Build your own personal board of advisors - Traits great mentors share

Meet The Leader

OakNorth Bank is a digital commercial bank founded by serial entrepreneurs who know firsthand the role advice and expertise plays in growing vibrant businesses. To that end, OakNorth has developed a special 'mentorpreneurship' program with the London School of Economics, all to help build socially-conscious businesses through mentoring. Meet the Leader talked to co-founder Rishi Khosla about what traits great mentors share and how anyone can make the most of the expertise around them. He also shared why it can be powerful to consider mentorship as a way to build your own personal board of directors, people who can give you the range of measured, honest insights that aren't often easy for top leaders to find any other way. To learn more:

• This episode's Transcript: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/meet-the-leader/episodes/traits-great-mentors-share-oaknorth-rishi-khosla/
• "Mentorpreneurship" at the London School of Economics: https://oaknorth.co.uk/mentorpreneurship-programme/
• OakNorth: https://oaknorth.co.uk/ Related podcasts:

• 9 leaders from Microsoft, IKEA and more share advice for new grads: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/meet-the-leader/episodes/9-leaders-share-advice-for-new-grads-2024/
• Workers have changed - How leaders must adapt: Randstad's Sander Van't Noordende: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/meet-the-leader/episodes/how-leaders-must-adapt-randstad-sander-vant-noordende/
• Launch your brainchild: Raise Our Voice Australia's Ashleigh Streeter-Jones: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/meet-the-leader/episodes/raise-our-voice-australias-ashleigh-streeter-jones-launching-your-brainchild/