Paying It Forward - Lessons From The C-Suite: Mentoring

PAYING IT FORWARD

Successful executives have learned many professional and personal lessons along their life's path. Paying it Forward is about hearing directly from highly successful and informative senior executives who share their first-hand stories, advice, and wisdom to guide listeners who aspire to achieve great things and ascend to even greater heights. Lessons From The C-Suite

Successful executives have learned many professional and personal lessons along their life’s path. Paying it Forward is about hearing directly from highly successful and informative senior executives who share their first-hand stories, advice, and wisdom to guide listeners who aspire to achieve great things and ascend to even greater heights.

This podcast will be about executives discussing what they learned, and sharing the information with you, to help you

“Aspire | Achieve | Ascend”

Listeners will discover information from each podcast guest, that allows the listener to decipher how best to incorporate the information into their own personal persona to make it as far as their career aspirations take them.”

These senior executives, from the C-Suite (or very close to the C-Suite) who will “Pay It Forward” and challenge the listeners with great insight, advice, guidance, wisdom, and practical skills and characteristic traits that can be worked on so listeners can achieve their dreams.

Mentoring - Kevin Laird

Aug 5, 2021

In this episode, we welcome Kevin Laird. Kevin is the Director of Advisory Services for the Oracle Governance, Risk, and Compliance Practice at KPMG. Kevin discusses mentoring, his involvement with STEM Advantage and THRIVE, two organizations focused on mentoring college students and the newly hired in the workforce.

Kevin’s focus with both STEM Advantage and THRIVE is to help college students navigate college, and also help students get their first role right out of college. A lot of what Kevin talks about is applicable to employees of any age or length of time in their career. Kevin talks about the mentoring process, focusing specifically on the responsibility of the mentor and the mentee. Finally, Kevin provides examples of the effectiveness of the mentoring process.