Our History
About Center for Mentoring Excellence
The Center for Mentoring Excellence (CME), a division of Leadership Development Services LLC, provides mentoring expertise and thought leadership in mentoring for mentors, mentees and organizations. It was founded in 2005 by Dr. Lois J. Zachary, a renowned international mentoring expert and author. Lois developed a deep appreciation and respect for adult learning theory during her doctoral studies at Teachers College, Columbia University. After obtaining her degree, her career focused on applying her knowledge to elevate the standard of mentoring practice.
CME has established a rich and varied framework of resources, tools and best practices to enhance individual and organizational readiness for mentoring in decades of direct engagements throughout the world. It brings expertise to organizations, facilitates training, creates learning environments and offers a unique blend of coaching, consulting, training and facilitation to help organizations deliver more effective mentoring outcomes and better business results.
Lois’s daughter, Lisa Z. Fain, became the new CEO of CME and brings her expertise in coaching and cultural competency, and her passion for creating inclusive work environments with her to her new role. She hopes to honor her mother’s legacy by, assisting companies in creating more inclusive workplaces through mentoring. It is only by bridging differences that we connect to create a better world. And, that is what we are about. Better mentoring. More inclusion. Better world.
Our Team
Lisa Fain
Lisa Fain is Center for Mentoring Excellence’s CEO and lead in diversity strategy and cross-cultural competencies.
Jamie Crites
Jamie Crites is the Operations Lead at Center for Mentoring Excellence. She brings the team her enthusiasm for actualizing empirical research in the workplace. She is a current PhD student in the Seattle Pacific University Industrial-Organizational Psychology program. Her research has centered around mentoring, diversity and inclusion to better understand how mentoring can better serve minority populations.
Dr. Lois Zachary
Dr. Lois Zachary is an internationally recognized expert in mentoring.
Lory Fischler
Lory Fischler is a senior associate with Leadership Development Services, a Phoenix-based consulting firm that specializes in leadership and mentoring and the associate director of its Center for Mentoring Excellence.
Coonoor Behal
Michelle Hancock
Michelle is President of MTB Business Services and brings us more than 17 years of experience in project administrative support, administrative coordination, and desktop publishing.
L. Patrice Bell
L. Patrice Bell is an associate at the Center for Mentoring Excellence and an engineer by trade. She facilitated trainings of the Pacific Institute’s Thought Patterns for High Performance at Boeing, where she worked as an Integrated Planning/Business Operations Specialist at Boeing on the 777X aircraft.
Our Clients
- Corporate
- Organizations & Associations
- College & University
- Government
- Hospital & Medical
- Institutions & Organizations
- Small Business
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