I work with organisations, founders and women at moments of change.
I'm Olivia Carr.
I bring 20+ years of business and leadership experience across enterprise, not-for-profit and entrepreneurship to advisory, speaking and direct work with women. My particular focus is midlife women and work.
I help organisations understand how midlife and menopause are affecting experienced women at work, and what workplaces need to do differently.
The Work
Midlife women at work
A menopause policy only matters if women experience it at work.
Many organisations have already invested in menopause policies, awareness and education. The harder question is what happens after that.
Do managers know how to respond? Do workplace practices support what the policy promises? Do experienced women feel able to stay, lead, progress and ask for what they need?
I work with People & Culture and leadership teams to close the gap between policy and lived workplace experience, with the retention, progression and leadership of experienced women at the centre of the work. Explore Organisations →
Beyond Awareness™ is often the starting point. The deeper work is helping organisations turn understanding into practice.
Judgement shaped by having carried the business myself.
I work with founders and leadership teams in retail and consumer businesses who need an experienced outside perspective on the business, brand, customer or decision in front of them.
I've built, led and been accountable for the outcome, so the work stays commercial, practical and close to the decisions that actually matter. Explore Founders & Brands →
Some of the most personal work happens directly with women.
Through The Table, Pause, private sessions and ongoing private work, I work with women who know something is shifting and want somewhere honest to explore what they want now. Explore work for Women →
The Midlife Truth
What is actually happening to women in the middle of their lives, behind the polished careers, families, responsibilities and expectations?
The Midlife Truth is an ongoing body of qualitative listening, research and writing exploring what women are actually living through in the middle of their lives.
Work. Identity. Relationships. Ambition. Bodies. Belonging. Ageing. Power. And what women want from the life ahead.
The listening continues, and what I'm learning increasingly informs my organisational work, speaking and direct work with women.
Ideas worth taking into a room.
I deliver keynotes and facilitated conversations on women, work, midlife, identity, ambition and what changes when the structures that carried the first half of a life no longer quite fit.
My speaking draws on lived experience, 20+ years of business and leadership, and what I'm learning through The Midlife Truth.
Start with what's happening.
If you're thinking about midlife women in your workforce, a founder decision that needs experienced eyes, or an idea you want to take into a room, tell me what's happening.