1060: How to Use Sponsorship to Open Doors with Dr. Rosalind Chow

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🗓️ 22 May 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Rosalind Chow discusses how to become a better sponsor to open new opportunities for others—and yourself.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) Why mentorship isn’t enough to advance

2) How sponsoring others elevates your status

3) Four things sponsors should do—and one to avoid

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— ABOUT ROSALIND —

Rosalind Chow is an associate professor of Organizational Behavior and Theory at Carnegie Mellon University. Her research, teaching, and writing focus on how we all participate in social systems in ways that have implications for the maintenance or attenuation of inequity. Her current research focuses on how people can use their social connections to elevate others via sponsorship.

Chow serves as the faculty director for CLIMB, offered through the Tepper School of Business in partnership with Deloitte. CLIMB focuses on preparing Black and Latino professionals for leadership positions in the accounting industry. Prior to CLIMB, Chow served as the founding faculty director for the Executive Leadership Academy, an executive leadership program addressing the challenges facing the advancement of Black leaders in the Pittsburgh region.

Chow holds a BA in Psychology from Columbia University, and a PhD in Organizational Behavior from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. She currently lives in Pittsburgh, PA, with her husband, Jeff Galak, and their two children, Lia and Simon.

• Book: The Doors You Can Open: A New Way to Network, Build Trust, and Use Your Influence to Create a More Inclusive Workplace

• LinkedIn: Rosalind Chow

• Website: RosalindChow.com

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• Book: Anathem by Neal Stephenson

• Book: Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson

• Past episode: 458: How to End Bad Behavior and Renew Your Team Amidst Change with Steve Ritter

• Past episode: 945: How to Master Your Inner World and Flourish During Stress with Mawi Asgedom

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Transcript

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0:00.0	If you don't have a sponsor in the room who is reframing the conversation, bringing new information to light, giving a different interpretation to things that had happened, that's when
0:22.1	people are shown the door. So you definitely need sponsors to be there to protect you.
0:28.9	What do you notice about other people and how they're positively contributing to the group or to you?
0:35.7	Any of us can go out and amplify other people's good news.
0:39.7	There's no bad ramifications for saying nice things about objective, verifiable accomplishments
0:47.4	that other people have either done or have expertise in.
1:02.2	Okay. done or have expertise in. That's Dr. Rosalind Chow.
1:03.8	She's an associate professor at Carnegie Mellon University who specializes in research
1:07.4	on how to elevate others through sponsorship.
1:10.2	She shares some of these insights in her latest book, The Doors You Can Open,
1:13.3	a new way to network, build trust, and user influence to create a more inclusive workplace.
1:17.8	So you'll learn one, why mentorship isn't enough to advance.
1:20.8	Two, how sponsoring others elevates your status.
1:23.6	And three, four things sponsors should do, and one to avoid.
1:26.9	And if you want a quick summary write-up of some of these actionable takeaways,
1:29.5	I recommend you sign up for the free Golden Nugget Email newsletter found at
1:32.7	Awesome at Your Job.com.
1:34.7	I'm Pete McItis.
1:35.6	This is How to Be Awesome at Your Job.
1:37.0	And now, here's Rosalind.
1:42.6	Rosalind, welcome.
1:44.3	Thank you. Thanks for having me.
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