Experience is your greatest advantage
Friday the 6th November 2026 | Arding & Hobbs, London SW11
Experience is your greatest advantage
Friday 6th November 2026 | Arding & Hobbs, London SW11
Power Years Live
theALLBRIGHT’s flagship experience for women at their most influential time of life.
This November we’re exploring what happens when you stop underestimating everything you have built to midlife, and start putting it to work.
Not because power arrives on its own at a certain age, it doesn’t. But because seeing this clearly can change everything that follows.
Spaces are limited. Book now to save £15.
Early rate £40, full price from 1 October.
Power Years is built on a simple but radical belief: midlife is a moment of arrival not decline.
From careers to visibility and reinvention, health and hormones to money and friendships, expect voices you know well, some you’ll be glad to discover, sessions that ask something of you, a little indulgence, and the joy of truly feeling seen.
You won’t leave with a neat set of answers, but a clearer sense of what you already possess, and how to use it next.
Join us for this full-day event, including 20+ midlife experts and interactive sessions, targeted workshops, activations, experiences and relaxed networking.
Three Power Lenses
Your Authority
The clarity, judgment and financial sense that only experience produces, and what happens when you finally put it to work.
Your Body
Hormones, energy, strength, sleep. An honest, expert-led conversation about the body you live in now.
The Bond
The relationships that have gone the distance, the ones still to come, and why connection matters more than we tend to admit.
Where it all comes together
There will be financial workshops that take on the midlife realities: pensions, protection, planning for a longer life. Small group coaching sessions crafted around exactly where you are now, and honest talk on hormones and menopause from experts who tell you what they really think.
And then there are the women beside you, who understand without needing anything spelt out. This is the whole Power Years movement gathered into a single day, all of it live, all of it only in the room.
Main Programme
10:30
Arrival & Networking
Music, coffee, light refreshments and brand activations.
11:00
Welcome Remarks: Sophie Catto & Nicole Goodwin
Joint managing directors, AllBright everywoman & Introduction to Today’s Host
Host: Jo Glynn-Smith transformation coach @themidlifeentrepreneur
11:10
Opening Energiser
Prepare for the day ahead through a transformative tapping exercise – clear space and step into a new realm of self-belief.
Poppy Delbridge, transformation strategist, bestselling author and creator of Rapid Tapping®
11:25
In Conversation: No Longer Asking Permission
What happens when you stop proving, pleasing and performing – and start living life on your own terms?
11:55
Power Panel: Celebrating the Body You’ve Always Lived In
(Discussion + audience Q&A)
How can women in midlife understand, nurture and connect with their changing bodies? We dive into the physical, emotional and hormonal changes of the midlife body – what it’s capable of, how style, visibility, confidence and connection shift with it – and what it means to celebrate the body you’ve always lived in.
Poorna Bell, journalist and author
Andi Osho, actor, author, creative coach
12:35
Mic Moments: How I Feel in My Body
The floor opens: an invitation to those in the room to share what’s changed in how they feel in their skin.
12:50
Lunch, Networking & Activations
13:50
Straight Talking: NO APOLOGIES
(A frank, quickfire takeover of the mic – held in the round, plus Q&A)
What I stopped apologising for – and why you should stop, too.
Lisa Maffia, singer-songwriter, author, entrepreneur and DJ
14:10
In Conversation: Don’t Count Me Out
(30 minutes: hosted conversation + audience Q&A)
Why do we become more of ourselves at midlife, yet somehow disappear – from boardrooms, hiring shortlists, from view? Stacey Duguid knows this firsthand. After a disarming career reckoning, she turned her experience of ageism into Her Encore – a movement for women written off by a system that was never built to keep them. A candid conversation on losing status, rebuilding identity, and how female community can create real change.
In conversation with Stacey Duguid, founder, Her Encore
Hosted by Alice Olins, Editor-in-Chief, theALLBRIGHT
14:40
Mic Moments: Feeling Unseen at Work – and What I Did About It
The floor opens again, this time on the professional side: the moment you felt invisible at work, and the move you made next.
14:55
Break, Networking & Activations
15:25
Straight Talking: The Women That Hold Us Together
A journey into female friendship, ambition and connection in our Power Years. How do the women around us help us navigate relationships, family juggles, workplace challenges and changing priorities – and give us the confidence to be ourselves? Explore the friendships that challenge, support and sustain us, and why women need women at every stage of life.
16:00
Back Yourself: Be Your Own Best Cheerleader
A short, energising close to the day: connect, reflect and recognise when to speak up, own your value and advocate for what comes next.
Led by Jo Glynn-Smith
16:20
Closing Comments
You didn’t get here by accident. Everything you’ve lived has brought you to this place.
Sophie Catto & Nicole Goodwin, Joint Managing Directors, AllBright everywoman
16:30
Drinks Reception & Networking
18:00
End
The venue
Arding & Hobbs sits above one of London’s most storied junctions. This landmark space in the South West of the capital has been reimagined for modern life. High ceilings, considered design it is the kind of venue that sets the tone before anyone has said a word.
Experience is your greatest advantage.
Power Years Live.