Since every person is unique, each of us has something different and wonderful to offer the world. But have you ever wondered how you can leverage your unique traits to maximize your potential? We can help. In fact, we’ve made it our mission: To inform and encourage people around the world to help each other discover and reach their potential.

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Identify your strengths and motivations through state-of-the-art personal assessment technology, learn about mentoring, and take actions to improve your life by collaborating with others in a supportive online environment.

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• Dr. Richard Caruso’s Speech
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You are viewing Richard Caruso’s keynote speech presented at the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year® awards gala hosted by Jay Leno in Palm Springs,California November 16th 2007

More About UIF:

• UIF History
• Foundation Bios
• Press

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More About UIF:

• UIF History
• Foundation Bios
• Press

Richard Caruso (our founder)
I am fortunate to be a son of emigrant parents from Italy. Fortunate, because my parents understood the critical importance of living in an environment where you are able to create opportunities for yourself and others. My parents had no real expectations for me other than for me to finish high school and to be a good citizen; they are my first and most enduring mentors. Through them I got the message early in life that I had to envision the possibilities of my world by and for myself. With the support of my high school coaches, Mr. John Boyd and Mr. Larry Keys, I applied to college looking for a football scholarship. With the encouragement of my college coaches, Bob Pittello and James Garrett, I went to college, enjoyed college football and became interested in the opportunities that an education provides. In my senior year I applied to graduate school and, thanks to the recommendation of the schools Professor Ressler, I received a fellowship and teaching assistantship, which made it financially possible. Seven years after graduate school I married my caring wife Sally, and we have two sons, Jonathan and Peter. All three continue to champion my ventures as I have tried to be supportive of their endeavors.
A year out of graduate school while working for a national accounting firm, I became a CPA only to realize that I was not interested in being an accountant. Notwithstanding my education and a secure job with a great firm, the entrepreneurial spirit and desire from my childhood began to push me to do other things. Coincidental with the moment when I knew how dissatisfied I would be with the typical career path that lay ahead, a creative financial start up company offered me a position, which I immediately accepted. I spent twenty years, the first five struggling and the last fifteen, growing a very successful company. During this growth, I also started Provco Group, an entity investing in entrepreneurial activities. Throughout college and my early employment, Russell Baum, Doris Berger, Frank Slattery, Ed Zalinski and many others too numerous to mention, assisted in defining my life journey. In 1986, I founded UIF as a means of giving forward. Three years later I returned to school to do post-graduate research on the topic of mentoring. I also began to develop dreams for my future and started Integra LifeSciences to try to achieve them. With Provco Group and UIF, I am fortunate to have engaged, Jerry Holtz, Gary DiLella, John Crosby, Brenda-Jayne Wiltshire, Terry Weiss and Mark Lamboy. With Integra LifeSciences, Stuart Essig has been a brilliant leader and clearly Integra would not be what it is today without him. Judi O’Grady has been dedicated, supportive and essential with the regulatory approvals necessary to bring Integra’s and the world’s first Regenerative Medicine products to market.
In describing my founding purpose for UIF, I used the term ‘giving forward’ deliberately, because ‘giving back’ implies you should wait until you are ready, willing and able. From my perspective, the greatest gift one person can give another, is the opportunity to become an authentic Uncommon Individual. I sincerely believe we should all be encouraged, and encourage others, to be ourselves and give forward throughout our lives. This certainly is the mission of UIF.

John Crosby
My farmer father and school teacher mother were my inspiration in understanding that education could shape my dreams and make a difference in my life’s journey. Curiously, now as a grandfather, I often delight in occasions where my granddaughters provide interesting aspects of mentoring to each member of our family’s lives.
When I look at the various paths which woven together make the fabric of my life, I am astonished by the improbability of my own story. I find it hard to believe that a dust-bowl kid from a dry-land cotton farm in West Texas, due to hard work, unusual effort and uncommon diligence, could persevere against all odds – let alone that I would create the successful career that I have enjoyed. Following my mother’s example, I began my professional career into education. The next several decades of dedication into my professional endeavors catapulted me to become superintendent of schools in one of the top ten school districts in the country (invited to visit President Reagan in the White House) and to become a valuable contributor to life and an uplifting example to others.
Despite failure and success and age, I am, at my core, an Uncommon Individual. I will continue to formulate new dreams that contribute to my personal satisfaction. But most importantly, I will seek undertakings through which I am able to make meaningful and lasting contributions to mankind.

