The Pause Effect Insights
Perspectives on menopause and leadership,shaping conversations that matter for women and organizations they work in.
Yesterday I ran a Power Pause session and forgot about my slides.
I was prepared and had the slides, but a technical glitch happened, and something more true took over: My own experience of navigatin...
Editions 15 and 16 of this newsletter named two things.
The gap: Experienced women at the height of their careers, navigating something that has no language in their working world.
The cost: Not jus...
Let's start with one woman.
One experienced woman at £30,000. Think about what she carries. The client she has held for six years. The team she steadied through a restructure. The unwritten knowledge...
Maritime gave me some of the best years of my career. The global reach, the sense of belonging to an industry that moves the world, literally. The travel, the relationships across continents, the priv...
You have a woman in your life. A partner. A sister. A daughter. A colleague you've worked alongside for years, and at some point, maybe recently, maybe a while back, something shifted. Maybe she notic...
Most organisations are treating 2027 like a distant deadline.
The women inside them aren't waiting for 2027. They are navigating the symptoms right now, today, in your meetings, on your vessels, at t...
UBS and McKinsey estimate that closing the global gender health gap could unlock USD 1 trillion in economic value. A significant part of this gap sits in under-researched, under-supported areas like m...
What the Room Revealed in Ten Minutes
This week, I began a new programme with a group of leaders from a Norwegian company. Within the first ten minutes, the room revealed something important:
When w...
The UK government has committed to introducing mandatory menopause action plans for employers with 250+ employees. Preparation is expected to begin from 2026, with formal reporting requirements follow...
Over the past few weeks, I’ve been reviewing more than 30 menopause awareness quiz results from women across sectors, countries, and levels.
And yet, one pattern appeared again and again with strikin...
THE PAUSE EFFECT INSIGHTS
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