SpeedMentoring

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Killingsworth Vener_20130326-40402 CROPPED HEADSHOTBy Scott Killingsworth
scott.killingsworth@bryancave.com

When Adam Turteltaub asked me to participate as a mentor in the CEI SpeedMentoring session, I was hesitant.  As a private-practice lawyer, I didn’t think I would be what rising compliance officers were looking for in a mentor.  How to build an in-house compliance career isn’t exactly my specialty.  But Adam is persuasive and in the end I said, “You never know unless you participate…”

You definitely don’t know unless you participate.  One of my mentees is building out a broader compliance program at an insurance company, and the name of another insurer came up in the conversation.  By chance, I happen to know the former CCO of that other insurer, who faced a similar growth challenge there.

My second mentee was looking for help stitching together siloed compliance functions at a public utility, and could benefit from hearing how others in the industry have solved that problem.  Happily, I have a friend right down the street who is a very experienced CCO of the same type of utility.

Two other mentees were looking to transition from law practice to compliance, and I do know something about that.  I’m referring one of them to two CCOs in her home city who have made that transition and who are willing to offer advice.  The other compliance-bound lawyer lives in my city, and so we will continue the dialogue back at home.

So I was right and I was wrong.  Right because I am not the best mentor for all these people, but wrong because it turned out I knew where to find them. Whether by pure coincidence or the magic of the matching algorithm, the process worked.  Try it some time.

Thanks for the nudge, Adam.  Now excuse me, I’ve got some introductions to make.

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