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Helping employees plan their career future


The one thing most employees want and value is a chance to think about and plan their career future.

With fast changing developments in AI, rising national insurance and a shifting age demographic organisations which support employees to consider their future career options and who help with re-skilling or retraining will attract and retain those who are the most ambitious and capable.

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Our supporters and trusted partners:
Winners of the 2022 Community Award awarded by the ILC
As featured in multiple publications and parliament:
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Why Us?


- Over 1,000 + professionals actively engaging with change supported
- Proof of evidence-based impact, (not tick-box training)
- 100% of fees reinvested in our non-profit work. If being socially responsible is a driver, we are your partner of choice.
- Trusted by policymakers, including UK Parliament and the OECD
- Specialist understanding of the specific challenges facing an ageing workforce
- The assurance of integrity: without shareholders or investors to please we focus on what will work - not what we can 'sell'.

How can we help?

Attract

We can help you reach an audience and promote job opportunities

From £0  

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- Come and chat to our members about roles you are recruiting for
- Test out ideas and potential value propositions
- Create assets for you tube, social media and other channels. Bring your personality and culture to the table.
To clarify: we don't offer a recruitment service. We can channel people towards your recruitment provider. If you do hire any of our members? Make a donation!

Engage

Career development; career change; career transition. You name it, we are the experts.

From £89 per person

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- Developing skills for longer career paths and the future of work
- Masterclasses on all employability skills
- Support for managers to support and ageing workforce
- Senior level coaching and preparing for next steps

Outplacementt

Traditional outplacement beige, boring, expensive and outdated. We offer better value and impact.

From £89 per person

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- Support with pathways to NED, business start up, consultancy and portfolio careers, sweat equity - and more.
- Access to a community of other professionals
- A structured and proven programme of support
- Workforce strategy guidance and advice.
- Opportunities to develop skills in grant award winning charities.


Talk to our community

By engaging with us, you gain access to a wealth of knowledge, enabling you to tap into the unique perspectives of those in our community. If you have specific questions that you’d like to ask or ideas you'd like to test, come and meet us!

Organisations we've partnered with

Our supporters provide valuable input into our work, in the form of sharing employee insights, specific research, collaboration on pilots, and commitment from senior leaders. We are proud to share the organisations who are helping shape the new career deal.


If you are interested in supporting the work of Brave Starts or want to learn more about us, please get in touch below and we will provide you with a corporate brochure with our value proposition.

Harris Karim

Co Founder
Tech Lead

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Anna Streule

Anna Streule

Co Founder
Editor and Comms

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Lucy Standing

Lucy Standing

Co Founder
Strategy and Partnerships

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Testimonials

We've used Brave Starts to run programmes for people wanting to make career transitions. By learning from real people and their experiences we build insight into 'what works'. We've also engaged Brave Starts to help design our internal mid life MOT programmes and to help us build our advocacy group.
Catherine Sermon
Head Public Affairs, Phoenix Insights.
For our academy programmes, we're involved with a range of charity partners. What we like about Brave Starts is they have a really strong membership base. In our last programme, Brave Starts applicants had the highest hit rate of people who got hired. If you're looking to recruit people, they have some fresh thinking and ideas which are worth you exploring"
Shelly Ogilvie
Community, partnerships and content manager, Hays Recruitment
"We used Brave Starts to help with an outplacement programme. We wanted a more bespoke programme for colleagues that went further than the typical career transition offering. Brave Starts were able to support those wanting a new role, but more importantly we liked their ability to develop career mobility skills and provide guidance for people wanting to explore options around making career changes.  As a not for profit, using Brave Starts represented value for money while supporting a socially responsible, evidence-based organisation’’.
Sarita Godber
Chief People Officer, Science Museum Group

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Whether you're keen to support, have a question or problem to discuss, give us your email and we'll get in touch, ideally to arrange a follow up conversation.

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