The Power of Performance Strategy Behind the Social Season

Royal Ascot marks more than just the start of the social season, it’s a calendar highlight where relationships are built, reputations elevated, and real commercial conversations unfold over champagne and canapés.

But what happens when you're navigating perimenopause or menopause at the same time?

That’s the reality for many of today’s top women in leadership. And three women CEOs I coach didn’t just survive Royal Ascot, they successfully led through it.

They hosted stakeholders. Held influence. And kept their executive edge because they had a NOPAUSE™ strategy.

Communication Is Your Commercial Currency Until Menopause Gets in the Way

For high-performing women, events like Royal Ascot aren’t just social, they’re strategic. You’re:

• Hosting clients

• Nurturing investor relationships

• Advancing internal influence

• Representing brand, board and business in real time

But menopause doesn’t respect the business or social calendar.

Recall delay, internal doubt and self-sabotage of your abilities, energy fluctuations - these silent symptoms can quietly erode your ability to lead with clarity, grace and gravitas, especially in high-visibility, high-pressure environments.

And the risk isn’t just personal. It's professional.

What 3 CEO Women Did Differently at Ascot

Three women I work with; each leading multi-million pound businesses approached this year’s season with a private brief:

“I can’t afford to lose impact. I need to show up sharp. Help me protect my edge.”

Here’s what we focused on:

• Reclaiming communication fluency

• Calibrating performance and presence for long days of social hosting

• Managing overstimulation and mental fatigue without stepping back

• Reshaping and rehearsing key client messaging for consistency and clarity

• Building a discreet, menopause-informed social strategy to stay influential and in control

The result? They didn’t just get through Ascot - they galloped through it!

Fiona McKay, CEO at The Menopause Maze at Royal Ascot being interviewed by ITV Racing.

The Menopause Coach Advantage: Strategy Behind the Stamina

The women I support aren’t slowing down. They’re scaling.
They don’t want sympathy or support circles. They want solutions that restore their strategic edge.

That’s exactly what we deliver through the NOPAUSE™ Advantage, a high-trust, performance-focused approach built exclusively for C-suite women and female founders navigating menopause inside high-growth, high-stakes leadership.

We help women:

• Diagnose where menopause is silently costing them performance, influence or revenue

• Restore cognitive clarity and executive stamina

• Re-align growth strategies around their leadership strengths

• Reclaim their presence and impact at events, in boardrooms, and on investor calls

Because it’s not about pushing through. It’s about leading smart with the right strategic support.

What’s Menopause Really Costing You?

Over 1 million women which in the UK is showing as 1 in 10 are leaving the workforce early due to menopause in the UK alone a hidden exodus with a measurable cost to companies as many CEO women leaders are at the peak of their careers. And yet, most leadership-level women don’t talk about it until it’s already started to erode results.

That’s why we created the NOPAUSE™ Scorecard: the world’s only precision diagnostic - a fast, strategic tool to help ambitious women pinpoint in under 5 minutes where menopause is costing their C-suite careers, and what to do about it.

Final Word: Menopause Isn’t the End of Performance. It’s the Wake-Up Call.

If you’re leading clients, investors or teams through the summer season while navigating menopause, the most powerful decision you’ll make isn’t what to wear to Ascot.

It’s deciding who’s helping you lead without limits.

I work with women who refuse to fade or falter.

If that’s you start now.

Get The World's Only Precision Diagnostic To Tell You What Menopause Is Costing Your Career & Your Company

Imagine being able to pinpoint and reveal exactly what menopause is costing you, your company and your career.

Now you can.

👉 Take the Scorecard to see what’s at risk and how to fix it fast!

About Fiona McKay

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.

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