Workplace Sessions
Your most experienced women are leaving. The exit interview will say something else.
Menopause symptoms arrive at the exact point in a woman's career when she is most expensive to replace. Most women never raise it at work. Most managers have no idea what to say if they do.
I run two sessions inside companies. One for the women. One for the people who manage them.
The first session is free. I would rather you watch me work than take my word for it.
New Jersey health plans are now required to cover menopause care. Almost nobody on staff knows it.
What it is costing you right now
She is not underperforming. She has not slept properly in four months and she has not told anyone at work.
Two in five employees have considered leaving their job because of menopause symptoms. Some of it shows up in your numbers. Sick days. People going part time. Women in their late forties and fifties resigning with a reason that has nothing to do with the real one.
Most of it does not show up anywhere, which is the problem. You cannot fix a retention issue you cannot see, and this is one nobody writes down.
Source: The Menopause Society
The two sessions
For your employees
45 minutes
Open to anyone who wants to come. What is actually happening in the body, what it looks like at work, how to track it, and how to get a doctor to take it seriously the first time instead of the third. Everyone leaves with a printed one page guide and a link to the full kit.
Nobody has to say anything out loud or identify themselves as having a problem. That is why women actually show up.
For your managers
45 minutes
The conversation most managers are afraid of. How to tell a performance issue from a health issue. The one open question you can ask without asking anything medical. What to say, what never to say, and exactly where your job ends and HR's begins.
They leave knowing what to do on Monday when it comes up on their team.
How it starts
The first session is free.
Not a sample, not a teaser. The full employee session, in your building, at no cost. I would rather you watch me hold a room of your own people than take my word for it.
After that we talk about what else would help your team.
Who is running it
I am Helen Mastanduno. I started noticing something was wrong at 47. It took about two years before anyone took me seriously. When I finally described what was happening to an OBGYN, I was told it was normal and that we all have to go through this. I know now that it was not normal.
I am not a doctor and I do not give medical advice, and that is deliberate. I spent six years training women and five years teaching spin as an ACE certified personal trainer. What I teach is how to get taken seriously, and anyone who needs clinical answers gets sent to their doctor. I say that out loud in the room.
Fifteen minutes is all it takes to find out if this fits.
No pitch, no deck. You tell me about your team, I tell you what the session covers, and you decide.
Or leave your details below and I will come back to you.