Terry Weiss
I am a firm believer that every experience carries the potential to teach and therefore the potential to learn. In that sense, I have had too many mentors to even try to list them, from the originality of John Coltrane to the Zen of Mario Andretti (yes that phrase goes with that name) to the keen insight of Richard Feynman, each has contributed to me professionally and personally. And, of course, there are those that I have the had the luck to touch me personally, such as my wife and my kids (kids are great mentors, but you have to listen really hard) and my friends Jeff Hunsberger and Lewis Loren who have each in their own way have taught me to think and be.
Professionally, my career has been a serious of happy accidents ultimately leading to the flowering of my own entrepreneurial goals in starting Mentis Solutions and IntelliFlex Technologies to help develop and further my goal of bridging the gap between the way people think and the way computers want us to express ourselves.
My association with UIF is one of those happy accidents. The Foundation’s mission serves as a reminder of our professional and personal responsibilities to “pay it forward” and I look forward to the opportunities to touch and be touched that the Foundation uniquely provides.

Dimitri Vassiliou

Mr. Vassiliou began building his professional foundations while completing his undergraduate studies at Lehigh University. In 1995, during his junior year majoring in international business with a minor in geology, Dimitri became one of the founding partners of an early-to-market browser-based internet design firm. Immediately upon graduating, he was offered a corporate management position with AT&T, where he became the youngest sales engineer managing multiple markets, responsible for new product development, distribution and training throughout several U.S. sales territories. From the beginning of his engagement, through his efforts over an eighteen-month period, he became distinguished as AT&T’s most successful sales engineer consistently producing the highest revenues. In 1999, PECO-Adelphia, a Pennsylvania-based communications company, recruited Dimitri to head the development and deployment of their newest line of internet connectivity products. Soon after accepting the position, he was chosen as one of ten corporate experts advising management regarding long-term growth strategies. During his two-year tenure, Philadelphia became the highest grossing market for Adelphia’s internet products in the nation. Based on this success, through an invitation from his former Adelphia VP, Dimitri quickly transitioned into the private equity start-up arena. His two years at NetCarrier became Dimitri’s springboard from which he launched his own internet company. Olympia Design, the first of several, was his initial independent entrepreneurial venture. Dimitri has contributed to the UNCOMMON INDIVIDUAL FOUNDATION’s technology development for almost a decade, first as an internet design consultant until most recently, when in 2006 he accepted his present position as UIF Chief Operating Officer.
Dimitri has advanced his learning well beyond the classroom. He is an accomplished musician and is one of the founding partners of Cheapo Records, a privately-owned recording studio. An enthusiastic student pilot for most of his adult life, in June 2007 he became a certified private pilot (VFR single engine fixed wing). An active amateur in the practice of martial arts, he holds a black belt in Tae Kwon Do.

Katya Piskacheva
The idea of traveling to a foreign country, living there for an extended period of time, and immersing myself into a foreign culture seemed like an impossible dream back in 2001. In Russia, traveling abroad and studying in an American university were privileges that were unaffordable for regular people like me. However, nothing could keep me from following my dreams. I worked very hard to learn English, which I knew would be paramount to making my dreams become reality. My parents always supported me, encouraged me to pursue my dreams, and taught me that anything that was worth achieving required a tremendous amount of hard work. My mother is an amazing person who encouraged me to think outside of the box, explore my strengths and weaknesses, and cherish every moment of my journey. I earned the right to come to the United States for the first time as a “Work & Travel USA” participant. I was relegated to work in the fast food industry, spending mornings at Wendy’s and evenings at McDonalds. This was not exactly what I had always dreamed of, but my foot was in the door and I was determined to make the most of it. Around that time, I met Richard Caruso, who became my mentor and reaffirmed the idea that everything is possible if I put my mind to it. This proved to be true as I accomplished one of my most significant goals in life when I was accepted under a full academic scholarship to attend Villanova University’s Graduate Studies Program in History. The two year program was among the most intense experiences of my life. At first, it was difficult keeping up with my classmates on a steady diet of reading 2-4 books each week and writing lengthy papers, all in my second language. However, my determination to succeed pushed me to work even harder and I eventually passed my comprehensive examination with distinction, graduated from Villanova, and was inducted into the Phi Kappa Phi Honors Society.

