ABOUT
A doctor, a mother, a wife, an advocate.
Dr. Catherine Hansen has spent her career at the intersection of women's health, leadership, and human potential — translating decades of clinical experience into work that changes how organizations care for their most experienced people.
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01 HER WORK
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Built in the room where women tell the truth.
Across two countries and over twenty-five years of clinical and academic practice, Catherine built her career listening to women describe what their bodies, careers, and relationships were actually doing. What she heard rarely matched what the clinic or workplace were prepared to support.
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That gap — between what midlife women carry and what their organizations recognize — is the work. On stage, in advisory rooms, and in the Empowered Women's Circle, she is closing it.
MEDICINE
MD, University of Western Ontario, Canada
GLOBAL HEALTH PERSPECTIVE
MPH, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
CERTIFICATION
Certified Menopause Practitioner (TMS)
CURRENT ROLE
Chief Medical Officer, Effica Health
SPECIALTY
U.S. Board-Certified OB/GYN
EXPERIENCE
25+ years clinical & academic practice
02 HER PATH
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How Catherine got
to this stage.
Now
Keynote & advisory stage
Partnering with forward-thinking organizations on retention, leadership pipelines, and the health of their most experienced talent.
2025
Chief Medical Officer, Effica Health
Redefining women's healthcare alongside Effica co-founders Hoda Soboh and Dr. Nese Yuksel; translating decades of clinical insight into scalable programs and protocols that meet women where they actually are. https://www.efficahealth.com/
2017
Founded The Empowered Women's Circle
A global community advancing women's health, leadership, and connection — built around the principle that midlife is a launchpad, not a plateau.
2016
Board-certified, TMS Certified Menopause Practitioner
Pursued the certification at the heart of an underserved discipline. Became a member of the education committee, a TMS conference speaker — and expanded speaking publicly about what she was seeing.
2015
Menopause Workshops, Digital Courses and Community Outreach
Born from a need witnessed in the office, Dr. Hansen started gathering women for weekend retreats, evening workshops and on-line connection through digital courses and community allowing women to know and love themselves more deeply through the mirroring, sponsoring and amplification, that only women can do for each other.
2002
Opened OB/GYN Practice
Two countries, two decades, and thousands of conversations that shaped everything that followed.
03 HER PRINCIPLES
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How she works,
every time.
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Lead with science.
Every claim, every recommendation, every framework Catherine teaches is grounded in clinical evidence and the lived experience of herself and her patients.
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Treat the whole person.
Health is more than biology. Catherine's work weaves medicine, leadership, relationships, and identity into a single, coherent story.
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Make it actionable.
Insight without application is wasted. Audiences leave with concrete tools, not just inspiration.
Dr. Catherine Hansen has spent over 25 years in the room where women tell the truth about their bodies, their careers, and their lives.
04 HER UNIQUE PERSPECTIVE
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What she heard in the room changed everything.
As a U.S. board-certified OB/GYN, certified menopause practitioner, and Johns Hopkins-trained Master of Public Health, Dr. Catherine Hansen built her career at the intersection of women's health and human potential. Across two countries and decades of clinical and academic practice, she witnessed something the research confirmed but workplaces ignored: midlife women are not slowing down. They are stepping into the fullness of who they are — and they need the right support to do it.
That insight drove her from the clinic to the keynote stage, and to founding the Empowered Women's Circle — a global community advancing women's health, leadership, and connection across every life stage — and ultimately to her role as Chief Medical Officer at Effica Health, where she continues to bring the full weight of her expertise, experience, and insight to every stage she steps onto.
A RARE PERSPECTIVE
As the wife of Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen — part of the Artemis II crew that made history as the first crewed mission to orbit the moon in over 50 years — Catherine understands what it means to navigate the extraordinary alongside the everyday. To hold immense pressure and profound purpose simultaneously. To show up fully for your mission, your family, and yourself when the stakes are as high as they get.
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It is not a metaphor she borrows. It is a life she lives.
On stage, she translates all of it — the science, the clinical experience, the personal stories — into something audiences can immediately use. Women feel seen. Leaders gain tools. Organizations shift.