Mentoring

Mentoring

My work as an International Business researcher is primarily concerned with understanding how we can improve and employ effective strategies and systems in place to boost entrepreneurship - to support and inspire entrepreneurs to enhance their leadership skills, increase capacity to expand their small businesses, start new businesses, and explore entrepreneurial options. I attend to both what is necessary on the part of social entrepreneurship and how entrepreneurs can impact the society at large and be supported to develop such forms of practice and on an academic approach. Social implications include the potential to serve as a guide that encourages female entrepreneurs to enhance their professional practices and to adopt new business strategies to make better strategic decisions.

As a scholar practitioner in the academic field, I noticed a lack of representation of Indeginous Pacific Island people in academia, professional arenas as well as in leadership and this is a real concern. One of the ways to make sure that there is Pacific representation in these fields and beyond, I commit a portion of time to mentoring young Pacific Islanders serving variously as a role model, teacher, counselor, advisor, sponsor, advocate, and ally depending on the specific goals and objectives negotiated with the mentee. Often a mentee may not be able to identify his or her goals and my job as a mentor is to offer guidance, advice, feedback, and support as well as to just listen.

One of the examples of my work with my mentees include helping them achieve their goals by developing their portfolio.