Celebrate mentoring excellence with us this week. Join mother/daughter mentoring luminaries Dr. Lois Zachary and Lisa Fain for a virtual discussion about Bridging Differences for Better Mentoring, October 27; Sign-up HERE!
Ways you can elevate MENTORING this week:
- Today, listen to Guest Mentor Lisa Fain. Lisa became CEO of the Center for Mentoring Excellence in 2018. Dr. Lois Zachary, the founder, is her mother. Find out how her work in diversity, equity, and inclusion makes our world a better place.
- If you haven’t, SUBSCRIBE to get our weekly episodes and free stuff. Or, DONATE to this podcast. Resilient relationships flourish with meaningful conversations! We would like to bring you more of them.
- Order two books for yourself or gift them to colleagues: Bridging Differences for Better Mentoring and Creating a Mentoring Culture
- National Mentoring Day, October 27th. Connect with your most influential mentors and let them know how they made an impact in your life. Join Lisa and Dr. Zachary to understand how you can bridge differences through better mentoring.
- International Mentoring Day, October 29th. Check out two websites:
- Mentors International, and
- International Society of Mentoring for resources.
- THIS WEEK ONLY, get a free strategic mentoring session with me. Click HERE!
Lisa Fain’s Entrepreneurial Upbringing
When Dr. Lois Zachary founded Leadership Development Services, LLC and its Center for Mentoring Excellence, her daughter, Lisa Fain, was in high school. Women entrepreneurship was on the rise, “according to the 1988 State of Small Business Report, the number of sole proprietorships owned by women increased 62 percent between 1980 and 1986. Now, “women entrepreneurs make up 47% of the new entrepreneurs in the United States.
Lisa says that growing up in a 1980s entrepreneurial home gave her a sense of purpose, place, and accountability. It reinforced an understanding that Lisa could contribute to the world, shape her work, and be independent. This independent thinking started in her formative years when Lisa and her brother were encouraged to make plans and prepare their own meals.
As Dr. Zachary built her educational consultancy and Ed expanded his legal firm in Syracuse, New York, they still managed to be present and engaged parents. Role modeling the benefits of doing fulfilling work fueled Lisa’s entrepreneurial spirit that sprouted in her 30s and 40s. You will hear how she took her diverse interests of political science, sociology, and economics with a social justice bend into acquiring an interdisciplinary degree from Northwestern University in Chicago. Two important courses taught by a cherished mentor helped Lisa understand ways to repair the world. Eventually, she became a lawyer, mediator, coach, and CEO at the Center for Mentoring Excellence.
Other Conversation Highlights
- Although not a fair way to measure oneself, comparing Lisa’s start to someone else’s finish turned out to be a benefit in determining Lisa’s major.
- Raising Talia and Emily with David in their entrepreneurial home.
- Lisa’s lifework of inclusion, diversity, and equity. Creating a mentoring culture for retention and attraction.
- Insights into Millennials and Gen Z’s and their need to accelerate the pace of inclusivity and purposeful workplaces can be achieved through better mentoring.
- Alternatives to the Peanut Butter approach.
Our conversation sparked my curiosity about diversity, equity, and inclusion for women entrepreneurs. We’re making progress as a society. Check out these statistics from an article published on February 2, 2021, by Jenifer Kuadli :
- 47% of women started a business in 2020, compared to 44% of men.
- Women own 36% of small businesses worldwide and own 12.3 million U.S. businesses.
- Women launch more than 1,200 new U.S. businesses every day and generate around $1.9T in revenue.
- Hispanic women-owned businesses grew by 172% over the last 10 years.
- Women of color were responsible for 89% of newly created businesses in 2019.
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Please do the Conscious Attentive Leadership Mentoring (C.A.L.M.) Activities, below.
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After listening, do the following three C.A.L.M. Activities:
- Take these risks or do these adventurous tasks: First, sign-up for Dr. Zachary and Lisa Fain’s virtual discussion about Bridging Differences for Better Mentoring. Then, THIS WEEK ONLY, sign-up for a free strategic mentoring session with me. Click HERE!
- Apply Self-Compassion: Take a moment to sit quietly, breathing slowly in and out after taking two risks above. Allow your focus to be on your breath. Ask yourself, before opening your eyes, what is working? What isn’t working right now? Write down your answers. Give yourself a big hug. Take the next best step.
