VALIDATE Workshop: Mentorship Mastery - Shaping Futures, Inspiring Success

In this VALIDATE online seminar, Dr. Ruth Gotian (Weill Cornell Medicine, USA) discussed the benefits of mentoring for one's career and shared insights on becoming both an inspiring mentor and a productive mentee.

Attendees joined a mentorship journey where success wasn’t just a goal; it was presented as a guaranteed outcome. It was emphasized that those with mentors not only outperformed but also outearned others, highlighting the importance of mentorship in career advancement. Dr. Gotian unveiled insights from her latest book, Financial Times Guide to Mentoring, and referenced her influential articles in Forbes, Nature, Harvard Business Review, and Fast Company. She provided guidance on how to become the mentor everyone dreams of, fostering success and propelling mentees to new heights. The session also covered creating a dynamic mentoring team, mastering networking strategies, amplifying voices on the mentor-sponsor continuum, and unlocking effective approaches for engaging with mentors and mentees.

In this workshop, Dr. Gotian and attendees explored the vital skill of identifying toxic mentors (tormentors) and emphasized the value of being both a mentor and a mentee, regardless of rank, as essential for a thriving career. The event redefined mentorship for all participants.

VALIDATE members can watch the recording on the VALIDATE Hub.

About the Speaker
Dr Ruth Gotian is the Chief Learning Officer and Associate 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 mentorship and leadership development. In 2021, she was selected as one of 30 people worldwide to be named to the Thinkers50 Radar List, dubbed the Oscars of management thinking, and was ultimately named the #1 emerging management thinker in the world. She is also a semi-finalist for the Forbes 50 Over 50 list and was ranked as one of the top 20 mentors in the world. In addition to publishing in academic journals, she is a contributor to Forbes, Psychology Today, and Harvard Business Review, where she writes about ‘optimizing success.’ Her research is about the mindset and skillset of peak performers, including Nobel laureates, astronauts, and Olympic champions. Her bestselling book, The Success Factor, is out now.