In photos: The Next-Up Conference
It was great to see so many faces at the Next-Up conference. If you attended, thank you for helping to make it so inspiring.
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Mentoring young tech entrepreneurs – Learning more than we give?
I’ve recently had an enlightening and yet humbling experience. I have been working with a young tech entrepreneur and was looking forward to sharing my wisdom. What I never expected was that I would learn as much, if not more, from him.
Tips and insights on becoming a mentor to start-ups
Julian Horrocks, former partner at Eversheds and founder of Yorkshire Business Mentor, is a speaker at the Next-Up conference in Leeds on 20 November. Here he shares his tips and insights on becoming a mentor to start-ups.
A testimonial: ‘remorphing’ your career path after retirement
What does Next-Up do? Here, one of our clients explains how it has changed her life…
Victoria Tomlinson & Next Up
Victoria Tomlinson launched Next-Up, a one-of-a-kind platform to help people leaving corporate life use their skills in unretirement. Victoria describes her not-so-typical day, and why un-retiring is on the rise
Changing career in your 50s – how not to fall off a cliff!
Standing in front of my security cabinet in the Foreign & Commonwealth Office, I spun the combination lock for the last time. After 28 years, with postings in Beijing, Moscow, Berlin and London, I was about to walk out of a high-prestige, secure, established job, into – the unknown.
Protected: Be prepared for the emotional rollercoaster of leaving corporate life
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Why you shouldn’t just be “filling time” in retirement
I recently came across this article, entitled Wealthy enough to retire; too bored to stay retired, by Rob Walker in the Seattle Times. The piece offers some really great solutions to what Walker describes as “the most enviable workplace dilemma of all time”.
Victoria Tomlinson’s 5 tips for a fuller working life
Many of us are living longer. The time you spend in retirement could now be 30 years or more, depending on when you retire and how long you live. So it’s important to think about the retirement you want, and plan for it.