Alessandra Alonso: Alessandra is a director of Shine People & Places LTD.  Alessandra co-founded Shine with Gaby Marcon in 2004.  She is qualified coach-mentor and is very interested in supporting the personal and professional development of women.  She has mentored many women and continues to enjoy beeing a mentee herself. As well as mentoring on a one to one basis, Alessandra is an expert facilitator and has delivered many group mentoring sessions and training for mentors. She has also written extensively on women, business and mentoring topics. Some of her articles are available here.  Before Shine, she worked in professional services firm with KPMG and in the tourism industry with leading industry organizations, World Travel, and Tourism Council being one of them. Her expertise covers talent management and mentoring, gender, service industries, marketing and communications  Click here to contact Alessandra

Gaby Marcon: Gaby is also a director of Shine People and Places LTD.  Gaby's trademark is her passion and enthusiasm in helping people become the best they can be. She enjoys instilling confidence in people and realizes that while coach/mentoring may be a life changing experience for some, it may not be the preferred way for all, hence her flexible approach. Gaby writes regularly on mentoring topics (see a sample of articles here) and is the author of Shine's best-selling Mentoring Toolkit.   Click here to contact Gaby

Rene Petrin: Rene is the founder & president of Management Mentors, Partner organisation of Shine people and Places in the USA . He's been sharing his expertise in corporate mentoring for over 20 years. After spending years in human resources and discovering that most companies weren't doing an adequate job developing their number one asset-employees-Rene D. Petrin had a mission: to create an organization devoted solely to teaching businesses how to mentor talent. This entrepreneurial spirit combined with his keen insight into human behavior led Rene to found Management Mentors, Inc. in 1989. Management Mentors' philosophy is simple: to show companies how structured mentoring programs are the most powerful and effective strategy for professional development within an organization.
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