More About Eleanor Mills

Eleanor Mills is the founder of Noon, an award-winning editor, writer, and broadcaster.

Noon believes midlife is the age of opportunity. Eleanor set it up to help women in midlife and beyond through pinch points and inspire them to embrace their next act. It was inspired by something that happened during the first lockdown.

“I went to meet an old friend. “How are you?” she said. I tried to put a brave face on it. the truth was I was terrible. I’d left the organisation I’d worked for for 23 years, had been knocked out by Covid and was surprised by how sad I felt about my girls leaving the nest. I felt like I’d been pushed off a roof, falling with nothing to hang on to, and overwhelmingly sad….In the weeks and months that followed, I felt I had been put back together by a loving community….Our culture gives women a series of hoops to jump through, but at around fifty that map stops. I knew I had so much more to give, that I was at a new beginning, not the end. Noon was born out of my desire to help women find a new path through midlife and beyond, to change the narrative.”

Eleanor Mills | Books

Eleanor is the bestselling author of two books:

The first, Cupcakes and Kalashnikovs: 100 Years of the Best Journalism By Women, was published in 2005. This collection of superlative writing brings together the most influential, incisive, controversial, affecting, and entertaining pieces of journalism by the best women in the business.

Her best known book is Much More to Come: Lessons on the Mayhem and Magnificence of Midlife was released in 2024. This book looks how “how to survive your midlife crisis and navigate the highs and lows of menopause, empty nests, second careers, and dating post-divorce.

Eleanor Mills | Keynote Topics

Managing and Targeting the Super Consumer: Older consumers outspend millennials by 250%. Women over the age of 50 now control 60% of the wealth and 75% of all discretionary spending, as well as making 95% of all household consumer spending decisions. So why do they appear in less than 10% of our adverts? As the demographic landscape shifts, how do you harness the power of “Super Consumers”? Eleanor provides essential insights on how to entice and embrace the power of the midlife pound.

Managing Change: Reinvention Is Not a Crisis But a Chrysalis: Midlife crisis is real: divorce, bereavement, redundancy, the death of parents, troubled youth, health issues. Drawing on her personal transformation and the experience of helping thousands of midlifers to re-invent, Eleanor explains what it takes to master the art of the pivot at work and at home.

Singing the Song of Ourselves: The Art of Communicating Who We Are, Our Purpose, and Our Professional Skills: Someone has to tell a convincing story about why YOU should get a job, and that story can only be as good as the story you’ve sown. Use the lessons Eleanor has learned from interviewing some of the most successful people on the planet, to sing the punchiest, pithiest, most powerful song of yourself. Eleanor reveals her ‘Mills Matrix’, so that whether it’s networking, LinkedIn, or a precious moment with a decision maker, you too can become a world class storyteller.

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