Sparke Helmore leads mentoring program

More than 30 senior staff from Sparke Helmore have participated in this year’s Lucy Mentoring Program.

The program, which involves 70 female students from seven universities and the NSW Office for Women’s Policy, encourages women to become future leaders, with a focus on graduates in business and law. The 70 students and their mentors attended a graduation ceremony at the Sparke Helmore offices yesterday afternoon as part of the program.

Sparke Helmore senior associate, Victoria Huntington, said the mentoring program was as valuable to the students as it was to them. “It actually makes you think about what you do on a daily basis, because you get so caught up in doing your job for so long, you don’t get to see your job with fresh eyes.” She added: “You don’t realise when you are doing the Lucy Program the valuable experience you are giving the students, but you get a real kick out of giving the students a good experience,” she said.

NSW Treasury deputy secretary for human social services, Carelee McLiesh, said the program also makes good business sense, “if you want insight into who will be the future female leaders; and possibly recruit them into your organisation.”

Managing partner at Sparke Helmore and Lucy Steering Committee member Susan Bennett, said the program could have many positive impacts on the students and the mentors. “Mentoring is an important concept to the firm and we have an official mentoring program within Sparke Helmore, this program is another example of how important mentoring is to the firm.”

Other mentors in the program included staff from Clayton Utz, Coleman and Greig, UBS and Westpac.


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