Deborah Gallagher

Mentoring and personal experience contributor

Deborah Gallagher contributes Mentors Come in Many Forms to Adapt and Overcome. Her chapter reflects on important decisions and the people or ideas that helped her see a situation differently.

The account includes practical experience with property, adapting a home to produce income and considering the balance between self-employment and other possibilities. Deborah connects those decisions with reading, learning and finding useful guidance.

Her contribution also describes a wish to remain relevant as ways of doing business change. Writing a chapter became part of that effort to develop new skills and share what she had learned through earlier experiences.

Deborah's author note offers mentoring conversations, grounded in the perspective of someone who has continued to seek mentors herself. Her chapter is concerned with clarity, timing and the value of discussing a decision with someone who may see a useful possibility that is hard to recognize alone.