Energising your people to tackle career challenges, tailored to your organisation
“About your masterclass for the Women in Banking & Finance Personal Excellence Programme, the team here at WIBF and the sponsors at Lloyds Banking Group all agreed it was excellent. The way Jessica dealt with all the questions was brilliant. Her knowledge on the subject is astounding!”
Emily Smith, Chief of Staff, Tesco Bank
What is it?
Are you an HR/Talent/L&D professional seeking external expertise to fortify and uplift a group of colleagues at a pivotal career moment?
Or perhaps you are a Chair, Co-Chair or Executive Sponsor of an employee resource group seeking an energising session to support your members on a pressing challenge? (Sidenote: good on you for doing this role off the side of your desk, alongside your day job. We applaud you).
Our seven ready-to-go masterclasses, designed by a chartered coaching psychologist, will leave your people feeling upbeat, hopeful and resourced to take meaningful action. The masterclasses bring to life the insights and practical tips our executive coachees routinely take from 1:1 time.
Each is structured in the same way: 35-40 minutes of content and 15-20 minutes for questions and discussion with five minutes wiggle room.
Where we have delivered Masterclasses
Comeback
How to make a smooth return from a break (maternity, illness, parental leave) and be confident, connected and making a valued contribution ASAP.
By the end of the session participants will:
Understand the common emotional and practical challenges that come with returning from a break (and know you’re not alone in facing them).
Feel equipped with simple strategies to rebuild your confidence, recognise your strengths, and reconnect with your professional identity.
Leave with a clear plan to re-establish relationships and visibility with your manager, team, and wider network.
Know how to set priorities and boundaries that protect your energy and help you ease back in smoothly.
Need something now?
Dig into our huge library of COMEBACK COACH podcast episodes on returning to work.
Pace
How to manage your energy (as a working parent) and how line managers can support productivity without burnout.
By the end of the session participants will:
Understand how energy, not just time, drives sustainable performance and what this means for individuals balancing work and caregiving, as well as for managers shaping team expectations.
Be able to identify the thoughts and beliefs that get in the way of focussing on things that matter the most at work and at home.
Leave knowing the important role self-care and self-compassion play in sustainable success and why ‘running your own race’ and noticing what’s going well will fuel your performance.
Have evidence-based strategies to manage energy throughout the working day and week, helping both individuals to stay effective and managers to create conditions for sustained output.
Visible
How to increase your visibility and accelerate your career when you’re caring for others and/or working part-time.
By the end of the session participants will:
Understand what visibility really means in today’s hybrid workplace and why it’s essential for career progression, especially when you’re not always “in the room.”
Know the subtle visibility barriers that can hold back professionals who work flexibly or have caring responsibilities and how to overcome them confidently.
Have practical, time-efficient strategies to stay on the radar of key decision-makers, showcase your impact, and build your professional presence authentically.
Gained ideas on how to advocate for yourself and your ambitions without feeling awkward or icky and be ready to make a plan on how to progress without burning out or compromising what matters most.
Rising
How to work out what you want next and have better conversations with your boss about career progression.
By the of the session participants will:
Have a series of tools and approaches for how to work out what you want in your career and define what progression means for you (even when a formal promotion isn’t on the horizon).
Know how to recognise internal and external barriers that can make it harder to explore next steps – such as self-doubt or lack of visible pathways – and learn practical ways to navigate them.
Feel more confident in how to articulate your aspirations, strengths and potential, so you can have proactive career conversations that go beyond job titles and focus on growth, stretch and impact.
Promoted
How to handle self-doubt, reduce overwhelm and navigate relationships with new peers when you’re promoted.
By the end of the session participants will:
Understand the psychology of transition: what happens when you step into a new role and why feelings of self-doubt or “impostor” thoughts are a normal part of growth.
Have practical strategies to manage self-doubt and reduce overwhelm, so you can stay grounded and focused as you adjust to new responsibilities (and let go of old ones).
Feel equipped to build credibility and trust early, balancing confidence with humility as you establish yourself in your new position.
How to have decent conversations about sharing the domestic load and develop better dynamics at home so two careers can flourish under one roof.
By the end of the session participants will:
Feel lighter and less responsible for the sticky situation you might be in at home – and know that change is possible however deep or ingrained you think things are.
Be more aware of the beliefs, assumptions and habits that may be shaping how domestic and caring responsibilities are shared in your household.
Have practical frameworks and conversation tools to initiate constructive, fair discussions about household load-sharing without blame or conflict.
Be resourced with easy-to-implement tips to create more balanced, sustainable dynamics at home, so that both partners can thrive personally and professionally.
Need something now?
Read chapter three (“See your family as a team”) of Mothers Work! and listen to episodes 36, 51 and 81 of COMEBACK COACH to hear how real couples are navigating the load-share.
Neurocarer
How to keep your health, your relationships and career together when you’re raising a neurodivergent child.
At the end of this session participants will have:
Effective communication strategies for conversations with your employer about the additional challenges you are carrying at home.
Ideas for having better, calmer, more productive conversations with your partner and how to keep or re-find the connection the two of you had before parenting took over.
Been reminded of the best evidence-based self-care practices to maintain physical and mental well-being – and how to make them happen (because your health is the foundation for everything else).
Tips for creating space for your own growth and aspirations so you can keep your career moving (at your own pace) alongside delivering at work and at home.
Investment
From £1350 + VAT.
We’ll work with you to make the masterclass a success.
Our standard fee is for remote delivery and includes the following once the booking has been made:
A short briefing call (30 minutes) to get aligned on your aims for the session, success outcomes and nuances you want us to be aware of. We’ll send you a short document to complete before the session to capture everything that’s important to you.
Blurb about the session and graphic to use on your intranet and in other internal comms channels.
Our best practice guide for organisers – a single page of tips for how to promote the session; energise your people to participate (including the hard-to-reach colleagues); what to avoid and how to maximise impact before and after the session.
Recording of the session (we ask you to provide the online platform for the session and take responsibility for recording).
One page pdf summarising the key learning points from the session for circulating among participants.
Optional extras
Our masterclasses can be tailored for a perfect fit
Optional tailoring we deliver for clients. Separate fees apply:
In-person engagement – when it’s important to be together in a shared space.
Go long – extend the session to create space for deeper discussion and richer reflections.
Deep dive before delivery – an extended briefing session to understand the needs of the group, your aims for the session, organisational sensitivities and anything else you want us to be aware of.
Tailored content – weaving in fresh content that speaks to strategic goals and aligns with your people agenda or connects with a senior audience.
Fortify specific colleagues who need a little more
Masterclasses with 1:1s for deeper, tailored support
For extra value and impact make the masterclass part of a whole day with one of our team, where eight colleagues who need or would like some additional support on the topic at hand can have a 25 minute 1:1.
How it works
If we are delivering the masterclass in-person we will ask you to book a room that can be used all day for the 1:1s. Even when we are on site, the 1:1s can be taken as phone calls to cater for colleagues in different locations or who prefer to talk remotely rather than in person. We will send a booking link for you to circulate among your colleagues to choose their slot. When working on site we typically run 1:1s from 9.30am, host the masterclass at lunchtime and finish by 5pm – or start the day with the masterclass and run the eight 1:1s afterwards.
If we are delivering the masterclass remotely we will send a booking link for your colleagues to choose their slot between 8am and 6pm, giving lots of flexibility to suit different time zones and working patterns.
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