This book is a compilation of very personal approaches to mentoring and sponsoring breaking
the stereotypes of seniority age or experience. The authors have provided a platform to
understand that mentoring and especially sponsoring are in fact a win-win relation in which
both sides mentors and mentees and sponsors and sponsored individuals learn from each other
enhancing their career paths. How they managed to create a growth space for themselves and
their teams through mentoring and sponsoring is a story of professional leadership. They
shared a privileged outlook to understand the root causes of barriers as well as to envision
plausible solutions for difficult career crossroads in which mentorship or sponsoring was key
to steer step changes. The authors propose not only their vision but a remarkable collection
of unfiltered interviews with young and renown professionals in many sectors from photography
to music research sports energy and more completing a vision of what is key for both sides
of the equation pertinent to mentoring and sponsoring: the givers and the receivers. They
explain what is needed to gain the most out of the mentoring and sponsoring loops with their
own career stories. Success is supported by many factors in which the most important are the
technical competency and performance aligned with resilience. However in the long path of a
career mentors and particularly sponsors play a foundational and frequently a changing-life
role improving our perspective or triggering reflections and actions that benefitted our
journeys at work and in life. This book provides insights on what works for an effective
mentoring and sponsoring process. It is useful for all professionals especially those starting
their career journeys.
