Gaby Sittová had already directed a feature film and built a career across tech, film, and creative leadership, and still felt like an unsure newcomer in parts of her own life. She joined Femme Palette’s mentoring program looking for help with personal branding. What she found instead was permission to ask for a mentor rematch when the first one wasn’t right, a reminder to actually celebrate what she’d already done, and a mentor who helped her stop treating herself like someone with endless capacity to give.
Do you tend to over-apologize at work? Does your work email, message, or talk always include "Sorry" in the sentence? Although it's considered respectful to recognize your mistake and apologize, in most cases, we say "Sorry" too often and when our colleagues don't wait for our apology at all.
Last year about one in three executives said Diversity, Equity, Inclusion was their top five business priority (by McKinsey). However, even before the pandemic, its progress in the workplace as a whole had been slow down and most of the companies reported they had a struggle to implement their initiatives.
