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Find your menopause advantage

Find your menopause advantage •

Meet Karen Heras-Kelly

I’m a certified Co‑Active Professional Coach and holistic feminine empowerment expert who has supported thousands of women globally to feel empowered in themselves since 2012. Guiding women from their 30s through to their 60s - across perimenopause, menopause, and post‑menopause.

I work with women who are in a major transitional stage in their life and leadership journey.

Women who are successful on paper, yet quietly approaching a breaking point. I support them with embodied, leadership‑focused tools that turn midlife into their greatest advantage.

I help them to shift from breaking point to breakthrough, empowering them with proven tools that support them to be unapologetic leaders in all areas of their lives.

I’m the Creator of The Menopause Advantage™ programme, which supports women to move from overwhelm to clarity, from depletion to power, from worn-out to wise. Using proven, practical tools, I help them become unapologetic leaders in every area of their lives and help them to define what fulfilment really looks like for them.

Women are programmed to keep going under extreme pressure while still performing. Women, in particular, are very good at pushing through the signs until one final thing tips everything over. 
 
When that happens, there is a sense of loss - a loss of identity, confidence and worth.

This is also when organisations risk losing some of their most capable leaders.

Today, I work with C Suite leaders, boards, and organisations dealing with a range of complex challenges.  At the same time, I help organisations look honestly at the conditions that push leaders too far.

I create 1-2-1 and group coaching programmes, women’s circles, transformative workshops, online courses. Plus long‑term, values‑aligned partnerships with companies to bring holistic, feminine‑centred support to women at every level of leadership.

Grazia named me as a top holistic professional, giving me the nickname, “The Visualiser.” And said my work helped create calm & focus.

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Find your Menopause Advantage™

My work has emerged from a clear pattern I observed at the very beginning of my coaching practice in 2012: beneath the overwhelm, anxiety, burnout, and disconnection, the common thread was often perimenopause and menopause. These two life‑changing phases touch every part of a woman’s body, mind, and life journey, yet remain misunderstood and under‑supported.

Yes there is a need for wider support, which I call Menopause First Aid, there is also a need to approach our 30s-40s-50s and 60s as cycles - providing a rite of passage for our unique womanhood journey. Flipping the narratives, shifting the experiences and busting the taboos - once and for all.

When organisations overlook life‑stage transitions such as perimenopause and menopause, they often lose experienced women just as they reach senior roles. I work best with organisations that take leadership capacity seriously and want performance that lasts.

This programme addresses what has been missing from the workplace equation by framing midlife as the gateway to greater wisdom, influence, and unapologetic leadership by:

  • Moving leaders from breaking point to breakthrough: naming and moving through the overwhelm, anxiety, rage, exhaustion, and invisibility.

  • Guiding women into clarity, confidence, and impact.

  • Supporting women with tools and support that truly work, and enhance her life & leadership journey.

  • Positioning women as mentors, role models, and future talent.

If you want a grounded, honest conversation, you are welcome to get in touch.

Corporate partnerships

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How we support

We work with individuals and organisations that care deeply about leadership capacity and want performance that is high impact and lasts.

We help organisations understand the lived reality of perimenopause and menopause+ for their people.

We also turn this life stage into a strategic edge - retaining talent, deepening relationships and future proofing their business.

We support C-Suite executives, boards and leadership teams navigating:

  • Periods of transition or uncertainty

  • Decision fatigue, diminished clarity and health

  • Sustained stress and overload

  • Staff retention, inspiration and development

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This is your time

Together, we slow things down - so you can think clearly, make better decisions, and lead with renewed focus.

And we look systemically at what’s really driving pressure, helping leaders and organisations create conditions where high performance doesn’t come at the cost of health.

Together, we shift the narrative from “menopause as a problem” to “menopause as a rite of passage, and advantage.

Because it’s our mission to create a visible movement of midlife women who are heathier, more powerful and more influential because of this work.

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Why women’s health matters

Women’s health isn’t a niche issue - it’s a leadership and retention imperative:

Ignoring life-stage transitions like perimenopause and menopause means losing experienced women just as they reach their full potential. My work brings this into open, strategic conversation - linking well-being directly to performance and retention.

We work with women before, during, and after that breaking point moment - helping them stabilise, regain clarity, and lead without losing themselves in the process.

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Listen to the Say it Sister podcast

Each week, we share unfiltered conversations about the key issues impacting women today. We talk taboos, myths, biases and negative narratives. Alongside our dreams and tales of finding love, respect and peace in midlife. We talk about how we took our power back and reclaimed our voices.

Read my blog

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MenOPAUSE Support is here

Leadership in midlife

Guiding you & your organisation through this important lifestage

We’re here to offer support, solutions and ways to navigate perimenopause, menopause and post menopause.

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Client feedback:

  • “Working with Karen has been one of the most meaningful growth experiences of my life. From the start, our sessions went far beyond traditional goal-setting - they helped me develop true resilience, clarity, and the ability to move forward even in times of uncertainty. What stood out most was the way she brings the feminine into leadership and everyday life - not as a concept, but as a living energy that fuels creativity, empathy, and presence."

    Amalia Chondromatidou, SVP Global Brands and Brand Building Head

  • “Karen has been a tremendous listener and guide during these many months. Her ability to listen combined with her astute senses gives her a view to people’s soul, and she uses these powers responsibly.”

    PATRICIA CORSI - Current role: Chief Growth Officer / FORBES most influential.

    Karen & Patricia worked together in 2017 when Patricia was the Marketing Director for Heineken Mexico.

  • “Karen is a master at taking you deep inside yourself in an instant and balancing that with light-heartedness to create an amazing journey of discovery.”

    RACHEL ROBERTS - Events Director

  • “My work with Karen is the most powerful and transformative I’ve ever done. It’s hard to describe, as it’s subtle but really strong. I look back on the last six months and can’t believe how much my life has changed and progressed. I’m stronger, happier and have more joy and less of the bad stuff that used to tell me I was rubbish. My work, relationships and the way I feel about myself has all changed, in a brilliant way.”

    SARAH POWELL - Broadcast presenter and performer

  • “Working with Karen was like being guided into a new space, filled with uncertainty but feeling completely safe and protected. I felt seen, heard and nurtured so I could calm my mind and explore possibilities and let go of old issues, pain and belief systems. I was able to focus on the inner voice of knowing and intuition.”

    LUCY BARKAS - Coach & Leadership Facilitator

  • “I have worked with Karen over several years and through different roles and career transitions, and she has always been a constant source of insight, challenge and support. Karen has an extraordinary ability to combine practical leadership development with deep inner work. Her wide range of coaching tools and methods helped me strengthen my balance and confidence, stay grounded under challenging circumstances, and effectively lead from a place that feels more empowered and authentic. Every session left me with practical takeaways, beyond a deeper sense of self-awareness."

    Leticia Boccomino

    Global Portfolio Intelligence & Foresight Director

  • "Today I lead with greater clarity, calm and trust in my own voice. The way I make decisions, navigate complexity and show up for others has fundamentally changed. Karen’s coaching has shaped not only the leader I’ve become, but also the person I continue to grow into. I am deeply grateful for our journey together and wholeheartedly recommend working with her.”

    Leticia Boccomino

    Global Portfolio Intelligence & Foresight Director