About The Mentor Group
The Mentor Group equips clients to better understand the lives of LGBTQ individuals and how enabling them to bring their whole selves to work can contribute to a more innovative, productive and successful organization.
Our logo reflects the extraordinary array of differences that exist in today's workplace - differences that can create stumbling blocks to business and personal success. At its core, it is a portal to resources The Mentor Group offers clients that turn stumbling blocks into synergies.
Our logo reflects the extraordinary array of differences that exist in today's workplace - differences that can create stumbling blocks to business and personal success. At its core, it is a portal to resources The Mentor Group offers clients that turn stumbling blocks into synergies.
Meet Susan
Growing up Southern Baptist in suburban Atlanta in the 1960s, Susan Gore read the Bible cover-to-cover (two chapters a night), spent summers at Baptist girls camp, hosted Young Life in her family’s home and regularly participated in Thursday morning “God Squad” prayer meetings before her high school classes. She also took on the All-American Soap Box Derby, writing in 1961 to protest its exclusion of girls. The Derby General Manager’s response hangs on her office wall, alongside a State of Texas legislative resolution declaring October 11, 1996 National Coming Out Day in Dallas, when Susan was co-chair.
In the intervening years, Susan earned a PhD in psychology from Vanderbilt University and helped found the APA Division on the Psychological Study of LGBT Issues, the National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA), the Lesbian Donor Fund of the Dallas Women’s Foundation and Celebration on the Lake Church, a welcoming congregation in rural east Texas that celebrated its 10th anniversary in 2012. Since 1992, Susan has led The Mentor Group diversity consulting.
Susan is an expert on Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) legislation and in facilitating dialogues about LGBTQ and faith-based identities in the workplace. The Diversity Roundtable of Central Indiana, BP, Chubb, GlaxoSmithKline, HP, IBM, Quaker Oats, Shell Oil and the Society for Human Resource Management and others have benefited from Susan’s guidance in organizational assessment, coaching, communications and training related to LGBTQ and faith-based diversity inclusion.
Coming Out in Faith, which Susan edited with Rev. Keith Kron, has been named “one of three must-reads” on LGBTQ identity and religion by Huffington Post Religion contributor, Janet Mason. Her next book, Gays God and the Workplace: Not Mutually Exclusive is currently in her editor’s hands. The purpose of GGAW is to promote understanding and support for LGBTQ and faith identities in the workplace, using a SANE model of dialogue Susan has developed.
In 2012, Susan decided to go back to school. She earned her Masters in Theological Studies from Brite Divinity School in 2014 with a thesis entitled The Impact of LGBTQ Identity on Changing American Christian Attitudes.
Susan also is the bisexuality content expert for an international training curriculum, Cultural Detective: LGBT. She has spoken internationally on AIDS as a women’s issue before the International Congress of Psychologists and as a visiting lecturer on diversity at Airlaanga University in Surabaya Indonesia. Susan introduced women’s studies to the US military in Germany and Italy as a professor for the University of Maryland-European Division and served on the 1985 UN Decade for Women’s Pre-planning Committee. She is the editor of A Feminist Mental Health Agenda for the Year 2000, which she presented at the UN Decade world conference in her role as the national coordinator of the Association for Women in Psychology. She also is the producer of a DVD, How to BE with Someone Who is Dying.
Susan is honored to be the 2015 recipient of the Mark DeWolfe Award, given by Interweave: Unitarian Universalists for LGBTQ Concerns, for her contributions to the advancement of LGBTQ equity within and beyond Unitarian Universalism.
In her personal life, Susan enjoys travel and good food shared with friends, especially when they occur at the same time. Her favorite trip is always the next one.
In the intervening years, Susan earned a PhD in psychology from Vanderbilt University and helped found the APA Division on the Psychological Study of LGBT Issues, the National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA), the Lesbian Donor Fund of the Dallas Women’s Foundation and Celebration on the Lake Church, a welcoming congregation in rural east Texas that celebrated its 10th anniversary in 2012. Since 1992, Susan has led The Mentor Group diversity consulting.
Susan is an expert on Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) legislation and in facilitating dialogues about LGBTQ and faith-based identities in the workplace. The Diversity Roundtable of Central Indiana, BP, Chubb, GlaxoSmithKline, HP, IBM, Quaker Oats, Shell Oil and the Society for Human Resource Management and others have benefited from Susan’s guidance in organizational assessment, coaching, communications and training related to LGBTQ and faith-based diversity inclusion.
Coming Out in Faith, which Susan edited with Rev. Keith Kron, has been named “one of three must-reads” on LGBTQ identity and religion by Huffington Post Religion contributor, Janet Mason. Her next book, Gays God and the Workplace: Not Mutually Exclusive is currently in her editor’s hands. The purpose of GGAW is to promote understanding and support for LGBTQ and faith identities in the workplace, using a SANE model of dialogue Susan has developed.
In 2012, Susan decided to go back to school. She earned her Masters in Theological Studies from Brite Divinity School in 2014 with a thesis entitled The Impact of LGBTQ Identity on Changing American Christian Attitudes.
Susan also is the bisexuality content expert for an international training curriculum, Cultural Detective: LGBT. She has spoken internationally on AIDS as a women’s issue before the International Congress of Psychologists and as a visiting lecturer on diversity at Airlaanga University in Surabaya Indonesia. Susan introduced women’s studies to the US military in Germany and Italy as a professor for the University of Maryland-European Division and served on the 1985 UN Decade for Women’s Pre-planning Committee. She is the editor of A Feminist Mental Health Agenda for the Year 2000, which she presented at the UN Decade world conference in her role as the national coordinator of the Association for Women in Psychology. She also is the producer of a DVD, How to BE with Someone Who is Dying.
Susan is honored to be the 2015 recipient of the Mark DeWolfe Award, given by Interweave: Unitarian Universalists for LGBTQ Concerns, for her contributions to the advancement of LGBTQ equity within and beyond Unitarian Universalism.
In her personal life, Susan enjoys travel and good food shared with friends, especially when they occur at the same time. Her favorite trip is always the next one.