Thinking of how to reward high-potential employees? Allow them to grow further in their roles and provide them with a fresh perspective of a mentor! This is exactly the approach adopted by Merkle. We spoke with their Regional Talent Manager, Eliška Horáková, about Merkle’s experience with employee mentoring and how it benefited the company.

Would you like to grow professionally in the field of design by working with a mentor? Our Design mentors help their mentees develop their UX, UI, product, visual, or graphic design careers. They support their mentees in exploring all the possibilities working in design has to offer.With a global mentor community from different backgrounds, our mentors have different experiences to share with their mentees, making every mentoring experience unique. To give you a glimpse of our diverse mentor community, we introduce to you some of our mentors in the field of design.

Stephanie Cohen was a Femme Palette mentee, who has finished her Mentoring program. She founded Speak Up with Stephanie, where she helps global professionals up their business communication skills and own their unique English! In this spotlight interview, we asked Stephanie about her journey towards founding Speak Up with Stephanie, the biggest challenges she faced and lessons she learned along the way, and so much more!

Would you like to grow professionally in the field of HR by working with a mentor? Our HR mentors help their mentees advance in their HR career. They support their mentees in breaking through into the HR industry, develop their stills and identify the resources they need to progress. With a global mentor community from different backgrounds, our mentors have different experiences to share with their mentees making every mentoring experience unique. To give you a glimpse of our diverse mentor community, we introduce to you some of our mentors in the field of HR.

A highly valued member of our mentor community, Martina Duskova has been mentoring with Femme Palette for a few years now, and guided a number of mentees on their path to success. As one of our most active mentors, she also has many interesting insights from her mentoring journeys to share. We talked to Martina not only about those, but also about her stationery brand printintin, her advice for aspiring female entrepreneurs, and her enthusiasm for various productivity methods and her advice in that area.

Marta Batíková was a Femme Palette mentee, who just finished our Mentoring program. After working full time at Raiffeisenbank and Better Slack, she decided to pursue another master’s degree. In this spotlight interview, we asked Mariia about her decision to go back to university, what factors she considered when making this shift, what the biggest lessons she has learned from this experience and so much more. 

We’re incredibly proud to announce the winners of our 2023 Mentor Awards! What we do at Femme Palette would never be possible without our amazing community of mentors that has grown over the years to include professionals from all different kinds of countries, backgrounds, with different fields of focus and career paths. We would like to take this opportunity to say a huge thanks to all of them!As it would be impossible to individually acknowledge each of our 1000+ mentors around the globe, we have selected 80 mentors in 6 categories who we would like to acknowledge for exceptional efforts and results. Meet the winners of the Femme Palette Mentor Awards 2023 below!

Workplace rivalry can appear in many circumstances, but one of the most commonly perceived dynamics is between women. You might feel like you sometimes need to compete with other women to achieve a particular position in your workplace, but that isn't true.Women need more representation in top positions in the workplace. You could gain experience and value from a mentorship where you work with other women than seeing them as your rivals for an opportunity.