What is the Visible Start Programme?
Visible Start is the ONLY online programme created by and for midlife women.
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Bespoke Solutions or Custom Solutions
We tailor our training programmes to your business needs to help you attract, retain, and upskill your talent.
The programmes are supported by our bespoke platform with an active and growing community of over 2000 midlife professional women.
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A Proven Talent Pipeline
We connect businesses with motivated midlife women through our professional network and curated social media.
Access to our pipeline for a full year means you gain access to experienced, adaptable, and focused talent with up-to-date skills.
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Seamless Integration
From the outset, the Visible Start team is committed to supporting you. We work alongside your Talent/HR Director and provide regular updates for the CPO progress reports beyond the Programme. This ensures that key insights and practices are fully embedded and sustained.
At the same time, our onboarding programmes include custom workshops for your HR team, talent managers, and leadership to ensure the midlife talent integrates quickly and effectively into your organisation.
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Everything you need
We handle the full life-cycle of the programme – from briefing and training to mentoring and onboarding, so you don’t have to. This means, for example, that any members of your current team that volunteer to lead a session have a time commitment of up to 3 hours during the programme.
In return, those volunteers benefit from being engaged and invested in a key aspect of the programme, and your DEI strategy and feel a strong sense of pride in their contribution. Overall, this is a great way to increase brand loyalty and employee retention in your current staff.
Midlife women are ready to start the next chapter in their careers.
The Visible Start Programme redefines how midlife women view their skillset and experience. They gain a fresh perspective on their strengths and learn how to transfer them across roles and whole sectors.
It helps them understand that they don’t need to start on the bottom rung again. They gain new insight into how their experience and abilities allow them to climb the ladder in their current field, or pivot their entire career.
The Visible Start Programme develops confidence and enables midlife women to advocate boldly for themselves and their value to an organisation
Online upskilling and mentoring sessions led by industry experts, independent subject specialists and our very own highly experienced Visible Start team.
A supportive online community of over 2000 midlife women, all on their own journey back into the workforce, learning together.
The Visible Start Platform:
A Growing, Dynamic Network of Midlife Women
20,000+ engagements
Our secure online platform houses all programme content: modules, live and recorded sessions. With over 20,000+ engagements, it is the foundation of a vibrant community of professional midlife women. This is where the midlife women learn, upskill, connect, and mentor each other. Regardless of location or career stage.
Bridging the gap
Visible Start bridges the gap for women ready to step up once again in the workforce with:
- The confidence to understand and own their professional value beyond the challenges of gendered ageism.
- Skills such as interview technique, CV writing, AI.
- Supportive network of the Visible Start sisterhood and mentors.
- Career clarity and motivation in times of uncertainty.
Sample Programme, Skills and Techniques: What You’ll Learn
Our Core Sessions: Module 1
Understanding Your Transferable Skills
A key session to help you identify and understand the many and varied workplace-ready skills you already possess and how they can cross over into a new role or industry.
Using and integrating AI
A session to break down how AI is being used in the workplace and how this will continue to advance. You’ll learn about the applications of AI and how to integrate this tool seamlessly into your work.
CV Workshop
Just like the workplace, CVs have changed. To present your skills, experience and knowledge effectively you need a whole new approach.
Technical Skills Training such as MS Excel
Excel has always been a critical workplace skill and it is easy to feel left behind when systems move at pace. This session, powered by Microsoft, closes the digital skills gap by giving women the practical know-how they need.
Brand Me
Like it or not, personal branding is a key career tool. This workshop helps midlife women identify their strengths, values, and unique contribution. It teaches them how to use that knowledge to show up in front of the right people.
Our Core Sessions: Module 2
Unmasked – Imposter Syndrome
We reframe the term Imposter Syndrome into what it is: a phenomenon that causes women to doubt themselves. This session develops the tools to overcome self-doubt and helps midlife women to thrive in a way that is authentic and productive.
