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WOMEN’S HEALTH | MENOPAUSE | LIFESTYLE MEDICINE

Women's Health Science
That Moves You

I deliver powerful, evidence-based keynotes, webinars, workshops, clinician education, and retreat programs on menopause, women’s health across the lifespan, lifestyle medicine, survivorship, and healthy aging. I pair rigorous science with human stories and practical next steps so audiences leave with more than information: they leave with clarity, connection, and a way forward.

OB-GYN + LIFESTYLE MEDICINE

PHYSICIAN

THE MENOPAUSE SOCIETY

CERTIFIED PRACTITIONER 
+ PROFESSOR

AUTHOR + EDITOR

INTERNATIONAL SPEAKER

I Don't Speak to Fill an Hour. I Speak to Help Something Shift.

A woman may finally find language for what she is experiencing. A clinician may see a safer, more useful way to begin the conversation. An
organization may recognize the system it needs to build. The goal is not inspiration that fades by Monday. It is clarity, connection, and a next step people can carry with them.

Evidence matters. So does the life a woman has to fit it into.

One Mission. Two Distinct Audience Experiences.

The same science should not sound the same in every room. I shape the language, evidence depth, stories, interaction, and takeaways for the people I am there to serve.

For women and public audiences

Warm, clear, and honest conversations that help women understand their bodies, evaluate options and health claims, feel less alone, and identify realistic next steps – without shame, blame, fear, or miracle promises.


Best for: Women’s conferences and organizations, community events, workplaces, universities, nonprofits, and retreats

For clinicians and health professionals

Evidence-rich, clinically grounded education that distinguishes guideline-supported care from uncertainty and hype, then translates knowledge into clinical reasoning, communication, workflows, and practical care.

 

Best for: CME, grand rounds, professional societies, health systems, medical schools, and interdisciplinary teams

Powerful in the Moment. Useful

After the Applause

Whether I am speaking to thousands of peoples , I want the experience to feel personal, credible, and worth carrying forward.

Evidence Without Hype

Clear distinctions between what is established, promising, uncertain, or commercially exaggerated.

Stories That Make the Science Matter

Human experience used with purpose – to create understanding, connection, and a reason to care.

Practical Next Steps

A focused set of actions, questions, or design choices people can use after the event.

A Program Built for Your Audience

Content adapted for audience, culture, setting, clinical depth, event goals, and time available.

Signature keynotes and featured presentations

These programs are starting points, not fixed scripts. Titles, examples, learning objectives, length, and clinical depth can be tailored for your audience.

The Menopause Revolution: Science, Clarity, and Connection

A clear, compassionate reframing of menopause as a clinical and life-course transition that deserves accurate information, appropriate evaluation and treatment options, lifestyle support, and follow-up – not shame or another miracle product.

Best for: Women’s organizations, employers, public audiences, clinicians, and professional societies

Formats: Signature keynote, CME lecture, webinar, or fireside conversation

After the Bell: Building a Better Map for Survivorship, Menopause, and Healthy Aging

A physician-patient story about excellent cancer navigation, the less-mapped transition after treatment, and how evidence, community, and care design can support the decades that follow.

Best for: Conferences, health systems, universities, cancer communities, and public audiences

Formats: Keynote, grand rounds, webinar, or fireside conversation

From Competency to Care: Applying Lifestyle Medicine Across Women's Health

A practical, competency-informed approach to recognizing priorities, matching evidence to life stage and clinical context, and translating women’s health and lifestyle medicine knowledge into safer, more individualized care.

Best for: Clinicians, medical schools, professional societies, health systems, and interdisciplinary teams

Formats: Keynote, CME, grand rounds, faculty development, or workshop

Strong for Life: Vitality and Healthy Aging for Women

Mobility, bone and brain health, confidence, and participation – with realistic, safety-aware ways to begin and continue.

Best for: Women’s groups, workplaces, clinicians, public audiences, and retreats

Formats: Keynote, workshop, webinar, or interactive retreat session

Women's Wellness Across the Lifespan: What Matters Now, What Changes Next

Connects reproductive health, pregnancy and postpartum, midlife, menopause, cardiometabolic health, sleep, sexual well-being, survivorship, strength, and healthy aging – helping women see the larger map without becoming overwhelmed.

