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Announcing the winners of the 2025 Femme Palette Mentor Awards

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Femme Palette
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September 25, 2025

We are incredibly proud to announce the winners of our 2025 Mentor Awards! This is the second edition of our awards, and once again, we are in awe of the remarkable contributions from our mentors. What we do at Femme Palette would never be possible without our amazing community of mentors, which has continued to grow over the years. Our mentors come from diverse countries, backgrounds, and professional fields, each with unique career paths and expertise. We want to take this opportunity to extend a huge thanks to all of them!

Given that it would be impossible to individually acknowledge each of our 1000+ mentors around the world, we have selected 65 mentors + 14 nominated by mentees across 6 categories to recognize for their exceptional efforts and results. This year, each category features a slightly different number of winners, as we had more mentees in some categories and wanted to give space to acknowledge more mentors.

Meet the winners of the Femme Palette Mentor Awards 2025 below!

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Rising stars

This category celebrates some of the newer faces within our mentor community who are already mentoring one or more mentees. Despite their relatively short time spent with us so far, these mentors are producing outstanding results and mentee feedback on them is filled with praise.

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Sona Pochybova

Hande Güneykaya Akpınar

Vera Svach

Fedrick William

Mareike Müller

Zlata Vavruskova

Lora Haun

Valeria Quintini

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‍Community contributors

These mentors have gone above and beyond their mentoring activities and contributed frequently with content to our blog or other resources, or been actively engaged with our social media accounts and in our Slack community.

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Olga Mukhina

Anna Huskowska

Barbora Laguardia

Aneta Berana

Vaclav Kotyk

Monika Matuszewska

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Mentors with long-term dedication

These mentors have been actively working with us for years now, and have had some of the highest numbers of mentees who they’ve helped and supported. Thanks for all your hard work, loyalty, and longstanding dedication!

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Michiko Lloyd

Angeley Mullins

Jan Gregor

Christina Mann Harutyunyan

Mary-Brennan Minarovych

Lakme Judge

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Impact mentors

Mentors in the Impact category have been actively supporting mentees in our various social impact projects, such as recipients of mentoring scholarships or mentees enrolled in collaboration with the non-profit Nadání a dovednosti which helps young people from socially disadvantaged backgrounds successfully enter the job market.

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Barbora Páclová

Eva Shaw

Jasmína Orlická

Hanna Klimchuk

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‍Awards in field categories

In this category, we acknowledge the top rated mentors in different fields of focus.

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Career Guidance

Aliaksandra Arutsiunian

Sandra Marichal

Katia Triggiani

Priscilla Hidalgo

Maria Zarotiadou

Natia Mikhanashvili

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Finance

Lana Vukovic

Denisa Ludvikova

Antonia Liptakova

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Product

Ellie Rastian

Gabriela Carminatti

Seda Elibol

Weilin Liu

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Leadership

Adriana Villar

Natia Mikhanashvili

Corina Potarniche

Saba Gürleyen

Petr Hunka

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I learned a lot with my Adriana, my mentor. She helped me a lot gaining more confidance and giving me usefull tips to my daily routine. Even when I was not sure about the subject I want to develop in each session, she pushed me and all of them were super productive.

- Mentee Daniela on Adriana Villar

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HR

Petra Mikulasova

Laura Eggeling

Jana Petrlova

Elena Recmanova

Hana Pavorisova

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Design

Adriana Rybarova

Michal Matyščák

Jana Weiglova

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Sales/Business Development

Tero Moliis

Rodolph Crozier

Marcelo Repacci De Abreu

Sam Pike

Vladimír Přikryl

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Entrepreneurship

Sara Fedele

Gunjan Gunjan

Dursunjemal Halimova

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Marketing

Viktorie Sladkova

Ania Bornova

Martina Ellzey

Kira Fazekas

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Tech/IT

Eleanor Manley

Maria Loparcakova

Lucie Nová

Dagmar Tencer

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Special category: Mentors nominated by our mentees

We also asked our mentees to submit their own mentor award nominations, and evaluated these based on impact of the mentors. Meet the mentees’ choice winners!

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Lenka Dzurendová

Melissa Artioli

Iva Buschmann

Yana Stanishevskaya

Barbora Sokolová

Alexandra Toader

Hale Doganci

Maria Pereda-Ramon

Aude Guichard

Nicole Rombach

Oxana Arapiva

Petra Jankovicova

Belinda Filippelli

Jan Zeleny

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Would you like to work with one of these mentors? Find out how the Femme Palette Mentoring program works and how to apply to get matched with your perfect mentor!

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