Be Your Own Mentor: Strategies From Top Women on the Secrets of Success

by Sheila Wellington, M.P.H. ’68, Betty Spence and Catalyst

Random House, (New York) 2001

All of us, from birth onward, learn by emulating others. Yet when it comes to our professional lives, we often forget that what we see, we imitate and what we imitate, we become. This is obviously a positive thing for those who have found successful, encouraging mentors in their fields, but finding those mentors is still much easier for men than for women. In Be Your Own Mentor, Wellington seeks to provide women not only with advice on locating appropriate mentors, but also with the tools to mentor themselves and the opinions, advice and encouragement of women leaders worth emulating.