Speaking & Workshops — Lisa Mary Carroll, COL (Ret.), JD

The quiet cost

Your most experienced women are hitting the convergence — and some are leaving.

Somewhere between 45 and 55, a leader's hardest decade arrives all at once: menopause, teenagers and tuition, aging parents, and the pressure of being the woman everyone behind her is watching. It rarely shows up as a resignation letter. It shows up as a top performer who quietly steps back — or steps out. That is a retention problem with a price tag, and most organizations never name it.

2 in 5

women have considered leaving — or have left — a job because of menopause symptoms.

$1.8B

in missed workdays each year tied to unsupported menopause in the workforce.

45+

the age of the fastest-growing segment of the senior female workforce — your bench of experience.

Figures drawn from The Menopause Society's workplace consensus research and the Society for Women's Health Research.

The workshop

One room. One day. A plan they take back to their desk.

This isn't a lunch-and-learn or a slide deck about hot flashes. It's a working day built from the room's own questions — gathered in advance through a short, confidential survey — that moves a group of senior women from "I thought it was just me" to "here's exactly what I'm going to do."

RecognitionI see you.

The opening frame: who you are, what you're carrying, and why I — a retired Air Force Colonel and attorney who has navigated the top of two male-dominated worlds while raising three children — understand this convergence from the inside. The room is seen before it's taught.

ii.

EvidenceYou're not alone — and this is real.

Drawn from the pre-survey, the room sees its own experience reflected back in the data: this is what you are living, this is what the evidence says, and this is the cost — to you and the organization — of pretending it isn't happening. Honest, sourced, no hype.

iii.

The turnStop being navigated. Navigate.

The pivot from awareness to agency. You don't have to let this stage run you, your career, or your confidence. This is the heart of the day — where information becomes resolve and women decide they are at the wheel.

iv.

ActionWalk out with your plan.

A facilitated working session, grouped by stage, symptom, or pressure, where each woman builds a personalized, real-world plan she can apply on Monday morning — for her own performance and for how she leads the people behind her. They leave with something built, not just felt.

Who it's for & how it runs

Built for the room you actually need to keep.

This day is for

Senior and high-performing women navigating midlife at the top of their careers
Women's leadership networks, ERGs, and affinity groups
Organizations serious about retaining experienced female talent
Teams where the next generation of women is watching who stays

How it works

One full day, delivered in person, anywhere you need me
Confidential pre-survey shapes the content to your room
Optional companion session for managers and leaders who support these women
Tailored per engagement — let's design the right fit on a call

Lisa Mary Carroll, COL (Ret.), JD

Retired US Air Force Colonel & Judge Advocate · International & domestic attorney · Professor of international criminal law

30 yrsleading diverse teams of all sizes — military, civilian, joint, national, and international-organization environments

Colonelreached the pinnacle of the Air Force Judge Advocate career field over 22 years of service

NATOLegal Adviser to the US Military Representative to the NATO Military Committee · first American on the Executive Committee of the NATO Committee on Gender Perspectives

Deployedoperational tours in Iraq and Kyrgyzstan, advising at every level from tactical to strategic

Professorteaching since 1998, in person and online — from paralegals to practicing attorneys — including Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), the NATO School (Oberammergau), and the US Air Force Judge Advocate General's School

I started as a juvenile prosecutor in New York City in the wake of 9/11, left to teach at the University of Central Florida, and joined the Air Force in 2003 out of a sense of purpose. I joined for the calling. I stayed because I was making a difference. Over the next two decades I served across the Pacific, Europe, NATO, domestic wings, and deployed environments — and made Colonel, the top of my field.

I did all of it while raising three children and personally navigating fifteen years of perimenopause and menopause. So when I talk about leading at the top of your game while life arrives all at once, I'm not theorizing. I lived every piece of it at the same time.

My work sits on the evidence — the researchers and clinicians actually moving this field forward — never on wellness-influencer noise. But credentials aren't what change a room. What changes a room is making people feel seen, then handing them the power to act. That's the day I deliver.

You navigate it. It doesn't navigate you.