Navigating Menopause: The Distinct Business Challenges for Women Boardroom Leaders
Let’s talk about something that often sneaks into boardrooms at the most unexpected moments - menopause. It tends to overlap with those big career milestones for women in leadership, and shockingly, it’s still a big taboo topic in many executive circles and C-Suite enviornments. But isn’t it time we treat it like the serious business issue it is?
Menopause and Leadership Challenges
Menopause can bring symptoms like hot flashes, sleep disturbances, and cognitive changes that really affect performance. In the boardroom, it can feel even tougher. I see it play out in a wide range of outcomes that go beyond straight forward symptoms - with a dip in risk appetite and leadership self-doubt often creeping in. Even seasoned female C-Suite executives can feel like they’re losing their edge. Unfortunately, many HR and wellbeing teams don’t fully get how high-stakes this is, leaving women leaders to navigate it alone without the support they truly need.
The Cost of Overlooking Menopause
Ignoring menopause can be really costly. Organizations risk losing invaluable top talent—those leaders who drive success and innovation. Traditional support systems just don’t cut it for women at this level. It’s not just about managing symptoms; it’s about keeping that leadership edge and boosting executive presence. The one size fits all ‘symptoms app’ and the menopause happy workplace badge do zero to support, retain and enable women to retain their leadership edge in business and the boardroom.
Introducing The Menopause Maze
At The Menopause Maze, we have a clear mission! The Menopause Maze is the company I founded to help C-Suite Women keep growing their careers and companies and achieve their boldest business, career and growth goals with NOPAUSE through menopause.
We offer specialized and fast-track menopause NOPAUSE™ career coaching that’s designed just for women in leadership and C-Suite roles. Our aim? To make sure there’s NOPAUSE™ in their leadership lives during menopause, so they can lead and live without limits and take away the guess work to leadership success and peak-performance.™
Why Menopause Career Coaching Matters
As a menopause coach I’m going to be super supportive of coaching. But coaching can help women in so many different ways - firstly by manage their leadership health without sacrificing their professional dreams. By adding personalized coaching into wellness programs, we equip women with our NOPAUSE™ framework and formula. It’s our trade-marked and signature success scaling system that’s changing the lives of C-Suite women so they can keep achieving both health and career goals side by side.
What Women Leaders Really Want
Our HR Benefits Research Paper shows that companies investing in menopause-specific support see fantastic results—a 58% boost in performance, a 51% drop in sickness absence, and a 65% jump in career progression. Those numbers are key for attracting and keeping top talent!
Raising Voices with #1MillionMenopauseVoices
We’ve also launched our #1MillionMenopauseVoices campaign, recognizing the women who’ve had to leave the workforce because of menopause. We’re inviting 1 million women worldwide to share their stories in our quick 90-second survey to help us better understand and tackle these challenges.
Nurturing Female Leaders
At The Menopause Maze, we provide bespoke menopause coaching solutions tailored for women in the boardroom, but we also have a multi-award winning method for workplaces too called The Menopause Maze Workplace Method. By integrating our NoPause™ signature system into HR strategies, companies can show they’re not only committed to nurturing female leaders ready for bold growth but are ready to optimise menopause and get significant top and bottom line returns whilst retaining and attracting their top female talent.
Conclusion
Menopause shouldn’t hold women in leadership back. By acknowledging its complexities and offering solid support, organizations can equip women to reach their biggest goals while thriving without fear of being seen as less able in the boardroom and across their leadership lives. As The Menopause Career Coach, I’m here to partner with you on this important journey, ensuring that women keep shining in business and the boardroom during this critical phase of their careers.
And with The Menopause Maze method, there’s NOPAUSE™ necessary for women and their workplaces too.