Sentences with phrase «time mentor at»

She is a full - time classroom teacher and part - time mentor at the The Susan B. Anthony Academy in New York City.

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They contended that the school used high - pressure sales tactics to enroll students in the costly classes, promised extensive one - on - one instruction that did not materialize and employed «mentors» who at times recommended investments from which they stood to profit.

When you're early in a startup, a founder or one of the first few people to join, you will at times realize that new information from customers or a smart mentor shows that what you were working on for the last weeks or months is the wrong thing to do.

The «Project Runway» cohost and mentor tells The New York Times that he spends every Sunday at the Metropolitan Museum — «I stay there basically until the museum is about to close.»

A few key tips: remember the power of connections, focus, know that you will fail at times and successful entrepreneurs have mentors or coaches.

For instance, if you're great at establishing an initial meeting, but have a more difficult time closing a sale, you may want to seek out a team member or mentor who is particularly good at closing a sale and see what you can learn from their success.

So the next time you're presented with a chance at getting any face time with a key mentor or investor, jump on it.

And the more successful I got, the more leaders I started seeking out, whether it was investors, or Sheryl Sandberg at Facebook, or I got the opportunity to spend time with Warren Buffett and he became a close mentor of mine.

The mentors with whom the companies are paired for an hour at a time — VCs, tech executives, and angel investors — review the statements in advance, and come prepared for an in - depth discussion of how specifically to move the business forward.

Ideally, benefits of this special 8 (a) program to the protà © gà © firm — which can have only one mentor at a time — will include technical and management assistance; options to enter into joint - venture business agreements with mentor firms to compete for government contracts; financial assistance in the form of equity or loans; and qualification for other SBA assistance programs.

This book was gifted to me by a former manager who I consider the closest thing to a mentor I've ever had, and it couldn't have come at a better time.

Bell, a partner at Highland, says that by this time in mid-July, some of the Summer@Highland teams are preparing beta versions of their products to present to consumers, and that he and other Highland mentors make themselves available to teams that may need a word of advice.

One of the most powerful aspects of the hyper - active and serendipitous environment at 1871 are the hundreds of planned, programmed and accidental interactions, intersections and connections that are constantly taking place between the 1,600 + members, mentors, sponsors, investors, partners, educators, government officials and just plain - old visitors and guests who spend time here at the fast - beating heart of Chicago's technology ecosystem.

Wood is not only one of the most senior employees at Bloomberg, but he also takes time to mentor LGBT staff and has spoken at a number of events, panels, and conferences about being an openly LGBT leader in business.

Every entrepreneur should have a mentor that they can turn to for advice — there isn't a better person to talk to than someone who has been in your shoes and has experienced the same concerns, obstacles and problems that you will certainly face at some time or another.

The items we were blind to: our initially incorrect positioning in the market, the time it would take to actually establish operational efficiency and how our metrics would fair in the changing venture capital landscape, were anticipated from our mentors after they took an unbiased look at the business from the outside.

«I've been given really great advice from sponsors and mentors at the bank who helped me when it was time to make a move or take a risk.

Mentors hammered home the idea to create bits of your company at a time, testing those and then coming back to the drawing board to analyze your results before building more features.

In this guidebook to success, he shares how to: use basic techniques to effectively focus on business and life success; evaluate and confront problems in an orderly fashion; find and work with the right mentor at the right time; follow time - proven Basic Laws of Success; capitalize on the strategies and secrets of effective leadership.

She also explains how her long time mentor Dan Wilson at KPMG continues to #movethedial for her through networking events and introductions to future career prospects.

Yes, queer people want to recruit the young, not by kidnapping young men... but by being mentors and role models who would show gay and lesbian adolescents that they are not alone, that they are not freaks, that they need not continue committing suicide at three times the rate of straight teenagers.»

It's a huge temptation — I have a sitter two days a week now and so I could use that time to run errands or mentor young people or get groceries or to help with art projects at school — which are all valuable and good things!

I remember years ago, in my mid-twenties, before Lisa and I even had kids, confessing something that was rather prophetic to my mentor at the time.

Whether it be conflict from his childhood when he was raised in Muslim household, or from his time in Hawaii when his Communist mentor likely eschewed any religion, or during college bringing him closer to a community likely agnostic at best, atheist perhaps, followed by years in which he sat listening to Black Liberation Theologian Wright, his relationship with Christianity's basic tenet is uneasy to say the least.

Hold infants at your local church nursery while the parents attend service; participate in a house build with Habitat for Humanity; mentor a student at a nearby school a few times a month; sponsor a missionary overseas; give wildly beyond the tithe.

