About Mentorish
Corporate life has a funny way of promoting capable people into leadership roles…and then offering remarkably little guidance on how to do the job.
So most folks learn the hard way.
Through trial, error, observation and the occasional leadership shitshow that could have been avoided with about ten minutes of decent leadership advice.
Mentorish exists to shorten that curve and help people get better at the parts of corporate life nobody ever formally teaches you.
The conversations you’re not sure how to handle.
The moments where being good at your job isn’t quite enough anymore.
Navigating politics and “personalities”.
In other words, the real world, slightly messy, occasionally awkward stuff that shows up in meetings, projects and leadership decisions. The stuff that tends to determine whether your career accelerates or stalls.
If you’re early in your career, new to management, or stepping into bigger leadership roles and realising the job didn’t come with instructions…you’re in the right place.
Even Batman had Alfred.
You, meanwhile, are out here making career decisions unsupervised. Risky.
Meet me, JB
(Otherwise known as Julie Byrne)
I’ve spent the last two decades in the marketing and digital trenches, from scrappy tech startups to global heavyweights like Autonomy, Vodafone, BUPA, Microsoft and ResMed.
I haven’t just talked the talk. I’ve lived the targets, survived death by back to back meetings and sat through more “quick chat?” invites than any human should reasonably be subjected to. (They’re never quick and rarely chats.)
I cut my teeth at Autonomy in the UK, jumping from Marketing Executive to European Marcomms Manager in eight months. Back in Australia, I landed a General Manager gig at Vodafone at 29, then went on to lead digital marketing at BUPA, step into a regional role at Microsoft running Microsoft Stores across APAC and then global with medtech giant ResMed, overseeing their digital ecosystem worldwide.
Since 2018, I’ve been doing my own thing, elbow-deep in coaching, consulting, strategy and transformation work for everyone from big corporates to fast moving small businesses including ENGIE, Craveable Brands and SoundScouts.
In other words, I’ve seen how this game works from just about every angle, including the parts that never make it onto the shiny careers pages. Which also means I’ve seen exactly where smart, capable people start to trip over the stuff nobody ever teaches you.
And after seeing that play out again and again, it became painfully obvious that practical training and real mentorship for new and mid-level managers is weirdly hard to find. There’s theory aplenty, but not much in the way of “here’s what to actually do on Tuesday.” And what does exist is often delivered with the charisma of a 2009 compliance module and bearing little relevance to real day to day life.
So that’s the gap I fill. No BS, hands on training and straightforward coaching from someone who’s been in the room, made the calls and can tell you exactly where capable people start to come off the rails.
Career Kryptonite
The stuff about corporate life nobody tells you… but absolutely judges you for.
What senior people know.
What nobody writes down.
What you usually only learn after it’s already cost you something.
Career Kryptonite is a no BS guide to the ways smart, capable people sabotage their own careers without realising it.
Some lessons are far easier to learn in a book than the hard way.