FREE WEBINAR: Menopause Workplace Forums
Time: 1100 - 1200 (This event has now passed. Please email us if you would like a copy of the recording link: registrations@bfi.co.uk)
- Thursday, 5th October
Cost per attendee: FREE
Market-leading Menopause Workplace Forums
A FREE webinar series offering legal guidance and practical advice
Business Forums International are proud to introduce the Menopause Workplace Forums – a conversational webinar series on policy, symptom management, awareness building and the legal framework.
As a key component of our commitment to diversity and workplace inclusion, these FREE events will offer unparalleled expertise and insight, demystifying and tackling the taboos and stigmas surrounding this subject. We’ll give you tried and tested methods for coping, bust some myths, have a lot of laughs, deliver some superb speakers and put you in touch with women facing the same issues across the country.
With three decades of both public events and in-house training under our belts, we are uniquely positioned to share our expertise in:
- Workplace menopause policy, guidance and frameworks
- Advise on employer obligations to avoid potential legal claims
- Train your managers to understand what menopausal women are dealing with
- To initiate constructive conversations to determine what will support each perimenopausal and menopausal employee (hint: it’s not always the same thing)
- How to destigmatise menopause and overcome leadership reluctance to tackle the issue at work
- Give employers the tools to overcome potential drops in morale, productivity, and older employees silently quitting the workforce
With menopausal women the fastest growing workplace demographic, it is vital that your workplace culture is understanding, supportive and inclusive. We've trained hundreds of managers to understand the symptoms, explore workplace adjustments and get to grips with the medical issues as well and empathise and gain the confidence to discuss this important subject.
After these sessions we guarantee you will feel better as well as pick up some practical ways you can help make your own workplace more inclusive and comfortable for this important cohort.
Delegate feedback
"All the information provided was great. The training was easy to follow and it was nice to hear people sharing their experiences, and just wanting to help one another."
"Really informative, felt a very safe space to talk."
"Yes. Elizabeth is an excellent presenter. Well informed, engaging and set the tone just right. "
Which functions will benefit from attending
- HR, DIVERSITY & INCLUSION, OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH, RECRUITMENT & RESOURCING, POLICY & STRATEGY, OPERATIONS, LEGAL, TALENT, EQUALITY, POLICY, ORGANISATIONAL DEVELOPMENT, EMPLOYER BRANDING, ENGAGEMENT, EMPLOYEE RELATIONS, PEOPLE DEVELOPMENT, LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT, IMPROVEMENT AND QUALITY AND ALL DIRECTORS AND LINE MANAGERS WITH RESPONSIBILITIES IN THIS AREA.
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Schedule
Welcome, rules of engagement and introduction
Elizabeth Smith
Director of Research , Business Forums International Ltd. (BFI)
Elizabeth is director of research and a founding co-director at Business Forums International. She is responsible for all programme content and writing, and researches current areas of interest for senior HR professionals in large organisations. BFI is the UK’s leading HR risk specialist conference and training provider, delivering key and timely information to over 3,000 delegates a year both through public and in-house training courses. Before founding BFI in 1996, Elizabeth specialised in researching corporate financial programmes in Asia and the Middle East, based in Dubai. She also worked in advertising and publishing in the Middle East and London. Elizabeth was educated in the West Indies, Saudi Arabia and Belgium before reading Modern Languages at Durham University. She is currently developing an online training course for line managers to raise awareness of menopause symptoms and ways that employers can work to make their workplaces more inclusive.
Alison Martin-Campbell
Founder & Chair of EY Menopause Community /Executive Assistant
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Alison Martin-Campbell
Founder & Chair of EY Menopause Community /Executive Assistant , Ernst Young
Alison Martin-Campbell, 56, is an Executive Assistant at the professional services firm EY. After experiencing hot flushes, insomnia, anxiety, depression and cystitis, the last of these so badly she ended up in hospital, she started to share her research and tips for how to cope with menopause symptoms leading her to setting up the EY Menopause Community which supports employees and their families going through menopause and peri-menopause. One of Alison’s key passions is making people – men and women – feel comfortable talking about menopause, and thinks menopause should be spoken about as openly as any other stage in a man or woman’s life. Alison also feels that it is really important that we create menopause-friendly workplaces, given menopause affects half the working population and for many, they are going to be working for up to a third of their life when they're going through what can be incredibly debilitating symptoms of menopause. In light of this, Alison was part of a team who worked on establishing Menopause Guidelines for Staff and Managers at EY. Alison has appeared in The Financial Times, contributed to Still Hot: 42 Brilliantly Honest Menopause Stories, spoken at This Can Happen 2021: Menopause and mental health - learnings from the UK workforce, given dozens of presentations on menopause to colleagues and external clients, most recently on Menopause & Neurodiversity, and written an article for COO Magazine entitled Why Menopause Matters, Especially In The Workforce.
Legal framework: essential policy, compliance and workplace issues, case studies and war stories followed by Q&A
Richard Devall
Partner , IBB Law LLP
Richard advises on the full range of employment law. He acts for employers, senior executives , consultants, and partners from a wide variety of sectors including financial, media, professional services, retail, and technology. Richard works closely with HR Directors, in-house counsel, and senior leaders to provide support and advice to assist them in the management of business-critical issues, often of a sensitive nature. He advises clients on employee engagement and talent management; the employment and immigration aspects of business transfers, mergers and acquisitions and outsourcing arrangements; governance, compliance, and board reviews; international employee transfers; whistleblowing and discrimination and high-level litigation involving the enforcement of restrictive covenants and risk management. Richard has advised clients, including his own firm, on their legal requirements to supports menopausal staff and assisted them in writing and implementing a menopause-specific policy.
Interactive delegate session
Vicky Jamieson
Natural Anti-Ageing Expert , Better Body Beauty & Wellness
With more than 30 years in the wellness & anti-ageing industry, Vicky has not lost her passion for sharing her wisdom to help women feel vibrant and energised to live a full life. She has featured in wellbeing magazines, been interviewed on HealthRadio in New York and speaks on specialist skin nutrition, lifestyle strategies to avoid burnout and support strategies to guide women through a healthy transition into Menopause. A results orientated wellness mentor and anti ageing expert, her continual adoption of innovative solutions, integrated with traditional methods help her clients have more energy in the boardroom, at the executive table and for their families. This is instrumental in giving women that “energy” edge, personally and professionally. Vicky has a busy Melbourne practice, offering specialised self care treatments and nutritional education to help women harness their physical, mental & emotional growth and creativity at a time which can feel uncertain. In 2020 she launched an online program to guide women to Thrive through Menopause. She also participates in triathlons, the latest three being half ironman races (2022). Vicky thrives on engaging women, sharing her wisdom and seeing the realisations and hope on their faces when they realise there are simple and effective solutions out there to help them on their journeys.
- How self-care can help to reduce anxiety and stress.
- Ways to balancing and regulate hormones through diet.
- Early menopause – causes and remedies.