R. H. Blakney has a translation, published by Mentor; and Witter Bynner published a poetic translation, which is at times a graceful interpretation, called The Way of Life According to Laotzu.

He worked for one of the most prominent boutique agencies in southern California, DC Commercial, which he says his boss and mentor Doug Cancienne sold 95 percent of the apartment buildings in Riverside at one time.

Finally, I would like to take this opportunity to say thank you to all of the people who made my attendance at the conference possible and so enjoyable: Dr Julie Nicol who first approached Simon Livingstone and Yasmin Chalmers at Marcus Oldham with the proposal of sending a scholar to the conference; Cathy Reade and Melina Gillespie for their support before and during the event; Tony Fischer and Neil Inall for spending time with me during the scholar days; and Tony Gregson, my mentor for introducing me to so many industry leaders I lost count!

The Star cite Starsport in quoting Subotic, who evidently enjoyed the time they spent together at the Westfalenstadion: «Klopp has been my mentor for nine years, he supported me, encouraged me, had trust in me.

In a few years time he'll be better than stones if he continues to progress well, and with koscielny and mertasacker at the club he couldn't ask for better mentors and do nt forget steve bould as well.

He is one of the arsenal players who despite being great in his own right was overshadowed by those around him... Such was the quality we had in the squad during his time... So I hope that his situation improves financislly or at the very least we offer him a some kind of paid coaching / mentor role at Arsenal to help him get out of this mess...

Thomas, who credited the elder statesman and seemingly every PGA Tour's mentor with teaching him «a lot» in recent times, took the Wanamaker Trophy — which Woods lifted in 1999, 2000, 2006, and 2007 — with him to supper at an unknown location (though Woods» restaurant The Woods in Jupiter, Fla., where first - time major winner Thomas resides) is a good guess.

With the departure of mentor Sam Allardyce and the appointment of miserable turd - stain Gary Megson, Diouf's time at Wanderers came to an end in 2008 with the club fighting against relegation - a battle that they would win with the help of the former Liverpool forward.

Now although he played most of his time at the Bernabeu under Jose Mourinho, Real Madrid is never a safe bet for extended development and despite Ozil performing well he never gained a true mentor (with Ancelotti only really coaching him during a pre-season).

In particular, I'd like to thank Keith Boanas at Charlton, who was a mentor to me, especially during the tougher times.

She was a hairdresser who owned her own salon, called Gifted Hanz, on the South Side of Chicago, and she worked part - time as a mentor for a group called Youth Advocate Programs, which had been hired by the Chicago schools department to provide intensive mentoring services to students who had been identified as being most at risk of committing or being a victim of gun violence.

At that time Natural Home was owned by Interweave Press, and here I was, working for two accomplished, self - assured moms who were both my mentors as well as clients: Peggy O'Mara, and Linda Ligon, and whom both I adored and loved dearly.

In a sign of increasing trouble for Christie, his one - time mentor, former Gov. Thomas Kean, has been leveling the sharpest criticism at the current governor over the bridge mess.

Heeding the maxim of his mentor and friend AJP Taylor that «every historian should write an autobiography», Ken decided that his should not be «grist to the mill of possible obituaries or the product of self - indulgence or vanity» but «an indication of how a working, writing historian went about his task at a time of sweeping historical change».

• It led indirectly to his appointment in 1994 as an economic adviser to Gordon Brown, setting Balls on a path to the same job held at that time by his mentor — Labour's shadow chancellor.

[15] Joe Abate, who was National Chairman of the College Republicans at the time, became his mentor.

Foster Grandparents act as a role model, a mentor, and a friend helping children learn to read, providing one - on - one tutoring, and guiding children at a critical time in their lives.

The amount of time spent on research is at the discretion of the resident's research mentor.

If in the end the student feels that it is logistically more feasible or even more desirable to pursue another academic route, sometimes that is the best for that particular student at that time, and as a mentor, you have no choice but to support the student in that decision.

And at the same time, the program allowed her to build an extensive network of mentors and contacts.

She still does not know why he considered her at the time — «Maybe it was just my enthusiasm,» she wonders — but he nonetheless became her mentor as she studied the transcriptional activation of the cell - cycle regulated HO gene in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

«I know of numerous instances where fellows with, at times, the knowledge of their mentors, have published falsified data,» said one professor.

You absolutely need to run through this talk several times, ideally with your mentor at least once — and with a handful of trusted colleagues, preferably from a variety of backgrounds and disciplines.

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My mentor at the time, Dr. N. Datta - Gupta, was a biochemist interested in developing an artificial blood substitute.