SEED Engineering Mentoring Program

6 Ex-Sun Microsystems ladies are serving as TechWomen 2016 mentors: Melissa Biggs, Janice Campbell, Cynthia Chin-lee, Katy Dickinson, Mimi Hills, and Larissa Shapiro! TechWomen is a mentoring program of the US State Department's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs for which Katy Dickinson was Process Architect in 2010-2011. TechWomen leaders from Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia will be working at San Francisco Bay Area companies starting in a few days. 90 women. 19 countries. 33 host companies.

New mentoring video! “Mentoring Best Practices Panel Discussion” 10 March 2016, presented by the TechWomen Alumnae Council and Ericsson Women in Leadership. Speakers: Katy Dickinson, Judy Little, Robert Loftis, Myra Nawabi, Manali Rane, Leslie Summerfield. Hosted at Ericsson in San Jose, California, (Silicon Valley) by Audrey Simpson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkxY_F6vB9Q

Mentoring Best Practices Panel Discussion Mentoring Best Practices, Panel Discussion, 10 March 2016 presented by the TechWomen Alumnae Council and Ericsson Women in Leadership. Speakers: Katy Dickins...

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Get Certified Mentoring Standard celebrates mentors with deep experience, who have done the work of helping people to achieve their goals and grow their careers. Mentoring Standard offers an experience-based eva…

I am presenting at 8:30 am PT on Wednesday, 11 March 2015, on "Mentoring and Role Models" for the Global Tech Women - Voices 2015 virtual conference - please join! http://www.globaltechwomen.com/voices-global-conference.html

Voices Global Conference Overview The week of International Women’s Day, March 8th 2015 technical women from around the globe will convene virtually and in-person, following the sun, across every continent. Representatives...

Happy to see "Notable Women in Computing" cards featured in "Business Insider" http://www.businessinsider.com/54-women-who-rocked-the-tech-world-2015-2 Cards and posters are available at http://www.notabletechnicalwomen.org/

54 women who rocked the tech world There are loads of women tech leaders making huge contributions and having fabulous careers.

For several months, Everwise has been developing “Mentoring in a Box” materials, to present best practices and structure for small mentoring programs. Some of the content is original to me, other materials were created by the Everwise team. Other sources include TechWomen Emerging Leader Seham Al Jaafreh (from Jordan), and material adapted from my Sun Labs Technical Report “Sun Mentoring: 1996-2009”. More: http://katysblog.wordpress.com/2014/12/03/mentoring-in-a-box/

Mentoring in a Box For several months, Everwise has been developing "Mentoring in a Box" materials, to present best practices and structure for small mentoring programs. Some of the content is original to me, other m...

Join Everwise on Tuesday, September 9 at 10:00am PT/1:00pm ET for a webinar to learn how mentoring can play a key role in the engagement and development of emerging leaders. (...with host Katy Dickinson !)
Register: http://go.geteverwise.com/mentor-future-leaders-webinar

TechWomen delegation in Casablanca, Morocco, 22 October 2011. TechWomen is a US State Department program in which technical women of the Middle East and North Africa are mentored by Silicon Valley technical women. Katy Dickinson was the 2011 TechWomen Mentoring Process Architect and many SEED mentors participated. SEED lives on!

Interested in more on SEED and mentoring and other topics? Read Katysblog...

Katy Dickinson In light of Sun's current circumstances, here is an update of what I think is my most popular blog entry: "After the RIF notice, before you leave" (15 January 2009).

2008 SEED group photo with Sun's CTO, Greg Papadopoulos

This is just a fan page. Check out "SEED Engineering Mentoring" on LinkedIn, a group exclusively for current and alumni SEED participants (Mentees), their managers, and their Mentors. Potential mentors currently listed with SEED are also welcome.

Relationships Matter | LinkedIn LinkedIn strengthens and extends your existing network of trusted contacts. LinkedIn is a networking tool that helps you discover inside connections to recommended job candidates, industry experts and business partners.

In August 2009, Sun Labs published a technical report about Sun Microsystems'
mentoring programs: "Sun Mentoring: 1996-2009" by Katy Dickinson, Tanya Jankot, and Helen Gracon, available free at:
http://research.sun.com/spotlight/2009/2009-08-28_TR-2009-185.html

research.sun.com August 28, 2009- Sun Microsystems has benefited from a long-term successful culture of mentoring, especially in its worldwide engineering divisions. About 7,300 mentoring pairs have participated in one of Sun's formal mentoring programs since 1996. ...