WiT Webinar: Purposeful Mentoring: What Matters Most, Why It Matters and How to Make it Happen
Zoom
Event Details
DATE: Thursday, January 23, 2025
TIME: 1:00 - 2:00 PM EST
COST: MEMBERS: This Webinar is free for WIT members. | NON-MEMBERS: The non-member fee for this Webinar is $29.
You know you need mentoring, but you don’t know the right questions to ask.
You are supposed to be mentoring a colleague, but you’re looking for a roadmap for success.
Clarity and alignment are crucial to the success of any mentoring relationship. Let's demystify the concept of purpose, translate recent research into practical application and provide an actionable plan for mentors and mentees seeking to amp up their purposeful action in 2025.
From values alignment to career growth, from the bottom line to the greater good, a focus on purpose within a mentoring relationship helps with meaning-making, teamwork, productivity, conflict resolution and innovation.
Purpose is really a verb, not a noun – it’s something each team member can do daily. This talk will give you step-by-step guidance to see the WHY behind all the small steps we take in our mentoring relationships, turning our efforts into purposeful action the community will see.
All participants will leave with a daily purpose statement, completed and ready to put into action.
About the Presenters
Dr. Christine B. Whelan is the Purpose Professor at Emory University and a fellow at the Center for Healthy Minds at the University of Wisconsin - Madison. She teaches classes on happiness and well-being, guides corporations, non-profits and start-ups as they build purpose-focused tools and co-creates internal metrics of meaningful success with executives and their teams.
Dr. Whelan is passionate about translating research into evidence-based strategies for daily thriving. She is the author of five books from Simon & Schuster and Templeton Press and the bestselling Audible Original lecture series, Life on Purpose. She’s been published in The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post and The New York Times, among other national outlets, and serves on the board of several non-profits.
Dr. Whelan earned a master’s and doctorate from the University of Oxford and graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University. She does her best to practice what she preaches, embracing Seneca’s motto, “Not for school, but for life we learn.” She lives in Madison with her husband, their five children, and their bernadoodle, juggling the chaos (most days) with a sense of humor… on purpose.