31/01/2026
When Menopause Experts Group was founded in 2020, it was never intended to serve people at the beginning of their professional lives. It was created for those who were already established, already leading, already building businesses, careers, and communities, and who found themselves entering a profound personal transition at the same time as a professional one.
The majority were women. Women with experience, credibility, and responsibility. Many were running their own businesses or holding senior roles. They were used to solving problems, making decisions, and supporting others. Yet as menopause arrived, often quietly and sometimes forcefully, it introduced changes that could not be managed through competence alone. Energy shifted. Confidence wavered. Cognition felt different. Priorities began to reorder themselves. What these women sensed was not failure or decline, but transformation.
Alongside them were some men, partners, clinicians, business owners, leaders, and professionals who recognised menopause not as a women’s issue to be sidelined, but as a reality affecting families, workplaces, and entire systems. They too felt a responsibility to understand it better and to be part of meaningful change.
Menopause Experts Group recognised early that menopause is far more than a hormonal event. It is a process that unfolds over time, affecting body, mind, identity, relationships, and professional life. It requires reflection, adjustment, and a willingness to change. In many ways, it functions as a modern rite of passage, a threshold that invites maturity, discernment, and purpose, rather than something to be minimised or endured in silence.
Those drawn to MEG were not looking to step back from life. They were looking to step forward with greater clarity. They wanted education that respected their intelligence and lived experience, not simplified explanations or superficial reassurance. They wanted to understand what was happening so they could navigate it well, while also recognising a growing desire to support others who were still struggling to be heard.
MEG responded by creating education that explored menopause in its full context, physiological, psychological, emotional, social, and professional. It acknowledged that menopause intersects with leadership, work, finances, relationships, self worth, and purpose. Alongside this depth of understanding, MEG offered something distinctive and essential: credible business tools that allowed knowledge to be translated into action.
For many members, the journey through MEG became one of integration. Women and men alike were able to bring menopause education into existing businesses, clinical practices, organisations, and community roles, or to develop new strands of work aligned with their values and experience. They gained language, structure, and professional credibility, not only to support clients, colleagues, and families, but to advocate more effectively within workplaces and wider society.
As the community grew, a clear pattern emerged. People did not arrive at MEG because they felt broken. They arrived because they felt ready. Ready to make sense of change, ready to claim authority grounded in lived experience or professional responsibility, and ready to contribute in a way that felt meaningful rather than performative. Menopause became a point of consolidation rather than collapse, a moment where insight, experience, and intention converged.
Menopause Experts Group came to understand menopause as a leadership threshold. At this stage of life, tolerance for irrelevance diminishes and clarity sharpens. Conversations become more honest. Decisions become more values led. MEG provided a framework through which this shift could be used constructively, supporting people not only to understand menopause personally or professionally, but to use that understanding to improve outcomes for others.
What set MEG apart was the calibre of those it attracted. These were not passive recipients of information. They were founders, practitioners, leaders, clinicians, and professionals who already knew how to hold complexity and responsibility. MEG did not teach them how to be capable. It enabled them to align who they already were with what the world increasingly needs: informed, ethical, human centred leadership around menopause and midlife health.
Today, the rise of Menopause Experts Group is best understood as activation rather than expansion. People do not simply pass through the organisation. They carry its principles into their businesses, workplaces, families, and communities. They become points of trust and understanding, modelling what it looks like to approach menopause with knowledge, respect, and integrity.
Menopause, in this context, is not something to be endured or rushed through. It is a transition that asks something of those it touches and gives something in return. Menopause Experts Group exists for those who recognise that moment and choose to meet it fully, turning personal insight into collective benefit and lasting impact.
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