Supermums Blog

In 2012, mum-of-two (and founder of Salesforce Supermums) Heather decided to change career and embark on a career in Salesforce. Alongside her enjoyment of using the technology, she had realised that as a cloud-based solution, it could offer her flexibility and support her aspirations in life. After completing three courses with Salesforce University in 2010/11 …

Are you looking for a career change or keen to upskill/invest in yourself in 2019? You may be already working or currently trying to return to work after a career break. Would you like to find a rewarding, challenging role that has great career opportunities, pays well and gives you flexibility? Find out how retraining …

The Salesforce Supermums Team are looking forward to supporting more mums (& dads) achieve their Salesforce ambitions in 2019. Salesforce Supermums is a full time initiative, incubated by Economic Change CIC, a social enterprise and Salesforce Silver Consulting Partner. As Salesforce advocates, the team are super excited to help trainees forge a new career in the …

As we look forward to the new year, Jolie Wilkinson, an experienced fitness and wellbeing adviser, provides our Supermums with guidance on how to plan their goals for the year ahead! Jolie is leading the well-being sessions on our exclusive Supermums Retreat in February and has worked for leading corporate brands to advise employees on mental …

The global growth of the Salesforce eco-system is causing a shortage of talent and this presents a great opportunity for mums who are looking for well-paid flexible career choices. It’s the reason we launched the Salesforce Supermums program to upskill mums with training, mentoring and work-experience to accelerate their career into the sector. Over two years …

European Digital Skills Awards – we’re finalists! A huge thanks to our friends at Salesforce who nominated us for the ICT European Digital Skills Awards in the category for Women and Girls – and we were down-selected! Debra represented the Supermums team at the two-day event in Vienna last week, which included a conference and …

A day in the life of a Superdad: Simon des Forges Simon is one of our Superdads, having recently graduated from the Supermums programme and was also awarded with our Supermums Customer Success Award in November 2019. Simon was working for Herts Viewpoint when we worked together with Economic Change to implement their Salesforce org, …

Give yourself the chance to be the best you We’re always talking about work/life balance here at Supermums HQ and taking time for yourself is an important part of life. Let’s all be honest here, we’re usually riddled with Mum-guilt over something we have or haven’t done for our children, but taking some time out …

Salesforce Health Check: Give your Salesforce Org an MOT If you use Salesforce, you’ll want to make sure your system is performing at its best. Some things will update automatically, but others need a little bit of work. Luckily enough, with minimum effort you can achieve great results. All of the following questions can be …