40 Minute Mentor

July 10, 2024

The power of networking & changing lives through careers – James Mitra in conversation with Alembic Strategy

In today’s episode, we’ve put our host, James Mitra, into the interviewee seat.

James was recently invited on Alembic Strategy’s Strategy Café, hosted by Founder and MD, Nick Mayhew.

If you haven’t heard of Alembic before, they’re a team of facilitators and coaches working at board level with family businesses, founder-led businesses, private equity and with developing leaders, in the UK and internationally.

Nick and James discuss the unique journey JBM has been on and the key lessons James has learned over the last 11 years of leading JBM.

“Make networking a daily occurrence. It’s everyday interactions. It’s making a good impression early doors and really taking the time to build meaningful relationships and connections.”

James Mitra & Nick Mayhew

Tune in to discover

Introductions [01:08]

The power of networking [04:45]

Bringing networking into your day to day [08:20]

Starting JBM at age 25 [14:20]

Disrupting traditional recruitment [17:40]

Dealing with competition [20:15]

Changing lives through recruitment [24:50]

The mistakes along the way [28:30]

Listen on

Helpful links

⛳ Helpful links:

➡️ Follow Nick on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mayhewnick/

➡️ Follow James on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamesmitra-jbm/?originalSubdomain=uk

➡️ Find out more about Alembic Strategy: https://www.alembicstrategy.com/

➡️ Find out more about JBM: https://jbmc.co.uk/

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