Welcome to Minute Mentoring!
The award-winning Minute Mentoring® program is a unique, round-robin style forum in which accomplished female professionals share their experiences with their young professional counterparts during rapid-fire meetings. Taking a note from speed dating, small groups of Mentees rotate between Mentors allowing for a large group to network while maintaining the intimacy of mentorship.
Meet the Minute Mentoring Founders!
Mentors Make the Day
Mentors Make the Day
Minute Mentoring® allows Mentors to effectively and efficiently share their top tips for success with future women leaders in fast-paced sessions. Past Mentors and special guests have included top corporate women, U.S. Senators and Representatives, and high-profile women in media. View the PDF. Minute Mentoring® is a high-energy program, and our experience is that Mentors enjoy participating as much as Mentees do.
Mentees Ready to Learn
Mentees Ready to Learn
In Minute Mentoring®, Mentees find a forum in which they can interact with some of the country’s most successful women in a setting that is exciting, approachable and supportive. Past Mentees have been young women rising stars in their chosen profession. Mentees come from a wide range of industries and have many different career ambitions. Mentees leave Minute Mentoring® events with notebooks full of the Mentors’ wisdom and many new connections both inside and outside of their fields.
Sponsors Join the Cause
Sponsors Join the Cause
While women have come a long way in the workforce, we still face many challenges. Bringing together today’s women leaders with the leaders of tomorrow is key to increasing opportunities and promoting success. Sponsors are critical to making those connections happen.
Breaking News
By now, people all over the United States and across the world have heard about the wildly popular book, Lean In. The book, written by Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, was published in March of this year and, by April, had already sold more than 275,000 copies. The book, according to its author, is focused on encouraging women to pursue their ambitions, and changing the conversation from what we can’t do to what we can do. Continue reading…
Today marks the 70th anniversary of the publishing of Norman Rockwell’s iconic “Rosie the Riveter” painting on the cover of the Saturday Evening Post. Rosie became a symbol for a movement as the number of working American women nearly doubled in the short time between 1940 and 1944.
Today, working American women look to examples of real-life Rosies as models of success in the workplace. At Minute Mentoring®, we strive to be a forum for young professional women to interact with their accomplished female counterparts and learn their top tips for success. With both in-person sessions and a growing number of online opportunities, we try offer many young women access to insights from today’s Rosies.
So, what better way to celebrate Rosie’s anniversary than with a Q&A with former Labor Secretary Elaine Chao? She is unquestionably a role model for working women and we are grateful that she took the time to share her experiences with us.
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Elaine L. Chao, the 24th U. S. Secretary of Labor who served from 2001-2009, is the first American woman of Asian descent to be appointed to a President’s Cabinet in our nation’s history. She is also the longest tenured Secretary of Labor since World War II. Continue reading…
Heather Landy has been editor in chief of American Banker Magazine since the magazine’s launch in July 2011. She previously spent two years on the staff of the American Banker daily newspaper, covering large institutions and an array of governance, risk, accounting and regulatory issues affecting the sector. Prior to joining American Banker, she was a special correspondent to The Washington Post, covering Wall Street. Continue reading…
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