Menopause at work needs more than awareness. It needs infrastructure.

VelaHR gives employers the assessments, manager training, workplace tools and private employee support needed to turn good intentions into consistent action.

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$26.6B

Estimated annual cost of menopause symptoms to United States employers and the health system — $1.8 billion in lost work time and $24.8 billion in related medical expenses. Mayo Clinic Proceedings, 2023.

The business problem

The cost is already on your books.

It shows up as absence, as a strong manager who stops putting herself forward, as a resignation you didn't see coming — usually in the years an employee is most experienced and hardest to replace.

An awareness webinar in October does not change what happens in a one-to-one conversation in February, when an employee asks her manager for an adjustment and he has no idea what he is allowed to say. That gap is where the cost sits, and closing it takes infrastructure, not intent.

Where to begin

Start where your organization is.

Start with a workplace readiness engagement, a practical manager workshop or a private manager cohort. We will recommend the scope that fits your organization and identify any ongoing support you need.

Most employers start here

Compliance Readiness + Implementation

Workplace Readiness

Choose the assessment scope that fits your organization. VelaHR delivers the reviewed baseline, practical tools and action plan; your team owns execution after delivery.

U.S. Compliance Readiness + Implementation: four weeks; founding engagements from $6,500
Readiness Sprint: lighter 2–3 week scope; $3,500–$4,500
Founding UK Employer Pilot: £1,495; five employers
Additional hands-on implementation and attorney review are scoped separately

VelaHR provides jurisdiction-informed workplace education and operational guidance. It does not provide legal advice, certify compliance or replace qualified counsel. Optional attorney review is priced separately.

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Manager Learning

Choose a focused workshop or a deeper private manager cohort.

Employer Workshops: $1,500–$3,000
Your proposal defines session length, format, participant count, preparation, resources and included customization
Travel and additional services are quoted separately
Manager Certification: private four-session cohorts from $9,500

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Ongoing Support

Extend the work after the initial engagement when your organization needs more support.

Additional implementation support scoped separately
Role-specific employee, manager and HR tools
Annual platform access with custom employer pricing
Available and planned capabilities confirmed in the employer proposal

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How this works

One pathway, entered wherever you are.

Speaking

Workshop

Assessment

Manager Certification

Implementation

Annual Platform

No employer is expected to buy every stage. Most begin in the middle — a workshop to open the conversation, or an assessment to find out what they are actually working with. Start with the one that matches where you are.

The platform

What keeps it running after the training ends.

Workshops and assessments change what an organization knows. The platform is what holds it in place — so a manager who needs the right words in March can find them in March.

Private employee support

Aria, VelaHR's AI assistant, answers employee questions and helps them prepare for a conversation with a manager, HR, or their own clinician.

Manager tools

Scripts, scenarios and accommodation guidance, available at the moment a manager needs them rather than six months after the session.

Policy and accommodation library

Templates and toolkits your HR team can adapt to your own policy language.

Benefits navigation

Helps employees find and actually use the coverage you already pay for.

Measurement and reporting

Aggregate, anonymized reporting on participation and manager training progress.

Who we serve

Built for workplaces where people cannot simply log off.

Corporations

Mid-market and enterprise employers carrying the retention cost in their most experienced people.

Healthcare systems

Shift-based clinical workforces where scheduling and uniform policy meet symptoms directly.

School districts

Classroom staff with fixed schedules, limited breaks, and little room to step away.

Government agencies

Public employers with formal accommodation processes and clear documentation requirements.

Trust and boundaries

Privacy starts with clear boundaries.

Organizational information

Readiness assessments use organizational practices and documents
No sensitive individual employee-health information is requested for the readiness engagement
Manager learning may include administrative completion records
Purchased reporting is defined in the employer agreement

Product-specific controls

Employee-support usage is distinct from training administration
Access, retention and reporting depend on the purchased configuration
Aggregate reporting requires verified privacy thresholds
Final controls are documented before employer deployment

VelaHR provides workplace education, policy tooling and employee support. VelaHR does not provide medical diagnosis, medical treatment, therapy or clinical care, and does not provide legal advice. Employers should consult their own counsel on legal obligations, and employees should consult a qualified clinician on medical decisions.

Jana Rose Stewart, Founder and CEO of VelaHR

Meet Jana

I built the thing I needed my employer to already have.

I spent more than twenty years inside large organizations, and more than thirty years in fitness and health. I knew my body as well as anyone. And I still did not recognize perimenopause when it arrived.

If it took me that long — with that background — to understand what was happening to me, the women on your teams are not going to raise their hands either. They will work around it quietly. Some of them will step back from the next role. Some will leave, and the exit interview will say something else entirely.

That is not a women's problem to solve on their own time. It is an operating problem, and it responds to the same things every other operating problem responds to: a clear standard, trained managers, and a way to tell whether it is working.

Jana Rose Stewart Founder & CEO, VelaHR

More than 20 years of corporate experience, including IBM, GlaxoSmithKline, Arthur Andersen and Unity. More than 30 years in fitness and health, and a former WNSO professional athlete. B.S. in Business Economics and M.P.A., Florida A&M University. Speaker on workplace menopause, midlife leadership, reinvention and AI.

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Speaking

Bring the conversation into the room.

Jana speaks to employers, conferences and executive audiences in two lanes — what menopause costs a workplace, and what AI makes possible for the people leading through midlife.

Menopause and work

Menopause at Work: What Managers Need to Know
The $150,000 Leadership Retention Problem
From Awareness to Infrastructure
Retaining Experienced Women Through Midlife
Accommodations, manager confidence, and culture

AI, leadership and midlife

Practical AI for women leaders
Reinvention, AI, and the future of work
Responsible AI in sensitive workplace settings
Using AI to extend expertise and leadership capacity
Building boldly in midlife

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The Velas

For the women the workplace keeps underestimating.

The Velas is a growing community of bold women navigating midlife, reinvention, ambition, health, leadership, and whatever comes next. Conversations, interviews and gatherings — separate from the employer work, and the reason it exists.

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Employer insights

Briefings for people who have to make the case internally.

Sourced, dated material HR leaders can forward to a CFO without having to caveat it.

Legislative and policy updates

What is in force, what is pending, and which jurisdictions your workforce sits in.

Manager guidance

Practical briefs on accommodation requests, documentation, and the interactive process.

Research summaries

Plain-language summaries of the workplace evidence, with the primary sources attached.

The Michigan Menopause at Work Report

An annual employer-side benchmark, in development for first publication in 2027.

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Michigan Menopause-Friendly Workplace Challenge. VelaHR founded and administers the Michigan Menopause-Friendly Workplace Challenge and also offers optional paid implementation services. Employers are never required to purchase services from VelaHR or any listed provider, and provider selection does not affect recognition decisions.

Find out where your organization actually stands.

A 30-minute conversation with Jana. No deck, no obligation — just a clear read on what you have, what you are missing, and what it would take to close the gap.

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