Something is  happening to her.

She is forgetting words mid-sentence in meetings she used to run in her sleep. She is waking at 3 AM and never going back. She is masking hot flashes with extra layers and convenient bathroom breaks. She is wondering, quietly, whether she is losing her edge.

She is not.

She is in perimenopause, or menopause, and her brain is doing exactly what an estrogen-recalibrating brain does. Nobody told her that. Nobody told her workplace either.

One in ten women will leave the workforce because of unmanaged menopause symptoms. Seventy-nine percent of menopausal women would not feel comfortable speaking to HR about it. One quarter of Canada’s entire labour force is a woman either in this transition or post-menopause right now.

We are losing women in the prime of their working lives, quietly, one by one, and most workplaces don’t even know it is happening.

This masterclass is the conversation we are done avoiding.

We are losing women in the prime of their working lives, quietly, one by one — and most workplaces don’t even know it is happening.

This room is built for  three people.

You all belong in this room. We actually need each other in this conversation.

③ THE HR PRO

Knows the workplace can do better, but isn’t sure where to start. Ready to bring this conversation into the building.

What estrogen actually does in your brain. Why the brain fog, the lost words, the mood shifts, the broken sleep are neurological events — not character flaws. You’ll leave able to name what’s happening to you, or to the women you support, in plain language. No more wondering if you’re losing your mind.

A framework of three questions that works whether you are the woman in this transition, the coach guiding her, or the HR professional shaping the workplace around her. Real language. Real conversation starters. Real next steps you can use Monday morning — for yourself, for a client, for your team.

You’ll be in a room with other women, coaches, and HR professionals all naming the same thing out loud. The silence ends in rooms like this one. You’ll leave knowing this is not just your story, it is everyone’s story. And that changes what’s possible.

The silence about menopause at work is not an accident.

So when a woman in her late 40s starts experiencing brain fog, anxiety, and hot flashes, her first instinct is not to ask for support. It is to hide it harder.

On June 11, in the same room, women, coaches, and HR professionals are going to do exactly that.

YOUR GUIDE

Diane works at the intersection of personal reinvention and organizational change. Her work is grounded in a belief that midlife is not a leadership crisis;  it is a leadership catalyst.

After her own perimenopause transition blindsided her at 53 with joint pain, brain fog, low-grade anxiety, frozen shoulder, and a tearful confession at the family dinner table that she was struggling. Diane became a Certified Menopause Coaching Specialist so that no woman she worked with would have to advocate for herself in the dark the way she did.

She combines a deep neuroscience-of-coaching foundation with five years of facilitating Brené Brown’s Dare to Lead™ work, where she learned everything she knows about vulnerability, shame, and the courage it takes to speak the unspeakable out loud.

Diane is the founder of the Midlife Leadership Lab™ — a professional development program and community for midlife women, coaches, and HR professionals ready to understand the full terrain of midlife leadership and build the tools to make a real difference