PWI Brussels Thrive360: Thriving Without Pretending - Leadership, Menopause, and the Conversation Nobody Has

This event is part of the PWI Brussels Thrive360 professional & personal development programme for 2026.

There comes a stretch where the job costs more than it used to. The name you always remembered takes a second longer. The meeting you would have owned leaves you flattened. The standard advice is to rest more and push harder, and neither one works, because effort was never the problem.

Menopause arrives in the same decade women are finally handed real authority. Almost nobody names it at work, so capable women quietly conclude they are the ones failing and start planning a quieter exit.

This session names it out loud. What is happening, what it costs women and the organisations that employ them, and how to keep leading without pretending nothing has changed.

Key takeaways

• How to tell the difference between burnout, a bad job, and a hormonal shift, and why getting that wrong costs women years
• What the evidence actually says about cognitive and physical change at midlife, and what helps
• How to raise it at work, with a boss, a team, or HR, without handing anyone a reason to write you off