Founder & Chair of EY Menopause Community, Alison Martin-Campbell
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:
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Delegate feedback
"Absolutely a pioneer! That woman deserves all the medals going, it takes something special to stand up in front of other people, as in starting that discussion at EY and being open about everything. I can barely talk to anyone about it in my family, let alone in the workplace. Alison is inspirational" - Sponge
"I have heard Alison before at your free webinar. I can relate to Alison and strive to put in place the same at my work" - MND Association