Menopause: The Workplace Issue with No Name — Until Now
Picture this: she's mid-sentence in the budget meeting, crushing the Q3 numbers, and out of nowhere it hits, sweat beading up, blazer suddenly feeling like she’s in a sauna, fanning herself with the handout like it's going to solve global warming. Everyone in the room assumes it's the thermostat. It is not the thermostat.
That's not a one-off. That's Tuesday for millions of working women and most of them are handling it in silence because nobody at the office has given them a script for it.
Right now, experienced women in leadership, your top performers, your institutional memory, your succession plan are quietly white knuckling it through brain fog, sleep loss, and a body rewriting its own rules, with zero language from their organization to make sense of any of it. Some women are underperforming and don't know why. Some are already gone. Most are doing it in silence, because nobody's built a framework for the conversation, let alone the support. That kind of silence is expensive AND it’s costing organizations the exact talent they can least afford to lose.
I'm Dr. Cynthia Shelby-Lane, MD, a board-certified emergency physician, former chief of emergency medicine, a stand-up comedienne and founder of The MenopauseXperience and I close that gap. Detroit-raised, ER-trained, funny on purpose.
Why Organizations Bring Me In
Menopause isn't a private health issue tucked behind a bathroom door. It’s a workforce issue sitting in your boardroom. Women in leadership, in their peak earning and decision-making years, are navigating brain fog, sleep loss, and physical change largely in silence, with no organizational framework catching them. That silence has a price tag: retention, performance, and the quiet exit of the exact experienced talent companies can least afford to lose.
What Your Organization Walks Away With
— Give leadership a physician-level understanding of what menopause does to focus, energy, and performance, so decisions stop being guesswork
— Equip managers with real language to talk about menopause directly, instead of tiptoeing around it or pretending it isn't happening
— Connect menopause support to measurable retention outcomes, turning a taboo topic into a business case leadership already cares about
— Get a speaker who bridges medical authority and lived experience in the same room, a rare combination event organizers can't just conjure up
— A Fun and Lighthearted Conversation to help women find the joy, meaning and laughter in their daily lives
— And, Most of all, the Next Steps…..
My Unique Selling Proposition
As a physician who personally went through “the change”, with all the ups and downs of menopause, I bridge the gap between clinical science and lived reality. I bring both the medical authority organizations trust and the personal credibility employees believe.
Ready to make menopause part of your leadership strategy instead of a topic no one addresses?
AgelessDoctor@gmail.com | 1-800-584-4926 | ShelbyLaneMD.com
Dr. Cynthia Shelby-Lane, MD
Emergency Medicine | Menopause & Longevity Medicine | Stand-Up Comedian
Dr. Cynthia Shelby-Lane, MD is a retired Detroit emergency physician and former Chief of Emergency Medicine at a women's hospital in Detroit. She is board certified in Anti-Aging & Functional Medicine, a certified menopause specialist, and now actively practices menopause and longevity medicine.
Dr. Shelby Lane serves as Chair Emeritus of the Scientific Advisory Committee for the National Cannabis Industry Association and has advocated on Capitol Hill for cannabis research and science in women's health. As a member of the Women's Health Alliance, she speaks to Congress on women's health issues. She’s also a certified analog astronaut candidate advocating with the Planetary Society and speaking to Congress for funding for space exploration and research, especially as relates to health on earth (and, women's health in microgravity).
Few speakers in this space have spoken to Congress or sat on a national scientific advisory board, she’s done both. She is also a stand-up comedian and a graduate of Second City Comedy School, because a subject this dismissed and this serious needs both the “science and the laughter” to land.
Science. Sass. She Gone. I'm your girl.
Ready to make menopause part of your leadership strategy instead of a topic no one addresses?
Contact me to book a keynote your organization will still be talking about next year.
AgelessDoctor@gmail.com | 1-800-584-4926 | ShelbyLaneMD.com
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WHO BOOKS THIS KEYNOTE
Healthcare systems, corporations, Women's Organizations, nursing organizations, EMS and Fire conferences, First Responder wellness programs, and corporate teams navigating high-stakes environments.
PRESENTATIONS AND PAST CLIENTS
- Oakwood Hospital
- Gilda's Laughfest Comedy Festival (annual — 2012 to present)
- Michigan Osteopathic Association (Keynote)
- African American Women on Tour (Domestic Violence)
- American College of Emergency Physicians (Sexual Harassment)
- American Association of Women Emergency Physicians
- Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan (Laugh More — Live Longer, Keynote)
- American Heart Association (Staying Young & Living Longer)
- Macomb Hospital (“Heart Sense & Humor” — Women and Heart Disease)
- Michigan Orthopedic Managers Association (Workshop)
- Real Estate Managers Association (Laugh More — Live Longer, Workshop)
- Leadership & Longevity (Laugh More — Live Longer; Green Bay, Wisconsin) with Brian Tracy
- Henry Ford Hospital Hospice Volunteers Annual Program (Keynote)
- Hope Christian College (Keynote)
- Gilda's Club — Laughfest Keynote and Workshop Leader (Grand Rapids)
- Soapstone Comedy (VR)
- A.R.E.S. (Academy for the Relentless Exploration of Space) — Trained Space Educator
- EMS & PRO Keynote Speaker, 2025 ("Laughter for the Health of It: The Serious Side of Funny")
Science. Sass. She Gone.
AgelessDoctor@gmail.com | 1-800-584-4926 | ShelbyLaneMD.com
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