Empowering Employment
Build Confidence, Clarity, and Practical Tools to Re-Enter the Workforce
Empowering Employment is a supportive online program designed to help women explore career options, identify their strengths, and build practical job-search skills in a welcoming and encouraging environment.
Women seeking a safe, encouraging space to build practical skills for returning to work, pivoting careers, or exploring new employment opportunities.
This program focuses on traditional workforce employment and does not include entrepreneurship or business start-ups.
Who this course is for
Course Overview
Empowering Employment is an interactive workshop where you learn through discussion, guided activities, and supportive group exploration.
You'll begin with a personal strengths assessment that helps you recognise the value of your lived experience and feel more confident about stepping back into the workforce. Each session blends practical skill-building with an environment that respects your pace and supports you to take action in ways that feel right for you.
Facilitators introduce simple AI tools as enablement supports and weave digital resources throughout the experience. You'll also gain access to our Learning Hub, a collection of templates and tools designed to help you continue building job-search confidence beyond the program.
An extended post-course partnership with an industry recruiter offers personalised resume feedback and may help connect you to suitable job opportunities as you explore roles at your own pace.
What You Will Explore
Defining your direction through career goals and job-market insight
Identifying strengths and beginning to build a professional identity
Using practical tools to create a modern resume and tailored cover letters
Preparing for interviews, managing nerves and practising in a supportive mock interview
Navigating job options through smart search strategies, mapping networks, and understanding what can be negotiated in a job offer
Empowering Employment
COURSE DETAILS
Duration: 6 Weeks + Extended Post-Program Recruiter Support
Dates: Mondays, 26/10/26 – 30/11/26
Time: 12:00pm – 1:30pm AEST
Format: Online Group Sessions
Session Length: 1.5 Hours Per Week
Cost: Free
Take practical steps towards employment, confidence and future opportunities in a safe and supportive learning environment.
Meet your Facilitators
Simone Allan
Granddaughter of a sheep farmer, born in Armidale, Simone’s family moved to Walgett, Blayney & Sydney. Raised by her mother from age 8, her father pursued charters for Indigenous First Nations people and moved to Mornington Island as CEO. Simone’s upbringing was isolating, living in the city, with a hard-working single Mum, two little brothers, and no relatives nearby. Mentors became her support.
In 1998, Simone founded Mondo Search & Mondo Mentor, placing over 2,800 leaders in business and connecting schools and corporations through mentoring. In 2011, Simone hit burnout and embarked on a journey of recovery. She discovered the power of good therapeutic programs to support people with trauma histories, especially aided by mentors.
Her background and experience came together with the founding of the Women’s Resilience Centre in 2020. It is her “True North”, bringing together so many initiatives that Simone has championed: mentoring & women’s health, practical job readiness skills, mentoring, and sustainable recovery programs.
Simone is a Carers & Consumer Committee member of South Pacific Private Hospital, a Volunteer at her Surf Club, and former Director of Lived Experience Australia. Simone was the first student elected to the School Council of Barker College, setting up and running the first Mentor Program to engage the old school Alumni. Simone is married with two adult sons. Recently completing her 200 hours of yoga teacher training.
Simone Allan
“Through this program, I was able to secure my first job in Australia. As someone from another country, I found it extremely difficult to gain employment despite a law degree and professional experience. The support I received enabled me to receive essential training in job searching, along with guidance through the interview process.”
Meet your Facilitators
Lee-Ann Carson
Lee-Anne has been a mentor and facilitator with The Resilience Centre's Empowering Employment series since 2023, supporting women as they build the confidence, skills and clarity to step into meaningful work. Her sessions are warm, practical and encouraging. She creates a safe space where participants can recognise the strengths they already have, reframe setbacks as experience, and leave with real next steps towards employment. Her style is calm, curious and collaborative, and she believes that every woman has something valuable to offer the workplace.
Lee-Anne is an Organisational Development Strategist and an accredited coach with close to three decades' experience helping people and organisations perform at their best. She has designed and delivered leadership programs across Australia and Asia Pacific, led gender equality and cultural change work and recruited, coached and developed teams across the public sector, biotech, education and business. This means she knows what employers are looking for and how to help women present themselves with confidence. She is also Mental Health First Aid accredited, and she brings to every group a genuine commitment to inclusion, resilience and human-centred growth.
Lee-Anne Carson
“Before the program, returning to work felt overwhelming. Empowering Employment helped me recognise my strengths, update my resume and rebuild my confidence. For the first time in years, I felt prepared to take the next step.”