When Lis Merrick got turned down for a wallpaper hanging course, it set in motion a train of events that would lead her to become one of the UK’s best-known mentoring consultants. Liz Hall explains how If she hadn’t been turned down for a place on a wallpaper hanging course, Lis Merrick may never have got involved in mentoring again, following a disastrous experience setting up a sponsorship programme at Merrill Lynch. “Because I didn’t know what I was doing and had read one book about it, it was a disaster,” she says of the programme she set up in 1992...