Talk
The Shift
The menopause talk that doesn’t stop at hot flushes.
01 Details
- Run time
- 45 to 70 minutes
- Audience
- Human resources, diversity and inclusion, International Women’s Day, leadership
- Formats
- Keynote, or keynote with questions and answers
- Delivery
- Live and virtual
02 Premise
Every organisation now knows menopause is a workplace issue. Few know what to do with that. The Shift follows the transition past the symptoms everyone can name into the ones nobody will. Desire, identity, the quiet exit from ambition. It shows leaders exactly where the cost lands. It ends with a Monday-morning action, not a slogan.
03 After this talk your leaders will
- Understand what menopause costs the organisation, in retention and promotion, not just sick days.
- Know what a supportive conversation sounds like, and what a harmful one sounds like.
- Have one policy step to take this quarter.
04 Available cuts
- Keynote
- 45 to 60 minutes
- Extended
- 70 minutes with questions and answers
- Comedy cut
- For International Women’s Day dinners and evening events
05 After the talk
The Shift is also the launch keynote for Menopause at Work, an employer programme built to The Menopause Society’s Menopause and the Workplace Consensus Recommendations and to the Rhode Island and Philadelphia accommodation duties. Book it alone, or as the opening of a programme that trains your managers and equips your human resources team before the duties apply.
The Shift Method, the self paced audio course behind the keynote, remains available to organisations that want it alongside.
06 For human resources leaders
What menopause attrition could cost you
An estimate of exposure, not a forecast. Change any figure to match your organisation.
Defaults: one in eight women aged 45 to 60 report an adverse work outcome linked to menopause, and replacing a senior employee can cost up to twice her salary. The leaving rate is yours to set. In the Gallup and Pivotal Women’s Health Survey, 2026, 28 per cent of women with menopause symptoms said it limited the effort they could give at work. This shows the cost of doing nothing. It does not measure the effect of any talk or programme.
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24 keynotes a year.
8 dates remaining in 2026,
24 in 2027.
The Guarantee: If your post-event survey rates the keynote below 9 out of 10, you don’t pay the balance.