Oh what a night!

'Got up this morning feeling energized. I'm sure last night helped to boost my confidence for what I'm trying to do.'

"This event has given me the confidence boost, I needed and encouragement to continue to follow my dream and change my work life balance, thank you"

Every woman needs to spend some time like this 2 - 3 times a year to remind herself just how capable and successful she is and could be"

What a brilliant night we had! Karen and I were blown away by the astonishing success of 'What else can I do' last night. Over 50 women listened to the 'inspiring but real' stories of our panel members, asked questions and shared their own experiences of making changes at difficult or challenging times in their lives. More details of the event to follow but thank you to everyone who came.

One woman shared with us a quote that really matched the atmosphere,

We are not here to see through each other but to see each other through 

What else can I do? January 24th 7.15-9.45pm in Nottingham

Have you ever thought about what else you could do? It can be difficult to picture your experience and skills being relevant to doing something different. And given the job situation should you go for doing more of what you already know or is there something else you'd really like to do? If so, how do you make a living from it?

Whether you are worried about your work or no longer enjoying it this evening will give you chance to explore what else you could do.  Hear the stories of others who have made scary changes in their careers, ask the questions on your mind (or get Jeanne to ask them), talk to others making changes and those that can help.

• Hear the stories of others who've switched careers, moving jobs from public to private sector and vice versa, or starting their own enterprises - what did they learn, what phased them and what advice can they pass on? Fantastic lineup of career-change story-tellers - including Rob Pittam, Sarah McNichol, Sue Townsend, Netty Reddish & David Ajose - check out something of their stories below.
• Lloydie, radio presenter and improvisation expert demonstrates some ways of seeing yourself doing something different and how to convince others!
• Discover recommended books, services and people to help
• Network with other people making changes

 Tickets £25 
 Antenna, Beck St, Nottingham NG1 1EQ
Ticket price includes a drink of your choice. If you've not eaten, food from Antenna's great menu is available for purchase up to 8pm.

Book online or send cheque payable to Jeanne Booth Ltd, 32 Station Rd, Borrowash, Derby DE72 3LG

Who's telling their career stories at What else can I do?

Sarah McNichol is the Head of Antenna and a full time employee of Confetti Media Group. Sarah had never had a “proper job” until 2008. For 15 years she experienced fun, challenge, risk, satisfaction, hard work and success running her own creative businesses.

In 2008 life events required Sarah to make a radical change of direction and she moved into the public sector. Equipped with entrepreneurial experience and personal development expertise but no experience of life inside a large organisation she learned a lot about how to navigate big changes and find a new direction.

Sarah will share some of this story and some recommended approaches for managing change.

Rob Pittam was a BBC journalist for ten years before deciding to spend more time with his family. His job as a Business Correspondent, was to cover industry and business stories for Working Lunch. He also appeared on Breakfast News, The News Channel and 5-Live. He left after realising that he’d visited a pub in Bristol more times than he’d been to the local at the end of his street. He set up his own company in April last year, Robin Hood Media, specialising in PR, film-making and media training. His family, and the pub, are grateful!

Rob will be sharing the highs and lows of leaving a large corporation and going it alone.

Netty Reddish was a design technology teacher for 7 years, four as head of department in an inner city high school.  Realising she was doing less of what she loved  - teaching - she did an MA in Metalwork and Jewellery at Sheffield Hallam University with a view to doing community projects. Then she won the university Enterprise Challenge beating 88 other companies and the 'Design and Make Bus' was born! Now delivering projects in wood, metal, fabrics and plastics in schools across Derbyshire, Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire, developing as an artist and creating fabulous point of sale for independent  retailers. Netty helps answer that question -' What else can teachers do?'

Sue Townsend is Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of Nottingham. She teaches and researches in modern Japanese history, has published two research monographs, including Miki Kiyoshi 1897-1945: Japan’s Itinerant Philosopher (Brill, Leiden: 2009) and was recently awarded a three-year Leverhulme Trust Grant to conduct a project entitled Automobility and the Urban Environment in Nagoya and Birmingham c. 1955-1973. However, Sue was one of those who failed her 11+ and just started higher education in 1986 after 4 years serving in the WRNS and 8 years driving buses in the south of England!

David Ajose is founder and CEO of Exeid .com.  David describes his business as a full service commercial property consultancy with a twist. David started his working life selling strawberries  before the age of 10  and his career has taken him  in a number of alternative directions ranging from the entertainment business through to recruitment consultancy and sales and marketing consultancy. More recently David has focused his energies on his new brand which has seen consistent growth during a period when all measure of the sector show rapid decline. Best piece of advice from David regarding careers?  “Make work your play, and you’ll never work another day”.

Special guest - Lloydie is going to demonstrate some ways of seeing yourself doing something different and convincing others too! Lloydie has16 years in broadcasting as a presenter and manager.  He's an NLP Trainer and Master Practitioner as well as a hypnotist.  He performs with Nottingham's improvised comedy troupe MissImp at The Glee Club, Nottingham and was recently improvising at the Edinburgh Fringe.  He enjoys helping people to communicate with more precision so that they can get more out of their lives. www.lloydie.net/  email @lloydie.net   Click here to check out MissImp's next show 



Book online  or send cheque payable to Jeanne Booth Ltd, 32 Station Rd, Borrowash, Derby DE72 3LG

People to talk to at What Else Can I Do? 24th January

Ideas4careers provides a high quality career advice and guidance service delivered by professionally trained and experienced careers guidance practitioners, members of The Institute of Career Guidance.

For more detailed information call Michelle on 07717 360114 or email  michelle@ideas4careers.co.uk

Their services include:

·         Career Advice and Guidance

·         Employability Skills Training

·         Redundancy Solutions

·         Personal Branding/Self-Marketing

·         Life Changes & Career Coaching

·         Interview Skills Training

Deborah Labbate started her first business in 1980, selling it in 1993 to concentrate on being mum to her twin boys and expand her experience in other areas. In 1996 she became a Partner in a specialist vehicle refinishing business then set up Star Coaching in 2006.  Driven by her passion for seeing people grow and their businesses thrive,  Deborah combines empathy and practical experience working with individuals looking to start their own business or switch careers as well as working with established business owners and professionals in the private and public sectors.
http://www.starcoaching.co.uk/               http://uk.linkedin.com/in/deborahlabbatestar

Sarah Dale is a chartered occupational psychologist and coach who works with people and organisations facing uncertainty and change. As author of Keeping Your Spirits Up and a blog on the theme of middle-age, she is particularly interested in day to day mental health and resilience. She has a business background as a chartered accountant with PricewaterhouseCoopers and has experienced career change first hand. You can see more on her website, www.creatingfocus.org or follow her on twitter on @creatingfocus.

Leonie has been a web designer and developer for over 11 years.  She has worked in universities, the private sector, public sector and back again.  Running her own business Line and Form (http://www.lineandform.co.uk/ ) has meant a definite change of pace. As she says,"Becoming your own boss is a challenge but the ability to be more flexible and choose projects for the challenge not just for the financial rewards has made it worthwhile." Line and Form handles everything from traditional website development, to 'group' or 'one on one'  training  in social media and the general  IT skills needed to make your on-line business a success.

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