Midlife health challenges can affect more than a woman’s personal well-being. For women navigating perimenopause and menopause during peak career years, changes in energy, focus, resilience and confidence can also affect how they perform and lead in the workplace.
RoxAnne Eli, founder of Apex Executive Wellness, is addressing this intersection through the RED DRESS™ Method, a science-based framework designed to help high-performing women in business address the health challenges that accompany perimenopause and menopause which can affect energy, focus, resilience, confidence and performance.
“Supporting women in the workplace is a critical talent-retention, productivity and strategic business strategy,” Eli says.
A board-certified Holistic Health Practitioner, Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Practitioner and avid biohacker, Eli has more than 30 years of experience in the corporate health promotion and population health industry. She founded Apex Executive Wellness specifically for women in business who refuse to let menopause symptoms dictate how they perform which can potentially compromise the work they love.
Addressing Health Within the Demands of Executive Leadership
Eli created the RED DRESS™ Method after experiencing firsthand how hormonal changes were affecting her own career performance.
Rather than focusing solely on symptom management, the framework is designed to help women uncover the root causes of symptoms affecting their energy, focus, resilience and confidence and provide symptom resolution through realistic strategies that fit the demands of a corporate executive’s schedule and life.
Through Apex Executive Wellness, Eli provides concierge-level health restoration and transformation programs based on a core principle: knowing the factors contributing to symptoms is important, but knowing how to resolve those symptoms for good, with lifestyle changes that fit into a busy lifestyle, is imperative.
Her personalized guidance starts with data-driven approaches to uncover the root causes contributing to a woman’s symptoms. She then helps women translate health improvement recommendations into practical action steps that work within the realities of their fast-paced careers and busy lifestyles.
This approach brings together Eli’s experience in corporate health promotion, wellness and leadership with personalized, data-driven strategies intended to help women optimize their health while continuing to lead and contribute to the success of their organizations.
Connecting Women’s Health and Workplace Performance
Eli’s work also extends to organizations where she addresses the role women’s health can play in workplace performance, leadership and career longevity.
“Showing up, meeting deadlines, KPIs and metrics isn’t the same as functioning at full capacity,” Eli explains. She goes on to say “Employers who are serious about retaining their top talent, must make menopause support part of their talent retention strategy.”
Organizations invest years in developing exceptional women leaders. When those women do not have adequate support, that investment is at risk. Menopause symptoms can impact their ability to successfully lead teams and projects, increase time away from work and lead accomplished professionals to voluntarily reduce their responsibilities or leave the organization altogether. In which case, companies lose decades of seasoned judgment, trusted relationships and women whose ideas and mentorship strengthen the entire organization.
Through her corporate workshops and speaking sessions at conferences, Eli addresses the relationship between women’s health, workplace performance, leadership and career longevity. Her work challenges employers to look beyond just education and support groups when considering menopause-related support. Organizations should ensure their benefits packages offer comprehensive menopause-related offerings, access to in-network menopause-specific practitioner programs, bioidentical hormone replacement therapies and menopause-specific lifestyle and behavior change coaching programs.
Eli’s woman-centered work earned her a feature in Grit Daily’s Ones to Watch: Visionary Women Changing the World in 2026, which was syndicated on Apple News and MSN.
Bringing Greater Attention to Menopause’ Impact on Careers.
Eli is also the creator of The Hostile Takeover: How Menopause Hijacks the Careers of High-Performing Women, a thought leadership movement that brings greater attention to the impact midlife health challenges can have on women’s careers and the organizations that rely on their leadership.
Through the RED DRESS™ Method and Apex Executive Wellness, Eli is focusing on personalized health support for high-performing women while continuing a broader conversation about women’s health in the workplace.
Her work connects the physical, emotional and mental changes women may experience during perimenopause and menopause with the realities of demanding careers, emphasizing both health optimization and the ability to continue leading and contributing within their organizations.
To learn more about RoxAnne Eli, Apex Executive Wellness and the RED DRESS™ Method, visit apexexecutivewellness.com.