- Welcome Appreciation: “I appreciate Lisa’s enthusiasm and thoughtful perspective on her life. I appreciate her audacity of courage in carving out her lifework. I appreciate the path Lisa took to embrace her parents’ constructive lead in creating a fulfilling life. I love hearing about positive parenting and resilient people doing meaningful work and raising healthy, loving children. Way to go, Lisa and Dr. Zachary!”
Your Turn. Start with, “I appreciate what I heard from today’s Guest Mentor, Lisa Fain. I appreciate this week’s adventurous task because….”
“Most of the problems in our lives and world are caused by relational dysfunction, a dysfunction in how we relate: as social groups, as individuals, to animals and the environment, and even to ourselves. Therefore, developing relational literacy—the understanding of and ability to practice healthy ways of relating—is essential for personal, social, and ecological transformation.” —Melanie Joy, psychologist, author, theorist, educator.
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Podcast Guest Mentor
Lisa Fain is the CEO of the Center for Mentoring Excellence and an expert in the intersection of cultural competency and mentoring. Her passion for diversity and inclusion fuels her firm conviction that leveraging differences creates a better workplace and drives better business results.
Lisa brings her energy, enthusiasm, and engagement to any group, facilitating lively workshops and training and delivering interactive speeches with practical steps that can be implemented right away.
Other Credentials. Lisa is a certified mediator through Chicago’s Center for Conflict Resolution and a certified life coach through the International Coach Academy. She graduated with a B.S. in Social Policy from Northwestern University and holds a Juris Doctorate from Northwestern University School of Law.
As Senior Director of the Diversity and Inclusion function at Outerwall, Inc., Lisa spearheaded its diversity initiative’s development, establishment, and implementation. Before assuming that position, she worked as Outerwall’s in-house counsel, coaching leaders and partnering with Human Resources to establish fair and effective policies and practices that would sustain the organization as it grew in size, revenue, and renown.
For almost a decade, Lisa practiced law in the Chicago office of a major multinational firm, where she counseled employers on creating inclusive policies and practices. While in that role, she served as Master Trainer, training thousands of employees at various companies, large and small, on how to create a better workplace.
Lisa lives in Seattle, WA. She loves to hike and explore the Pacific Northwest with her husband and two daughters.
Dr. Lois Zachary is an internationally recognized expert on mentoring and the founder of Leadership Development Services, LLC, and its Center for Mentoring Excellence. She has been cited as “one of the top 100 minds in leadership” today. You’ve likely seen mention of Dr. Zachary’s books, or read her quotes, in The New York Times, Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Inc. magazine, T&D, Leadership Excellence, The Chronicle of Higher Education, or other business and leadership news outlets.
Lois J. Zachary earned her doctorate in adult and continuing education from Columbia University and earned master’s degrees from Columbia University and Southern Illinois University. She is the author of multiple books on mentoring. Her first book, The Mentor’s Guide (2000), has become a primary resource for organizations interested in promoting mentoring for leadership and learning and for mentors seeking to deepen their mentoring practice. With Creating a Mentoring Culture (2005), The Mentee’s Guide (2009), the second edition of The Mentor’s Guide (2012), Starting Strong (2014), Five Mentoring Excellence Pocket Toolkits, and hundreds of articles and blogs, Lois has created a comprehensive set of resources for promoting her lifetime passion: mentoring excellence for individuals and organizations.
Lois’s innovative mentoring approaches and her expertise in helping leaders and organizations design, implement and evaluate learner-centered mentoring programs have been used globally by a wide array of clients, including Fortune 100 companies, NGOs, government organizations, educational institutions, and numerous profit and nonprofit entities.
Dr. Lois Zachary and her daughter Lisa Fain 
are a powerful entrepreneurial mentoring team. Dr. W. Brad Johnson, a Professor of Psychology at the U.S. Naval Academy and Faculty Associate at Johns Hopkins University, says of Dr. Zachary and Lisa, today’s Mentor Guests, are “luminaries in the mentoring field.” Order book HERE!
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Episode 295: Celebrating Mentoring Excellence with Lisa Fain
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