Wisdom from Mentors That I Still Carry with Me

Nine pieces of advice that helped me navigate my career

A few weeks ago, for International Mentor Day, I wrote about how mentors can be invaluable to your career. Though we often give them less weight relative to sponsors, their insight and objectivity are essential to our long-term success. Mentors can give us advice and guidance, helping us in ways that others, who are too close to the problem, never can. A mentor’s role is to be a cheerleader, mirror, and sounding board—all things that are critical to achieving our goals. I have had the great fortune to have strong, kind, and steadfast mentors in my own life. Their wisdom has been…

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