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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Shaped by Mentors
As a reminder, it’s National Mentoring Month and I’ve been thinking a lot about the topic of mentorship. Per my comments a few weeks ago, I started by re-reading a beautiful book edited by my friend, Marcia McMullen, entitled, Because You Believed In Me: Contemporary Mentoring Stories. Not to ruin the punchline, but the very […]
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 […]