Best for: Women’s organizations, employers, universities, community audiences, and retreats

Formats: Keynote, webinar, workshop, or course session

Self-care Should Not Mean Solitary Care

Explores connection, caregiving, purpose, community, behavior change, group care, and the systems that make health-supporting change less lonely and more usable.

Best for: Public audiences, clinicians, nonprofits, health systems, workplaces, and retreats

Formats: Keynote, workshop, panel, or facilitated conversation


Women's Wellness Where People 

Live, Work, and Gather.

Some audiences need a concise keynote. Others benefit from a conversation that unfolds across a workshop, leadership session, or immersive experience.

Worksite Wellness

Evidence-based programs can address menopause at work, energy, sleep, stress, strength, healthy aging, caregiving, and sustainable behavior change. Programs can be designed for employees, leaders, benefits teams, clinicians, or mixed audiences – in person or online.

Possible formats: Keynote, webinar, workshop, leadership briefing, panel, or multi-session series

Destination Retreats and Immersions

Retreat settings create space for deeper learning, reflection, movement, conversation, and action planning. My experience includes repeat guest-expert appearances and immersion leadership at Canyon Ranch, along with destination and international retreat programs.

Possible formats: Opening keynote, daily teaching, interactive session, facilitated discussion, or multi-day immersion

From a Major Keynote to a Small-group Conversation.

I am equally comfortable delivering a high-energy keynote to a large international audience, facilitating an intimate conversation, teaching clinicians in a CME setting, or guiding an immersive retreat. I adjust pacing, examples, interaction, and depth without losing the core message.

  • International and national keynotes
  • Live virtual keynotes and webinars
  • Grand rounds and CME/CE education
  • Interactive workshops
  • Worksite wellness programs
  • Panels and fireside conversations
  • Retreats and multi-day immersions
  • Faculty development and student education

CUSTOMIZATION: Programs can be tailored for length, audience size, public or clinical focus, evidence depth, cultural and regional context, interactivity, learning objectives, accessibility, and organizational goals.

Global experience.
Local respect

My speaking portfolio includes in-person and live virtual engagements with hosts and audiences in Asia, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, and North America. I welcome international travel, live online delivery across time zones, and hybrid programs.

I work with local hosts to adapt examples, language, clinical context, resources, and recommendations with humility – preserving the evidence while respecting culture, access, safety, and local realities.

Selected Recent and Upcoming Speaking Engagements

Examples include international, national, academic, clinical, public, worksite, and immersive programs.

Speaking Questions

Does Michelle Tollefson speak internationally?

Yes. Michelle offers in-person, live virtual, and hybrid presentations for international audiences and works with hosts on time zones, culture, local context, available resources, and the appropriate level of clinical detail.

Yes. Public programs use accessible language, practical takeaways, and audience-relevant stories. Clinician programs use greater evidence depth, clinical context, safety considerations, and practice application. Content can also be adapted for mixed audiences.
Yes. Keynotes, webinars, CME/CE sessions, panels, and workshops can be delivered live online or in hybrid formats.
Yes. Programs can be tailored for length, audience, learning objectives, clinical depth, cultural context, interactivity, accessibility, and organizational goals.

Speaker Resources

Bios

She is on the executive board of the non-profit organization, PAVING the Path to Wellness. Dr. Tollefson co-authored.

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Speaker one-sheet

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AV & Accessibility

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BRING THIS CONVERSATION TO YOUR COMMUNITY

Let's Create the Talk Your Audience Will Still Be Thinking About - and Using - After the Event.

Whether you are planning an international conference, clinician education program, worksite wellness event, women’s gathering, webinar, or destination retreat, I would be glad to learn what matters most to your audience.

Share your goals, setting, preferred format, location or time zone, and timing. Together, we can shape a presentation that is evidence-based, deeply human, and built to move people toward a stronger next step.

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