College Mentoring Handbook: The Way of the Self-Directed Learner

Dr. Gray has a reputation among his peers as being an engaging public speaker and creator of interactive and thought-provoking student mentoring workshops. In an age of an ever-changing global landscape, he has become a passionate educational advocate for the empowerment of America's youth, especially young minority men and women. Throughout his professional career, he has devoted time and energy to corporate mentoring and coaching to assist professional staff in improving job performance and career advancement. For the past decade, he has redirected his focus and energy on mentoring and coaching college students. Motivated by an undying passion to inspire a new generation of first-time college students, his aim to ignite a conversation on the importance of incorporating mentoring and coaching as a holistic approach to academic performance and career development. Dr. Gray earned a master's degree in social work from West Virginia University in Morgantown, West Virginia; a master's degree in business administration from the University of the District of Columbia in Washington, DC; and a doctorate in urban leadership education from Morgan State University in Baltimore, Maryland.