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We support senior executives in all sectors make use of their experience and wisdom by becoming Professional Mentors. We offer a range of education solutions, both accredited and non-accredited for you to choose from, as well as individual guidance and supervision on this career change/refocusing of existing skills.
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We offer a database of “Professional Mentors” and a matching service for individual and corporate clients, who are interested in employing the services of a skilled mentor.
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We help to design external mentor programmes where we draw on our database of Professional Mentors to support your specific mentee’s needs.
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Who we are
The Professional Mentor is an organisation created by Prof David Clutterbuck and Lis Merrick, two of the leading authorities globally on mentoring. They both have a strong belief in the benefits of professionalizing mentoring and in supporting executives and coaches with the education and development required to make that transition into a professional mentoring role.
They are supported by Jacki Mason who has delivered mentoring programmes since 2002 and brings that experience to bear in her role at the Professional Mentor, where her focus is to enable mentors to access excellent development opportunities and support. She is also supporting the Professional Mentor database and ensuring the Academy offers an excellent selection of mentors.
Fundamental to all our offerings are the principles that Professional Mentors:
They are supported by Jacki Mason who has delivered mentoring programmes since 2002 and brings that experience to bear in her role at the Professional Mentor, where her focus is to enable mentors to access excellent development opportunities and support. She is also supporting the Professional Mentor database and ensuring the Academy offers an excellent selection of mentors.
Fundamental to all our offerings are the principles that Professional Mentors:
- Are non-directive and person-centred – they help other people discover their own wisdom, rather than pass on the mentor’s
- Help people with the quality of their thinking, using the mentor’s expertise to craft insight-provoking questions
- Have deep knowledge of and insight into human behaviour
- Are able to help mentees think systemically and strategically about the issues they wish to explore
- Combine authenticity, gravitas and humility with an enduring interest in helping other people achieve their potential
- Understand and can manage the boundaries between mentoring and coaching, counselling, psychotherapy, consultancy and other forms of helping.