Mentors and Sponsors

Submitted: Oct 25, 2022 (08:07 am)

A mentor is a person who gives a protégé advice, answers questions, strategizes career moves and professional development. A sponsor is someone who promotes a protégé to other people to help advance the protégé’s career.

(Women in Leadership: Persistent Barriers to Gender Equality in the C-Suite (uwo.ca)) “In some cases, women are over-mentored and under-sponsored,” says Jeffery, who explains that mentorship is “when people speak to you” while sponsorship involves “people speaking about you.”

Share your ideas by responding to any of these question prompts or the essence of this topic.

  1. What is the difference between a mentor and a sponsor?
  2. Who are the sponsors or mentors in your life?
  3. How do you engage their support?
  4. Have you ever mentored or sponsored someone?