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An SDXD Panel: Mentorship, And How!

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There are good mentors and there are 🌟EPIC🌟 mentors.

What makes an epic mentor so great? How do they magically 🪄✨ increase our growth so exponentially 📈 in seemingly effortless ways? And how do we find them!? 🔎 Where are all they hiding? 🙈And when should we become mentors ourselves? 🤔 How will we know we’re ready? 🧐

All these questions AND MOOOORE will be answered in our mentorship panel on April 27 at 6pm PDT.

🏀 ALL-STAR PANELISTS

  • Felix Lee - Co-Founder | ADP List

  • Sara Goepfert - Interactive Design Lead | Apple

  • Ben Holland-Arlen - Staff Product Designer | ServiceNow

  • Brad Soroka - Design Manager, Product & UX | Creative Cloud Express - Adobe

*See Panelist bios below.

🎤 WHAT WE’LL COVER

  • Making mentorship accessible to everyone 🙌

  • Debunking the mentee stigma at all levels! We can always keep learning 🤓

  • Fostering relationships and establishing networks… it goes both ways ↔️

  • How to become a mentor, best practices, & how it can help you 😎

  • How to find a mentor, do’s ✅ and don’ts 🚫

  • Mentorship in the wild 🏜🐯🤠 found where you least expect it

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🕰️ AGENDA (PST)
6:00pm - 6:10pm: Opening statements
6:10pm - 7:00pm: Panel
7:00pm - 7:30pm: Q&A
7:30pm and beyond: Optional post-event networking

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📓 PANELIST BIOS

Felix Lee is the co-founder and CEO of the global mentorship platform, ADPList and sets the vision and strategy for the company. Felix has overseen the ADPList to become the world largest community of mentors in tech across 120+ countries. A designer and entrepreneur, Felix has embedded his creative roots in ADPList culture, product and community. He's been featured on Forbes, Tech in Asia, StraitsTimes and CNBC.

Sara Goepfert is an Interactive Design Lead based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She specializes in product design, visual design, and e-commerce experiences. She’s passionate about solving problems through design reasoning and systems thinking. She also loves to travel, go on long city walks, and daydream about her next adventure.

Ben Holland-Arlen is a seasoned designer, with more than 10 years of experience spanning various startups, agencies, non-profits, and enterprise companies. He currently is a staff product designer at ServiceNow. He loves solving complex problems. He does NOT love the phrase “this is how we do it because this is how it’s always been done”.
When he’s not working, you can find him nerding out about (or playing) music, exploring the world on foot or bike, or experimenting in the kitchen. He currently lives in the San Diego area with his wife, son, and dog named Willis.

Brad Soroka is the Senior Design Manager for Adobe Creative Cloud Express, spreading the mission of Creativity for All to new users and the next generation of creators. He and his team work across the Adobe ecosystem to create tools that anyone can use for things like brands, libraries, search, collaboration, onboarding, and education. Previously, Brad was the Product Creative Director at ServiceNow where he led the vision and team that created App Engine Studio, a low-code app building platform. And prior to that, he brought many startups to life while working at San Diego-based UX agency, Digital Telepathy. In short, his career can be summed up by “making things for people who make things.”

Brad is a lifelong learner and lifehacker’s lifehacker, always running experiments to optimize, minimize, automate, simplify, and improve, then sharing these learnings through writing and speaking engagements. This hobby of sorts serves as a way to create space for the bigger hobbies of life: spending time with family, traveling, fitness, drawing, joking, laughing, and discovering all that the human experience has to offer.

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⚡️POWERED BY ServiceNow
At ServiceNow, our technology makes the world work for everyone, and our people make it possible. Our cloud‑based platform and solutions deliver digital workflows that create great experiences and unlock productivity for employees and the enterprise.
We’re growing fast, innovating faster, and making an impact on our customers’ and employees’ lives in significant and important ways. With over 7,400+ customers, we serve approximately 80% of the Fortune 500, and we’re on the 2021 list of FORTUNE World’s Most Admired Companies.®
We’re looking for people who are ready to jump right in and help us build on our incredible momentum, our diverse, engaged workforce, and our purpose to make the world work better for everyone.

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🎉 PRESENTED BY SDXD

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