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Meant to Be: Mentor & Mentee

Culture
Seek mentors who are a few steps ahead of you in their career. Build authentic relationships by exhibiting gratitude and curiosity about your mentor’s work.
Duration
13:37
Part of Series
LEAP!

Season

Season 1

Episode

7

We all hear that having professional mentors is critical to career success. So how do you identify a mentor and sustain the relationship? In this episode, Tina Seelig, Professor of the Practice in Stanford’s Department of Management Science & Engineering, and guests Tania Abedian Coke, founder of TellUs, and Lauren Ottinger of Intercom say successful mentorships are characterized by gratitude and reciprocity. It helps to seek a mentor one or two steps ahead of you in their career.

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