Menopause is inevitable. Your career decline is not. With Fiona McKay.

How to have a NOPAUSE™ leadership career through menopause.

Thirteen years ago, Fiona McKay was a CEO at the top of her game when she needed life-saving surgery that forced her into surgically induced menopause when her peers and colleagues were dealing with maternity. Shortly following this, two of her advisers sat her down in a board meeting and told her she couldn't go into pitches "forgetting people's names and having hot sweats".

Fiona is CEO of Lightbulb Leadership Solutions and founder of The Menopause Maze. After her own surgical menopause, she spent the lockdown years interviewing C-suite women on both sides of the Atlantic. She wanted to understand what it takes to stay in the room, keep growing your career and your company while going through menopause. What she found was that women need a professional prescription for their leadership life, just as they get a physical prescription from their doctors.

In this conversation, Fiona explains what perimenopause, menopause and post-menopause actually mean. She also explains why a single blood test means so many women in their late thirties and early forties are told they're too young for their symptoms to be perimenopause, and are sent away. She talks about why so many senior women stop putting themselves forward in their leadership careers without realising why.

Lauren shares her own experience of surgical menopause, and Fiona answers Danielle's question that many listeners will share: how do you prepare for something you haven't been through yet?

For employers, Fiona makes the commercial case. This isn't an HR issue or a wellbeing issue; it's a business and board issue.

For everyone, she shares how she ruthlessly deletes what no longer deserves her time, and why her answer to a man who asked how to help his wife was simply "put the bins out".

Take the NOPAUSE Professional Prescription™

Find out where menopause may be affecting your performance and career, and what to do about it:

https://www.themenopausemaze.com/the-professional-prescription-for-leadership-careers

Find Fiona

• The Menopause Maze: https://www.themenopausemaze.com
• Keynote speaking: https://www.themenopausemaze.com/menopause-keynote-speaker
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/fionamckay/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/themenopausecareercoach
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@themenopausecareercoach
• TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@themenopausecareercoach
• Email: fmckay@themenopausemaze.com
• Fiona McKay personal brand website: www.fiona-mckay.com