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!
This category celebrates some of the newer faces within our mentor community who are already mentoring one or more mentees. Despite their relatively short time spent with us so far, these mentors are producing outstanding results and mentee feedback on them is filled with praise.
Christian Schulz (also selected in Mentees’ Choice category)
“Christian is a highly competent, emphatic mentor. He adapts to the mentees preferred mentor style. After a sound analysis of the mentees expectations and aspirations, he challenges and guides by asking questions as well as sharing his wisdom by giving practical examples based on his own experience.
- mentee Steffi Lux on mentor Christian Schulz”
These mentors have gone above and beyond their mentoring activities and contributed frequently with content to our blog or other resources, or been actively engaged with our social media accounts and in our Slack community.
These mentors have been actively working with us for years now, and have had some of the highest numbers of mentees who they’ve helped and supported. Thanks for all your hard work, loyalty, and longstanding dedication!
Petra Vilimkova (also selected in Mentees’ Choice category)
Mentors in the Impact category have been actively supporting mentees in our various social impact projects, such as recipients of mentoring scholarships or mentees enrolled in collaboration with the non-profit Nadání a dovednosti which helps young people from socially disadvantaged backgrounds successfully enter the job market.
In this category, we acknowledge the top rated mentors in different fields of focus.
“Míša is helping me greatly in my new role of Scrum master, she shows me how to be more human and not just a robot following all the books and manuals around. Being able to check with her what she thinks about my next steps or the work I have done in the past weeks boosts my confidence and encourages me to do things I wouldn't be daring enough to try alone. And it is not just about me feeling good, I keep getting feedback from my colleagues that I am doing well in my new role and I am bringing new ideas to the whole company.
- mentee Veronika Smrčková on mentor Michaela Malatin”
Career Guidance & soft skills
Leadership
Lucia Belkova
Milos Djurkovic (also selected in Mentees’ Choice category)
HR/Recruitment
Marketing
Christina Mann Harutyunyan (also selected in Mentees’ Choice category)
Sales/Business Development
Design
Tech/IT
Michaela Malatín (also selected in Mentees’ Choice category)
Product
Entrepreneurship
Finance & Operations
We also asked our mentees to submit their own mentor award nominations, and evaluated these based on impact of the mentors. Meet the mentees’ choice winners!
“My match with Renata is like a winning the lottery jackpot for me. Apart from her enormous support and kindness, I extremely benefit from her wide professional and personal experiences, knowledge and skills. Regardless the situation when I need a piece of advice, she always has a huge variety of tips and recommendations which help me to make a decision, to act or to see a situation from a different perspective. She helps me to feel more confident and I see how sincere happy she is with me if I succeed. I wish everybody has such a great mentor in their life.
- mentee Tatjana Bogdanov on mentor Renata Horakova”
Would you like to work with one of these mentors? Find out how the Femme Palette Mentoring program works and how to apply to get matched with your perfect mentor!
