Mentoring & Sponsorship Insights

Maud Lindley speaks with Mersina Mouhtaris about mentors who shaped her along the way, including a manager who helped her rethink perfectionism and taught her that not everyone needs to deliver at 110% to do great work. She shares how vulnerability, something that didn't come naturally in a demanding, male-dominated industry, became one of her most powerful leadership tools.

How mentoring is reshaping leadership pathways for women in health and medical research.

Pip Murphy, Principal Consultant at Serendis Leadership, talks about one of the most critical challenges in today’s workplace: how to navigate conflict and disagreement constructively. Drawing on her career across trading floors, top-tier consulting, and executive leadership, Pip reframes conflict not as a threat, but as a diversification of ideas.

Insights from Julie Washington, Director of Talent Development at Serendis Leadership

What Is Empathy and Why Does It Matter in Leadership?

What is the authenticity paradox and how does it present in mentoring partnerships?

What does it take to go from dreams of writing a book to actually becoming a published author? Is there one secret that could make this journey not only possible, but much easier? Maud learns the answer is a resounding yes –and it begins with understanding the difference between a role model and a mentor. In the inaugural episode of Mentoring Unlocked, Maud sits down with book author and technology communicator, Jonathan Englert, for a wide-ranging heart-to-heart about some hard won lessons from the writing life. From early misfires in finding a mentor to the life-changing implications of a series of rich conversations, there are plenty of eye-opening takeaways here.

Is what you think you want, worth wanting? Tough questions like this could revolutionise your life or the life of those you mentor –but they’ve got to be asked in the right context and by the right person.

Does empathy matter for a mentor? Can it be taught? Or is empathy something some people are born with and others are not. Maud welcomes Ingrid Massey, Chief People Officer at CBRE Australia, to tackle these questions and more, seeking the answers in Massey’s own career which took her from advertising to being a senior HR executive with a global remit. Together they chart out the difference between sympathy and empathy.