Wednesday Buzz: Breaking the Glass Ceiling With Mentorships

Mentorships are a potent tool for any organization, and many associations highlight mentor opportunities when courting potential members. Now, a new matchmaking service is looking to harness the power of mentorships to help women in the workplace. So what’s the platform that could potentially smash through the glass ceiling?

“Glassbreakers  (opens in a new tab) is a peer mentorship platform for women. We’ve built software that uses a machine learning algorithm that connects women in the workforce who can help each other. Glassbreakers is a lot like online dating, but for women in the workforce,” CEO Eileen Carey explained  (opens in a new tab) to Fortune Contributor and Inflection Point  (opens in a new tab) Host Lauren Schiller.

Though many organizations already have a mentorship infrastructure in place, Carey highlights one key problem with those structures that Glassbreakers aims to address.

“Traditional mentorship is usually between someone very junior and someone very senior. That doesn’t work for women. There are way more mentees entering the workforce than there are mentors,” she said.

Carey, along with CTO Lauren Mosenthal, explained that Glassbreakers connects mentors and mentees in much the same way that dating sites and LinkedIn bring potential connections together: with a keen eye on coupling individuals with similar interests who can help each other on their professional journeys.

Anyone interested can check out the site and sign up right here  (opens in a new tab).

Conference of the Day

Wow what a line up! That’s my schedule for today at #Tech15  (opens in a new tab). How will I ever top that! #assnchat  (opens in a new tab) pic.twitter.com/REaDTAtWmU  (opens in a new tab)

— Gayathri Kher (@gatsrulz) December 16, 2015  (opens in a new tab)

ASAE’s Technology Conference and Expo continued to inspire and enlighten in its second day, with organizations revealing how less can be more  (opens in a new tab) online, what business transformation can be expected in the next decade  (opens in a new tab), and much, much more. For up-to-date coverage straight from the show floor, check out our live blog here, and read our recap of Tuesday’s big data-driven keynote.

Other Good Reads

Thank-you letters are for more than your family during the holidays. Learn how to maximize your gratitude with these four tips from community engagement pro Kristina Leroux  (opens in a new tab) via Kivi’s Nonprofit Communications blog.

A CEO can work wonders for your conference, as event planning expert Dave Lutz explains in his latest post for Velvet Chainsaw’s blog  (opens in a new tab).

The year’s winding down, which means it’s time to look back on some of the biggest developments in marketing technology. Check out what BlueConic  (opens in a new tab) Vice President of Marketing Cory Munchbach has to say in this post on CMSWire  (opens in a new tab).