Rebecca Steier
A Connecticut native, Rebecca dabbled in several ventures and adventures (and misadventures), which included running an art gallery and training beluga whales, before moving to Pennsylvania in 2006 to attend Drexel University, where she worked as an editor and contributing writer for ASK: The Journal of the Arts and Sciences and interned at the Painted Bride Quarterly. Rebecca received a Bachelor of Science in 2007 and joined the Uncommon Individual Foundation (UIF) the following year, where she experiences the power of mentoring everyday and encourages others to capitalize on their unique strengths and pursue their goals.

Scott Bradley

Richard Gross

More About UIF:

• UIF History
• Foundation Bios
• Press

The Uncommon Individual Foundation, established in 1986, is a nonprofit foundation exclusively devoted to the implementation of protégé-driven, Open-System Mentoring™. Our goal is to enable each protégé to recognize the benefits of mentoring and to learn how to use it to achieve success. Through training, protégés are encouraged toward independence and self-reliance in planning and pursuing objectives. Both mentors and protégés learn specific mentoring skills, engage one or more mentoring relationships and resources, and learn how to use the power of mentoring to discover and use their talents to reach their goals.

UIF’s services are based on our unique philosophy of protégé-driven, Open-System Mentoring™. That is, to be successful, a protégé will initiate and develop several productive mentoring relationships and resources over, or even, at the same time. Also, with this model protégés learn the skills needed to turn others into mentors, and mentors learn how their careers and personal satisfaction can be enhanced. Our philosophy and methods are different from more traditional approaches, in which the protégé only works with an assigned mentor in a formal program.

Historically, we have worked with organizational clients providing both training and implementation of protégé-driven, Open-System Mentoring™ programs. We assisted our clients in identifying their unique needs then, based on this assessment, designed training programs and provided implementation to meet those needs.

Currently, with the use of contemporary Internet technologies, we are making our mentoring philosophy and resources available to every individual who chooses to engage them. These new use applications are explained in UIF Virtual Mentor™, Venture Mentoring™ and in Getting Involved. Notwithstanding our major thrust to utilize new technologies as a means of fulfilling our Mission, we also intend to continue our hands on approach, with the use of our new technologies, to continue to service our organizational clients with training and implementation of our philosophy of mentoring.

Historically, our organizational training and implementation programs will continue to be available to clients who desire them. With these programs, we evaluate a client’s organizational needs then, consistent with the needs of the clients’ associates, design and implement a mentoring program. Through regular evaluation, we keep our clients informed about the progress of mentoring efforts and, at the completion of our involvement, about the success of the program as a whole. This information provides a measurement of the changes that take place as a result of program implementation and demonstrates the benefits of a ‘mentor-rich environment’ for protégés, mentors, and the organization. Our programs and materials are based on this extensive ongoing field experience, as well as on academic research.

UIF’s historical clients include a number of America’s largest corporations, as well as city, state and federal agencies, faith-based organizations, colleges, universities, public and private schools, youth organizations, and social service agencies. Specialized in working with various socio-economic groups, including entry-level workers, young professionals, minorities and at-risk students, UIF has developed special training curriculum for building successful mentoring partnerships across culture, race, generation, gender, and disabilities.

Our methods for our organizational programs are simple, do not require extensive time to implement, and yet significantly increase the effectiveness of mentor↔protégés relationships. We believe that because the relationship is protégé-driven, there frequently needs to be training for protégés, as well as mentors, on how to use this powerful tool for success. Participants are consistently enthusiastic about the mutual benefits received by both mentors and protégés. It is, in fact, this mutuality that brings success.

