Optimize Your Mentoring Relationship for Career Success
About the class
Mentoring relationships benefit the career trajectories of both mentors and mentees alike. Giving and receiving guidance can help professionals at all levels to define and achieve clear goals. In this enlightening webinar, Dr. Ruth Gotian will offer participants a crash course in mentoring, including tips for both mentors and mentees. You’ll learn how to:
- Identify at least three individuals to be part of your mentoring team.
- Expand your network through four strategies that will help you meet new potential mentors and mentees
- Approach someone to propose that they become your mentor or mentee.
About the Presenter
Dr. Ruth Gotian is the Chief Learning Officer and Assistant Professor of Education in Anesthesiology and former Assistant Dean of Mentoring and Executive Director of the Mentoring Academy at Weill Cornell Medicine. She has been hailed by the journal Nature and Columbia University as an expert in mentoring and leadership development and is currently a contributor to Forbes and Psychology Today where she writes about ‘optimizing success’. She also has a weekly show by the same name where she gathers high achievers to talk about their journey to success.
During her extensive career, she has personally coached and mentored thousands of people ranging from undergraduates to faculty members. As Assistant Dean for Mentoring she oversaw the success of nearly 1,800 faculty members at Weill Cornell Medicine. Currently, she researches the most successful people of our generation, including Nobel laureates, astronauts, CEOs and Olympians, in order to learn about their habits and practices so that we may optimize our own success.
Dr. Gotian received her B.S. and M.S. in Business Management from the University at Stony Brook in New York and certificates in Executive Leadership and Managing for Execution from Cornell University. She earned her doctorate at Teachers College Columbia University where she studied Adult Learning and Leadership and focused her research on optimizing success.