The Mentoring Catalyst team held mentoring summits to bring together REM mentors to discuss current topics in mentoring and to provide support for mentors (faculty, and graduate students) implementing acquired mentoring skills. The workshop summits were held in Summer 2016 and 2017 which included an Entering Mentoring Train the Trainer two-day seminar. Core team members, who are also Entering Mentoring Certified Master Trainers, led the training efforts for the REM PIs and graduate students.

We also set out to improve cross-cultural mentoring and critical aspects of broadening participation of different groups in STEM in the Mentoring Webinar Series. Many brainstorming exercises yielded several elements to be considered for cross-cultural mentoring and issues of invisibility. Future Train-the-Trainer workshops will occur for REM mentors at all levels in the research continuum.