WIS Show: Mentorship and the Importance of Career Development
Why is mentorship and career development important? Listen in as Bobbie and Malcolm share their secrets to success.

Join us for our fourth session, in a series of six, looking at how we can build ourselves up and gain access to higher level positions of influence. In session four, "Mentorship and the Importance of Career Development" our guests Bobbie Grant and Malcolm Staves share insights on how they started their professional growth journey and some of the challenges and barriers they have navigated along the way.
This is a series of six episodes where we look at how we can build ourselves up and gain access to higher level positions of influence.
In this series we will be speaking to six topics:
- Self respect and career ownership (Starting with You!)
- Empowerment and supporting visibility
- Professional Growth and Personal Resilience
- Mentorship and the Importance of Career Development
- Defining your Leadership style
- Supporting and creating future leadership
This series comes to us through L’Oréal and RoSPA Safe@Work-Safe@Home Partnership in association with OneWISH. It is designed to help and support those who identify as women in Health & Safety reach more senior roles and includes certified "IOSH Leading Safely" training followed by a period of mentoring. This training is delivered by Louise Hosking of Hosking Associates, sponsored by L’Oréal and administered by RoSPA.
Our Guests:
Mentee - Bobbie Grant is the IES Global Senior EHS Manager at Thermo Fisher Scientific
Mentor - Malcolm Staves is the Global Vice President Health & Safety at L'Oréal
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Written by Tamara Parris

Tamara Parris is the VP of Community and Business Development at Safeopedia, and owner of EHS Professionals Group on LinkedIn. Her passion is working with other EHS Professionals to collaborate in thought leadership, networking and connecting our industry peers to resources that will increase profitability and safety practices within their workplaces. Tamara has been in the Health and Safety field for over 20 years, her industry experiences include the Construction sector, CCTV and Security, and Commercial Retail industries.
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