Lisa Snowdon

Why organisations work with Lisa Snowdon

• She has spent two decades in front of national audiences on Capital FM, ITV and Sky, and brings that presence into a room that has never discussed menopause out loud before.
• Her advocacy is organised, not anecdotal. As a founding voice in Menopause Mandate alongside Davina McCall and Mariella Frostrup, she has helped move menopause from a private health issue into a policy and workforce conversation.
• Just Getting Started (HarperCollins, 2023) gives the talk a specific evidence base on perimenopause, HRT, and the lived realities of midlife, rather than a generic wellbeing pitch.
• She makes the topic accessible to mixed audiences, including male senior leaders who may never have heard the word “perimenopause” used in a professional setting.
• Her fashion correspondent role on This Morning and her We’re Not Getting Any Younger podcast keep her closely connected to how midlife women actually talk about their lives, which informs how she addresses them at work.

Biography highlights

• Fashion correspondent, ITV This Morning.
• Author, Just Getting Started: Lessons in life, love and menopause, HarperCollins, 2023.
• Co-presenter, Capital FM Breakfast Show, London, 2008 to 2014. Show won Breakfast Show of the Year at the 2014 Sony Radio Academy Awards.
• Host, Britain’s Next Top Model, Living TV / Sky, 2006 to 2009.
• Celebrity MasterChef Champion, BBC, 2022.
• Founding voice in Menopause Mandate alongside Davina McCall, Mariella Frostrup and MP Carolyn Harris.

Biography

Most workplaces have a policy on parental leave. Very few have anything coherent on the decade that follows it. Menopause sits in that gap, and it is one of the most consistent reasons women leave senior roles in their late forties and fifties. Snowdon’s contribution is to make that conversation routine rather than uncomfortable.

She came to it through her own experience and a national platform. After two decades modelling at the top of the industry, including the Gucci campaigns, she moved into broadcasting, co-hosting Capital FM’s London Breakfast Show for six years and presenting Britain’s Next Top Model on Sky. The Capital show won Breakfast Show of the Year at the 2014 Sony Radio Academy Awards while she was on it.

The advocacy work is structured. Just Getting Started (HarperCollins, 2023) sets out what perimenopause actually feels like, what the treatment options are, and where the gaps in clinical and workplace support sit. Through Menopause Mandate, alongside Davina McCall, Mariella Frostrup and MP Carolyn Harris, she has pushed for changes to NHS prescribing, HRT availability and workplace policy.

For organisations, the value is specific. Many internal menopause initiatives stall because the topic feels too clinical for HR and too personal for line managers. Snowdon’s sessions move the conversation past that block by giving people permission, vocabulary and a credible voice they recognise from their living rooms.

Key speaking topics

• Menopause in the workplace
• Midlife women’s health
• Breaking workplace taboos
• Confidence and reinvention after forty
• Women, ageing and visibility
• Body image and self-image

Ideal for

• HR, DEI and wellbeing leads designing menopause and women’s health policy
• Leadership audiences where the topic has not yet been opened
• Internal networks for women in midlife and their allies
• Industry events seeking a recognisable voice on midlife and longevity

Audience outcomes

• A clear sense of how menopause shows up in performance, retention and engagement data
• Language that line managers can actually use without embarrassment
• Familiarity with the current UK policy and clinical landscape, including HRT access
• Honest, lived perspective from someone who has navigated the transition publicly
• A starting point for designing or strengthening a menopause-at-work programme