretty good at helping people do!

Rachel Smith
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Alan Mason

Alan was a board director at Ricoh Danka and spent time in consulting before retiring and moving to Spain. After a few years Alan was bored. He thrives on work. Hear how his life has changed.

Alan Mason
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Dimitri Van Kakum

Dimitri spent years as Head of IT at places like Deutsche Bank and other brands in the corporate sector. He thought he wanted a complete change of career – but after our programme changed his mind. He realised he was still interested in the IT world and realised if he wanted to make a difference and do something he felt was more meaningful, he'd have to do it in the same sector. He now works in a hospice as Head of IT. A small team and his ability to save the organisation lots of money whilst making productivity improvements has meant they have the money now to hire 2 more nurses.

Dimitri Van Kakum
's story