Mentoring Relationships for a Lifetime

Over the last few weeks, the focus for Coffee Lunch Coffee has been on January’s National Mentoring Month.  We’ve covered stories about mentees and their mentors, we’ve talked about the way mentors and mentees interact with one another and why they choose to connect and we’ve considered the impact mentors can have on their mentees’ […]

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All the Communication Necessary: Gifts of Mentoring Relationships

In honor of National Mentoring Month, it was my privilege to enjoy lunch yesterday with two of my mentors, Karen and Mike Herman.  Whenever people ask about my connection to Karen and Mike, I tell them they are my Guardian Angels. Specifically, in 1995, when I was admitted to the University of Chicago Graduate School […]

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