Women\u2019s Leadership and Mentor Alliance (WLMA)<\/a>, which pairs mentors and mentees across professions. The mentoring is done remotely.<\/p>\n\n\n\nSC Women in Leadership has its Circles of Women: geographic, professional, or issue-based groups of women from all backgrounds who come together to network, learn, mentor, and support each other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Each of us, though, can be a mentor on a personal, casual level. We simply need to be good listeners, and to notice the girls and younger women in our lives who could use a role model or an experienced colleague to help them rise. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Then one day, perhaps they\u2019ll be thankful to us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The poet Maya Angelou mentored Oprah. At her Chicago law firm, Michelle Robinson mentored the young Barack Obama, who later married her. In Hollywood, Audrey Hepburn mentored Elizabeth Taylor. I don\u2019t remember ever hearing the word \u201cmentor\u201d when I was growing up in the 1950s Midwest. Sister Deodata, though, my high-school social studies teacher, certainly…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jan-collins.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jan-collins.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jan-collins.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jan-collins.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jan-collins.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=441"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.jan-collins.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":444,"href":"https:\/\/www.jan-collins.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441\/revisions\/444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jan-collins.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jan-collins.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jan-collins.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}