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Nora Dominguez, Ph.D., is the director of the Mentoring Institute at the University of New Mexico (UNM) and president emeritus of the International Mentoring Association (IMA). Dominguez earned her bachelor’s degree in accounting from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), her M.B.A. from the Autonomous Technological Institute of Mexico (ITAM), and her Ph.D. in Organizational Learning and Instructional Technologies from the University of New Mexico (UNM).

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Dionne Clabuagh, Ed.D., is a Human Development Specialist, mentoring program developer, and micro-credentials author. She designs thoughtful learning experiences and environments for deep learning and far transfer for personal and professional development. Her work across the lifespan includes early education through the arts, youth music, scouting, parenting, teaching, and university faculty development. With degrees in Music Therapy and Organization Development, a doctorate in Learning and Instruction (University of San Francisco), and a diploma in Social Innovation (University for Peace, Costa Rica), she applies a relationship-based approach toward learner resilience. Dionne facilitates using high-impact, autonomy-supportive strategies and believes engaged learning happens when people invest in each other’s growth. After 25 years in higher education, she consults on program development and assessment and authors Micro-Credentials. She created the Resiliency Bridge™, co-developed the Human Learning System™ instructional framework, and has several chapters on mentoring in higher education. Dionne would love to hear from you!

Bob Garvey, Ph.D., FRSA, Professor (Emeritus), is an internationally known leading academic practitioner of mentoring and coaching. He is an experienced mentor/coach working with various people in multiple contexts. Bob subscribes to the ‘repertoire’ approach to mentoring and coaching. He is in demand as a keynote conference speaker, webinar facilitator, and workshop leader. Bob is an active researcher and very widely published. His latest book, with Dr. Paul Stokes, Coaching and Mentoring: Theory and Practice, was published in 2022 as a 4th Edition. He is a founding member of the EMCC and has been awarded the EMCC’s Mentor award. In 2014 he received a Lifetime Achievement award for mentoring contributions; in 2019, he gained the External Coach/Mentor award from the Coaching at Work Magazine. Currently, he is researching coach maturity with an international team of researchers.

David Law, Ph.D., is a human development and family studies professor at Utah State University (USU). He serves as associate director of the USU-Uintah Basin campus. Law earned his bachelor’s degree in psychology from USU, his master’s degree in marriage and family therapy(MFT) from the University of Wisconsin-Stout, and his Ph.D. in MFT from Brigham Young University. He has published in MFT, family life education, the scholarship of teaching and learning, and mentoring in academia. He has received awards for mentoring undergraduate students, recently recognized as the 2021 Emma Eccles Jones College of Education and Human Services Undergraduate Faculty Mentor of the Year. Law is the co-editor of the 2022 handbook, Making Connections: A Handbook for Effective Formal Mentoring Programs in Academia. For the past six years, Law has overseen the design, implementation, andevaluation of the faculty-to-student mentoring program for the USU statewide campus system.