Beyond Coffee: The Creative Mentee

Network more effectively with better strategies for finding the right mentor in your field

It’s an inevitable sign one has “arrived” in an industry: the steady drumbeat of “Do you have time for a coffee?” requests. Paradoxically, these requests snowball as we become busier, to the point that the request for time seems almost laughable.

So what’s a prospective mentee to do? You’re probably peppered with platitudes like “It’s better to ask forgiveness than permission” and “It never hurts…