
EXECUTIVE COACH
AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
MENOPAUSE CHAMPION & GROUP COACH
KAREN STEIN
MIDLIFE LEADERSHIP SERIES
Midlife is a defining stage of leadership.
It is where experience is high, expectations are higher, and the way you lead needs to evolve.
I help leaders navigate this shift with clarity, confidence, and sustained impact.
Empowering midlife leaders to be their best selves
Success begins with a single choice.
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THE MIDLIFE SHIFT
Midlife is a defining moment.
At this stage, leaders bring experience, wisdom, resilience, and perspective.
They are often at their most capable and most influential.
Yet this is also where complexity deepens.
Leaders often experience:
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shifting energy and focus
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questions of identity and direction
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rising self-doubt or pressure.
For women, this may include perimenopause and menopause.
For men, it may include evolving identity, pressure, and changing leadership expectations.
At the same time, organisations may see:
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leadership leakage
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presenteeism
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confidence and wellbeing erosion.
What I see in organisations is capability being undermined by context.
This is where The Midlife Leadership Series focuses.
Through Midlife Momentum™, I strengthen how leaders lead from within, building clarity, focus, and self-awareness.
Through M.A.D about Menopause™, I help individuals and organisations understand and respond to perimenopause and menopause as a wellbeing, leadership and workplace issue, strengthening confidence, connection and retention.
Together, these create leaders who are confident, capable, and connected, and organisations that retain and elevate their most experienced talent.
When midlife leaders are supported well, their shift is powerful.
Leaders move forward with clarity, confidence, and impact.
The Midlife Leadership Series provides leaders and organisations with strategies and practices in support of their continued success.
Midlife Momentum™
For all leaders navigating midlife
Keynotes | Executive Coaching | Workshops
Lead with clarity. Strengthen confidence. Sustain performance.
M.A.D about Menopause™
Making a Difference in the Workplace
Keynotes | Coaching | Workshops |
Support yourself & your people. Retain talent. Strengthen your leadership pipeline.

With more than 30 years in professional services, including 24 years as a Deloitte Partner, I bring deep leadership experience together with evidence-based coaching.
As an Executive Coach, Keynote Speaker, and author of Be Your Own Leadership Coach (self-coaching strategies to lead your way), I work at the intersection of leadership, midlife, and meaningful workplace change.
I work with organisations delivering keynotes, leadership programs, and coaching programs which are practical, evidence-based, and designed to create real change.
Blending commercial leadership experience with coaching psychology, I help leaders and organisations move from awareness to action.


International award-winning book




Karen's international-award winning book, 'Be your own leadership coach (self-coaching strategies to lead your way)' is increasing the equity of access to self-coaching strategies, and filling the backpacks of leaders with coaching practices.


NOW is the time
to lead your way.
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