Women's History Open Thread: Honoring Our Mentors
As our guest blogger Emily Jasper noted earlier this week on 9 Ways, mentors are particularly important for helping us develop a leadership style, and to shape our professional development. Who have been your mentors? What role have they played in your life? A new study released by Catalyst suggests that women need more than mentors, they need people who will sponsor them proactively into top leadership roles.
Do you agree? Have you had a sponsor? Have you been a sponsor?
GLORIA FELDT is the New York Times bestselling author of several books including No Excuses: 9 Ways Women Can Change How We Think About Power, a sought-after speaker and frequent contributor to major news outlets, and the Co-Founder and President of Take The Lead. People has called her “the voice of experience,” and among the many honors she has been given, Vanity Fair called her one of America’s “Top 200 Women Legends, Leaders, and Trailblazers,” and Glamour chose her as a “Woman of the Year.”
As co-founder and president of Take The Lead, a leading women’s leadership nonprofit, her mission is to achieve gender parity by 2025 through innovative training programs, workshops, a groundbreaking 50 Women Can Change The World immersive, online courses, a free weekly newsletter, and events including a monthly Virtual Happy Hour program and a Take The Lead Day symposium that reached over 400,000 women globally in 2017.
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Mentors have played an amazing role in my career. A true mentor does great things for others without ever wanting credit. A true mentor motivates, encourages and inspires. Mentors come in the forms of friends, colleagues, teachers, coaches, bosses, etc. We are all the result of mentors in our lives.
I am lucky to have a mentor/sponsor/amazing friend: Lee Caraher, president of PR and marketing firm Double Forte. http://www.double-forte.com/.
And if you define a mentor as someone who inspires you to achieve, then Gloria, you fit the definition.
Aw shucks, Liz!