Confidence Building & Life Coaching
With only 5% of people believing they reach their true potential at work, and that figure being higher for midlife women, this workshop breaks down internal barriers and grows confidence. It helps women re-enter the workforce ready and able to perform at their very best.
Growth Mindset
We can all develop a growth mindset, but many of us feel that the way we approach life, and work, is set in stone. This workshop shows how a growth mindset builds resilience, adaptability, and innovation and teaches how to develop a growth mindset regardless of starting point.
Allyship and Inclusion
The world is changing fast, and understanding privilege, microaggressions, and allyship is vital to a successful return to the workforce. This key session opens the conversation and leads to a greater level of empathy and understanding of those around us.
Reframing Limiting Beliefs
We all have doubts. For some people, often women, the doubts and self-talk can be limiting to the point of stifling their skills and talents. This session teaches useful strategies to silence those doubts before they take hold.
Mental Wellbeing Continuum
Mental health is about everyday resilience. This session introduces tools to maintain balance while working and how to support mental health for the long term.
Return With Balance
Going back to work after leave of any length can be challenging. This popular session offers tools and peer support to help smooth the transition, ensuring that your return to the workforce is enjoyable and sustainable.
Our Core Sessions: Module 3
Power Hour Sessions
We invite midlife women from all business sectors to share insights into their journey and career path in a Power Hour. This key session is a powerful source of inspiration for the midlife women on the Programme.
LinkedIn Profile Optimisation
We have links at LinkedIn and we know how to use them! Our friends at Linkedin lead this session showing how to get the best from your own profile on this essential platform in a way that is authentic and manageable.
Smartworks
Looking the part is vital as midlife women return to the workforce. Through free interview coaching and high-quality, brand new professional clothing, Smart Works is transformational for confidence and job prospects.
Debate Mate
Debating sharpens communication and persuasion skills. This session develops those vital skills in a safe environment, allowing the midlife women to articulate their value and influence multi-generational teams with ease.
Our Core Sessions: Module 4 Tailored to the Programme Sponsor
Industry-Specific Training
Programme sponsors lead sessions offering training and sharing insights into their own industry. This provides a great opportunity for midlife women to appreciate the advantage of understanding how their skills can be translated to a whole new sector.
Speed Networking
Your network is a key to your success but who has time to squeeze in traditional networking? Our speed networking session builds connections between programme sponsors and participants to create value and opportunities for everyone.
Mock Interviews
When was the last time you sat through an interview? We facilitate real-time interviews and share invaluable feedback with you to prepare you for success in the job market.
The Visible Start Community and Platform
What Makes Visible Start Different?
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The Visible Start Platform
The Visible Start Platform was created to provide one single, private place for our Community to come together. All resources – such as recorded sessions, chats and opportunities are shared within the Platform.
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The Visible Start Community
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The Visible Start Programme
Here’s what our midlife women say….
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The workforce is calling you. We are here to help and support you find your rightful place in it.
Join us, because the best work of your life is in front of you.
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LEARN MOREJoin The Visible Start Online Platform
When you join the Visible Start Community, you’ll gain access to the Visible Start Platform where everything happens!
Access on any device
Support and Programme content whenever you need it. For life.
You can access the Visible Start Platform on any device.
It means you can join the conversation at home, at work, or even in the stationery cupboard if you need an emergency fix.
Expert moderation
We are on hand to help you get the most from the Community and Platform.
The founders of Visible Start Ltd, Jacquie, Sonia and Maria, are on hand to guide and support you on the platform.
If you have any questions, or need a quick eye over your CV, just ask.
Always a safe space
We all need somewhere to let it all hang out – this is your place.
We decide who gets to join the Community. It means you have a space just for you and people like you.
Big Brother will never be lurking in the Visible Start Community or Platform.
Visible Start shapes the conversation
The Visible Start Programme has been making headlines for years.
From our groundbreaking partnership with WPP to supporting the careers of hundreds of professional midlife women, the story is one of impact, humanity, and crucially, success.
Here’s how we continue to shape the conversation around midlife women powering the workforce.
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