Let’s Talk Your Audience to Sleep.

An interactive workshop for teams, conferences, and wellness programs that want their people to leave sleeping better, not just better informed. Dr. Andrea Matsumura takes the room through the five areas that shape sleep: daily habits, the sleep environment, emotions, chronotype, and the medical conditions that so often go undiagnosed. Along the way, each participant maps where their own sleep is breaking down.

You'll leave able to:

• Pinpoint which of the five areas is costing you the most sleep
• Make two or three changes to your habits and environment that same week
• Recognize the signs that mean it's time to talk to a doctor

For most women, midlife sleep loss arrives with no warning and no explanation, then gets blamed on stress, aging, or "just hormones." Dr. Andrea Matsumura reframes it as a predictable physiological shift and gives women a clear path to reclaim their nights. Drawing on her forthcoming book, she moves the audience from understanding what's happening in their bodies, to recognizing their own patterns, to a plan they can start that night.

You'll leave able to:

• Name the specific physiological changes driving midlife sleep loss instead of blaming yourself
• Identify which of your own habits and conditions are keeping you awake
• Walk out with a personalized first step across daily habits, environment, and stress

Women in their 40s and 50s are often at the peak of their expertise and the height of their sleep disruption at the same time, and most organizations have no idea it's happening. Dr. Andrea Matsumura connects menopause and midlife sleep loss to the outcomes leaders track: focus, decision-making, absenteeism, healthcare spend, and the retention of women in their highest-earning years. She closes with organization-level changes that cost far less than replacing the talent you lose.

You'll leave able to:

• See how untreated sleep and menopause symptoms translate into measurable performance and retention costs
• Equip managers to support midlife employees without overstepping or guessing
• Implement specific, low-cost workplace and benefits changes that keep experienced women engaged

Perimenopausal sleep complaints are among the most common and most under-investigated presentations in women's health. Dr. Andrea Matsumura, a Fellow of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, replaces vague "hormonal fluctuation" language with mechanism: estrogen's specific effects on sleep architecture and thermoregulation, and HPA axis dysregulation rather than the oversimplified cortisol-spike narrative. She then moves to assessment and a treatment approach integrating hormone-informed and behavioral options.

You'll leave able to:

• Distinguish estrogen-specific mechanisms from generalized "hormonal" explanations at the bedside
• Assess perimenopausal sleep complaints without defaulting to sedative-hypnotics
• Build a hormone-informed, behaviorally grounded treatment plan for midlife women