Speaker: Lisa Fain, Center for Mentoring Excellence
Topic: Who’s Helping You Grow? Building Your Developmental Network
You may have a strong network for finding clients, making referrals, and getting things done. But who helps you grow?
As a business owner, it’s easy to spend so much time developing your business that your own development gets whatever time is left. And expecting one mentor to provide all the answers? That’s a lot to ask of one human.
Join mentoring expert Lisa Z. Fain for an interactive session on building your developmental network: the people who challenge your thinking, expand your perspective, encourage you, and help you build new capabilities. Through guided reflection, you’ll begin identifying who supports your growth today and what might be missing.
You’ll leave with:
- An understanding of five distinct roles that support your development.
- A first look at the strengths and gaps in your own developmental network.
- One practical next step to ask for the support you need as you and your business evolve.

PLEASE NOTE: A boxed lunch *is not* included in the base ticket price: During registration, you will have the option to purchase a boxed lunch for $20, provided by Gourmondo. The base ticket price includes beverages.
Deadline: Registrations that include a box lunch order will close end of day on Tuesday, January 26.

About Our Speaker
Lisa Z. Fain believes too much human potential goes unused—and that the right learning relationships can change that. As CEO of the Center for Mentoring Excellence®, a keynote speaker, and executive coach, she helps people take charge of their growth and organizations create the conditions for it. A former employment attorney and corporate diversity and inclusion leader, Lisa is co-author of Bridging Differences for Better Mentoring and The Mentor’s Guide, Third Edition. Her approach blends practical tools, warmth, and humor, because serious learning needn’t take itself quite so seriously.

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