KUWAIT: PEOPLE organized its 2nd Global Mentorship Webinar featuring talks from prominent regional leaders. Topics of discussion included mentorship, modern day workplace challenges, the advancement of women in business and the specific challenges they face.

PEOPLE (Pakistani Executive Organization for Promotion of Leadership and Entrepreneurship) is a networking platform that focuses on assisting Pakistanis in becoming leaders in their respective organizations and local communities. The organization was founded in 2011 by Kashif Khan, who is the Chairman for PEOPLE and has since then focused on growing PEOPLE in order for the organization to be able to achieve the goals for which it was founded. The Webinar was conducted on December 12, 2020 with business and industry leaders, its extensive panel of mentors and prospective mentees joining from across the globe.

The session was started by Zeeshan Mir, General Secretary, PEOPLE, reiterating PEOPLE's vision and stressing the importance of mentorship and how guidance from a mentor could help someone to grow. The list of speakers included the following esteemed guests:

• Zeeshan Khan (Executive Director - JP Morgan Dubai) who took a very unique approach to mentorship and mentioned that the key to being successful is to ensure that you maintain a positive work life balance and to surround yourself with a strong and trusted support group.
• Hasan Chaudhry (WTE Wassertechnik GmbH, Germany and CFO - Umm Al Hayman) mentioned his experience in Financial Services Industry and the need for mentorship being clearer and more important than ever, due to the increasing levels of competition in the workplace.
• Talat Shirazi (Head of HR at Bukhatir Group) advocated her global experience and the challenges she as a Pakistani woman faced in predominantly British, male corporate environment and how her mentors helped her navigate through the various situations she faced.
• Salman Sayeed (Head of Buying and Merchandising - Alshaya Group), presented his birds eye view of leadership and narrated how having had to navigate through his career provided him with the experience to assist others through the situations he faced and the value that such mentorship would provide to others.

The webinar was a great interactive session where attendees and the PEOPLE mentors were asking questions and sharing experiences. Kashif Khan then concluded the session by thanking the speakers and assured the attendees that there would be further webinars and PEOPLE would keep bringing prominent leaders to the platform to help and benefit the youth.