73% of Executive Women Say They’d Leave for This One Benefit And Why Menopause at Work Is Your Next Leadership Risk
The Staggering New Research That Should Reshape Your HR Strategy
New research from The Menopause Maze™ has revealed a statistic that should stop every board, HRD, and CEO in their tracks: 73% of executive women said they would leave their current company if a competitor offered one thing: an External Menopause Career Coach.
Not a pay bump. Not a title change. A benefit that protects their performance, power, and progression through one of the most misunderstood transitions in modern leadership and that's menopause at work.
Why Menopause at Work Is the Crisis You Didn’t See Coming
Menopause is still viewed as a “wellbeing issue” in most workplaces. But for executive C-suite women leaders? It shows up as career erosion, presence disruption, and potential loss to their leadership lives, their income and impact and loss to your business growth, performance and innovation.
This isn’t about hot flashes.
It’s about when a woman no longer feels like herself at the peak of her power, no one notices and nobody has a specific development solution that solves the problem.
The Numbers That Should Keep You Up at Night
73% of executive women would leave for access to external menopause coaching (The Menopause Maze™, 2024)
51% have missed work due to unmanaged symptoms (CIPD Menopause Report)
64% want dedicated menopause benefits yet only 14% believe their employer offers them (National Women’s Health Network)
Just 18% of UK employers have any menopause-related provision in place.
What It’s Costing You Not to Act
Every week you delay, you risk:
Losing senior talent
Breaking your succession pipeline
Weakening ESG & DEI metrics
Quietly becoming the brand women warn each other about.
What They’re Not Telling You But Are Telling Us
"I'm working on my risk control and potential damage to my leadership life rather than focusing on our business strategy and growth, with the scale and pace which I did prior to peri-menopause. It's not who I am and I'm scared that it's being seen and my days in the C-suite are numbered."
That was just one of the shocking but raw and painful truths shared with us by the extraordinary brave and brilliant C-suite women who took part in this survey.
Fiona McKay, CEO of The Menopause Maze has issued a stark warning for HR, Talent & People Leaders:
"Women leaders don’t want sympathy. They want a rapid-fast-fix menopause performance and growth strategy that equips them with transformation to become unstoppable again in business and their boardrooms.
They need it now and they’re starting to leave companies that don’t offer it."
Introducing The Menopause Maze™ and the NoPause™ Method
The Menopause Maze™ is a first-of-its-kind workplace method helping companies retain and accelerate their best women leaders through menopause.
It’s not a support group. It’s a strategic system.
What We Deliver
NoPause™ Career Coaching
Executive-level coaching that helps women maintain peak performance so they keep growing their careers and growing the companies they lead through menopause without pause. This is the very benefit 73% of women leaders are willing to leave for.
Strategic Talent Retention Planning
Tailored talent and development frameworks and programmes that protect and your talent pipeline.
Line Manager & Executive Training
Training and leadership development that enables leaders to manage menopause as a business and career opportunity.
Brand & ESG Alignment
We help position your brand as a leader in inclusive workplace strategy.
Why This Matters Now
Menopause is a leadership risk and a competitive edge. The companies who act now will attract, retain, and accelerate the most powerful women in the world.
What Companies Are Seeing with NoPause™ Results
Increased impact and executive performance in women leaders
Decreased absence and exits
Higher retention of succession-critical talent
Improved brand reputation internally and externally.
Take Action: 3 Things You Can Do Right Now
Book a confidential strategy consultation → https://themenopausemaze.com/strategy-call
Download our full workplace brochure → https://themenopausemaze.com/brochure
Shift from symptoms focus to strategy.
Final Word: The Window to Lead Is Now
You don’t need another awareness campaign. You need a menopause business strategy.
The Menopause Maze™ is how you lead. With NOPAUSE™ necessary.
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.
Fiona is also available for keynote speaking, panel chairing and conference hosting at women's leadership and business events and for fronting brand campaigns as a leading menopause at work influencer.
For keynote speaking enquiries contact: lreid@themenopausemaze.com
For brand and campaign opportunities contact her talent agent: gemma@pomona.partners