Thistle Health Collective · GP-led menopause education for workplaces
Accomplished women step back from work every year, not because ambition ran out, but because nobody taught them, or the people around them, what menopause actually is. Dr Romey Giles, a practising GP, teaches both halves of that conversation.
The average age at menopause. Perimenopause, when symptoms usually begin, often starts years earlier, in the early-to-mid forties.
Around three in four women experience symptoms, and roughly one in four describes them as severe.
Symptoms commonly last four to eight years. That is a long stretch to navigate in silence, and a temporary one.
In a large UK survey, one in ten women who worked during menopause had left a job because of their symptoms.
Figures drawn from NHS guidance and the Fawcett Society’s Menopause and the Workplace survey (UK, 2022). Individual experience varies widely.
The background, in plain language. Read whichever part is useful to you.
The numbers, the quiet exits, and the business case for doing something about it.
Read more →Perimenopause, menopause and after, and why knowing the stage changes what helps.
Read more →The most common symptoms, described as they actually show up in a professional setting.
Read more →Practical guidance for women living it, and for the colleagues and managers around them.
Read more →Every session is evidence-based, plain-spoken, and designed for mixed audiences, because menopause isn’t just a women’s issue, it’s a workplace one.
The whole-team session: what menopause is, what it isn’t, what it looks like at work, and how to talk about it without awkwardness. The single highest-leverage session for changing a workplace’s culture around it.
Enquire about this session →How to open the conversation, handle disclosure well, make adjustments without drama, and build a policy that people actually use. Includes scenario practice for the conversations managers fear most.
Enquire about this session →A candid, warm, occasionally funny talk on menopause and working life, for conferences, leadership offsites, and awareness events. Tailored to your audience and industry.
Enquire about this session →Small-group and one-to-one sessions for women navigating the transition: making sense of symptoms, preparing for clinical appointments, and making career decisions with a clear head instead of a foggy one.
Enquire about this session →Alongside her sessions, Dr Romey prepares a tailored organisation impact report: from your workforce’s aggregate demographics, it maps what menopause means for your organisation today, the five-year trajectory, and the effect on your leadership pipeline, ready to take to your board.
Built from aggregate headcounts only. No individual employee data is ever collected or stored.
