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Why it matters
Executives, senior leaders, managers reported greater negative impact on their careers than younger women/individual contributors especially in areas like salary increase and leadership opportunities.
Hot flashes, hot tempers.
Exec women have enough to contend with and now there’s brain fog and side-eye from colleagues. We’re at peak ability, capability and opportunity when that curveball flies. No wonder we take a shot in the confidence. While this time is challenging for most women, it throws special hurdles at female leaders, that can cause us to slow down, step away, change in ways we don’t recognize, hurting not just us, but the economy as a whole. Think we’re kidding? Keep reading.
Watch this space to learn more about our online and hands-on events designed for women leaders by women leaders.
Curious?
Price of menopause
Source: Korn Ferry/VIRA Health
28% of women have quit or are thinking about it, including 43% of senior executives.
28%
Source: Menopause Foundation of Canada (Deloitte)
The cost to women per year in lost income.
$3.3BN
Source: Menopause Foundation of Canada (Deloitte)
The total of lost days of work per year.
540,000
MEET THE WŸZ WOMEN
Dr. Deanne Simms
Founder
Radical Health care exec,
Clinical Health psychologist
My 3-word menopause:
"Alight…all night”
Deb Dimoff
Founder
Renegade change maker,
escaped corporate exec
My 3-word menopause:
"Am I crazy?"
Janet Kestin
Founder
Coach, creative director
My 3-word menopause:
"Nouns, what nouns?"
Mitra Javanmardi
Naturopathic Doctor
My 3-word menopause: "...Breathe out heat"
Dr. Joanne MacDonald
Reproductive Mental Health Psychiatrist
My 3-word menopause: "That was Menopause?"
Lisa Rodwell
Health + Wellness, Tech, CEO, Start-up Advisor
My 3-word menopause: "Is this early Alzheimer's?"
Dr. Tammy Hermant
Family Physician, Medical Director, Midtown Health and Wellness Clinic
My 3-word menopause: “hot, hot, hot”
Julie Markle
Creative Director, Brand builder
My 3-word menopause: "W.T.F.?"
Both. The wÿz approach is personal and event based, a space for candid conversation with other executive women in the same shoes. Intimate dinners, cafes and cocktails, open mics. (Yes, you heard right.) And programs and workshops online or under your roof, because chances are you’re working with other women who need support and wise company.
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Hands-on
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a place for sisterhood, leadership, wÿzdom
and night sweats
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