Dr. Deborah Heiser on Mentoring

🎙️ Episode Description

Episode Title: Mentoring with Dr. Deborah Heiser

What happens when mentorship transforms from a personal connection into a global movement?
In this inspiring episode of The Find Your Leadership Confidence Podcast, host Vicki Noethling sits down with Dr. Deborah Heiser, Applied Developmental Psychologist, TEDx Speaker, author, consultant, and Founder of The Mentor Project—a groundbreaking organization connecting top experts with learners around the world.

Dr. Heiser shares her powerful journey to building a community where mentorship transcends generations and industries. Together, they explore what true mentorship is (and isn’t), the difference between lateral and hierarchical mentoring, and how giving back creates purpose at every stage of life.

From her groundbreaking research on aging and depression to her global advocacy for mentorship, Dr. Heiser’s insights reveal why empowering others is one of the greatest gifts of leadership.

🎧 Tune in to discover how you can elevate your leadership by becoming a mentor — or finding one who inspires your next chapter.

https://www.FindYourLeadershipConfidence.com/dr-deborah-heiser/

You can find out more about The Mentor Project on the website, and on LinkedIn. We are trying to utilize our most precious natural resources – our experts – to change the world and pass on skills, information and knowledge to the next generation.

http://www.mentorproject.org

Here’s the: Link to the book (The Mentorship Edge)

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Deborah Heiser, Ph.D., is an Applied Developmental Psychologist, a TEDx speaker, consultant, author, and Founder of The Mentor Project, and an Adjunct Professor in the Psychology Department at SUNY Old Westbury. Deborah has additionally authored peer-reviewed articles, is co-editor of Spiritual Assessment and Intervention with Older Adults, and a frequent expert guest for syndicated and local talk radio shows, international and local podcasts, and print and online media outlets. She has been quoted in The New York Times, Seattle Times, Dallas Times and contributes to Thrive Global. Her research covers a wide range of topics related to aging, including depression identification, dementia, and frailty with grants awarded from NIA/NIH and Pfizer. She received an international award for her research on depression identification, as well as serving for 9 years on the Board of the State Society on Aging of New York and was President in 2008. Later In 2016, she served as President of Queens Psychological Association in New York.