This is a book filled with both inspiration and practical lessons drawn from real-life experience, shared woman-to-woman in a career mentoring relationship.
Author Alexia Isaak's achievement here is remarkable: the book itself embodies major themes of her mentor's lessons by "paying it forward" — to you! As you'll see, her mentor Rhonda Shasteen, former Chief Marketing Officer at Mary Kay, Inc., observes that many of the lessons she shared took on greater meaning and importance when re-examined with the benefit of experience.
In these pages, Isaak in turn reviews those lessons and provides her own reflections on their application to her career and life. What emerges are:
Isaak and Shasteen share the hope that after sharing in their relationship, you'll take full advantage of that last one.
Alexia Isaak is an ambitious young professional, curious to learn the ropes of corporate America by seeking the wisdom of those around her. She enjoys learning lessons through mentors in lieu of making mistakes.
She holds a bachelor’s degree from Carnegie Mellon University and an MBA from the University of Texas at Dallas. Alexia resides in Dallas and works as a marketing professional in the healthcare industry.
Visit the author's blog: Alexia's Views
"My hope is that you will find some of the things shared within these pages inspirational and relevant to helping make a difference in your career, today, while you’re reading these stories. "More importantly, I hope that you will find a mentor for yourself, and develop a long-term relationship that will immensely benefit both of you, as this one has done for me and Alexia." Rhonda Shasteen, former Chief Marketing Officer, Mary Kay, Inc.,"The Mentor"
