Chahrazed Anane
Chahrazed Anane worked for over 15 years in humanitarian contexts across Africa, Latin America, the Middle East and Europe, mainly in protection and leadership roles.
Today, she is the founder of Humanitarian Career Consulting (HCC), where she supports humanitarian professionals -including many women - in navigating job search, career transitions, and leadership challenges in a rapidly changing sector.
Her work increasingly addresses the invisible impact of menopause on confidence, ambition, and career decisions. She advocates for normalising these conversations in high-performance sectors where women are often expected to “push through” silently.
In Spain, she also advises NGOs on leadership and workplace well-being, helping organisations create healthier and more sustainable professional environments.
She joins this summit to connect the dots between menopause, professional identity, and sustainable success.
Based in Barcelona, she works internationally.
Interactive talk
The Silent Shift: Menopause, Disconnection, and Reclaiming Power in the Female Body
Wednesday, April 8 @2pm EDT / 8pm CET / 9pm EAT
Menopause is one of the most universal experiences in a woman’s life, yet it remains largely invisible, especially in high-performance environments where little is designed to acknowledge or support it, and women are expected to continue “as usual.”
This session explores menopause not only as a biological transition, but as a deeper shift in the relationship to the body, to identity, and to the way we navigate the world.
In a context where disconnection from the body is often normalised through performance, adaptation, and constant demand, menopause can become a turning point. What could previously be ignored becomes harder to silence. The body stops negotiating.
Drawing from her experience working with professionals in demanding sectors, Chahrazed Anane will offer a reflective space to understand this transition beyond symptoms, and to explore what it means to reconnect with the body in a more conscious and sustainable way.
This session invites participants to reframe menopause not as a decline, but as a moment of clarity, redefinition, and potential re-alignment with oneself. It also opens a space to acknowledge that as the body changes, our needs, priorities, and aspirations may evolve, sometimes leading to deeper shifts in how we live, work, and make decisions.
Connect with Chahrazed
Chahrazed’s Welcome Gift
The Humanitarian CV Playbook: : How to position yourself in a shrinking aid market