Historically UIF has provided the following selected list of organizations with individually-designed, client-specific programs within one of three categories of Open-System Mentoring™ Programs:

Working with the organization to design its mentoring program, producing training materials, presenting orientation and training sessions, and monitoring the entire program, including extensive evaluations and final reports.
Working with the organization to design its mentoring program, supplying training materials, and delivering initial orientation training for mentors and protégés within the organization.
Developing educational materials or presenting a program, lecture or keynote address on the power and application of mentoring as an effective tool for success.

Adults Mentoring Adults

Alpha Phi Alpha – African American professional fraternity (USA)

American Association for Affirmative Action, Region III, and Philadelphia Liberty Industry Liaison Group 2005 Fall Conference (Philadelphia, PA)

ASARCO – Fortune 500 mining company (Salt Lake City, UT)

The BOC Group (Murray Hill, NJ)
*formerly British Oxygen Company

Bowater Incorporated (Greenville, SC)

Baxter Healthcare (McGaw Park, IL)

Chester County Chamber Welfare-to-Work Mentoring Program (Malvern, PA)

CoreStates Financial Corporation – Wachovia (Philadelphia, PA)

Credit Review Group
Transaction Service Group
Financial Institutions
Women’s Network (West Chester, PA)

Dow Chemical Company

Research & Development (Midland, MI)
Research & Development (Plaquemine, LA)
Fabricated Products: R&D (Granville, OH)

Du Pont Company (Wilmington, DE)

Agricultural Products
Marketing & Business Research
Central R&D
OZ Group Planning
CR&D Women’s Group
Spruance Plant (Richmond, VA)
Cultural Diversity Council
Nylon & Fibers (Chattanooga, TN)

Eli Lilly and Company (Indianapolis, IN)

Research & Development
Quality Control Labratories
Medical Division
African American Associates Forum
Animal Science & Toxicology Divisions (Greenfield, IN)

Executive Services Corps of Indiana (Indianapolis, IN)

Free Library of Philadelphia (Philadelphia, PA)

IBM Corporation (Armonk, NY)

Almaden Research Center (San Jose, CA)
Server Group (Austin, TX)
Intellectual Property & Licensing (Thornwood, NY)
Server Group (Rochester, MN)
Software Re-Engineering (Research Triangle Park, NC)
Server Group (Poughkeepsie, NY)
Somerset Design Center (Austin, TX)
Server Group (Somers, NY)
T. J. Watson Research Center (Yorktown Heights, NY)

Insurance Women of the Main Line (Bryn Mawr, PA)

Kiwanis Club of the Main Line (Bryn Mawr, PA)

Latino Mentoring Program (Reading, PA)

Los Alamos National Laboratory (Los Alamos, NM)

Mayo Clinic (Rochester, MN)

Magee Rehabilitation (Philadelphia, PA)

MAST International Organisation plc (United Kingdom)

Motorola, Inc. (Schaumburg, IL)

Narberth Presbyterian Church (Narberth, PA)

New York State: Monroe County Social Services Association (Rochester, NY)

National Association of Female Executives (Philadelphia Chapter)

National Institute of Standards and Technology (Gaithersburg, MD; Boulder, CO)
*formerly National Bureau of Standards

Oklahoma Foundation for Digestive Research (Oklahoma City, OK)

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe llp (San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York)

Prudential Insurance Company (Roseland, NJ; Ft. Washington, PA)

Rotary Club of Chesterbrook (Wayne, PA)

SAS Airways (Sweden)

Spanish Speaking Council of Reading and Berks County (Reading, PA)

State of Delaware (Wilmington, DE)

Management Fellows Program
Division of Social Services (Dover, DE)
State Personnel Office
Division of Medicaid & Medical Assistance (Dover, DE)

St. Mark’s United Methodist Church (Indialantic, FL)

United Way of America Regional Meetings

Alexandria, VA
Boston, MA
Little Rock, AR
San Francisco, CA
Atlanta, GA
Dallas, TX
Los Angeles, CA
South Bend, IN

USDA Forest Service

Northeastern Forest Experiment Station (Radnor, PA)
Southeastern Forest Experiment Station (Asheville, NC)

Wayne Presbyterian Church (Wayne, PA)

Wilmington News Journal (Wilmington, DE)

