YES Method | Leadership & Organizational Performance
Your most experienced leaders are running on empty.
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That is a business problem, and it has a solution.
Built for the CHRO, Chief People Officer, or COO who owns that problem (not a general wellness budget line).
Burnout, cognitive decline, and disengagement at the senior level are not personal or personnel failures. They are organizational costs.
The YES Method addresses them at the source — restoring the capacity, focus, and resilience your leadership team needs to perform at the level your organization requires.
A retention crisis hiding in plain sight…
Perimenopause and menopause typically begin between ages 35 and 55, precisely when women are at the height of their institutional knowledge, leadership influence, and organizational impact.
THE SYMPTOMS ARE REAL, SIGNIFICANT, AND LARGELY INVISIBLE …until the departure conversation:
Cognitive fog and memory disruption
Disrupted sleep and its downstream effects on decision-making and emotional regulation
Energy dysregulation frequently misread as burnout or disengagement
A quiet but erosive loss of confidence in leaders who were, until recently, among your most capable and assured
THE YES METHOD WORKS WITH THE WHOLE PERSON
The nervous system, the cognitive patterns, the identity shifts that midlife surfaces in ways that information alone cannot reach.
When your senior women are supported at this level, the outcomes are measurable: sustained cognitive performance, stronger decision-making, improved resilience, and the retention of the institutional knowledge your organization has spent years developing.
THE NUMBERS MAKE THE BUSINESS CASE:
Menopausal symptoms cost U.S. employers $26.6 billion annually in absenteeism, lost productivity, and healthcare expenses
1 in 5 women has considered leaving the workforce entirely due to menopausal symptoms
35% have made career decisions based on those symptoms, including turning down promotions or leaving roles they were built for
$1.8 billion in working time is lost every year to menopause-related absenteeism alone
Most organizations respond with information — a benefits rider, a resource page, a webinar. These raise awareness. They do not address what is actually driving the decline in capacity.
THIS SITUATION DOES NOT CALL FOR A WELLNESS BENEFIT
…IT REQUIRES A TALENT PROTECTION STRATEGY
THE LAW IS STARTING TO AGREE
Sixteen states introduced menopause-related workplace legislation in 2026 alone — up from three the year before — following Rhode Island's first-in-the-nation law requiring employer accommodation. California, Virginia, and Washington have active measures moving now, and a federal bill was introduced in July 2026.
This is shifting from a progressive HR initiative to a compliance question. The organizations that build real support before it's required are the ones setting the standard others will be measured against.
…and that is only part of the issue
The midlife performance challenge extends well beyond menopause, and it affects your male senior leaders too.
Your most experienced people, the ones who hold your institutional knowledge, your client relationships, your cultural continuity, are navigating some or all of the following, often simultaneously:
Caring for aging parents while remaining fully present at work and at home
Supporting adult children struggling to establish themselves financially, emotionally, and cognitively
A growing reckoning with their own health, thanks to years of deferred self-care, sometimes arriving as a diagnosis
The quiet but powerful undercurrent of midlife itself — questions about mortality, purpose, legacy, and what the second half of life is actually for
None of this appears on a performance review. All of it affects performance.
The leaders carrying this weight are not failing. They are human, and at the most complex intersection of professional demand and personal reality most people ever navigate.
The organizations that recognize this, and respond at the level it requires, are the ones that keep their best people.
Four ways to bring the YES Method into your organization
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Experiential Keynotes
An immersive keynote that gives your leaders a direct experience of the work — not just information about it. Available as a standalone event or the opening of an ongoing engagement. Virtual and in person.
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Leadership Workshops
Half and full-day workshops in applied practice. Small groups. Available as one-time engagements or ongoing monthly and quarterly programs that build cumulative impact over time.
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Executive Coaching Cohorts
A structured group coaching experience for 6–10 senior leaders over a minimum of three months, addressing the actual drivers of burnout and disengagement, not just their symptoms.
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1:1 Executive Coaching
Organization-sponsored private coaching for individual senior leaders. Entirely customized. For the leader whose situation requires a level of depth and specificity that a group container cannot provide.
BUILT ON 16 YEARS OF INDIVIDUAL RESULTS
The YES Method has spent 16 years producing exactly this kind of change in individuals — the client stories on our home page reflect the same root-cause work now being brought into organizations.
Every Proposal Starts With Your Data
The statistics above prove this is a real, industry-wide cost. They don't prove what it's costing you. Every engagement begins by looking at your own attrition, tenure, and workforce data — not a generic package built for a hypothetical company. The proposal you receive is built from your numbers, priced against a real outcome you choose, and reviewed against that outcome before anything scales further.
HOW TO BEGIN
Complete the short questionnaire below.
Dr. Allyn reviews every submission personally and responds with a tailored one-page proposal within 3 to 5 business days.
No obligation. No standard package. An honest conversation about fit.