I help you grow in your role as a communicator and bring you to the next level in your career.

Stop doubting yourself and your decisions

Get focused and feel secure in your role

Know your direction

Accelerate your development

I am radically ambitious on behalf of communicators, who want to achieve the extraordinary, and through their work contribute to creating a better, fairer, and more peaceful world. People like you. 

As a communicator working in Geneva’s NGO sector, you probably recognise one or several of these challenges:

  • You’re sometimes frustrated that everyone in your organisation has an opinion about communications and the job you’re hired to perform. And believe they could do it better.
  • You’re tired of having to argue about every decisions you make.
  • You’re often being asked to do things by upper management that make no sense from a communications perspective but you’re not able to argue your case.
  • You believe you’re stuck in your career, and you’re not growing your skills, or developing in your work life. And you’re getting impatient for change.
  • You long for a sounding board – someone who can support, advise, and guide you on communications.
  • You’re not sure you’re at the right place in your career or work life.

Mentoring with Nina

If you can recognise any of the challenges above, then the good news is I’m here to help talented and passionate communicators like you move forward with power and purpose.

Mentoring with Nina combines personal development, mentoring, and community.

Personal development

In our monthly sessions, you’ll gain clarity on your strengths as a communicator, where you’re at in your present work life, and where you want to be in the future.

Mentoring

On our mentoring calls, you’ll get immediate responses and advice on projects or work relations that challenge you here and now.

Community

Once a month, all mentees meet in Geneva. Each month, we’ll look into a specific case and go through options and opportunities together.

“What’s in it for me?”

Mentoring with Nina is a personal and professional growth and development process that will help you:

  • Accelerate your learning and development as a communicator in the NGO and advocacy sector.
  • Grow your skills as a communicator and gain new perspectives on your private life, work life, and career.
  • Overcome the work challenges, you are facing and helping you make better decisions.
  • Stop doubting yourself and instead trusting your solutions and your gut instinct. And be able to compellingly argue your case.
  • Find a healthy work-life balance and ensure you’re never again overworking or spending time on tasks that don’t make sense or aren’t a good use of your time.
  • Become among the top communicators in Geneva.
  • (Re)finding motivation or direction in your work life if you feel stuck.

Who will benefit from Mentoring with Nina?

Mentoring with Nina is for ambitious and self-aware communicators working in the NGO sector in Geneva, Switzerland.

It’s for you if you wish to achieve one or more of the following goals:

  • Develop as a communicator and become more competent in your role.
  • Identify your unique competencies, talents, and what you’re exceptionally good at.
  • Develop the tools to become an innovative, creative, high-level, and getting-things-done communicator.
  • Feel recognised and respected for your work.
  • Become part of a network of other ambitious communicators working in the NGO sector in Geneva.
  • Get unstuck and find direction in your work life as communicator. 

My promise to you

When you have ended the mentorship programme, you’ll hold the keys to defining and tailoring a work life that you love and energises you – one that doesn’t drain your energy and destroy your work-life balance.

You will become more assertive and feel self-secure as a communicator. It will be easy for you to come up with innovative and creative solutions to projects and campaigns and trust your solutions and instinct.

As a bonus, you’ll also have expanded your network of communicators working in Geneva.

Meet your mentor

I have more than 17 year’s experience working in strategic communications, public relations, campaigning and media relations, and I have supervised over 50 communicators who have gone on to become experts in the field.

How we will work together?

The monthly one-on-one mentoring sessions take place either in-person or virtually over Zoom, and we’ll always start a course by booking the dates in our calendars. The mentoring calls take place when you need them via WhatsApp or your preferred messaging program. The group get-togethers take place monthly on the last Friday of the month from 13.00 to 15.30 at a location central in Geneva and near public transport.

The process

During our free 30-minute discovery call, we’ll talk about some of your dreams, challenges, and the results you would like to achieve. I will tell you what you can expect to get out of Mentoring with Nina, and you will have an opportunity to ask questions. The discovery call takes place virtually on Zoom and is free of charge.

Once we have decided to work together, we will start our first session by creating your career wheel. We will look at what works well, what works less well, and what you would like to improve.

We’ll look into your challenges and your mindset around them. Setting action plans and commitments will be essential. The most important work takes place in-between sessions when you’ll have to implement what you’ve decided to improve, change – or stop doing.

During the four months Mentoring with Nina lasts, you can book eight calls with me to discuss any pressing issue that has arisen. I will give my honest opinion, share my experience, and help you solve the issue as well as I can.

Each month, you’ll be invited to a two-hour get-together with all my mentees in Geneva, where we look into a specific case and go through options and opportunities together. This not only gives you a network (and a cozy get-together) but also concrete learning on the spot which you can use in your own projects.

Did you know that research shows that employees who are mentored have a better career track than those who don’t? This includes receiving higher compensation and more promotions, as well as higher career satisfaction.

FAQ

Mentoring is a learning relationship where a mentor helps a mentee to  grow their skills, make better decisions, and gain new perspectives on their life and career.

The short answer is: yes! As your mentor, I will share of my experience from 17 year’s in the field of communications.

As a coach, I believe you’re the expert on your life and I will not come with advises from my life (unless asked). As a mentor, I will definitely advise and guide you but also help you find the answers within yourself.

All mentoring sessions take place during work hours. One on one sessions can take place at in-person at your work place or virtual. 

The one-on-one sessions can be either in-person or virtual on zoom. The monthly group get-together is in person at a central location in Geneva. 

Worried on Covid-19? Please see my covid-19 policy

Are you ready for a change?

Mentoring package

  • 5x mentor sessions of 75 min
  • 8x mentor calls of 30 min
  • 4x get-together of 2,5 hours

Your investment in change: 1,440 CHF

Mentoring with Nina takes in new mentees twice per year and spaces are limited. The next opening will be in Autumn 2023.

Only available in Geneva, Switzerland, due to the in-person get-togethers. If you are not based in Geneva, but are interested in mentoring, please contact me.