PODCAST
The Two-Way Mentoring Relationship (What’s the Difference? | March 2019)
What you’ll learn about in this episode:
- How Lisa found her way into the field of diversity and inclusion and mentoring, and why she left her career in a legal firm
- Why Lisa decided to bring diversity and inclusion work into her position at Coinstar/Redbox
- Why Lisa believes mentoring is a powerful tool in diversity and inclusion work, and in what areas it is best suited for furthering that work
- How Lisa works to train and certify future mentors in diversity, inclusion and cultural competency
- Why mentoring should be a two-way relationship, and what lessons the mentor can learn from the mentee
- Why Lisa doesn’t like the term “reverse mentoring”, and why all effective mentoring relationships are co-mentoring
- Why building trust between participants is the key to developing successful mentoring relationships
- What Lisa believes the future holds for the integration of cultural competency and mentorship training
- Why non-dyadic mentoring (triads, circles and peer mentoring) are growing areas within the business world
- What advice Lisa has for people new to diversity and inclusion and mentoring efforts
- How Lisa and her mother are writing a book on cultural competency that will be released in 2020
