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Mentorship, leadership, careers and connection. Get the best of it in The Art of Connection.

Mentees

Faster matching, new product updates.

We have some exciting product updates to share with you. We now have 400+ women signed up to be matched, from over 20 countries, which is incredibly exciting. To date, we have been making almost all of the mentor matches manually. We have a lot of data to go through to make a match,…

26 July 2021

Careers

Getting Comfortable with Being Uncomfortable, Career Story with Laura Bull

Meet Laura Bull, mentee and mentor at OneUpOneDown and Digital Marketing Manager at an eco-conscious company in the UK. Laura started her career a little bit unsure of what she wanted to do for a living, but she persisted and developed herself each day to get to where she is now. She…

25 June 2021

Mentoring

Creating a Culture of Accountability with Your Mentee

One of the challenges of being a mentor is knowing how to best guide your mentee towards the goals they have set for themselves. Becoming comfortable with holding people accountable is a beneficial skill for leaders. Being a mentor is a great way to develop this skill while helping…

11 June 2021

Mentorship

Opening Up a Dialogue About Motherhood

We asked the OneUpOneDown community about their experiences surrounding motherhood and how it had impacted their career choices.

9 May 2021

Careers

Building Things that Impact Millions, Career Story with Vicky Sagia

Meet Vicky Sagia, mentor & mentee at OneUpOneDown and Senior Program Manager at Oracle. Vicky’s career began in engineering, designing cities and infrastructure and transitioned into product management for software companies. This happened largely by chance, the catalyst being a move from…

16 April 2021

Mentorship

Top 3 tips for women wanting to improve their productivity

Living your life on an endless to-do list? Not feeling like you are ever really getting on top of things? Moving slower than you’d like towards your big plans and goals? Welcome to the club! The club of ambitious women who are looking for support to improve their own productivity, get…

8 April 2021

Communication

How can I create more structure and accountability in my mentorship relationship?

This blog provides a tool for mentors and mentees to create more structure and check-ins within their relationship if this is something the mentor and mentee want to incorporate. OneUpOneDown mentor matches are three months long. Mentor and mentees meet at least four times during this…

25 March 2021