For employers · The Menopause Action Plan
A workshop your people will actually thank you for.
Larger employers are being asked to publish a Menopause Action Plan with evidenced actions in it. Most wellbeing offers aim at the thinking mind alone, so they fail the women who need them most. This is the stress side of your plan, done properly: a three-level model, a live check in the room, and tools matched to the level each person is actually running from.
The deadline you are already on
This year is the practice year.
Under the Employment Rights Act 2025, employers with 250 or more staff can publish a Menopause Action Plan voluntarily from April 2026, and publication is expected to become mandatory from spring 2027, alongside gender pay gap data. Government guidance asks for evidenced actions and explicitly suggests training. The question is no longer whether you publish a plan, but whether there is anything in it your employees will recognise as real help.
Voluntary publication opens for employers with 250 or more staff, next to gender pay gap data.
Plans drafted now. Guidance asks for evidenced, practical actions, and names training and access to support.
Publication expected to become mandatory, subject to secondary legislation.
Dates as published at the time of writing; check the current government guidance for your reporting year.
The problem your current offer cannot solve
Generic stress training applies the wrong tool to the wrong problem.
You cannot reframe your way out of a body-level alarm surge, and a breathing exercise does not dismantle a catastrophic story about your career. When the training does not work, employees conclude something is wrong with them, and stop telling you. Perimenopause turns the volume up on all three levels at once, at exactly the career stage where you can least afford to lose people.
What I deliver
A diagnostic they can reuse, language managers can use safely, and a named action for your plan.
A practical, science-based session built on a simple three-level model of the stress response: the body-first alarm, learned triggers, and mind-led worry, and why perimenopause turns the volume up on all three. Every attendee uses the check live in the session, on their own phone, and leaves with tools matched to their own level. No lecture, no awareness-raising platitudes.
| Format | Best for | Investment |
|---|---|---|
| 60 to 90 minute lunch-and-learn All staff, open invitation. In person or online, 8 to 20 people keeps the live activity workable; larger rooms by arrangement. | A visible, low-stigma first action. Works as the launch event for your plan. | £750 |
| Half-day manager session Line managers and people leads. How to respond to disclosure without panic or platitudes, and where the boundary with clinical support sits. | The manager training the guidance asks for, evidenced. | £1,500 |
| Follow-on 1:1 pathway Confidential support for individual employees, self-referred from the check. The employer never sees who, or what. | The support route your plan can name without breaching anyone's privacy. | from £850 |
| White-label check The three-minute check on its own link with your workshop code, so a whole workforce can use it and the room's split (say 30/30/40 across the levels) can be reported in aggregate, with no individual data. | Included with any workshop. Standalone licence by arrangement. | included |
Prices exclude VAT where applicable. Travel within the Thames Valley included; elsewhere at cost.
Why this, and why one supplier
Four pillars, one programme, one invoice.
The stress side is where I work, and it is the part every other menopause offer leaves out. Around it sit three more pillars delivered by qualified partners: fitness, nutrition and advanced HRT signposting. An employer can name a whole programme in its plan and buy it from one place, instead of four suppliers and four contracts.
Emotions
The stress side: which alarm is firing, how deep, and what settles it.
Read more →Partner · opening soonFitness
Strength, bone density, sleep and energy through the transition.
What is coming →Partner · opening soonNutrition
Food, blood sugar, weight change, gut, and supplements with evidence.
What is coming →Clinician · opening soonAdvanced HRT
Functional gynaecology, hormone testing, options beyond the standard route.
What is coming →Next step
Twenty minutes to scope the right format.
If you are drafting your voluntary plan for this reporting year, I will show you exactly how this slots in as one of your named actions.