It has been a pleasure to work with Julie who was recommended by colleagues as an engaging and knowledgeable speaker.  Julie tailored her approach to our requirements, and I was confident the event would go smoothly.

The webinar ‘Let’s talk about the menopause’ covered a range of topics, both with valuable insights for the individual and the organisation, which Julie covered in depth and supported with recent developments in this area.

The event was well attended with colleagues asking questions and commenting on issues, raised the visibility of the topic to a wider audience and highlighted the areas we need to focus on to be able to support our colleagues more effectively.

I’d highly recommend Julie to other organisations that are looking for an external perspective and guidance on their journey for inclusion for all.

The UK Health Security Agency is committed to creating an inclusive, understanding working environment and increasing awareness of the potential effect of menopausal symptoms on staff.  A vital part of this commitment includes raising awareness and recruiting menopause champions from within the workforce.

We enlisted Julie Dennis to train the menopause champions.  The organisation, delivery and follow up was extremely informative, flexible and professional. We have had a positive experience and some great feedback from all the champions’.

We have had three informative, honest, challenging and enlightening sessions with Julie about menopause. We delivered to women who are going through menopause, to managers of people going through menopause and as a general awareness session to colleagues, friends and families.

Julie was authentic and engaging making people feel comfortable to ask questions, share their fears and anxieties and by the end made them more confident to have the conversation about the menopause.

We’re changing the way we talk about the change, and Julie was fundamental in the start of our menopause inclusion!

Julie delivered a fantastic session around the menopause that was engaging, inclusive and factual.  The interactive session had great attendance from our team and the feedback was that it was really informative and helpful.  We will be carrying on this very important conversation!

Right from the start, Julie makes all participants feel at ease which really assists in an honest flow of conversation.  The subject is delivered in a way that facilitates conversation, a must in order to normalise the topic going forwards.

The whole process from first communication to Julie to delivery is seamless and participants really appreciated the welcome email beforehand.

It’s Amgueddfa Cymru’s aim that all staff experiencing difficulties because of menopausal symptoms are supported as much as possible and we’ve been working with Julie for almost a year now to make this happen.

We’ve run workshops for female employees across all our sites in Cardiff, Swansea and N Wales and the first Line Manager Training session was delivered earlier this month.

There’s a real buzz around menopause at the museum and this initiative and training has received overwhelmingly positive feedback.  Everyone’s talking about menopause!

Julie is a real pleasure to work with and with her help we’ll be rolling out further line manager training and creating a network of menopause champions.   We’ve also had a very positive response from male colleagues and will be providing training specifically designed to meet their needs later this year.

Thank you for running our Menopause workshop.  At the University of London we have not yet aired this particular topic but your workshop encouraged us to do that and to see it as something which deserves as much support and flexibility as any other human condition.

You encouraged us to talk about how this was affecting us, discussed some of the more common effects, encouraged us to think about the way it made us feel, acknowledged the effect it could have on our work and our ability to do our jobs.

You talked us though how to alleviate some of the symptoms acknowledging medical and non- medical interventions.  We were all encouraged to think of something which we would do differently going forward.

Your friendly, accessible style in which you shared your own experiences put everyone at ease.  The session was fun yet interesting and provided some really useful information for us to take away.

We now have the courage to take this matter up with the management of the University to embed this in policies such as flexible working and equality and diversity.

At Kirklees Council, inclusion and wellbeing are important to us and getting people talking about menopause feels very relevant to both themes. After posting a blog to help raise awareness and mark World Menopause Day in October 2018, we then decided to run a “Let’s talk about menopause” session for Kirklees employees in December 2018.

We were pleased to work with Julie to plan and deliver this session, and over 100 employees attended. She was a passionate, knowledgeable and engaging speaker, talking to the group about menopause symptoms, the impact at work and ideas for managing and normalising menopause. Julie had also suggested the idea of Kirklees people sharing their personal stories and experiences as part of the session, which proved to be a real highlight. She supported this by speaking to our volunteers beforehand and facilitating their storytelling on the day, which included hearing a male and young employee perspective.

