The Leader’s Playbook: Building Your Mentor Suite for Limitless Impact
The Leader’s Playbook: Building Your Mentor Suite for Limitless Impact
Event Details
Leadership in today’s complex, fast-paced world requires more than traditional mentorship. It demands a suite of mentors curated with intention and aligned to your personal and professional goals. In this dynamic session, Dr. Mary Hemphill introduces The Mentor Suite, a powerful framework designed to help leaders identify key mentor types, build authentic relationships and accelerate their leadership growth. Whether you're in education, association management, healthcare or corporate leadership, this session will equip you with a blueprint for building the connections that drive impact, resilience, and innovation within your association.
This session is based on The Leader’s Playbook: Building Your Mentor Suite for Limitless Impact, a framework designed by Hemphill that has been featured in Forbes and adopted by executives across education, government and corporate sectors. Hemphill has delivered this content at high-profile events such as the Model Schools Conference and AENC; it is especially relevant for association leaders seeking to design purpose-driven, people-first leadership development strategies. The session includes access to a downloadable Mentor Suite Map for continued reflection and implementation.
What You Will Learn
- Define the concept of a Mentor Suite and identify the seven key types of mentors every leader needs to sustain professional growth and personal well-being
- Assess their current mentorship ecosystem and pinpoint gaps where targeted mentor relationships could enhance leadership effectiveness and resilience
- Develop an action plan to intentionally build, diversify and activate their Mentor Suite to support strategic decision-making, confidence and innovation
About the Presenter
Dr. Mary Hemphill is a leadership expert, development coach, K-16 educator, administrator, author and motivational speaker. With an extensive 20-year career spanning roles as a teacher, administrator, state director and adjunct professor, she brings a wealth of experience to her work. Holding a Ph.D. in Leadership Studies, she has directly influenced and coached educational and corporate leaders worldwide, focusing on empowered wellness, innovative strategy and leadership development.
As the proud CEO and Founder of The Limitless Leader LLC, Hemphill leads an organization dedicated to helping individuals unleash their leadership potential, enabling them to better serve their communities, companies and personal careers through coaching, consulting, workshops and keynotes tailored for corporate and educational leaders and organizations. Throughout her tenure as North Carolina’s first state director of Computer Science, Director of Academics and Chief Academic Officer, Hemphill has been instrumental in driving strategic initiatives and programs and guiding leaders through change management. Her outstanding contributions were recognized when she was named Regional Principal of the Year for the Sandhills Region of North Carolina in 2017 and received the Model Schools Award for her transformative work in school turnaround and reform. Her expertise was further acknowledged when she was selected as a 2021 School Ambassador Fellowship panelist by the US Department of Education, adding her voice and insights to the selection process for ambassadors under the Department’s current administration.In recognition of her impact in leadership in transforming the way leaders approach 21st-century challenges, Hemphill was honored as one of EdTech Digest’s Top 100 Influencers for 2023-2024 and is a 2024 EdTech Digest Finalist for Leadership as an edtech author/speaker or podcaster, standing alongside industry leaders who are making significant contributions across K-12, higher education, and workforce learning.
Most recently, she has been chosen as one of the new Senior Fellows at The Center for Model Schools, where she will engage as an expert and thought leader, providing invaluable counsel on leadership development and contributing to the growth of education leaders and the center as a whole. She will deliver engaging keynote speeches, extend the center's outreach to the education community, and offer guidance and support in strategic planning, leadership coaching, organizational culture, equity, and policy development, aligning her expertise with the center's mission. Hemphill is the author of 'The One-Minute Meeting: Creating Student Stakeholders in Schools,' a compelling resource designed to inspire school and district leaders to fully engage with and empower their students. This book serves as an invaluable asset for courses in school leadership and administration.