October 28, 2025
Positive Links Speaker Series
The Doors You Can Open: Networking, Building Trust, and Using Your Influence to Create a More Inclusive Workplace
Rosalind Chow
Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior and Theory, Carnegie Mellon University
October 28, 2025
About the talk
Mentors talk to you, sponsors talk about you.
Drawing from her research on power, status, and social hierarchy and experience building executive leadership programming, Dr. Chow transforms our understanding of networking and career advancement by differentiating sponsorship from mentorship. She will discuss the core ideas from her book, The Doors You Can Open, sharing how looking for opportunities to be a sponsor – rather than a beneficiary of sponsorship – can change how we approach our relationships, build trust, and elevate others, ourselves, and our communities.
