C-Suite Menopause Coach Wins Career Coach of the Year 2025 And Why This Win Really Matters for Top-Tier Women in Leadership
Why This Award Signals a Shift in How We View Leadership and Menopause
I’ve just been named Career Coach of the Year 2025.
But this win isn’t just about me, it’s about what it means for women in leadership navigating menopause without a roadmap.
Because menopause has long been ignored in the corridors of power. It’s rarely named in boardrooms. It’s never on the agenda at strategy off-sites. It's not on the cap-sheet and certainly doesn't feature in investor calls. And yet it quietly erodes decision-making clarity, confidence, and control as well as the presence, performance and results of women leaders as the zenith of their leadership careers.
Until now.
And while I’m incredibly honoured, this award isn’t about my name on a plaque.
It’s about every high-achieving woman who’s ever thought she had to quietly slow down, step back or step aside because menopause began to interfere with her leadership life in the boardroom.
It’s about the C-suite exec holding together a billion-pound business while silently navigating the silent career saboteur of menopause.
The founder walking into a board meeting to pitch for Series B funding while convincing herself she's the blocker because she's dealing with menopause alongside the demands of cap raising.
The next-in-line female leader unsure if she has the capacity to take the top job, when she feels compromised by menopause.
This award is for them.
For you.
The clients who work with me who are too senior to share and given no internal expertise to help them. The women who found me and found new leadership lives, new wealth, new companies and new boardroom opportunities.
This award recognises the critical, commercial, and personal cost of menopause in business and the power of getting an expert to fix it.
Why Elite Women Are Now Hiring Menopause Coaches And What This Means in 2025
Let’s get specific:
1 in 10 women leave the workforce due to unmanaged menopause symptoms
The rise of the mid-life female entrepreneur is soaring with 62% of midlife women citing they are backing themselves and starting businesses in mid-life alongside menopause
90% of menopausal women feel their symptoms impact their work, and 1 in 5 have considered leaving their role altogether
These are not wellness stats.
These are business performance indicators.
This is why I created The NOPAUSE™ Method: a strategic leadership acceleration coaching, strategy and business growth method for women in all stages of menopause who are too ambitious to fade out and too smart to just push through in their hard-fought for leadership careers and the companies that they've spent decades building.
As a specialist menopause coach for C-suite executives and growth-focused founders, I help elite women:
Protect performance and presence in high-stakes roles in high-demand boardrooms
Make key commercial decisions alongside menopause
Restore clarity, command and control in their leadership lives, fast!
The Award Is a Milestone But the Movement Is Bigger
Being named Career Coach of the Year is a milestone. But what it really signals is momentum.
It tells me that more women are done with tolerating the erosion of their leadership due to menopause at work. And that more companies, investors, and boards are realising: menopause at work is a business issue.
In my recent interview with the Financial Times PWM, I spoke about the financial and leadership risk menopause poses in governance, growth and the great wealth transfer and how my strategic coaching and advisory is now the tool top women of wealth are using to navigate it with power and precision.
If You’re Leading, Scaling or Holding It All Together But Slipping Behind the Scenes You Need to Know This:
You’re not alone.
If you’re feeling that it's not symptoms that's affecting you in business and the boardroom, but the effects that are showing up in delayed decision making, risk aversion, deal dilemmas and executive impact (basically everything you used to do without a thought!) that’s menopause showing up in your performance. Your executive edge doesn’t have to be sacrificed, your career ambitions do not need to be curtailed and your boldest and biggest business growth goals do not have to be put on ice.
So What's The First Step You Can Take?
Pinpoint exactly where menopause is costing you and your career.
Take the NOPAUSE™ Scorecard below.
In under 5 minutes, you'll get personalised insights on what menopause may be costing you and your company and you'll reveal pinpoint precision data with your own personalised results report so you can start to fix the areas of risk and cost today!
Final Word: Career Coach of the Year Is Just the Start
This award recognises the thousands of conversations I’ve had behind closed doors with women who wanted to give up and didn’t.
It honours the invisible load women carry in scaling businesses while managing personal change.
And it proves what I’ve always said:
You can achieve your boldest, biggest and bravest career and business growth goals through menopause. You just need your own NOPAUSE™ personalised route through the menopause maze.
The C-suite now has a menopause career coach.
And the next wave of high-performing women leaders?
They’re not just surviving it. They’re scaling through it.
If you’re a high-achieving C-suite woman who feels like menopause is starting to chip away at your edge, your clarity, your control and your career results, and if you’re ready to be part of that next wave of women scaling careers, building companies, and leading boldly through menopause then send hit the button below and send me a message.
You're in the right place.
This is what I do. You don’t have to figure it out alone and there is definitely NOPAUSE™ necessary to your leadership life.
About The Author
Fiona McKay is the multi-award winning CEO of The Menopause Maze™ and is also known in the media as The Menopause Career Coach™. She has been awarded the coveted titles of Career Coach of The Year 2025, Business Advisor of The Year 2025, The Most Influential Women's Health and Career Support Business Women 2024, Menopause Champion of The Year 2023/2024 and recognised by LinkedIn as one of the Top 25 Growth Strategist and Innovators in the World in The Big Ideas Report for 2025. She is the Menopause Career Coach C-suite women and workplaces go to when they want to achieve their biggest career and boldest business growth goals so they can lead limitlessly through all stages of menopause.
She is a featured strategic menopause career and business coach in The Guardian, The Independent, OK Magazine and as a menopause business and boardroom expert on live TV including BBC News and ITV News.
You can connect with Fiona at: fmckay@themenopausemaze.com.