Understanding, recognising and handling menopause well
Education, guidance and workshops about menopause, work and workload capacity, with practical tools for women, HR and managers.
Overganginzicht helps women and organisations better understand menopause, discuss it professionally and translate insight into daily functioning and work.
Many women notice changes in energy, sleep, concentration or mood during menopause. Sometimes they feel less resilient, more easily overstimulated or simply not like themselves.
This can also become visible at work. Not as unwillingness, but as the result of a physical change that is often insufficiently recognised.
Why focus on menopause at work?
More than 1.5 million women in the Netherlands are going through menopause. Pregnancy and burnout have clear policies, but menopause is often still missing from workplace practice. Overganginzicht shows the way.
Request the factsheetFor women
More insight into symptoms, signals and practical steps during menopause.
For organisations
Education about menopause, work, workload capacity and sustainable employability.
Together with Amplitia
Deeper insight into behaviour, leadership, conversation skills, work wellbeing and employability.
Menopause is often only recognised once friction appears
Many symptoms are seen separately. Poor sleep, fatigue, brain fog, irritability, increased stress sensitivity or slower recovery can appear to be isolated issues.
Yet they can be part of the same hormonal transition. This can also become visible at work. An employee may react differently, forget appointments, become overstimulated more quickly or withdraw. With the right context, there is more understanding and a better conversation.
What Brigitte does
Brigitte makes menopause understandable and discussable. She helps women place symptoms and signals in context. For organisations, she provides education and workshops that contribute to awareness, better conversations and sustainable employability.
- Insight into what happens during menopause
- Recognition of symptoms and signals
- Open conversation without judgement
- Practical tools for daily functioning
- Support for HR and managers
More grip on what is happening to you
Menopause can create uncertainty. You may notice changes in energy, sleep or mental clarity. You may feel more easily affected, recover more slowly or notice that your resilience varies.
For women
Sometimes you may temporarily recognise yourself less. This can affect your work, family, social life and sense of control.
Brigitte helps you gain overview. What is happening in your body? Which symptoms may be related to menopause? What can you do yourself? And when is it wise to seek additional support?
Book a personal conversationRecognisable signals
- Poor sleep and fatigue
- Brain fog and concentration problems
- Mood changes and irritability
- Increased stress sensitivity
- Slower recovery
- Fluctuating energy and resilience
Menopause in the workplace
There are an estimated 1.5 to 1.8 million women in the Netherlands going through menopause. Most women reach this stage around age 51, but symptoms can start as early as 40. About 80% experience symptoms, and 1 in 3 working women occasionally call in sick because of menopause. Menopause lasts on average 4 to 6 years, but it can sometimes last longer, and about 1 in 100 women enter menopause even before age 40. As women work more often, longer and in more responsible roles, the effects on their work and teams become more visible. Yet the topic often remains invisible because employees, colleagues and managers don’t always recognise the signals.
Awareness
Make menopause discussable in a mature and professional way within vitality, prevention and sustainable employability.
Better conversations
Help managers recognise signals more carefully and have conversations with more context and fewer assumptions.
Less friction
Prevent symptoms and fluctuating resilience from being too quickly seen as motivation, attitude or performance problems.
For HR and managers
For HR and managers, menopause is an important topic within vitality, prevention, work wellbeing and sustainable employability.
Brigitte helps make the topic accessible. The focus is on awareness and practical perspective. What do you see? What may be going on? How do you avoid assumptions? And how do you discuss the topic carefully?
What organisations gain
- More awareness within teams
- Better recognition of signals
- Better conversations between employee and manager
- More understanding of resilience and recovery
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- Less unnecessary friction at work
Workshops that create recognition and practical perspective
Brigitte provides education and workshops about menopause for women, HR, managers and organisations. The content is tailored to the target group, the organisation and the specific need.
Workshop for women
For women who want to understand what happens during menopause and how it can affect sleep, energy, concentration, mood, stress and resilience.
- What happens during menopause?
- Why are sleep, stress and energy connected?
- What can you do yourself to gain more control?
Workshop menopause in the workplace
For organisations that want to learn how menopausal symptoms can become visible in behaviour and functioning, and how to discuss signals carefully.
- Which symptoms can affect functioning?
- How do you avoid wrong assumptions?
- When do you refer on?
Combined business session
Brigitte provides the content on physical changes. Amplitia translates this into behaviour, communication, leadership, team dynamics, work wellbeing and sustainable employability.
- Menopause education
- Interpreting behaviour and communication
- Professioneel handelen in de werkcontext
Stronger together with Amplitia
For organisations, Brigitte often works with Amplitia, a trusted partner she is proud of. Amplitia specialises in psychology, coaching, organisational advice, work wellbeing and sustainable employability.
The collaboration is logical and powerful. Brigitte makes the physical side of menopause understandable. Amplitia helps managers and organisations interpret behaviour properly, have careful conversations and offer appropriate support.
- Education on menopause
- Interpreting signals in the workplace
- Tools for HR and managers
- Attention to work wellbeing and sustainable employability
- A safe bridge between health, behaviour and organisational practice
About Brigitte Vissers
Brigitte Vissers has a background as a physiotherapist and work experience in the medical industry, including Novartis and Alcon.
She also has more than 10 years of experience with her own cosmetic practice, where she speaks with women every day, often from the age of 40 and older.
Through these conversations and her own experience with menopause, she increasingly recognised the same patterns, such as changing energy, poor sleep, stress sensitivity and fluctuating resilience. That is why she further specialised through menopause consultant training, focused on the impact of menopause on health, daily functioning and work.
Her strength lies in clear explanation, without judgement and without complicated medical language, with practical tools for women and organisations.
Meet BrigitteHer way of working
- Clear and accessible
- Practical and recognisable
- With attention to the person and the context
- Focused on insight and open conversation
- With room for collaboration with other professionals
Frequently asked questions
A few practical answers for women, HR, managers and organisations who want to know what Brigitte can offer.
What does a menopause consultant do?
A menopause consultant provides explanation, guidance and practical tools around menopause. Brigitte helps women and organisations better understand symptoms, signals and the impact on daily functioning.
Is this relevant for organisations?
Yes. Menopause can affect energy, concentration, stress sensitivity and resilience. At work, these signals can become visible in behaviour, communication and functioning.
Who are the workshops for?
The workshops are suitable for employees, HR, managers and organisations that want to better understand menopause and make it discussable.
Can Brigitte provide a workshop together with Amplitia?
Yes. Brigitte often works with Amplitia. Brigitte covers the physical side of menopause. Amplitia translates this into behaviour, communication, leadership, work wellbeing and sustainable employability.
Is a workshop tailored?
Yes. The content can be tailored to the target group, such as employees, HR, managers or a combined group.
Is this topic suitable for managers?
Absolutely. Managers do not need to become medical experts, but they do need to recognise signals carefully and make them discussable.
Do you want to better understand or discuss menopause?
Get in touch for an introduction, personal education or a tailored workshop.
Brigitte is happy to think along about the right format, such as an individual conversation, a group session for employees, a workshop for HR and managers or a joint session with Amplitia.