Women’s Initiative for Technology Leadership (Concord, MA)

Women’s Opportunity Link of Delaware, Inc. (Wilmington, DE)

Women’s Resource Center (Wayne, PA)
Adults Mentoring Youth

American Jewish Congress (Philadelphia Chapter)

Baltimore Mentoring Resource Center(Baltimore, MD)

Bridges Program – Linking School to Career (Philadelphia, PA)

Black Engineer-of-the-Year Awards Conference (Baltimore, MD)

Chesapeake Bay Girl Scout Council (Newark, DE)

Chester County Futures (Coatesville, PA)

Concerned Black Men of Philadelphia (Philadelphia, PA)

Cradle of Liberty Boy Scout Council (Valley Forge, PA)

Executive Services Corps of Indiana (Indianapolis, IN)

First African Baptist Church(Philadelphia, PA)

Meadow Wood Hospital for Children and Adolescents (New Castle, DE)

Meridian Bank(Reading, PA)

National School & Community Corps/AmeriCorps(Philadelphia, PA)

Corpsmembers mentoring students in Philadelphia public schools

The Navigators (Colorado Springs, CO)

Optimist Club of Valley Forge (Valley Forge, PA)

Philadelphia Futures – private organization dedicated to aiding youth of Philadelphia, with partners:

ARCO Chemical Company
Merck, Sharp & Dohme
CIGNA Insurance Company
Rohm & Haas
Coopers & Lybrand LLP
Rorer Group
Dechert, Price & Rhodes LLP
IBM Corporation
Judge Nelson A. Diaz’s School Adoption Program (for Hispanic youth)
Lt. Jose Menendez’s School Adoption Program (for Hispanic youth)
Pennsylvania Institute of Certified Public Accountants
Philadelphia Mayor’s Office of Community Affairs
Wolf, Block, Schorr & Solis-Cohen LLP

Philadelphia Youth Service Corps (Philadelphia, PA)

Reading City Mentoring Program (Reading, PA)

Siemens Medical Solutions Health Services Corporation (Malvern, PA)

State Bar of Texas (Dallas, TX)

Lawyers mentoring minority high school students in Austin and Dallas

Tell Them We Are Rising (Philadelphia, PA)

‘I Have A Dream Foundation’ prototype

White-Williams Foundation (Philadelphia, PA)

YWCA of New Castle County (New Castle, DE)
Schools & Educational Organizations

Association of Independent Schools in New England (Braintree, MA)

Connecticut Association of Independent Schools in New England (CT)

Intermediate Unit1-Fayette/Greene/Washington Counties (Coal Center, PA)

New Jersey Superintendents School Study Council, The Center for School Study Councils, Penn Graduate School of Education (Philadelphia, PA)

Pennsylvania Association of School Administrators (Harrisburg, PA)

Pennsylvania Superintendents and Other School Administrators
Women’s Caucus of PASA

Penn Literacy Network, University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA)

Philadelphia School District (Philadelphia, PA)

Philadelphia Elementary Principal Intern Program

Public and Private Schools

Boyertown Area School District (PA)
Central Dauphin School District (PA)
Chester-Upland School District (PA)
Harrisburg School District (PA)
Knoxville City and County School System (TN)
Matanuska-Susitna School District (AK)
Mother of Sorrows Schools (PA)
Oak Ridge School District (TN)
Peters Township School District (PA)
Phoenixville Area Middle School/Phoenixville Hospital (PA)
Pottstown School District (PA)
Radnor Township School District (PA)
Roane County Depar™ent of Education (TN)
Rocky Hill School (RI)
Samuel Gompers Technical High School (NY)
School District of Upper Moreland Township (PA)
South Middletown School District (PA)
Springfield School District (IL)
West Chester Area School District (PA)

Seventh Day Adventist Church

North Pacific Union Teachers Conference (Portland, OR)
Upper Columbia Teachers Conference (Spokane, WA)

Colleges, Universities & Graduate Schools

The College Fund/UNCF (Fairfax, VA)

Cornell University (Ithica, NY

School of Industrial & Labor Relations Alumni Association

Delaware State College (Dover, DE)

