POWERFUL WOMEN PLEASE STAND UP!

Fiona Scott
5 min readNov 8, 2024
Kate Usher is an expert around menopause, supporting organisations to care for and retain their amazing staff

This week I’m thrilled to share stories from three powerful UK-based women who are on my platform Scott Media Speakers. These women all have a mission to have an impact and to educate, inform and inspire others and I’m proud to be associated with them. First up, meet Kate Usher:

Making Menopause Matter At Work

Kate Usher marked World Menopause Day last month with new ideas for workplace support. She works tirelessly to change how businesses think about menopause, with talks that bring real change to offices right across the country and across borders.

At a recent Sky TV session, she sat down with managers and staff, where one team leader shared his real-world experience of helping menopausal colleagues. His openness about supporting women in his team set a new standard for workplace talks.

Her work in male-heavy industries has been a revelation — even to her. At a morning meeting for Real Estate Balance and Maples Teasdale, 95% of those in the room were male.

She works in Europe too, recently working with VIB, a Flemish research group, to talk about gaps in menopause studies.

Her newest project is with Hammersmith and Fulham Council to help women who might struggle to get support. Working with local faith groups and charities, she’s creating guides in many…

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Fiona Scott
Fiona Scott

Written by Fiona Scott

Fiona has been a UK journalist for more than 30 years as well as being a freelance tv producer director. She’s also had her own media consultancy since 2008.

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