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Arkansas SHRM 2026 HR Conference & Expo • October 14-16 • Hot Springs, Arkansas

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Menopause at Work: What HR Leaders Need to Know Now

Menopause affects a significant portion of the mid-career workforce, yet it remains poorly understood in most workplace settings. This session provides HR professionals with an evidence-based overview of menopause and how related symptoms may impact performance, engagement, and retention. Led by a board-certified OB-GYN, the presentation offers practical, inclusive strategies HR leaders can integrate into existing wellness, benefits, and employee support frameworks—without stigma or overmedicalization.

Key Objectives

Describe what menopause is—and is not—from a medical perspective, and recognize common ways symptoms may affect employees in the workplace. Identify practical, inclusive strategies HR leaders can use to support employees experiencing menopause within existing wellness, benefits, and workplace frameworks. Apply menopause-informed thinking to retention, engagement, and performance discussions, helping organizations better support mid-career employees without stigma or overmedicalization.

Sarah Berg

MD and Founder at Selfority

Sarah Berg, MD, FACOG, MSCP is a board-certified obstetrician-gynecologist and Menopause Society Certified Practitioner with over a decade of clinical experience. She is the founder of Selfority, a women's midlife health education and advocacy platform, and creator of Menopause, At Work, a corporate education program that translates peer-reviewed menopause research into practice across every level of an organization, from frontline employees to executive leadership, and the only program of its kind built specifically for healthcare systems as well as traditional workplaces. She also serves as Principal Scientist for Unbiased Science, a national platform for evidence-based science communication, and is a founding board member of the Women's Health Research & Advocacy Coalition (WHRAC), with additional roles on the Menopause Subcommittee of Women's Health Advocates and the advisory board of Mpowered Menopause. Dr. Berg has briefed Congress on menopause initiatives and the need to make it a public health priority, spoken at the Clinton Presidential Center, and presented California's PIHRA HR Power Hour webinar on menopause and the workplace. Her writing has appeared in TIME, STAT News, and Katie Couric Media. She is based in Little Rock, Arkansas.

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Location: Room 209

Category: Diversity & Inclusion

HRCI Credits:

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This program has been approved for 1 HR (General) Recertification Credit Hour toward aPHR, aPHRi, PHR, PHRca, SPHR, GPHR, PHRi, and SPHRi recertification through HRCI.

SHRM Credits:

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ARSHRM is recognized by SHRM to offer Professional Development Credits (PDC) for the SHRM-CP or SHRM-SCP. This program has been approved for 1.0 PDCs for the SHRM-CP or SHRM-SCP. For more information about certification or recertification, please visit shrmcertification.org.


Please Note: Speakers and topics are subject to change without notice.

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