BOOK: STEP UP
The Step Up Club's mission is to empower and engage women in conversations around their careers and provide invaluable advice on how you can achieve your own personal career success.
The Step Up Club host events, consults with brands and businesses, sends incredibly useful and informative fortnightly newsletters (sign up here) and they have recently launched a book.
I have been fortunate to meet the founders Alice and Phanella a few times and absolutely love what they do. They exude a confidence and complete belief and knowledge in what they are doing and so they should - plus they always have such great outfits on too! I would highly recommend reading their book and if you can to attend one of their events.
Here is some more info from these excellent ladies:
NAME OF COMPANY: The Step Up Club
DATE IT WAS FOUNDED: June 2015
BY WHOM IT WAS FOUNDED: Alice Olins, Fashion Features Director at Red Magazine and Phanella Mayall Fine, an executive career coach.
WHY WAS IT CREATED: Because we want to take the conversation around careers out of the boardroom and engage all women. Whatever your job or profession, Step Up celebrates what your career and helps you find your own brand of success. We want to make the chat around women's careers as glossy and widespread as the ones around wellness, fashion and food.
Alice and Phanella sit at opposite ends of the creative/corporate career spectrum and this makes Step Up unique. We inspire and support other women through our monthly events (that we make sure are always in stylish locations - no need for flip charts when Step Up is involved!) and our recently published book, Step Up: Confidence, Success and your Stellar Career in 10 Minutes a Day (Random House). It’s a new style career manual that blends practical, well-founded advice with our unique 10 minute career workouts, plus the stories of so many amazing and successful women, from Bobbi Brown, via Kirsty Young to Melissa and Jasmine Hemsley, Yvette Cooper MP and the late Zaha Hadid.
WHAT WE NEED TO KNOW ABOUT YOUR BRAND: That it's youthful, fun, stylish, supportive and modern. Oh, and ridiculously helpful too. We know that one size really does not fit all when it comes to careers. We work with brands such as Kikki.K, Karen Millen, D&D restaurants, Desmond and Dempsey, Belvedere vodka and the Hoxton hotel group to help spread the Step Up message.
WHAT WE SHOULD BUY FROM YOU: Our Book! Plus, we want as many women as possible to sign up to our free newsletter for fortnightly career advice (and some fashion tips!), plus first dibs on tickets to our events that combine brilliant female speakers with our trademark 10 Minute Career Workouts.