Pop-up mentoring is a chance to connect with someone who's been there, for personalised advice, support and brainstorming

At each mentoring session we'll have a team of mentors across different roles and skillsets. If you see someone you want to connect with, sign up, and we'll connect you.

This is a way to find a mentor and get their best advice — without the long-term committment or having to find the right fit. Just dive in.

You'll get your mentor's best insights, and advice that's tailored to what's happening for you right now.

Our mentors this month bring expertise in:

Leadership • Management • Career • Performance • Self-confidence • Entrepreneurship • Startups • UX Design • Adaptability • Working sustainably

This event is taking place online via Zoom from 5-6 pm GMT.

How it works

Participants will be split into groups of up to 3 members and each participant will be assigned to a mentor based on their area of interest. To choose the area you would like to be mentored on, please select the ticket with the mentor's name. The mentoring session will last 45 minutes and you will have the opportunity to ask your mentor your questions directly. Please come prepared with the questions you would like to ask. This will be an open mentoring format where the agenda and the discussion will be based on your questions.

The Agenda

5 pm — Welcome and introductions

5:10 pm — Mentoring session

5:55 pm — Closing

This event is free and open to all. Once you’ve registered, we’ll email you all the event details and a Zoom link.

Important note: We keep these mentoring sessions small so that you can have the best experience and get personalised advice. If you register for the event but can’t make it, please cancel your registration so we can give your spot to someone on our waitlist.

The mentors

Caitlin Rich, Senior Product Design Manager at Freetrade. Areas of expertise: Web and App User Interface Design, User experience, Product Design, Fintech Startups.

Gianluca Ameruoso, Delivery Director at Infinite Lambda. Areas of expertise: interpersonal communication, self-motivation, decision making, adaptability, leadership of technical teams.

Chris Brogan, Head of Client Care at TrueLayer. Areas of expertise: Leadership, Customer Experience , Process Automation.

Lena Vasileiadou, Head of Performance Marketing at Freetrade. Areas of expertise: Marketing, Growth Hacking, Leadership

Duncan Leslie, VP of Product at Freetrade. Areas of expertise: Product Management, Leadership, Fintech, Start-ups.

Stef Papaconstantinou, Scrum Master at Expedia Group. Areas of expertise: career transition from technical to non-technical role, leading a team without being a manager, creating a culture of feedback, working with remote distributed teams, self-motivation and imposter syndrome

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There are 101 ways to be a leader but one thing we are all looking for in a great leader is authenticity.

We're bringing together four exceptional leaders to discuss how they bring their whole selves to the table and to their teams in a conversation led by our own fearless leader and Founder Yota Trom.

This will be an honest, deep and personal conversation about authenticity and navigating your career from the heart. You'll hear from leaders from different countries (Russia, UK, US), so you can be inspired by their journeys and explore how to walk your own path — while being true to yourself and finding your own style.

This event will be taking place live online from 5-6 pm GMT.

The Agenda

5- 5:10 pm — Welcome and intros
5:10-5:40 pm — Panel discussion
5:40-5:55 pm — Q&A
5:55- 6 pm — Wrap up

This event is free to and open to all. Once you’ve registered, we’ll email you all the event details and a Zoom link.

Our guests

Samuel Bevan, International Head of Emerging, Business Solutions at Snap Inc.

Sam joined Snap Inc. as the founding member of Snapchat's Emerging International team in October 2016. His team advises on advertising strategies that can drive success across all verticals, for businesses of all sizes. Prior to joining Snap, Sam worked with SMB clients at both Google and Facebook. Sam brings a wealth of expertise in the digital advertising landscape and can advise on the strategies that can drive success across all verticals, for businesses of all sizes.

Albert de Symons Azis-Clauson, Co-Founder & Ceo at UnderPinned

Albert is passionate about solving problems for the freelance economy as the proud CEO and Co-Founder of UnderPinned, helping freelancers turn their passion into business.

Albert has raised millions in investment, was appointed a judge of The Great British Entrepreneur Awards and works with government bodies to ensure that the future of freelance work is bright and profitable for all freelancers.

UnderPinned was founded in 2018 to provide freelancers with a one-stop career management platform, covering everything from finding work to managing clients while giving you every tool that you need to do so.

Ekaterina Bodrova, Founder & CEO Fast & Easy Learning Center, Co-Founder Amazy

Ekaterina has built an international online school with 100+ people in her team and has over 13 years of experience in teaching languages and soft skills. Throughout her career she worked with corporate clients from Europe, Russia and UK (Google, UCS, MRG) building courses together with teachers from UK, USA, Europe, Canada, New Zealand and Australia.

She is an international speaker sharing her personal experience of leadership and building a team; and a member of Nike empowering women program — invited speaker for entrepreneurs and young women in Moscow, Russia.

Rani Nagpal, Chief Marketing Officer | Polymath | Strategic Advisor

Rani is an innovative, tech-centric senior marketing leader with deep expertise building successful startups and growing revenue at large, multinational corporations. She has led high-performing, cross-functional teams tasked with finding new ways to increase margin and drive growth at Sony Pictures, 20th Century/Disney and Axel Springer. Currently, Rani advises pre-seed, seed and series A startups on GTM strategy, brand positioning, breakthrough marketing strategy, product development, optimal revenue models, strategic business development, operational effectiveness and architecture for scaling. Rani is also a judge, guest lecturer and mentor for the London School of Economics’ Generate and Aspect accelerators, a mentor for First Round Capital, and a founding member of Chief.

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Happier Hour is a monthly event where we talk with a smart, interesting human in tech.

In May Amy Gilman, the Associate Director of People at Freetrade, will run a workshop for us about how to launch your personal brand within the corporate world (something we hear our community members are curious about).

During this workshop we will explore:

• Brand power and how it relates to you

• The building blocks of your personal brand

• How to remove limiting beliefs that hold you back

• How to launch your personal brand as a corporate employee

This event is taking place online via Zoom from 12:30-13:30 pm GMT.

The Agenda

12:30 - 12:40 pm — Welcome and introductions

12:40-13:25 pm — Personal Branding Workshop

13:25-13:30 pm — Wrap up

This event is free and open to all. Once you’ve registered, we’ll email you all the event details and a Zoom link.

About Amy Gilman, Associate Director - People at Freetrade

Amy is a CIPD certified Coach and Mentor, with a passionate belief in the potential of people and the impact they have in business. She has spent the past 15 years of her career advocating this, the last 6 of which have been dedicated to the start up and scale up space.

In her role as Associate Director for Freetrade, she is facilitating the fast-paced and ambitious headcount growth of the business, which has evolved from having 100,000 users in January 2020 to nearly 700,000 today. The hiring plan that will be delivered in 2021 will see the size of the business double to 250 by the end of December, across the UK, Europe and Australia.

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