We saw a real shift in the feelings in the room from “tired”, “scared” and “hot” at the beginning of the session to “hopeful”, “informed” and “normal” at the end, and have had some great feedback. Since then we’ve added another blog session plus a package of resources that all employees can access to help support ongoing conversations around menopause.

We were keen to raise awareness of the menopause amongst our retail teams and Julie’s Menopause workshop hit the right note.  Julie delivered the information in a friendly, realistic but professional tone providing both practical and balanced advice.  Following the workshops our Retail Managers reported feeling more knowledgeable and confident about supporting team members going forward.

Julie visited our organisation to present and discuss the menopause and ensured it was an inclusive topic and dealt with in a professional and sensitive way.  We wanted women to understand more fully the symptoms and triggers of the menopause and ways to manage it.  We wanted our male members of staff to understand more fully how they might be able to help female staff during this time and what to be aware of.

Julie was professional, helpful and caring and staff were able to ask more sensitive questions at the end outside of the main session.  The session was a great success and was part of our Health and Wellbeing programme.  With an ageing population and people working for longer, it’s really important to embrace this topic, be proactive and support your staff when and where possible.  I have no hesitation in recommending Julie to other organisations.

Julie is a knowledgable and engaging trainer on menopause in the workplace.  I brought her in to provide some specialist support for my clients who are from both the public and private sector and she received positive feedback across the board.  She is easy to work with, flexible and personable.

Thank you Julie for the clear and concise menopause webinar that you provided for Action for Children.

It provides an easy to follow and very informative overview of what the menopause is, how it impacts on an organisation and best practice solutions. Highly recommend.

Menopause, especially in the work place, is forgotten about sometimes and so it was great for Julie to come in and speak to our staff about the different aspects and how to deal with it, in and outside of work. The feedback from our staff was brilliant and we have since been in touch with Julie with regards to a menopause policy to further support our staff.  Julie was brilliant throughout the whole organising of the event and I could not recommend Julie enough for her service.

Hertfordshire Constabulary are determined to improve knowledge around the topic of menopause at work so we can both reduce knowledge gaps for managers and support female staff and officers experiencing symptoms.
Julie delivered an excellent Introduction to Menopause workshop for our female employees and line managers. Packed with practical information and interactive elements attendees were fully engaged throughout. We all now have a much better understanding of how to identify and manage symptoms in the workplace.
Julie also shared a crucial conversation framework that’s given our female staff the confidence to discuss menopause symptoms with line managers as necessary.

Following an inspirational ‘wellbeing’ session on the menopause I invited Julie in to come and talk to my teaching team on how the menopause can impact working relationships. All members of the team found this a very thought provoking topic including both males and females as well as younger women who have not experienced this life changing stage.

Julie’s own experience as well as her scientific knowledge raised discussion on how individuals are feeling whilst experiencing this stage of their life.  A very valuable and informative session….. where, to date, the discussions around brain fog and hot flushes are now becoming the norm!

A total of 48 ladies turned out for our Lunch and Learn session billed as ‘Pause for Thought’

Not only women experiencing symptoms attended, but also managers who were keen to understand how best to support staff. The feedback from the session was really positive and the information will be sent to the internal Staff Wellbeing group with a view to roll out further sessions.

The session was held in the Council Chamber, and one of the participants commented ‘it was a momentous occasion in an historic room’

Julie uses a great mix of fact, humour and personal experience to deliver an interactive session.

On a personal note I have learnt a few tricks – and I am thankful to say I am sleeping better– this is having a positive impact on my mood, so all round it definitely was a great idea to contact Julie.

The fire service are committed to raising awareness of the importance of inclusion in the workplace and the business benefits to having a diverse and inclusive workforce.

The menopause session delivered by Julie during National Inclusion Week was really well received and quickly got people talking and thinking about the topic more, especially around exercise and fitness.