Do you wonder why your résumé doesn't get noticed? One of the biggest hurdles you will face when looking to go back to work is your résumé. Whether it is including your past experience to change careers or to rejoin one, or it’s been so long since you last updated your résumé…...
Uma Academy Manhattan: Career Strategy 101
Take charge of your future! Enjoy a cup of tea or coffee as you explore your career strategy in your return to work journey. Whether your work and life priorities have changed, you are thinking of a career change altogether or you are feeling really lost and don’t know where to…...
Life-Work Balance Manhattan: Your Daily Mantra
This session drills into shifting gears after an extended break. Whether your priorities have changed or you are switching careers, life transitions can leave you feeling overwhelmed. We help you navigate these waters with confidence through tips and techniques to successfully balance your personal and professional life in the future.…...
Confidence 101 Manhattan: Finding your Inner Goddess
The process of building your confidence comes from within. We explore the many transitions you will experience during your journey as a woman, through career transitions, motherhood and beyond. From weaning to childcare to family support, the decision to return to a previous career or venturing onto a new path…...
Self-Discovery 101 Manhattan: Which Hat are you Wearing?
As women, we wear many hats. First, we are single, independent women with careers, then some of us become wives, some then become mothers. At some point we realize that the person we are today is not the person we were 5, 10 or even 15 years ago. Who are…...
Lunch and Luminate: Building a Successful Business
Join us for a "Lunch and Luminate" talk with our founder and award-winning gender, diversity, inclusion and career strategist, speaker and advisor to Fortune 500 companies - Rita Kakati Shah - as she shares her journey of a successful career in finance, and the many twists and turns of motherhood, which ultimately…...
Uma / JCC Manhattan: Re-Entering the Workforce – Tips and Techniques
Are you considering a return to work after a motherhood-related absence, or hoping to reposition yourself in your career given the new demands in your life? Join us for the first in a new series in partnership with the JCC of Manhattan, focused on empowering professional moms. Come and hear…...
What if…
What if you woke up one day to find that a life-changing event has just rocked your world? Will you be prepared? On Tuesday, April 9th, Uma founder, CEO and award winning diversity, inclusion, retention strategist and speaker, Rita Kakati Shah invites you to join in the conversation with three…...
Uma Paris: Women Influence Community Forum
Join our Founder, Rita Kakati Shah as she delivers the keynote at the Women Influence Community Forum at the Ritz in Paris to support the key mission of empowering women to recognise their power to influence our future within every commitment, choice and action in our everyday lives. Women Influence Community…...
Celebrating International Women’s Day – A Private Tour of the V&A
Ladies, join us for a private tour of the V&A, as we celebrate International Women's Day, remembering one of history's most iconic monarchs, empress of the world's largest ever empire, and whose name denotes an entire era of British history, Queen Victoria. Enjoy a walk through the ages as we…...