Denver Seminary (Denver, CO)

Dillard University (New Orleans, LA)

Duquesne University, School of Education (Pittsburgh, PA)

Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program for Educational Leaders

Iowa State University (Ames, IA)

Women in Science and Engineering

Purdue University (West Lafayette, IN)

Minority Programs for the Graduate School

Seminary of the East

Three Campuses (Dresher, PA; New York, NY; Worcester, MA)

Spelman College (Atlanta, GA)

UCLA Medical School, Division of Gastroenterology (Los Angeles, CA)

University of California – Davis (Davis, CA)

Chemistry Career Planning Workshop for Underrepresented Minority Students

University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA)

Say Yes to Education – ‘I Have A Dream Foundation’ prototype
The School of Nursing
Young Entrepreneurs at Wharton, The Wharton School

University of Pittsburgh (Pittsburgh, PA)

The School of Engineering

University of Virginia, School of Medicine (Charlottesville, NC)

Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo, MI)

The International Mentoring Association Institute Annual Conference

UIF Mentoring Systems:

• Open System
• Closed System
• Collaborative System

Collaborative mentoring is a sort of hybrid, combining the high investment levels shared by participants of closed mentoring with the multiple resources of open mentoring. This type of group-oriented mentoring occurs when people with unique, but complementary, dreams act as each other’s mentoring resources. In collaborative mentoring, leadership is shared among participants and each of them shifts appropriately between the roles of mentor and protege.

Collaborative mentoring can be very effective:

• Since participants share leadership, power struggles and other related conflicts are less likely to occur.

• Multiple resources expand each participant’s stockpile of ideas, inspiration, talents, expertise, solutions, etc.

• With multiple resources engaged, the loss of a mentoring resource does not devastate the initiative.

• Since participants are pursuing their personal dreams, they all tend to be highly invested in the overall initiative.

Some things to consider:

• Inequality is a common feature of group interaction. Some members may contribute greatly to the benefit of the group, while others receive the benefits but contribute little or nothing.

• Since participants’ goals are complimentary, members might be motivated by competitiveness.

• Multiple resources can be difficult to manage.

UIF Mentoring Systems:

• Open System
• Closed System
• Collaborative

Open mentoring is a dynamic exchange of enriching resources. In open mentoring, a single protege employs a variety of mentoring resources and relationships—simultaneously and over time. This type of mentoring often occurs naturally as protégés take the leadership role in their endeavors and strive to fulfill their dreams.

Open mentoring offers many positive features:

• Proteges who assume leadership over their mentoring endeavors are often more motivated and energized to work to achieve their dreams. The journey becomes their true magnum opus.

• By engaging a range of resources simultaneously, proteges fortify their arsenal of ideas, inspirations, expertise, etc. Often, they find that the resource-rich environment is superior to the value received from any single source.

• Mentor burnout is less common when multiple resources are employed. And the loss of a mentoring resource does not devastate the initiative to the extent that it would in a closed (one-to-one) arrangement.

Some things to consider:

• Because of the considerable responsibility and accountability placed on the protege, this type of initiative can be more difficult to manage than a one-to-one arrangement.

• Drawing together numerous resources to succeed, the protege’s engagement with any one resource may be less intimate and less intense relative to closed-system mentoring.

UIF Mentoring Systems:

• Open System
• Closed System
• Collaborative

Closed mentoring is an arrangement between one mentor and one protégé, in which the mentor typically assumes greater control over the mentorship relative to the protégé. Within this classic framework, the mentor is the dominant influence and the protégé benefits from the mentoring assistance.

Closed mentoring can be very rewarding for both the protégé and mentor:

• The relationship is very intimate and both members are highly invested in the protégé’s development.

• These proprietary arrangements are often very manageable.

Closed mentoring is particularly useful in learning situations. The mentor acts as a teacher and assumes responsibility, while the protégé becomes a receptive student. However, there are some limitations:

• As the leader of the relationship, the mentor typically assumes much of the responsibility. This may result in mentor burnout.

• The protégé has little room to exercise personal initiative, which inhibits the realization of true potential.

• Protégés limit their opportunities when they engage only a single resource.

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