The 3 M's of women and leadership

Women don't experience work the same way men do. It's not because of a lack of ambition or capability, but because our bodies have experiences that men's don't. The kicker is that most workplaces were never designed with these experiences in mind.

In this 90-minute panel conversation, we'll explore how menstruation, maternity, and menopause shape women's careers - from early leadership right through to the senior levels. We'll look at what happens when those experiences are ignored, and what workplaces can do differently in supporting their pipeline of women into leadership as well as the women who reach those roles.

You'll leave this session with:

• A clearer understanding of how the 3 M's show up across a woman's leadership journey.

• Honest insight into the costs - for women and workplaces - when these experiences are ignored.

• Practical actions you can take to create more supportive conditions.

• The language and confidence to have these conversations without getting it wrong.

This webinar is for you if:

• You're a man who wants to be a more informed, supportive colleague and leader and wants to walk away with real things to say and do (not just good intentions).

• You work in People & Culture and want to understand how your workplace policies and culture is (or isn't) - serving women across different life stages.

This is a real conversation with people who know this territory deeply and are happy to get into the details.

Meet the panel:

Robyn McLean, CEO of Hello Period and speaking to Menstruation

Robyn is the co-founder and CEO of Hello Period, an award-winning sustainable period care company. After becoming frustrated with the lack of innovation and quality in the period industry, Robyn, a former journalist, took matters into her own hands. 

She founded Hello Period with her best friend and nurse, Mary Bond in 2017. Hello Period originally started as a menstrual cup brand but then expanded and today they are the only sustainable period care company in the world offering a full range of reusable period products including menstrual discs, period underwear, pads, panty liners and swimwear. Each product lasts years not hours. Hello Period has diverted more than 700 million single-use period products from landfills around the world and is on track to meet their goal of 1 billion by 2030

Jayne Chater, Author of 'A Slight Detour', Women's Leadership Coach and speaking to Maternity

Jayne Chater is a leadership coach, speaker and facilitator who helps ambitious working mothers cut through the overwhelm and design careers and lives that truly fit. She creates spaces where women can reconnect with their strengths, reset their energy, and step into leadership with clarity and confidence.

Jayne’s work blends practical tools with deep reflection, supporting women to integrate the demands of work and life while building careers that feel sustainable and fulfilling. Her mission is to help women self-actualise - not just in their roles, but in the way they live, lead, and thrive.

Kate Billing, Founder of katebilling.com and speaking to Menopause

Kate Billing is a human obsessed, leadership pragmatist with 25+ years in people, culture and leadership. She works with senior and executive women leaders, entrepreneurs and founders navigating the midlife turning point, with a particular interest in the lived and embodied experience of women in this life stage.

At 57, Kate is inside it herself, which brings both professional rigour and lived reality to the conversation. Through katebilling.com and her flagship Turning Point programme, Kate supports women asking, "is this it?" and "what comes next?" as they wrestle with their changing bodies, minds, relationships, identities and careers.

Her work draws on both timeless and leading edge thinking from the fields of psychology, social neuroscience, chronobiology, anthropology, and philosophy, to deliver the ‘whole person + whole life’ development experiences Kate is renowned for.

In January 2022, Kate appeared on the cover of New Zealand's The Listener magazine in a national feature elevating the menopause-at-work conversation. The same year, she founded the Menopause@Work NZ community on LinkedIn, which grew to 2,600+ members and remains the largest workplace-focused menopause community of its kind on the platform globally.

Facilitated by Dr Amanda Sterling an award-winning consultant and researcher who works with organisations to remove barriers for women into leadership. Amanda's work sits at the intersection of gender equity, organisational culture, research and real-world change.