This is the conversation that answers the key questions.
Join Fiona McKay for this exclusive NOPAUSE™, Career Conversations Episode for Menopause Awareness Day on 17 October 2025 at 10.00 GMT.
Menopause isn’t just a midlife story.
Most women have heard of BRACA2.
But few have heard of Lynch - a genetic mutation that changes lives overnight.
At 42, Louise Ellis, Associate Director at HW Global, had the weight realisation of not only carrying the Lynch gene, but after meeting Fiona, made a life changing decision to have a hysterectomy and then deal with a big career crossroads that followed.
Now two generations, Gen X and Millenial, come together to lift the lid on what really happens when menopause meets the boardroom, and you are doing everything you can to hold on to your role, reputation and client results.
In this powerful episode of the NOPAUSE™ Career Conversations, Fiona strips away the taboos to talk about:
The reality of surgical menopause in the C-suite - when you’re expected to perform at peak level through personal upheaval.
Rebuilding confidence, leadership, and commercial influence when your biology changes your business life overnight.
Generational strategies- how Gen X and Millennial women are rewriting what professional prescription is required.
Career growth with NOPAUSE™ -the tools to keep scaling your career and company through every stage of menopause at work.
✔️C-suite and senior women leaders navigating menopause while leading teams, clients, or companies
✔️ Female founders scaling their investor backed companies through all stages of menopause
✔️HR & people leaders in organisations serious about supporting leadership retention during menopause.
Lifestyle medicine in menopause is often reduced to diet, sleep, or supplements. But true lifestyle medicine means addressing the whole woman: her health, her resilience, her career, and the leadership-level systems that either support or fail her.
This story is proof that leadership-level symptoms in business and the boardroom require their own leadership, professional prescription.
It demands awareness, adaptability, and intentional career and leadership support that reflects the diversity of menopause experiences, that mostly remain hidden behind boardroom doors for women at the peak of their leadership lives.
This conversation will challenge assumptions and change career trajectories.
It will widen your leadership lens. And it will remind us that menopause is not one story, one age, or one trajectory.
This is not a lifestyle chat.
It’s an inspiring, insightful, and thought-provoking exchange with a young female leader navigating menopause when it comes with a life-changing diagnosis, a career and clients to hold onto.
Be part of a conversation that reframes resilience, leadership, and what it really means to lead without limits through menopause.
Date: 17 October 2025 at 10.00 GMT
Format: On demand video interview
Investment: Free*
Duration: 30 minutes
Please note: *Complimentary access to this product is available for 24 hours only from 10.00 GMT on 17.10.25 in celebration of Menopause Awareness Day. After this period, it will become a paid feature, available exclusively alongside the NoPause™ Scorecard.
Fiona McKay is the world's top peak business and boardroom strategist for elite women leaders in menopause.
She is the architect of The NOPAUSE™ Method - the world's only research-backed and proven, professional protocol to maintain and maximise the performance, leadership and business success of the women sat in the top seats of leadership as they move through all stages of menopause at work.
She works as a professional menopause career and exec business coach, with women leaders who refuse to let menopause deny them the careers and companies they've spent their lifetimes building.
Fiona is a featured menopause at work and menopause strategist in The Guardian, The BBC, ITV and The Financial Times. She is known in the media as The Menopause Career Coach™.
Fiona is the CEO of The Menopause Maze™. She holds a number of notable awards and accolades which inclusde: Women’s Keynote Speaker of The Year, Winner of The Global 100 Excellence in M&A, The Most Influential Women’s Health and Career Support Business Women, Menopause Champion of The Year, Career Coach of The Year, Business Advisor of The Year and is one of the Top 250 Influencers in FemTech.