Workforce longevity, AI readiness and career reinvention
MIDLIFE AT WORK
Take off your ageist blinkers and rethink your midlife talent strategy. Hire her. Back her. Your bias is costing you. Highly experienced women in their 40s and 50s come with exceptional skills, experience and energy that will transform your bottom line and culture for the better.
CLIENTS WE've ADVISED
THE PROBLEM WE'RE SEEING
THE SECOND HALF OF HER CAREER HAS BEEN LEFT TO CHANCE
Your most experienced women are navigating some of the biggest changes of their working lives.
AI is transforming how jobs are done. Careers are extending. Ambitions are changing. Women 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 female 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.
Take off your ageist blinkers & rethink your midlife talent strategy. Hire her. Back her. Your bias is costing you.
TAKE ACTION NOW IF:
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AI is changing jobs at speed, but confidence and adoption are not developing equally across the workforce. Experienced women may understand the business better than anyone, yet still feel overlooked, anxious or left behind in the transition to AI-enabled work. We help you drive the practical skills and confidence for your female talent to use AI in their real roles, productively, commercially, creatively and responsibly.
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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.
Women are living longer, working longer and controlling more economic resources than any previous generation of women. Yet most of the systems and businesses serving them were designed around a shorter life.
YOUR EXPERIENCED TALENT IS QUIETLY CHECKING OUT
Some of your most capable female talent can no longer see what progression looks like for them. They may still be performing well, 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.
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AI IS CREATING A NEW CAPABILITY DIVIDE, especially for women OVER 40
our services
THE 'MIDLIFE-AT-WORK' LAB
IMMERSIVE HALF-DAY AND FULL-DAY STRATEGY WORKSHOPS
Age and gender bias shut experienced women out of recruitment, development and promotion. Assumptions about ambition, availability and leadership potential shape who gets a chance and whose experience goes unused.
Employers prepared to challenge that bias have an opportunity: attract overlooked talent, strengthen their culture and build a reputation that gives them a competitive edge.
Longer working lives make that opportunity bigger. Midlife women have substantial careers ahead of them. Your strategy determines whether their experience builds value for your business.
Hire the talent your competitors overlook.
Become the employer she chooses.
Accelerate the decisions.
Build the commitment.
Put the strategy to work.
Our immersive half-day and full-day labs bring leaders, HR, talent teams and midlife women together to tackle the decisions, behaviours and unwritten rules holding progress back.
HOW THE LAB WORKS
Combining commercial insight with expertise in recruitment strategy, organisational culture and female leadership, we compress fragmented conversations into focused working sessions that accelerate decisions.
The people responsible for change help design the solutions challenging bias, working through competing priorities and agreeing what needs to change in how your business hires, develops and promotes midlife women. Clear decisions, shared commitment and accountability for what happens next.
Half-day and Full-day Workshops
Focus on a specific challenge or work through connected decisions across your midlife talent strategy. We shape the session around the outcomes you need and the people required to achieve them.
SHAPED AROUND YOUR BUSINESS
A Plan Your People Are Ready To Act On
- Shared business priorities.
- Practical solutions developed together
- Explicit commitments from leaders and managers.
- Named owners and agreed first actions.
- A sequenced delivery plan.
- Measures for hiring, progression, retention and women’s experience at work
WHAT YOU LEAVE WITH
Targeted delivery and fractional advisory support keep the work moving, tackle obstacles and help embed the changes.
Hire her. Back her. Promote her.
Make your reputation for valuing experience a reason talent chooses you.
STRATEGIC ADVISoR ON WORKFORCE LONGEVITY, PEOPLE & CULTURE 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 women remain in work for longer.
It's to make sure they keep learning, leading, progressing and contributing at their highest level, capitalising on their knowledge, skills and success so far in their careers.
Built around women. Better for everyone.
OUR
MIDLIFE AT WORK ECOSYSTEM
We bring in the right expertise when you need it, across workforce longevity, AI readiness, leadership, organisational psychology, women's health, coaching, diagnostics, communications and organisation design.
You get one integrated approach, designed around your organisation and delivered by Voyage & Soap.
who are we?
- 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
YOUR EXPERIENCED female talent STILL HAVE THEIR MOST VALUABLE WORK AHEAD OF THEM
Let’s have a chat. No fear-based story about an ageing workforce. No one-off workshop that disappears as soon as it ends. Just a practical discussion about your midlife talent strategy, where value may currently be getting lost and what your organisation could do differently.
let's talk
