The Magic of Mentoring – My Success Story
This Friday I celebrated my mentoring success story by having lunch with Tony Sclavenitis. Tony is a safety specialist at the UCLA Medical Center. His job has impact for preventing injuries, illness and accidents for all hospital employees, patients and visitors. Tony is assigned fire drills, hazardous material, ergonomics and helps the other safety team members.
If you are a patient at the UCLA Medical Center you want a guy like Tony on the job.
Tony was my client at Comcast Entertainment and is an enthusiastic student for safety, health and environmental knowledge. He recently made the move from entertainment (production safety) to hospital operations.
My professional and personal lives were aligned yesterday as I walked through the doors of the Stewart and Lynda Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital at UCLA. I’m a fan of Lynda and her wisdom on marketing. I follow her at @lyndaresnick on twitter.
20 years earlier I had walked through those doors as a family member in distress. One of my passions is fighting stigma and being an activist for people with mental illness. So as I walk in the door with Tony headed to lunch in the cafeteria I’m thinking about:
- My gratitude for the hospital and their expertise in giving me back a family member who was lost to mental illness
- The good that comes from the generosity of donors like Stewart and Lynda Resnick
- The new opportunity Tony gives me as he stewards my love of our profession
TGIF when you can help someone like Tony make professional progress and gain the satisfaction of having your mentoring “paying forward” to a place that saved the life of a loved one. That’s a wrap.
