HR Insights: Losing your leaders without a menopause strategy

About this episode

The episode discusses the impact of menopause on leadership retention and the importance of menopause-related benefits in retaining female talent.

73% of women leaders say they would change companies for menopause-related benefits. Earlier this year, in our episode with Maggie Lester, we explored how menopause is beginning to take its place on the benefits agenda, but with a lot of work still to do. To continue this conversation, Stuart welcomes back Fiona McKay, CEO of Lightbulb and Founder of The Menopause Maze, to unpack how menopause impacts leadership retention and the loss of female talent. Together, Stuart and Fiona discuss the c...

People in this episode

Host: Stuart

Guest: Fiona McKay

Topics covered

• menopause
• leadership retention
• female talent
• employee benefits
• workplace strategy

Keywords

• menopause
• leadership
• female leaders
• employee benefits
• talent retention

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Lightbulb, The Menopause Maze

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