The Mentors Who Made Me

Ahead of Season 2 of The Mentors Who Made Me, we take a look back at what our guests from Season 1 consider makes a great mentor in this helpful compilation for any aspiring mentor out there.

In our final episode of the season, we speak to Amanda Nolen, Learning Strategist and Author of the LinkedIn course, 'The Future of Workplace Learning'. Take a listen as we explore skills gaps and the role of mentoring in the future of learning. 

This week we speak to Career Coach and Host of The Me-Suite Donna Petes, about the meaning and importance of mentorship in career development and how the mentors in her life made her what she is today. 

We speak to Elizabeth Lembke about communication in today's workplace, systemic coaching, the importance of collaboration and boss mentors.

We speak to Jennifer Petriglieri, Professor of Organisational Behaviour at INSEAD, and author of Couples That Work, about her amazing book on how dual-career couples can thrive in love and in work. Jennifer shares how mentorship has supported her throughout her life and we discuss how to find and use mentorship to help find a better balance between parenting and work without sacrificing our careers.

This week we talk to José María Villarreal about the opportunities of self exploration and growth through mentoring and harnessing global talent in large organisations.

This week we speak to mentoring enthusiast Chris Aleong about how mentoring helped him change from a career in finance to a career in Life Sciences. Chris shares with us best practice for mentors as well as a fantastic example of how you can change direction in your career and be successful, especially with a little help from mentorship.

Having proactively found his first mentor on a golf range when he was just 13 years old, NCS knows a thing or two about mentoring. We talk to Nathan about his mentoring matrix, diversity of thought and active listening and get to delve into his experience to see what makes a great mentorship.

We speak to Mariana Machado about all things mentoring and culture and explore how understanding human behaviours and mindsets is key to the growth and development of employees. Mariana tells us about her far from linear career and we discuss how mentoring can help employees move to different roles, to the benefit of themselves and their organisation.

We speak to Kate McCourt VP CIS Development, Change Management & Europe at DHL Express about her experience with mentoring programmes in large organisations. Kate speaks to us about how, and more importantly why, to find and reach out to mentors - "you'll be surprised how willing people are to help you".