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Perimenopause and Why Your Brain Feels Different: A Neuro-Performance Guide

Reclaim your cognitive edge and thrive through the hormonal transition of perimenopause.

Created byGeoff Greenwood FCCA MBA MSc
5.0
(14 reviews)
BeginnerUpdated May 14, 2026
Perimenopause and Why Your Brain Feels Different: A Neuro-Performance Guide

What You'll Learn

check_circleUnderstand the neurobiological impact of estrogen fluctuations on the prefrontal cortex.
check_circleIdentify the four key brain systems affected by perimenopause: working memory, emotional regulation, executive function, and sleep.
check_circleApply the Neuro-Performance Reset framework to manage cognitive load and improve daily performance.
check_circleAnalyze the 'performance paradox' and 'masking effect' to reduce stress and improve well-being.
check_circleEvaluate the role of lifestyle interventions and HRT as tools for cognitive performance.

About This Course

You have built a remarkable brain. Decades of high-stakes decisions, complex leadership, and sustained performance have made you exceptionally capable. So when your memory starts to feel unreliable, your focus drifts in meetings you used to own, and a quiet fog settles where your clarity used to be, it is not just unsettling. It is frightening.

This course exists to tell you the truth: what you are experiencing is not decline. It is disruption. And those are very different things.
Why Your Brain Feels Different and What to Do About It is a 60–75 minute neuroscience course designed specifically for professional women navigating perimenopause. Across five evidence-based modules, you will discover exactly what is happening inside your brain, why it is happening now, and critically what you can do about it.

You will learn how oestrogen functions as a powerful neuro-active hormone, and why its fluctuation, not its decline is the real driver of the cognitive changes you are experiencing. You will explore the four brain systems most affected: working memory, emotional regulation, executive function, and sleep architecture. You will understand the Performance Paradox, why the very drive and self-awareness that built your career can make this transition harder to bear and how the stress amplification loop keeps so many high-achieving women trapped in a cycle they cannot name.

Most importantly, you will leave with the Neuro-Performance Reset: five targeted, evidence-based interventions that work with your biology rather than against it. A sleep protocol built around your neurochemistry. A cognitive load management strategy designed for senior professionals. Practical tools you can apply immediately, not vague lifestyle advice, but a genuine performance framework grounded in the best available science.

By the time you finish, you will understand your brain in a way you never have before. And that understanding will change everything that follows.

This course is for you if you are a senior professional in perimenopause or close to who suspects that what you are experiencing is neurological and who is ready to stop masking it and start addressing it with the same rigour you bring to everything else.

Your Instructor

Geoff Greenwood FCCA MBA MSc
Geoff Greenwood FCCA MBA MSc

Performance Specialist at Neuro-Performance

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A very experienced performance specialist who improves performance, increases productivity, enhances mental health with a neuro-psychology approach for all individuals, teams and businesses.

Credit Information

Is this course eligible for my CPD requirements as a Canadian CPA?

Provincial regulators of CPAs in Canada do not require that independent providers of CPD be approved to offer courses. Instead, individual CPAs are responsible for assessing whether a CPD activity meets their requirements, and may take activities from any source provided those requirements are met.

Every course offered on LearnFormula is delivered by a qualified subject matter expert or learning organization, and advances learning objectives that are relevant to the responsibilities or professional competencies of Canadian CPAs. All activities on LearnFormula are quantifiable in terms of hours, and are also verifiable, in that users receive documented evidence of their attendance via a certificate of completion after finishing a course (and this certificate is stored by LearnFormula indefinitely). Nearly 100,000 Canadian CPAs successfully satisfy their CPD requirements via LearnFormula on an annual basis.

What Students Are Saying

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Student's Choice
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