It is truly a rewarding experience to get inspired from high level executives how they make her career path a beautiful journey. Thank CIMI programme for the unique initiative!

It’s an exceptional learning journey in a time of extraordinary changes. I am privileged to enjoy the wisdom of a most experience business leader to get fast spot of problems and tailor-made inspirations on career development, cross-cultural communication, leading changes. It’s not only one-on-one mentoring but also the platform to get the insight from a group of senior leaders.

I’m honored to join this fantastic program with so many amazing ladies from famous EU companies and Christine is a wonderful mentor as well. By her mentoring, I get to know the basic leadership characteristic, understand different concerns and accept different point of view. I find my career path much clearer and think in a more positive and responsible way. I’m fearless of changes and all these changes happen during the program and will continuous effect my future thoughts and acting modes.  Thanks to the organizers, mentors and all mentees who devote themselves to making the program glorious and colorful!

Appreciate European Chamber initiated the CIMI program, It is quite precious opportunity for me to learn from the elite from cross-industries.  Big thanks to my mentor, who is an outstanding leader and advise lots of insights on my career development.

CIMI program gave me lot of opportunities to experience deeper reflection myself and get valuables advice from C-level mentors, based on that some Aha moment was pop up automatically which made me feel really happy and encouraged. Also it’s truly a fantastic platform for network building and learning from other excellent talents.

CIMI it is such a great platform to provide cross industry, cross hierarchy, cross culture communication. Great journey with great mentors which can benefit not only career but also life.

My Mentor is Jens. During the program, he and I did a lot of practice together about how to make and present a strategy for the company. I still remember my 1^st version of “strategy” does not look good, which is full of details and more like an “action plan” not a strategy.  Jens helped me to understand that a strategy is something lasting for 5 years or even longer time. And the spirit of a strategy is “to change”. We need to build a clear story line about where, why, what and how to change to make a perfect strategy presentation. After several rounds of practice, both my mindset, vision and presentation skills are improved a lot under his guidance. I do appreciate all of the help I have received from my mentor, I could not have lived through some of the challenging presentations in my work without those practical suggestions from him.

It’s a very valuable opportunity to have Charlotte as my cross industry mentor. I have a safe and open environment to discuss various leadership and career topics. Through dialogue with my mentor, I learned to be a confident leader and be authentic to company and personal value. The program also provide opportunities to talk with all mentors and network with other mentees. I highly recommend the mentor program to those who are eager to learn and want to further develop your leadership and career. Thanks European chamber, all the mentors and organizer to provide such a good platform to help future leader grow.

It’s my great honor to be part of the CIMI program. Throughout the mentoring sessions, I’m not only inspired by my mentor, who had extreme rich global business experience as C-suite, but also got the chance to reflect my own experience during the exciting discussions. It’s a rare opportunity to have someone with such seniority providing independent mentoring. Last but not least, I enjoyed each meeting with my mentor and had great fun each time.

The opportunities to be mentored by the executive of the European company is very rare.  Make sure you take advantage of this great personal development opportunity.  More importantly, please take the time to think, plan and develop yourself, regardless what you would like to pursue in your life.  Look for role models, mentors, and assistance and always remember that asking for help is a sign of strength not a sign of weakness.

It’s my privilege to join the EUCCC mentorship program and have Charlotte as my mentor, and it is truly rewarding though disrupted by COVID-19. Charlotte is a patient listener and good at motivating people with providing constructive recommendation, and I’m so impressed by her commitment to the work and the team, and the way she inspires the innovation and people. The mentorship program helps me to validate my view and behavior and build confidence. The program also provides me the chance to network with the talents from other industries to share ideas, knowledge and challenges. I would recommend the program to future talents, as the program provides great opportunity of practicing communication skills with executives and learn from their experience to accelerate personal development.

I would like to thank for the mentorship program offered by European chamber, it provided me the direct talk opportunity with the executive level leaders. I learned a lot their personal success experience, the tips to improve the efficiency and the suggestions regarding how to deal with the difficult situations. It also created a nice social environment to know more excellent female leaders. Thanks for European chamber, I sincerely hope more and more female leaders can benefit and contribute into this community, Gifts of roses, hand there are lingering fragrance.

My mentoring with my mentee has been an opportunity for shared learning across cultures and across the automotive and aerospace industries. We come out from it enriched with new perspectives on how to lead in dynamic and changing environment!”

It is like a journey, taking the time to truly ‘see’ your mentee, understanding, and accepting, both their authentic real selves and their ideal selves and imagined career destinations. This takes time and patience. A mentor must earn trust, be accessible, and listen generously. It is every time a joy to honor the mentee’s ideal self and career dream, and not to dwell on the present career point she is invested in, let alone the one that mirrors my own career. It is all about the art of patient listening, questioning, unconditional acceptance, and generous affirmation to help draw forth the dream, name it out loud, and then set about championing mentees’ efforts to get there. It’s an exciting journey.

When my mentee told me she managed to work out a solution with our aligned idea from our previous session and it worked so well, I could feel her joy across the screen. It’s a pity that I could only give her an emoji smile through computer instead of a warm hug at that moment. I am so happy that something we worked together helped me. It is funny that both of us felt time was not sufficient when we had to call an end to our session and wish each other staying healthy and all the best every time.

It has been an outstanding experience and pleasure to go through this program with my mentee. We had interesting and often very challenging discussions and I could observe how my mentee was changing perspectives, developed new ideas and was setting new targets for her future career. I am happy and grateful to  be part of this program, a learning journey for both, mentee and mentor.

Unfortunately we had to conduct all our sessions virtually. Now, a final target for both of us is to meet in person, hopefully it will happen soon.

I think CIMI is a valuable program. The cross-industry experiences of mentor and mentee bring diversity to the mentoring relationship, enrich the conversations and inspire the exchange and mutual learning. I would encourage the Chamber to continue this program.

I’m very grateful to be part of this mentoring program. I see the program really as a two way learning journey were mentor and mentee are continuously changing roles. Being able to do that across industry is incredible, as it opens up new spaces of experience and learning, and we can appreciate the differences in the progress of diversity and gender balance.

I deem the CIMI programme an outstanding initiative. Not only offers it highly engaged young female managers access to senior-level mentors, it also delivers a unique opportunity to gain insights into an unrelated industry.

As a mentor, the mentoring sessions have not only filled me with great joy and pride, I personally received a lot back from my mentee in learnings and insights.

Definitely to be continued and ideally expanded.