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Three quiet causes, worked at for a long time.

Pelvic and sexual health. Late-diagnosed neurodivergent women. Menopause in the workplace.

Three quiet causes, worked at for a long time.

I don't have a manifesto. What I have is the same three conversations I've been in for decades, and am not planning to stop.

1. Women's pelvic and sexual health

This is the through-line of my work and of Desert Harvest — pelvic, sexual, urological, and menopausal health. These are under-researched, under-funded, and under-discussed in clinical studies, and the women living with these conditions are asked to piece together care from fragments. That's what we try to make less true, one product, one column, one conversation at a time.

I speak about it at conferences, in interviews, in the monthly Dear Sexpert column for BELLA, and one-on-one with women who write in.

2. Late-diagnosed neurodivergent women

I was diagnosed with autism at 41. I'm not the first woman you've heard say that. There are a lot of us — quietly, often after a crisis, often after decades of wondering what is "wrong" with the way we experience the world. Autism in women is under-diagnosed and frequently missed, and late diagnosis is still treated as an edge case.

I support and fundraise for AANE — the Asperger/Autism Network — and speak publicly about masking, late diagnosis, and what it looks like to run a growing company as a neurodivergent CEO.

3. Menopause in the workplace

A subtopic of (1), with teeth. Employers build handbooks for everything except the part of women's lives that a third of their workforce is living in. I've written and spoken on what actually changes when companies take this seriously — policy, flexibility, and the ordinary respect of calling it by its name.

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Speaking

Available for keynotes, panels, and interviews on any of the three through-lines above, in addition to the ordinary run of executive leadership topics. Inquiries go through Jim at Capco PR.