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Successful leadership has a lot to do with mentoring and learning from those around you. Teachers, parents, coaches and others have been there to provide guidance and share experiences when we needed them. We all have had mentors at various stages in our lives. In this session, Pat Mitchell will explore how she leveraged and benefited from mentorship during her successful career as one of America's foremost female broadcasting pioneers.

Pat will discuss how effective leaders focus on locating talent and nurturing wisdom within their organizations. She will point out how the leader as mentor effectively transfers relevant experience, communicates cuttingedge competence and fosters insight-producing discovery.
Session Topics Include:

• The important lessons learned as a mentee and mentor
• The leader's role as a mentor
• How to effectively mentor in today's workplace
• What a mentor does
• How to start a mentoring relationship

  Biography:

  Pat Mitchell, was named president and chief executive officer of the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) in March 2000. She is the first producer and the first woman to head the public service broadcaster, coming to PBS from a long and respected career in commercial broadcasting and cable.
  
  In her three-decade career in media, Mitchell has worked for NBC, CBS and ABC respectively as a network correspondent, a news anchor and producer/host of an Emmy award-winning talk program. After working as an independent executive producer, Mitchell joined Turner Broadcasting System, Inc., where she was president of the original programming division of CNN. Her work has been recognized with 37 Emmys and five Peabody Awards, and she received two Academy Award nominations.

  This programme will feature 60 minutes of presentation followed by 30 minutes of questions and answers.