Return Ready Insights Survey

Have You Taken a Career Break?

Whether you’ve already returned to work or are planning your next step, we’d love to hear about your experience.

Complete our short survey and help us create better support for returners.

Build skills for the future of work.

Discover trusted, flexible training designed to help you learn, grow and stay ready for whatever comes next.

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Whatever your next step, build the skills and confidence to make it happen

Whether you want to future-proof your career, build confidence with new technology, gain a recognised qualification, return to work or retrain for something completely new, we’ll help you discover trusted training opportunities designed to fit around real life.

From short courses and professional qualifications to returner programmes and career-change training, explore flexible learning from carefully selected providers who can help you build your skills, confidence and earning potential.

What Could Training Help You Do?

🚀 Future-Proof Your Skills

Build confidence in areas such as AI, digital skills and emerging technologies to stay relevant in a changing workplace.

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📈 Progress Your Career

Develop the leadership, management, communication and professional skills that can help you take your next step.

🔄 Change Career

Complete training that can help you build the skills and knowledge to make a career pivot possible.

🌸 Return to Work

Refresh existing skills, learn something new and rebuild your professional confidence after time away from the workplace.

🎓 Gain a Qualification

Explore professional training and recognised qualifications that could strengthen your CV and create new career opportunities.

💡 Build Your Business Skills

Develop practical skills in areas such as finance, marketing, digital and business to support your own ambitions.

Not sure what you need yet?

That’s okay. Explore our training opportunities and discover what could help you take your next step.

Find Training That Fits Your Life

Learning shouldn't mean putting the rest of your life on hold.

We know that for many women, how you learn is just as important as what you learn.

That’s why we want to make it easier to discover training that works around careers, children and other commitments – whether that’s self-paced learning you can complete in your own time, live online training, professional qualifications or more structured programmes.

When exploring our training opportunities, you’ll be able to find practical information such as:

✓ Online or in person
✓ Live or self-paced
✓ Time commitment
✓ Beginner, intermediate or advanced
✓ Accredited or non-accredited
✓ Flexible learning options

So you can quickly understand whether an opportunity is right for you, your goals and your life.

Our Training Partners

Trusted training. Real opportunities to grow.

Explore training providers and programmes carefully selected to help women develop the skills they need for the careers they want.

Whether you’re looking to add something new to your CV, keep pace with changes in your industry, gain a professional qualification or completely retrain, find the support that’s right for your next step.

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We Are Agentic

Lesia Kalley is an AI trainer helping professional women build confidence, practical skills and smarter ways of working with AI.

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Supermums

Supermums helps parents retrain in Salesforce and build the skills to access flexible, well-paid careers in the growing tech sector.

Why Invest in Your Skills?

Sometimes the next step in your career isn't finding another job.

It’s becoming ready for the opportunity you want next.

The right training can help you build confidence, strengthen your CV, develop in-demand skills, gain professional qualifications or open doors to careers you may not previously have considered.

And investing in your skills doesn’t always mean years of retraining.

A short course, new qualification or focused programme could be exactly what you need to take your next step.

Why Investing in Women?

Trusted opportunities. Flexible learning. Skills that move you forward.

There are thousands of courses and training programmes out there. Knowing which ones are worth your time and money can be the difficult part.

That’s where we come in.

At Investing in Women, we support women at every stage of their working lives – from returning after a career break and changing direction to progressing into leadership or exploring something completely new.

That’s why we’re building a trusted network of training providers offering opportunities that align with what matters to our community: quality, flexibility, accessibility and genuine career progression.

Our aim isn’t to show you every course available.

It’s to help you discover credible training opportunities that could make a meaningful difference to your career.

Testimonials

I would say the best thing about the course was the flexibility; only a few hours a week of contact time allowed me flexibility around my children. I could do the coursework in the evenings and weekends, so it did not cut into my time with my children, which is exactly what I was looking for.  

Supermums

“I always thought AI was something for tech people, not me. This course changed that completely. It was clear, practical, and fun, and it gave me tools I use every single day. For the first time, I feel confident talking about AI at work and actually putting it into practice.”

We Are Agentic

The course has made a massive change in my life. It has enabled me to change my career and has put me in a better position financially with a real pathway ahead for development.  

This has opened up to me – at 40 years old – a whole new variety of different routes I can go down. I wouldn’t have done it without the course. 

“What surprised me most was how practical it all was. This wasn’t abstract theory, I built an AI assistant that now helps me every week. The course gave me skills I’ll use for life.”

We Are Agentic

Ready to Invest in Your Future?

Your career can evolve – and so can your skills.

Whether you’re returning, progressing, pivoting or simply preparing for what’s next, discover training designed to help you move forward with greater skills, confidence and choice.

We can't wait to welcome you into the Investing in Women community.

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