Find a business mentor
Now, more than ever, is the right time to source some valuable outside guidance.
Our Mentoring for Growth programme helps small and medium-sized businesses benefit from the expertise and experience found in larger firms. We’ve hand-picked a team of senior-level mentors who want to share their experience, sector expertise and best practice with you.
Unlike peer-to-peer mentoring or business coaches, our mentors are from leading companies such as Siemens, GSK, BAE Systems and the John Lewis Partnership. That means our programme, which is also fully funded, is designed to focus on your needs. It could be just the think to help with:
- An objective sounding board for challenges and new ideas alike
- Getting your senior management team working together more effectively
- Improving your company’s forward-looking forecasting and modelling
- Making changes to your business model to suit changing consumer spending habits
- Improving the performance of your business overall
What started out as a 12-month only programme dealing with longer term performance issues has now also evolved, due to the ongoing pressures and challenges being faced by British businesses during the coronavirus outbreak, to include a 12-week rapid response offering.
Our programmes are best suited to businesses with a turnover of at least £500,000.
Sign up for our 12-month programmeSign up for our 12-week programme
How it works
Commitment
Regular support to deal with acute business challenge
Experience
Mentors are sourced from some of Britain's leading firms
Matching
Mentors and mentees go through a pairing process that ensures compatibility
Both programmes provide access to amazing mentors when you need them for as long as you need them, but here's how they differ
Mentoring for Growth | Rapid Response Mentoring |
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12-month relationship | 12-week relationship |
Meetings every 4-6 weeks for 2-4 hours | Weekly meetings for 1-2 hours |
Guides SMEs through growth and often significant change | Supports specific or acute business challenges |
Personal intervention and guidance from a mentoring advisor who supports the registration, on-boarding steps and the matching process with the mentor | A fully digital platform, with immediate access on registration, mentees can choose the best match from available mentors that match their particular need at the time |
Ongoing 12 months to work through whole business view and range of issues, with personal development and progress measured over time | Rapid attention and frequent check-ins to deal with challenges and issues facing the business |
Delivered in via iMentor in partnership with the Growth Company | Online platform ConnectR delivered in partnership with MyKindaFuture |
Hear from some of our mentees on the value of working with their mentors
A Siemens business mentor re-united our family firm behind the same vision
With the third generation at family firm Carrs Pasties not finding things straightforward, mentoring turned out to be the experience-based support needed.
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I knew marketing, but finance and logistics were way out of my comfort zone
He is a marketing expert, but a mentor gave fitness brand owner Mark Robinson the finance and logistics help required for his business to reach new heights.
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My mentor’s experience gave me leadership confidence
A mentor helped Jake Lavelle transition from being the creative driving force behind his busines to one more befitting of his managing director status.
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Find the right mentor for you
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