Joe Tornabe is an Executive Director of Human Resources for The Estee Lauder Companies responsible for delivering HR leadership to the Research and Development function.
Joe has extensive HR business partnership experience with over 15 years in the consumer products industry with assignments, both domestic and international, across corporate functions, manufacturing plants, technology centers, international divisions and brand subsidiaries.
Joe holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology from Sacred Heart University and a Master’s Degree in Social-Organizational Psychology from Columbia University.
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Joe stresses the importance of mentorship but also notes that it might not be that formal.
People may have mentors or act as mentors without realizing it. He tells us:
“I actually think most people have mentors, they just don’t put a label on the relationship. I think if you get a group of people together and ask them, do they have a go-to person in their life for advice? Most people will say that they do.
Mentorship comes in a lot of different forms. So I think some of us might even be mentoring right now. We don’t even realize it. If you stop and ask people. Do other individuals come to you for advice or opinion, and they answer yes, then in that regard, they’re acting as a mentor, but it hasn’t been kind of formalized or labeled as that mentorship relationship.”
