Workforce longevity, AI readiness and career reinvention

MIDLIFE AT WORK

Midlife at Work is a strategic workforce transformation offer for employers who want their people to remain ambitious, adaptable and valuable throughout the latter half of their working lives. We help organisations retain, reskill and unlock the people with the greatest experience and often the most still to contribute.

CLIENTS WE've worked with

THE PROBLEM WE'RE SEEING

THE SECOND HALF OF YOUR WORKFORCE'S CAREER HAS BEEN LEFT TO CHANCE

Your most experienced people are navigating some of the biggest changes of their working lives.
AI is transforming how jobs are done. Careers are extending. Ambitions are changing. People are managing health transitions, caring responsibilities, shifting identities and questions about what they want from their next 10, 15 or 20 years at work.

Yet most organisations still have no coherent strategy for talent after 40. Employees are expected to work it out for themselves.

Some quietly disengage. Some lose confidence. Some stop progressing. Some leave, taking years of knowledge, relationships and organisational memory with them.

That isn’t simply a personal issue.
It is a retention, capability, productivity and leadership issue.

DON'T PUT YOUR HEAD IN THE SAND

We're here to help and advise

That’s where we come in.

We help organisations turn midlife from a point of uncertainty or attrition into a period of renewed contribution, learning, leadership and growth.

Don't let some of your most valuable experience walk out the door

IF YOU'RE STRUGGLING WITH:

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YOUR EXPERIENCED TALENT IS QUIETLY CHECKING OUT

Some of your most capable people can no longer see what progression looks like. They may still be performing, but beneath the surface they are questioning their confidence, relevance, ambition or future with the organisation. We help you re-engage that talent before disengagement becomes departure.

02

AI IS CREATING A NEW CAPABILITY DIVIDE, especially for women OVER 40

AI is changing jobs at speed, but confidence and adoption are not developing equally across the workforce.

Experienced employees may understand the business better than anyone, yet still feel overlooked, anxious or left behind in the transition to AI-enabled work.

We give people the practical skills and confidence to use AI in their real roles, productively, commercially, creatively and responsibly.

03

YOU HAVE INITIATIVES, BUT NOT A SPECIFIC MIDLIFE WORKFORCE STRATEGY

You may already have menopause support, leadership programmes, wellbeing initiatives, employee networks and AI training.

But they sit in different parts of the organisation and rarely address the complete midlife experience.

We connect the dots turning those separate activities into a measurable workforce-longevity strategy.

Your organisation has spent years building its experienced talent. Now give those people a compelling reason to keep building their future with you. We help your people keep learning, leading and contributing.

UK workers are now aged 50 or over

1 in 3

54m

Of US workers aged 50+ say their employer is not doing enough to prepare them to use AI at work

63%

Of employees experiencing menopause symptoms have considered leaving work because of inadequate support

17%

Americans aged 50+ are working. approximately one-third of the US workforce. (AARP’s 2026 Longevity Economy) research

YOUR workforce IS changing

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our services

A SIX-PART SYSTEM FOR UNLOCKING THE 2ND HALF OF WORKING LIFE
Our three-part transformation journey fuses psychology, leadership, and artificial intelligence technology into one coherent system of change

THIS IS NOT ANOTHER ISOLATED WELLBEING PROGRAMME
It is a new operating system for how organisations retain, develop and unlock their workforce talent over 40, throughout longer working lives that is becoming more the norm in today's world.

THE AIM
To make midlife a point of renewed contribution not quiet decline

AI CAPABILITY
Ensure experienced people can use new technology confidently while applying the judgement and context that only experience provides

RETAIN
Understand why experienced people disengage, step back or leave and address the causes

RESKILL
Give employees continuing access to relevant, practical and commercially valuable learning

REINVENT
Create credible routes into new roles, responsibilities, careers and forms of contribution

LEAD
Equip employees and managers to lead confidently across longer, multigenerational careers

THRIVE
Support the physical, emotional and practical realities that affect sustainable performance for individual's careers in midlife.

MIDLIFE AT WORK FRAMEWORK 

STRATEGIC ADVISoR ON WORKFORCE LONGEVITY, AI capability AND THE MIDLIFE ECONOMY

CEO & FOUNDER voyage & soap

DIMPLE
STHANKIYA

Dimple Sthankiya has spent more than 25 years working alongside senior leaders, C-suites and global organisations on strategy, people, culture, employee value proposition and transformation.

Today, her work focuses on one of the most important changes shaping organisations: people are living longer, careers are extending and AI is transforming what it means to remain valuable at work.

Dimple helps leaders understand the commercial and human implications of this shift and turn that understanding into practical action.

Through Midlife at Work, she brings together workforce strategy, AI readiness, leadership, reinvention and the particular experiences of women at midlife.

Her approach is commercial, human and deliberately practical. The goal is not simply to help people remain in work for longer.

It is to ensure they continue to learn, lead, progress and contribute at their highest level, capitalising on their knowledge, skills and success so far in their careers.

WE BRING IN THE RIGHT EXPERTISE AS REQUIRED

OUR
MIDLIFE AT WORK ECOSYSTEM

We are Strategic Advisors on Workforce Longevity, AI Readiness and the Midlife Economy. We bring in the right expertise when required through our Midlife at Work ecosystem.


who are we?

Voyage & Soap brings together selected expertise across:

  • Longevity Workforce 
  • AI Readiness
  • Leadership Development
  • Organisational Psychology
  • Menopause and Women’s Health
  • Coaching 40+ Cohorts
  • Diagnostics for research
  • Strategic Communications & EVP
  • Culture and Organisation Design

You receive one integrated approach, designed around your organisation and delivered by Voyage & Soap