Your Work Friends | Fresh Insights on the Now and Next of Work The Doors You Can Open: Unlocking Opportunity Through Sponsorship at Work w/ Rosalind Chow
Ever felt like your hard work wasn’t enough?
That’s because the biggest career breaks don’t always come from effort alone—they come from the people who open doors for you.
In this episode of Your Work Friends, we sit down with, Carnegie Mellon Professor, organizational psychologist and author Rosalind Chow to unpack the power of sponsorship. Not mentorship (that’s important too), but sponsorship—the behind-the-scenes advocacy that shapes reputations, gets your name in the room, and changes who gets ahead.
We talk about:
- The simple one-liner that explains mentorship vs. sponsorship
- Why Rosalyn calls sharing someone else’s win good gossip
- The four ways sponsorship actually works—create, confirm, prevent, and protect
- How women and people of color are often “sponsored differently”
- Practical moves anyone can make this week to sponsor someone else
If you want to understand how influence really works at work—and how to use it to build fairer, smarter teams—this conversation is a must-listen.
Connect with Rosalind:
- Her website
- Her LinkedIn
- Her book, "The Doors You Can Open: A New Way to Network, Build Trust, and Use Your Influence to Create a More Inclusive Workplace"
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