My Story

Here’s what turned out to matter.

I’ve spent nearly 30 years taking complicated, high-stakes technical information and making it usable by people who need to act on it — inside institutions where the gap between what a document says and what actually happens in a room has real consequences.

I know how to read a study. I know how to tell the difference between evidence and a marketing claim wearing a lab coat. When I turned that on menopause research, it was the most useful thing I owned.

I’m not a doctor and I will never pretend to be one. What I am is the person who already did the digging, and who will tell you the truth about what’s solid, what’s uncertain, and what’s being sold to you.

I’ve also worked in corporate settings for 30 years, and as a strategic Communications professional, I’ve partnered with human resources experts, executives, and managers (as well as being one myself). I understand the importance of policies and procedures and complying with technical and legal requirements, while also understanding that those are challenging to achieve often when you have employees with their own needs and priorities.

My credentials

  • Certified Menopause Coach — Women of a Certain Stage, Lauren Chiren (in progress)

  • Certified Menopause Workplace Trainer — Women of a Certain Stage, Lauren Chiren (July 2026)

  • Nearly 30 years in communications and organizational change inside complex, highly regulated institutions

  • Member, Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM)

Speaking and events

  • DisruptHR Tri-Cities, October 2026 — The Best Accommodation Policy Is the One Nobody Needs

  • Tri-City Regional Chamber of Commerce, Women in Business Conference, September 2026

  • March 2026 — organized and moderated a perimenopause documentary screening and expert panel for more than 125 women in the Tri-Cities

  • Tri-City Regional Chamber of Commerce, Women in Business Conference, 2024 — Menopause in the workplace

  • Employee resource group presentations

    • January 2026, virtual presentation, Construction company chapter in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

    • May 2024, Washington State

The Bottom Line

No Filters. The truth, including the parts that are uncomfortable, unclear, or not yet settled. Women can handle it. They’ve been handling worse with less information.

No Shame. I spent decades in it. I’m not going back, and I’m not letting anyone who finds their way here stay stuck there either.

No Limits. On what’s possible when a woman finally gets the truth about her own body. On what an organization unlocks when it stops losing the women who know the most.

I’m Staci West.

At 49, a friend who works in integrative nutrition mentioned that hormones and nutrition were connected. I figured I’d be responsible about it and get a baseline.

I was nowhere near baseline. My testosterone was nearly zero.

Suddenly there was an explanation for the depression. For the rage that arrived and left minute to minute. For standing in a meeting unable to retrieve a word I’d used ten thousand times.

I wasn’t falling apart. I was moving through an enormous physiological transition that nobody had prepared me for, and that nobody had thought to check.

I found help quickly, but only because I happened to know the right people and happened to ask the right question on the right day.

That’s luck. And luck is not acceptable as a system.

The more I learned, the angrier I got.

Not because the science doesn’t exist. Some of it does. But there’s far less of it than there should be, because for decades women weren’t included in the research that shaped what your doctor was taught. And what does exist isn’t reaching the women who need it.

The information women need is locked in scientific journals, buried in jargon, or cherry-picked by an industry that profits from keeping women anxious and searching — as long as the answer arrives in a supplement, a weighted vest, or a subscription.

Women are finally given information. Then they’re sold something.

I’m not interested in either one. I’m interested in how we educate and empower women to make more informed decisions that work for their values, their lifestyle, and their goals.

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