The Critical Role of The Menopause Influencer for Elite Women Business Leaders

In the fast-paced world of corporate boardrooms and high-growth companies, menopause is a topic rarely addressed and yet, it has a profound impact on the very women leading these organizations. As CEO of The Menopause Maze, Fiona McKay is recognized as the menopause influencer that women leaders follow, she is known across social media as The Menopause Career Coach and one of the most influential voices advocating for the top 1% of women business leaders. These are the women at the helm of multi-million-dollar enterprises, who are determined to keep their careers and companies thriving through every stage of menopause without compromise.

Menopause Is About More Than Symptoms - It’s About Sustaining Leadership and Growth

Menopause affects over 1 billion women worldwide, with an estimated 10 million entering menopause every year. Yet, there remains a lack of understanding, support and must-dimentional tools needed for women leaders during this phase, particularly in business and the boardroom. This is especially concerning for women in leadership positions, who may face additional challenges such as managing a team, balancing work and home life, navigating the demands of investor and public market expectations, and maintaining their career trajectory.

While menopause is often discussed in terms of physical challenges like hot flashes, mood swings, and sleep disruption, for high-powered women in leadership roles, the stakes are different. Menopause can affect leadership stamina, decision-making, innovation, capital raising and the ability to continue scaling businesses in the midst of the disruption and dent to peak performance demanded in business and boardroom leadership.

Why Menopause Must Become a Business Priority

Fiona has seen from personal first hand experience the lack of precision and professional tools available to equip women leaders to keep growing their companies and careers through menopause. Having had a total abdominal hysterectomy and being forced head first into a savage surgically induced menopause Fiona set out on a quest to find the tools she needed to help her regain and retain her peak performance, career and business growth. This quest led to her creating the NOPAUSE method and its NOPAUSE optimiser for women execs and entrepreneurs - the actual fast-track precise and total tool for women leaders she was so desperately searing for designed exclusively to accelerate women leaders career and company growth without derailment because of menopause. In addition she also created for workplaces the total optimisation method - now a multi-award winning programme called The Menopause Maze workplace method.

Fiona says " The lack of specific support for women in senior roles during menopause leads to talent loss, stalled growth, and declining performance. This isn’t just about women's health - it’s about leadership continuity and the future of business growth. Too often, women are expected to power through or step back when they encounter menopause, but with the right tools, these years can become a time of significant professional opportunity."

As a menopause influencer, Fiona drives the integration of menopause strategies into business growth plans. She says "Companies that invest in supporting their female leaders during this phase will retain top talent and outperform those that don’t. This is about much more than health - this is a leadership, business and ESG sustainability issue, and companies that fail to adapt will lose their most valuable executives and pipeline of leadership talent."

Changing the Conversation Around Women in Leadership

Fiona McKay founded The Menopause Maze because she recognized that women leaders need more than medical advice and symptoms sessions during menopause. They need a strategic, business and leadership aligned solution that supports their careers, their business growth, the leadership wellbeing and their careers simultaneously. Through innovative programs like the NOPAUSE™ Optimiser, Fiona and her team provide tailored coaching exclusively for women execs and entrepreneurs and coaching, development and consulting solutions for workplaces that equip women and the wider workforce to enable them to lead without limits.

What It Means to Be a Menopause Influencer

Menopause influencers like Fiona McKay play a crucial role in advocating for women in menopause. Through their expertise and platforms, they are able to raise awareness, reach and really mobilise global audiences and spark important conversations.

Fiona’s role as a menopause influencer in the UK and The US goes far beyond awareness. She is at the forefront of creating real, actionable change around the world. She has been a key campaigner for the HRT pre-payment certificate in England, is called on regularly by the media as an expert menopause and business growth strategist, researcher, and is influencing global health reform for women, equipping women to start and scale companies through menopause ensuring that menopause becomes a strategic priority in leadership development, corporate policy and healthcare reform. In addition to a string of accolades, she was voted The Most Influential Health and Career and Support Business Woman 2024, and Menopause Champion of the Year.

Making Menopause a Strategic Business Imperative

Fiona McKay is a menopause coach on a mission to make menopause a central part of business growth, human capital planning, talent and retention strategies, and part of economic prosperity and gender acceleration for economies. Through her work with The Menopause Maze, she ensures that every female leader has the resources and support she needs to grow her career and her company from peri-menopause to post menopause.

Whether you are a top-level female executive or growth entrepreneur navigating menopause, or a business leader seeking to retain your female talent, now is the time to take action. Fiona McKay and The Menopause Maze are leading the way in transforming menopause into a business and growth opportunity, helping women lead without limits and continue growing their careers and companies without compromise whilst thriving through all stages of their careers.