Hey!

Our mentor for the ears of this episode is Mahdis Gharaei - co-founder & head of partnerships of the female factor, a career & HR platform, concentrating on the next generation of female leaders, with the mission to close the gender leadership gap. Female factor aims to connect female talents in Europe with inclusive companies.

As Head of partnerships Mahdis is an expert when it comes to building meaningful connections, collaborations and partnerships.

In this podcast episode we learn from Mahdis:

• how her background, growing up in a big persian family, influenced her and her career choices

• the (non-existent) difference between bulding friendships and partnerships

• how to approach potential partners & what is the most important thing you need to do, before you attend a partnership-meeting

• no-gos when trying to build partnerships

• how to find out the pain-points of your potential partner

• how to keep the balance between collaboration and competition

• why we should change the mindset that “there is only one winner”

• why she is underestimated often and how she copes with it

• what she would do differently looking back on her last 4 years with the female factor

Follow your beat,

Lisa

Weiterführende Links:

• Find out more about the female factor here

• Contact Mahdis Gharaei

• Check out our upcoming Event “Collaboration > Competition” and get ready to collaborate and form partnerships online and on site on the 31st of May