Speaking
KEYNOTE SPEAKER.
MENOPAUSE EXPERT.
DISRUPTOR OF THE STATUS QUO.
Esther Blum brings clinical authority, strategic insight, and unfiltered truth to the stages that matter most.
In 2026, Esther was appointed Women’s Health Ambassador by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Women’s Health and has spoken at HHS conferences on the critical need for systemic reform in menopause care. She is a sought-after corporate keynote speaker whose clients include Fortune 500 companies and global financial services firms, addressing the measurable workplace impact of untreated menopause on productivity, retention, and leadership.
Esther is a five time bestselling author, TEDx speaker, host of The Midlife Realignment podcast, and consultant to the White House. With nearly 30 years of clinical experience and a bluntness that moves rooms, Esther helps leaders understand why women’s health is no longer a wellness footnote. It’s a retention strategy, a leadership pipeline issue, and a business imperative.
No gaslighting. No watered down wellness. No sugarcoating. Just the science, the strategy, and the audacity your audience needs.
Signature keynotes
Each keynote is customizable for your audience, your goals, and your runtime. Available as a keynote, fireside chat, executive workshop, or retreat intensive.
Make Menopause Your Power Move
Reclaiming Leadership, Longevity, and the Midlife Advantage
Midlife is the decade women have been written out of. Between dismissive medical care, outdated hormone protocols, and a culture that tells women to quietly white knuckle their way through, the result is predictable: your most experienced women burn out, check out, or walk out.
Esther flips that narrative. Drawing on nearly three decades of clinical work, cutting edge functional medicine, and the kind of humor that makes hard truths land, she shows audiences why midlife is actually the most powerful chapter of a woman’s career and exactly how to claim it.
Your audience will leave knowing:
- Why the standard medical approach to menopause is failing women (and what to do instead)
- The three foundations of hormone, metabolic, and cognitive health in midlife
- How to advocate for themselves inside a medical system that often dismisses them
- Why midlife is a leadership accelerator, not an exit ramp
Ideal for: women’s leadership programs, ERGs, executive summits, wellness keynotes, retreats
The Menopause Leadership Gap
The Hidden Epidemic Draining Your Pipeline and What Your Organization Can Do
The majority of women in senior leadership roles are in perimenopause or menopause. Most of them are navigating debilitating symptoms, inadequate medical care, and a workplace culture that has no language for what they’re going through. The result is a quiet exodus of the women your organization has spent decades developing.
Esther makes the business case with receipts. She breaks down the science, exposes the systemic failures in women’s healthcare, and gives leaders a concrete framework for becoming the kind of organization that retains and elevates women in midlife. This talk is for decision makers ready to stop losing their best people to a problem no one is naming.
Your audience will leave knowing:
- The true cost of untreated menopause on retention, productivity, and leadership pipeline
- The most common menopause symptoms derailing senior women at work and why they are so often misdiagnosed or dismissed
- What evidence based menopause care actually looks like (hormones, nutrition, metabolic health, and self-advocacy)
- How to equip the women in your organization with the language, knowledge, and confidence to advocate for the care they deserve
Ideal for: C-suite offsites, HR and benefits leadership, DEI summits, private equity portfolio company events, financial services leadership programs, board level conversations
Disrupting the Narrative
Menopause is costing companies more than they realize. When women in midlife are under-supported, organizations pay for it in productivity, retention, and performance. It may not show up on a spreadsheet. It always shows up on the bottom line.
Esther Blum is the speaker who changes that conversation.
With nearly 30 years of clinical expertise and a delivery style that keeps audiences laughing, learning, and leaning forward, she brings something most speakers in this space cannot: real science, real strategy, and a stage presence that makes a complex topic impossible to ignore. She has spoken at Apollo Global Management, Peloton, and the HHS National Conference on Women’s Health. She does not blend in. She does not water it down. She does not let your audience leave the same way they arrived.
That is the whole point.
If your organization is ready to invest in the women driving it forward, Esther is your speaker.
WHO ESTHER SPEAKS TO
Esther speaks to audiences that are ready for the real conversation. Her work resonates especially with:
- Private equity and financial services firms investing in their women leaders
- C-suite teams and executive offsites
- Women’s Employee Resource Groups and leadership programs
- Corporate wellness and benefits summits
- Healthcare and policy conferences
- Women’s retreats and immersive leadership experiences
- Industry associations and annual conferences
If your audience is serious, smart, and ready to hear the truth about women’s health, Esther is your speaker.
ABOUT Esther
ms, rd, cdn, cns
Esther Blum, MS, RD, CDN, CNS is an integrative dietitian, menopause expert, TEDx speaker, host of The Midlife Realignment Podcast™, and five time bestselling author with nearly 30 years of clinical experience. Known publicly as Gwyneth Paltrow’s menopause mentor through her work with goop, Esther is a trusted voice on women’s hormone health, metabolic function, and self-advocacy.
Her bestselling books include See Ya Later, Ovulator!, Cavewomen Don’t Get Fat, Eat, Drink and Be Gorgeous, Secrets of Gorgeous, and The Eat, Drink, and Be Gorgeous Project. She has been featured in Forbes, Oprah Daily, goop, Well+Good, The New York Times, Time, the Today Show, and NBC.
Esther brings a rare combination to every stage: deep clinical expertise, policy level fluency, and a delivery style that keeps audiences laughing, learning, and leaning forward the entire time.
Peter Pontius, Curator, TEDx Normal 2026
Alejandra Ramirez, CEO, Ready Cultures
Bring Esther to Your Stage
If your organization is ready to have the real conversation about women’s health, leadership, and longevity, Esther is ready to deliver it.