Each mentor will provide leadership and expertise to meet the needs and interests of a matched protégé. Over a 12-month period, protégés and mentors work on individual leadership development as well as on a group project to be presented at the 2010 NLN Education Summit.

• Use mentoring as a method of enhancing leadership skills in the context of the role of teacher, scholar, clinician, and nursing education community member.
• Facilitate leadership development through the mentoring process.
• Develop a group project focusing on leadership in nursing education, which will be presented at the NLN's 2010 Education Summit

• Guide and support a protégé in developing and implementing a focused action plan designed to develop selected leadership skills.
• Work with a protégé to implement a focused action plan designed to develop leadership skills.
• Attend a two-day intensive meeting in October 2009 with the project members and director to discuss the concept of leadership, begin work with a protégé, share potential action plans, and begin group project work.
• Attend a leadership conference meeting in early 2010 and the NLN Education Summit in September 2010.
• Participate in monthly group telephone conference calls, web-based e-communities, and one-on-one communication related to the project and as directed by the project director.
• Maintain a written journal about the mentoring experience.
• Engage in group work with other mentors and protégés to create an action plan focused on leadership in nursing education to be presented at the 2010 NLN Education Summit.