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What does it take to be a successful mentor? What advice does an award-winning mentor have for students and recent graduates looking to benefit from a successful mentoring relationship? For answers, we turn to Bill Heyman, the founder of Heyman Associates, the leading executive search firm focused solely on the communications profession. Bill has also served for many years on the National Advisory Council at the College of Charleston. Last March, Bill was the inaugural recipient of the Distinguished Mentor Award from the Martin Center for Mentorship, in recognition of his lifelong dedication to mentoring literally hundreds of leaders in our profession. 

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At the Martin Center, we’re studying the keys to successful mentorships. What we’re finding is that both the mentor and the mentee enter a mentoring relationship with certain expectations about what they hope to get out of the experience. Some mentees are primarily looking for hard skills that will help them advance. Others are looking for more of the intangibles that are keys to long term success. Some want mentors who have similar backgrounds and life experiences, while others want mentors who are quite different. This can apply to gender, ethnicity, geography or life experience.

To help us examine some of these expectations, and how they might differ in women and men, our guest on this episode is Ann Barlow. Ann is Executive Vice President & Chief Engagement Officer at Peppercomm, a midsize integrated communications agency with global reach and a full range of award-winning marketing services. Peppercomm is now part of the Ruder Finn family of companies. Ann has extensive experience in helping women grow professionally, in part through mentoring both women and men. She is a board member of Upward, Silicon Valley's premier nonprofit devoted to helping women of all backgrounds achieve their goals in business.  She was also board chair of Professional Businesswomen of California and was named by San Francisco Business Times as one of the Bay Area's most influential women. Ann is also a member of the National Advisory Council here at the College of Charleston.

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In the last episode, you met Taylor Shawver, a highly successful leader who was one of the first Martin Scholars. This episode you meet one of her mentors, Hayes Roth.  Among other accomplishments, the firm he founded ten years ago, HA Roth Consulting, has developed brand strategy for major medical centers, corporations and associations. He worked for 20 years at Landor Associates, one of the leading global branding firms, and for ten years he was the firm’s chief marketing officer. He is also a longtime member and past chair of the National Advisory Council at the College of Charleston. He regularly lectures at Cornell and Columbia business schools and is a former Adjunct Professor of Marketing at City College of New York. Hayes is also on the board of the ANA Educational Foundation and City College of New York’s Branding & Integrated Communications Graduate Program. Most of all, he is an exceptional mentor.

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In this episode, Taylor Shawver, a College of Charleston graduate, Class of 2017, discusses her role both as a member of the inaugural class of Martin Scholars in 2016-17, and now on the other side of the table as a mentor to current Martin Scholars. Shawver recognized the value of networking at a young age. As a high school student she began preparing vision boards to help establish priorities. As a college freshman, she was one of the youngest to participate in the annual spring break trip to Washington, DC and New York. She recently joined the National Advisory Board of the Department of Communication as one of its youngest members. In her spare time from a demanding job she is attending law school at Syracuse University. In this episode she shares what mentoring has meant to her, and what she recommends for students and recent graduates wanting to benefit from mentorship and networking opportunities.

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Anthony "Tony" DeSanti has produced major league sports events for CBS, NBC, ESPN, Disney and the Big Ten Network. During his distinguished 30-year career he has covered the Olympics, the NFL, NCAA football and basketball, U.S. Open Tennis, Major League Baseball, and the NBA. Tony is also a member of the National Advisory Council here at the College of Charleston. In addition to being mentored by veteran broadcaster NBC's Edwin Newman, Tony has been a keen observer of the impact coaches at every level have had on athletes. On this episode, Tony reflects on his own experiences with mentors as well as the changing nature of sports broadcasting in today's streaming world.

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She was a high school dropout with little prospects for the future when she began hanging around a horse racing track in New Jersey, mucking horse stables and hoping she might one day get to ride. Someone took a chance on her and she ended up winning her first mount as one of the country’s first female thoroughbred jockeys. She went from racing thoroughbreds to sitting in the back of the room at a local community college, but a professor saw potential in her and encouraged her to aim higher. She ultimately graduated magna cum laude from Northwestern University.  She worked as an entry level marketing associate until other mentors helped her on a journey that culminated in founding her own executive jet charter company, Jacquie Dalton's story is indeed something special. Hear how mentors changed the course of her life and helped lead her to her current role as Founder and President of Sparrow Executive Jets, on this episode of Mindful Mentoring.

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Steve Cody has made a name for himself and Peppercomm, the agency he founded, by using humor in clever and creative ways. Steve's journey--from his early days at Hill and Knowlton, to his decision to start his own agency, to later try his hand at stand-up comedy, and most recently to co-author a book--is captured in this compelling interview. The episode includes comments from one of his earliest mentors at Hill and Knowlton, from the comedian who taught him stand-up, and from one of the College of Charleston graduates he has mentored (and who now mentors him occasionally). 

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The Mindful Mentoring podcast focuses on effective mentorship. In the program, we share compelling examples of successful mentoring relationships from those who were mentored as well as those who served as mentors. We have a very special guest for this, our inaugural Mindful Mentoring podcast. Dr. Andrew T. Hsu is the 23rd President of the College of Charleston. President Hsu has had a long and distinguished career, first as an aerospace engineer working on NASA programs, then moving to the academic world serving as a professor, a researcher, a dean, a provost, and now as our 23rd President. President Hsu is a co-patent holder and throughout his career he has been recognized for his writing, his research, his teaching, and his leadership. He and his wife Rongrong are the proud parents of four daughters. In this podcast, President Hsu shares stories about the mentors who have shaped his career and his life. He discusses the keys to successful mentoring relationships, both as mentor and as mentee. Mindful Mentoring is a product of the Martin Center for Mentorship in Communication at the College of Charleston. 

President Andrew Hsu's Bio: https://president.cofc.edu/documents/Hsu.president.bio.pdf#Hsu%20Bio

Learn more about the Martin Center for Mentorship in Communication: 
https://today.cofc.edu/2023/02/02/college-establishes-the-martin-center-for-mentorship-in-communication/

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