Protect the Women Your Leadership Pipeline Cannot Afford to Lose
Measure the hidden midlife talent risk affecting sustainable performance, advancement and retention.
Organizations invest significantly in attracting, developing and advancing women into leadership.
Yet many have no way to identify what may be happening before an experienced woman reduces her ambitions, declines an opportunity, requests fewer responsibilities—or leaves.
The Midlife Workforce Alignment Index™ (MWAI) helps organizations uncover where midlife-related functional strain, role demands and workplace conditions may be affecting the sustainable performance and career continuity of experienced female talent.
Confidential. Evidence-informed. Designed for organizational insight, not individual performance evaluation.
Are You Measuring the Talent Loss Too Late?
Traditional workforce metrics track promotion, engagement, absence and turnover. They reveal what has already happened—but often miss the strain developing beneath the surface.
Early indicators may include:
Capable leaders relying on longer hours to maintain performance
Increasing difficulty recovering from travel or sustained deadlines
Reduced confidence despite unchanged competence
Reluctance to pursue advancement
Greater need for flexibility without feeling safe disclosing why
Gradual disengagement or an eventual decision to leave
This is more than a menopause-awareness issue.
It is a workforce performance, leadership continuity and talent-retention risk.
Your organization may know where women are leaving the leadership pipeline. The MWAI helps reveal what may be happening before they leave.
What Is the MWAI?
The Midlife Workforce Alignment Index™ is a proprietary organizational diagnostic examining the alignment among:
Employees’ functional capacity
Professional and personal demands
Recovery and health-support resources
Workplace conditions and manager practices
Sustainable performance and career continuity
The MWAI helps organizations understand:
Where midlife-related strain may be affecting work capacity
Which pressures are creating the greatest interference
Whether workplace conditions are supporting or intensifying that strain
Whether women are reconsidering advancement or career continuity
Which priorities require employee resources—and which require organizational action
The MWAI does not diagnose menopause, evaluate individual performance or predict who will leave.
Private for Employees.
Actionable for Employers.
Each participant receives a confidential individual report identifying areas of strength, functional interference, recovery pressures and appropriate next steps.
The employer receives an anonymized aggregate report identifying:
Shared workforce-alignment patterns
Common performance pressure points
Workplace-enablement gaps
Career-continuity risk indicators
Priorities for organizational action
Baseline measures for future comparison
Employers never receive individual responses, symptoms, health information, scores, support requests or personal plans.
Aggregate results are provided only when the minimum reporting threshold is met.
The Founding Partner Diagnostic
CAD $2,500 for up to 25 participants
The Founding Partner engagement includes:
Confidential MWAI administration
Private individual participant reports
An anonymized organizational report
A 60-minute executive findings presentation
Prioritized organizational recommendations
A 30-day Elevate HER Framework pilot
Employee and employer learning resources
An end-of-pilot engagement and value report
If your organization proceeds with a 12-month Elevate HER license within 30 days of the findings presentation, the full $2,500 investment is credited toward the license.
Is the MWAI Right for Your Organization?
The MWAI may be a strong fit if your organization:
Employs or is seeking to advance midlife women
Is committed to strengthening its female leadership pipeline
Wants to identify preventable talent loss earlier
Is prepared to protect participant confidentiality
Is willing to examine organizational as well as individual factors
Can recruit at least 10 eligible participants
About Dr. Rosanne Woods
Dr. Rosanne Woods holds a PhD in Health Science focused on women’s midlife health and an MSc in Exercise Science.
Through Elevate HER Wellness, she translates women’s health and performance research into practical systems that help organizations protect experienced female talent, strengthen sustainable performance and support leadership continuity.
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