For managers and HR teams who want to support colleagues through menopause without making it weird or invasive. The biology, the symptoms, the language, plus a workplace policy template you can adapt.
1 in 4 women consider leaving their job because of menopause. 1 in 10 actually do. Most of them are in their 40s and 50s — the experienced middle managers your organisation cannot afford to lose. The cost to UK employers is estimated at £14bn a year in lost productivity, absence and replacement hires.
This workshop is built on the CIPD menopause guidance for UK employers, combined with NICE clinical guidelines on perimenopause, menopause and post-menopause. We translate the clinical language into practical workplace conversations — what symptoms look like, what helps, what doesn't, and what reasonable adjustments look like under the Equality Act.
The day is built around real workplace scenarios. Pairs practise the manager conversation in real cases (anonymised), redraft the company policy from the template, and leave with the language to handle a disclosure on Monday — without making it weird, invasive or legally risky.
Built on CIPD menopause guidance + NICE guidelinesEvery TESS workshop is designed backwards from the change you want to see in your team's behaviour. Here's what coaching graduates do differently on the Monday after.
Peri, meno, post — what's happening, and which symptoms map to which stage.
Physical (hot flushes, fatigue), cognitive (brain fog, memory), emotional (low mood, anxiety) — and which are the most common reasons people leave.
Three phrases to use, three phrases to avoid — drilled in pairs on a real disclosure scenario.
What constitutes a reasonable adjustment — uniform, hours, temperature, time off — and how to put them in writing.
Adapt the CIPD-aligned template to your handbook in the afternoon, with a peer review before you leave.
Quarterly check-ins, menopause champions, when to involve EAP — without making it a permanent agenda item.
Half-day format. A focused three-and-a-half hour block — the structure compresses to fit the time without losing the live practice.
Genuinely the first time I've left a coaching course able to do it on Monday. The live rounds with feedback made the difference. My 1:1s have completely changed shape.
Pricing depends on group size, delivery mode (live online vs in-person) and whether we tailor the curriculum to your sector. Closed cohorts start from a few hundred pounds per delegate for half-day workshops and scale from there. Book a 15-minute discovery call and we'll give you a concrete figure within 24 hours.
Menopause Awareness is a focused half-day by design — the manager conversation practice is the bit that changes behaviour, and it works best in a tight session. A full-day option exists when you want to combine it with Mental Health First Aid content for a fuller wellbeing module.
We're flexible. Most cohorts run with 10–20 delegates, but we regularly deliver for smaller groups of 2–4, particularly for senior teams or specialised sectors. The live coaching rounds work better with even numbers, but we'll make any group work.
Live online is our default and works well for coaching — breakout rooms make the practice rounds work cleanly. We also deliver in-person at your site or a venue you choose, particularly when the cohort already work in the same room.
Typical lead time from a first call to delivery is 2–4 weeks. We can move faster if you need to — the limiting factor is usually your calendar, not ours.
Yes. The frameworks (GROW, TGROW, observable behaviours) stay the same; the examples, exercises and case studies are tailored to your sector, tools and your team's real work. We discuss this on the discovery call and rebrief the practitioner before delivery.
Yes. Every delegate receives a CPD-certified digital certificate on completion. The certificate references the hours of learning and the frameworks covered, so it can be added directly to a CPD record for any chartered or professional body.
We allocate a TESS coaching practitioner based on your sector. All practitioners are independently qualified coaches (ILM Level 5 or equivalent) with active corporate coaching practices. We'll send the named practitioner's bio after the discovery call.
Two ways in. Book a 30-minute discovery call below, or fill out the form and we'll reply within 24 hours with cohort options for your group.