“ Mr. Sherk has conducted hundreds of in-person and virtual mentoring workshops over the years, and has authored and co-authored more than 15 mentoring publications.”

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Jerry Sherk, MA, is President and founder of Mentor Management Systems, and consultant and trainer for Milt Wright and Associates.

Through Mentor Management Systems, Jerry and his employees provide technical assistance and training to both corporate and youth-based mentoring programs. Jerry has facilitated workshops for hundreds of mentors, mentees and mentoring program staff, and he has also helped numerous programs to develop their overall structure, along with their training materials.

Jerry has authored or co-authored a number of workbooks on mentoring including:

• Best Practices for Mentoring Programs

• Creating and Sustaining a Winning Match

• Risk Management for Mentoring Programs

• Recruiting: A Strength-based Approach

• How to Create a Mentoring Program Operations Manual

• The Mentors Guide (for Early Care Teachers in the California Community College System)

• Developing Ex-Prisoner Mentoring Programs

In addition to speaking and training on mentoring and customer service, Jerry also provides talks on transition issues; during his master's program, Jerry studied what sport psychology calls "athletic transition," a subject that addresses the difficulties high performance athletes have when they move from sports to private life. In his presentations on transition, Jerry discusses the parallels between the transitions of professional athletes, and of everyman and everywoman.

Jerry is the past Executive Director of the Mentoring Coalition of San Diego County, as well as Past President of the NFL Retired Players Association, of San Diego. From 1970-1981, Jerry was an All Pro defensive lineman for the Cleveland Browns. His team recently honored him by being inducted into to the Cleveland Browns Hall of Fame (called "Cleveland Browns Legends").