Our mentors
Different paths. Different countries. One belief.
When women open doors for one another, more women can walk through them.
CEOs, founders, investors, strategists, people leaders, entrepreneurs, coaches, impact leaders, and international executives across cultures, industries and generations.
A message from
our mentors
You don't have to have it all figured out before you begin.
Trust your voice.
Trust your experience.
Trust the potential that may still be difficult for you to see.
Be curious. Ask the questions that matter. Challenge what you believe is possible. Think bigger than what feels safe, and don't wait until you feel completely ready to take the next step.
There will be uncertainty. There will be moments when you doubt yourself. Let them be part of the journey, not the reason you stop.
Find your strengths. Know your value. Have the courage to ask for what you want, to enter rooms you once thought were not for you, and to make decisions that are true to who you are.
You don't need someone to give you all the answers. Sometimes what you need is someone who sees your potential, asks the difficult question, opens a door, or simply says: “I believe in you.”
And when you find your way, don't walk it alone. Open the door for another woman. Share what you have learned. Challenge and inspire one another. Keep the door open.
Go for it. Find your own way. And then help another woman find hers.
Why become a mentor
Why become a WVOH mentor?
In Women's Voices of the Himalayas, the benefit to international mentors is actually reciprocal transformation. They are not simply sharing their expertise with Nepali women. They enter a community where their own experience, assumptions and leadership are challenged and expanded too.
To give - and to receive.
Mentoring is not a one-way transfer of knowledge. Our mentors share experience, but they also receive new perspectives, wisdom and ways of seeing the world.
To meet leadership in a different context.
Nepali women may be navigating circumstances, cultures and opportunities very different from those familiar to international executives. That difference can challenge assumptions and deepen leadership.
To rediscover the meaning behind their own experience.
When you share what you have learned with another woman, you often see your own journey differently. Experience becomes wisdom when it is passed on.
To stay curious and expand.
At a senior stage of life and career, the greatest learning may no longer come from another business case or leadership book - but from another human being whose life is fundamentally different from your own.
To build genuine cross-cultural relationships.
Not networking. Not transactional connections. Human relationships cross geography, generation and culture.
To challenge your own assumptions and thinking.
Reverse mentoring gives you opportunity to learn and leave the expert you are aside.
To leave something that continues beyond you.
A mentor's greatest legacy may not be what she achieved herself, but what becomes possible for another woman because she shared what she knew.
You may come to Nepal to share your experience. You may leave with a different understanding of your own.
What does a mentor receive?
Perspective. Connection. Renewal. Meaning.
- She brings her experience.
- She encounters another world.
- She questions what she thought she knew.
- And she leaves with new wisdom of her own.
This is the real power of reverse mentoring in Women's Voices of the Himalayas.
