More than 150 women take part in 10th-annual Phoenix Mentoring Monday event

More than 125 Phoenix-area women spent the morning receiving career advice from nearly three dozen local women leaders during the Business Journal’s 10th annual Mentoring Monday event.

Hundreds of women participated in the national speed mentoring event that’s held in 40 cities affiliated with the Phoenix Business Journal’s parent company, American City Business Journals.

Mentees in attendance at the Phoenix event held Monday morning at the Arizona Science Center got to spend time in one-on-one discussions with several of the 33 mentors who took part.

Alexi Venneri, the co-founder and CEO of DAS Technology, was one of the local executives invited to participate.

For mentees looking for the best way to engage with a potential mentor, Dawn Jones, chief diversity and inclusion officer and vice president of social impact at Intel, said a mentee needs to take “ownership to make the most out of the experience.

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