Leader Mentoring

Michael Shenkman

Michael L. Shenkman, Ph.D., is founder and president of the Arch of Leadership, a leader mentoring company. Shenkman is a pioneer in this field. His leader mentoring program is among the first fully developed program being offered to businesses and organizations world wide. Shenkman has developed leader mentoring into a high level advancement practice. Rather than focus on leadership skills, mentoring helps aspiring executives to fully enter and commit to the life of creative leading in order to build organizational value, inspire success and enhance quality of life.

Dr. Shenkman developed the Arch of Leadership program based on extensive research and more than 20 years of consulting experience and acting as executive coach and mentor. He teaches in The Management Development Center of the University of New Mexico and holds a Ph.D. from Boston College and a BA from Dickinson College.

Dr. Shenkman also leads The New Directions Institute and its Entrepreneurial Leadership Excelerator (ELE) Program. This is a community-based mentoring program offering unique leadership development for aspiring leaders. Along with the enriching program content, and several group learning experience the program features an individual and dedicated mentoring relationship. Each participant is paired and meets with an individual mentor eight times, privately, one on one for highly personal and directed conversations. Over the course of eight months of private, individual sessions and four group learning experiences, participants gain a unique opportunity for profound personal growth. Most relationships with the mentors persist well beyond the boundaries of the program.

Dr. Shenkman's forthcoming book will be released in the Spring of 2008:

Mentoring: Find, Inspire and Cultivate Great Leaders.

Dr. Shenkman publications include three earlier books. He has also spoken at a number of conferences and participated on various panels discussing the art and science of leadership mentoring. His previous books include:

The Arch and the Path: The Life of Leading Greatly (2005)
The Strategic Heart: Using the New Sciences to Lead Growing Organizations (1996)
Value and Strategy: Competing Successfully in the Nineties (1993)

Dr. Shenkman's literary repertoire also includes many authored and co-authored articles, including:

Successful Leaders: Understanding Sincere Failure

Co-Authored articles.

Leadership ROI featuring Michael and Bonnie, an excerpt from the new book The Expert's Edge: Become the Go-To Authority People Turn to Every Time by Ken Lizotte (McGraw Hill)
Your Highest-Yielding (Under-Capitalized) Asset: The ROI of Leadership, by Michael Shenkman and Bonnie Gorbaty, Business Strategy Series 2007 by Michael Shenkman, Nonprofit World, 2006
How does Arch insure that its mentors are successful? , an explanation from Michael Shenkman that appeared in Homelighting Magazine, 2006
How does Arch insure that its mentors are successful? , an explanation from Michael Shenkman that appeared in Golf Business Magazine, 2006
Why Leaders Fail... Even the Sincere Ones , by Bonnie Gorbaty, Women's Business Magazine, 2006
Retire to Service: You Have Much to Offer , Personal Excellence, 2005
Mentoring is magic that makes executives leaders , IndUS Business Journal, 2005
Interview with Michael H. Shenkman, (pdf - 230K): Albuquerque The Magazine, 2005: Text -only version
Keep Succession Planning on the Front Burner , (pdf - 185K): Society for Nonprofit Organizations, 2005: Text-only version
Ready Your Next Round of True Leaders , Executive Insights, 2005
The Leader's Calling: Born to be Recognized , Training Magazine, 2005
Manage for Today, Mentor for Tomorrow, The Handbook of Business Strategy, 2005
Not Everyone Is Cut Out to Be a Leader , IndUS Business Journal , 2004
Are Your Managers Cut Out to be Leaders , Sideroad.com, 2004
Not Taught in Business Schools: Cultivating Creative Leading , US Industry Today, 2004
Why Sincere Leaders Fail , Sideroad.com, 2004
Are Your Managers Cut Out to Be Leaders? , CEO Refresher , 2004
Not Taught in Business Schools: Cultivating Creativity , The Handbook of Business Strategy, 2004
People Skills , Executive Excellence, 2003
Leadership and Joy , Albuquerque Journal, 2002
Leaders Can Prevent Burnout , Albuquerque Journal, 2002
How Leaders Learn: They L-E-A-D , Albuquerque Journal, 2001
The "Team Leadership" Trap , New Mexico Business Weekly, 2000
The Guru Trap , Albuquerque Journal, 2000
Being a Follower , Mass High Tech: The Journal of New England Technology, 2000