How a mentor helped me become a better leader

Lum Jia Yi, assistant director at the National Heritage Board and a mentee in Her World's 2023 Mentorship Programme, shares how mentorship has empowered her to navigate career challenges with confidence.

In 2022, I was asked to manage a team of five creatives at work. Simultaneously thrilled and petrified, I teetered between the euphoria of the added responsibilities, and the fear of making mistakes as I did not have any management experience. I was also concerned about how this would affect studying for my EMBA (Executive Master of Business Administration).

All this were going through my head last year when I applied for the Her World Mentorship Programme. Upon the launch of the programme, I was assigned to my mentor, Bipasha Minocha, group chief marketing officer of Etonhouse International Education Group.

I was hoping for a lifeline - a cure-all, if you will but what I experienced was entirely different.

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