LEAD
Making Impactful Change
Inclusion of differing viewpoints, cultures, and lifestyles has never been more important than now.
FASEB LEAD (Leadership Engagement and Appreciation of Differences), a component of FASEB's Diversity, Equity, Accessibility, and Inclusion (DEAI) initiative, is an innovative reverse-mentoring program that pairs senior-level professionals with early-career mentors to gain different perspectives of individual, group, and cultural views within the workplace and scientific research communities.
About LEAD
FASEB LEAD allows participants to exchange personal views and workplace perspectives in open, respectful, confidential, and trusting environments. The goal of the program is to allow participants to become change agents and gain broader perspectives of diversity, equity, and inclusivity that can improve decision-making processes at their institutions, thereby helping to transform the culture of the biological and biomedical research community. View past recipients.
Participants
Reverse mentors include early-career researchers such as assistant or associate professors, postdocs, graduate students, managers, analysts, or coordinators. Examples of reverse mentees may include deans, provosts, vice presidents, presidents, department chairs or division chiefs, professors, or executive directors.
Eligibility
Researchers in the life sciences field, as well as staff at FASEB Full Member societies, are eligible to participate. Membership in a FASEB society is not required to participate in LEAD; however, individual members of FASEB Full Member societies will receive priority.
Applications
Applications will open in spring 2025.
Questions?
Check out our FAQ. If you have general inquiries, email us.
Meet the 2023 Reverse Mentoring Pairs
Program Administration
For inquiries about FASEB LEAD, email us.