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Stéphanie Mitrano

Insightful and open-minded, Stéphanie accompanies organizations in their cultural transformation to support innovation and business agility.

🟢⏮ [ Looking back at ] 15 years of mentoring

🟢⏮ [ Looking back at ] 15 years of mentoring

Mentoring is now a wide-spread practice that is more or less loosely understood, but that is always of great promise. After working on this subject for about 15 years and obtaining a PhD on the very subject in 2012, I thought it would interesting to look back and reflect.

😬 Next step in DEI

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😬 Next step in DEI

For many years we have seen many approaches to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, from unconscious biases training to evangelize about the benefits of diversity in the boardroom. Whilst understanding the benefits of DEI creates awareness and potentially motivates people, leaders, and organizations to initiate some changes in themselves, it is

🧭 Stopping the auto-pilot leadership

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🧭 Stopping the auto-pilot leadership

Last week I was having a deep meaningful conversation with my dear friend Margreeth van der Oord about the “business as usual” state of the world: despite the many crisis, everyone is focused on maintaining life as it is and not many question or act differently. This lead me to

🪷 How to introspect as a team

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🪷 How to introspect as a team

To go even further on the topic of team introspection, I thought I’d share some guidelines or tips to help you and your team. The challenges we want to overcome are: to create trust and dispel fears of negative consequences in order to allow an open and truthful sharing,

❤️‍🩹 Why truth is difficult to share at work

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❤️‍🩹 Why truth is difficult to share at work

Last week I started to share about the differences between team debriefing and team introspection [https://www.icopilots.com/team-debriefing-vs-team-introspection/]. The former being quite straightforward and directly connected to an observable performance as the latter being a deeper exploration of more relational issues in an organisation or team. Both are

👩‍💻Team debriefing vs. Team introspection

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👩‍💻Team debriefing vs. Team introspection

I have been wanting for a long time to share about various team practices that I have found useful over the years working with different teams, from startup co-founders to senior corporate managers of large industrial companies. And my views have also evolved over the years, moving from very masculine

☕️ Feminine innovation culture

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☕️ Feminine innovation culture

On 6th of May 2022, Meaningful Design Agency [https://www.meaningful.fr/] has invited me to share my experience and tips (in French) about the feminine side of innovation [https://www.icopilots.com/feminine-values-in-uncertain-times/]. Here is the translation of what they shared in their newsletter to introduce the talk: > Empathy,

❤️ Receiving clients' public praises

❤️ Receiving clients' public praises

Last week one of my dearest clients, Erasmus Center for Women and Organisations (Rotterdam School of Management), without me having to ask for it, shared about my book on their public Linkedin profile [https://www.linkedin.com/posts/erasmus-centre-for-women-and-organisations_guidedintrospection-activity-6914588145783111681-Ufht?utm_source=linkedin_share&utm_medium=ios_app] . Beyond the

☕️ Looking Back at 2021 – Part 1

☕️ Looking Back at 2021 – Part 1

As the year came to a recent close, here are my 2021 highlights in the telegraphic form: from work adaptations to personal achievements as well as challenges and gratefulness. Catch up with you soon! Work Transformed Further Building on our 2020 experiences we launched our Icopilots Webschool [https://icopilots.thinkific.

💪 Scaling culture change

💪 Scaling culture change

Scaling culture change in the industry is a complex process. Everyone understands that this requires time until you need to come up with quick wins nonetheless. A few years ago I was already sharing about a few key ingredients to building a mentoring culture [https://innovation-copilots.ghost.io/what-it-takes-to-build-a-mentoring-culture-that-delivers] and

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⚖️ Contributing to gender equality

I was recently interviewed by Karima Chibane [http://linkedin.com/in/karima-chibane] from “Elles font bouger les lignes” [https://youtube.com/channel/UClJ6twu5ykrZkLAaDd8sM4A], the youtube channel dedicated to sharing women’s stories and how they impact gender equality. The interview is in French, but you will find below the key

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🎙 The rise of podcast mentoring

Third time in the past three months, I have been interviewed for a podcast or video-cast promoting women’s voices and women’s stories. You will find the latest one, Women’s Dialogues, by Dr. Shashi Goel [https://www.linkedin.com/in/shashi-goel-52ba8722] below with time codes. I’ve realized

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🎙 How I met my mentor – Podcast interview

Recently Lidia Lopez interviewed me for the podcast she runs with Maria Planes, “How I Met My Mentor.” Each weekly episode is an interview of a woman who shares about herself, her experiences, her expertise to benefit and inspire other women. You can find my episode on Spotify, as an

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☕️ Being authentic at work

Back in December 2020, I recorded an interview with Ana who shares empowering stories on her youtube channel [https://youtube.com/channel/UCHEj1VncoizfeDhi_oEk2eQ]. Here is the full video where you can see me share about being authentic at work, and of course emotions with some tips about how to

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📆 2020 What a year it’s been

As the year comes to a close, here are my 2020 highlights in telegraphic form: from work adaptations to personal achievements as well as challenges and gratefulness. Catch up with you in 2021! Work continued but not the same… Supported the clients who moved with us to online consulting, training

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Remote team temperature check

In a context of remote working (or mask-wearing), where the contact cannot be physical, where we lose a large part of the non-verbal information, it becomes more difficult to capture the emotions of the other, take the temperature of our teams and show empathy. The webcam limits our visual and