Menopause Keynote Speaking, Panels and Podcasts: LinkedIn Top Voice
Karen Stein is an Australian keynote speaker, LinkedIn Top Voice, Executive Coach, Menopause Champion and Certified Menopause Coach specialising in menopause in the workplace and midlife leadership. A former Deloitte Australia Partner, Karen supported Deloitte to become Australia’s first Menopause Friendly accredited employer and is now an Independent Panel Assessor with Menopause Friendly Australia. Her speaking brings together evidence-based insights, lived leadership experience and practical workplace strategies.
✅ Building shared understanding and reducing stigma
Menopause becomes a workplace problem when it is misunderstood, unspoken, or left to individuals to manage alone. This lack of shared understanding fuels stigma, silence, and inconsistent leadership responses. As an Australian menopause workplace speaker and LinkedIn Top Voice, Karen delivers keynotes that help leaders and organisations better understand menopause at work and what practical, meaningful support can look like.
Karen's keynotes, panels and podcasts create a common language across the organisation. They build awareness, challenge myths, and help leaders understand how menopause affects confidence, performance, and retention. These sessions are often the starting point for organisations ready to move from awareness to action.
As an engaging and informed speaker, Karen brings experience and insights from the field of positive psychology regarding:
Normalising menopause in the workplace
Employers’ strategies to manage menopause in the workplace for their workforce
Strategies for recruiting and retaining your unfair share of menopausal leaders
Self-coaching strategies for menopausal leaders to increase their self-determination, and ability to make informed choices in support of managing menopause through their careers
Developing an inclusive workforce where everyone feels they belong and matter
Creating diverse workforces which further diversity, learning, creativity and innovation.
Topics are tailored to organisational context and can include:
Hot Flushes, Cool Strategies – linking symptoms to confidence, presenteeism, and performance
Men are M.A.D about Menopause™ – building allyship and leadership confidence
Balance the Scales, Give to Gain – connecting menopause, equity, and retention
Managing menopause in the workplace - thriving through this life stage.
Audiences leave with:
a clear understanding of menopause at work
practical leadership behaviours that make a difference
confidence to have better conversations
actions to reduce presenteeism and leadership leakage, and increase retention, engagement and motivation
a move from fear, uncertainty and invisibility to confidence, clarity and connectedness. Connect with at karensteincoaching@gmail.com to discuss your needs.
