Mentorship
The Butler Center is dedicated to supporting women leaders and everyone who aspires to be a leader — fostering a positive culture where scholars and academic professionals thrive through personal growth and meaningful connection.
Butler Center Mentoring Pods
The Butler Center is offering an updated mentoring program called “Mentoring Pods”, which groups 3-5 individuals from various units at various ranks. The primary purpose of this mentoring experience is connection and community across campus and across career stages for mutual encouragement and support. The Butler Center has provided similar mentoring community support over the past several years with positive results (see here for testimonials).
This program seeks to enhance individual and relational thriving in academia. Thriving individually often requires strong time management, resilience, clarity of goals, and the ability to set boundaries to prevent burnout. Relational thriving is essential because academia can be isolating, and strong relationships often provide the support needed to persist through challenges and grow professionally. Mentoring pods are intended to provide a supportive network grounded in respect, trust, and confidence that allows open and honest conversations centered around these two dimensions.
Butler Center Resources on Effective Leadership, Coaching, and Mentoring
The Butler Center has gathered the following resources and input from experts centered around strategies for effective leadership, coaching, and mentoring.
April 2023 Lunch & Learn on Inclusive Mentoring
- Program
- Inclusive Mentoring Handout from CILMAR (Center for Intercultural Learning, Mentorship, Assessment, and Research)
- Key Takeaways
October 2024 Faculty Mentoring Workshop
Spring 2025 Leadership and Coaching Workshop Series
- JANUARY 2025
The CON Artist’s Guide to Effective Listening with Dr. Shonna Waters
- FEBRUARY 2025
Conversation with an Expert: Managing Emotional Labor with Dr. Alicia Grandey
- APRIL 2025
Giving and Receiving Help with Drs. Silvia Bonaccio, Jennifer Dobbs-Oates, and Louis Tay
- MAY 2025
The Power of Storytelling with Dawn Ziegerer
Other Campus Resources
Purdue Department of Psychological Sciences Relationships and Work Lab Inclusive Mentoring Website
Mentoring Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Scholars (OGSPS) Website