WOB Mentoring and Coaching

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The Women on Boards Mentoring Program (My Mentor) is available year-round with highly experienced mentors located across Australia. Headed up by Catherine Brown, accomplished Human Resources executive with extensive experience leading global teams in both Australia and the UK, the MyMentor program guides and supports you to develop a thoughtful approach to planning and achieving your career and board goals.

ollowing an initial session with Catherine, you will be carefully matched with a mentor who will tailor a program to your specific needs. The program is available to individual, global and corporate subscribers and organisations seeking an in-house program to support their employees. While primarily aimed towards, and accessed by, women, the program is also available to men.

About Mentoring

Why you might need a mentor?
Is your career progressing according to plan? Do you need help and support? Spending time with a mentor gives you the chance to think about your longer term objectives and focus on how to move your career forward. Mentors are a confidential, independent sounding board to provide support and guidance, allowing you to put issues into perspective and consider various possibilities.

The benefits of a mentor
Your mentor is there to help you to think through your options and help you to formulate your plans. They provide the opportunity to look more closely at yourself, your issues, opportunities and what you want in life. Mentoring is about becoming more self aware, taking responsibility and directing your life, rather than leaving it to chance. A mentor can help you to:

Develop your career plan with an external perspective
Help you identify how to achieve career goals
Provide support to tackle issues hindering your success
Act as a sounding board for ideas and issues
Help you develop your networks and networking skills
Build confidence and provide encouragement

Women on Boards knows that there is no one-size-fits all approach to mentoring. Each partnership is carefully matched and the approach tailored to the specific needs of the mentee.

Listen to our podcast where Claire Braund talks to a recent mentor and mentee about their experience.

Watch as Sheena Wilson talks about the benefits of mentoring. And Sheena knows a thing or two about mentoring, having built a successful board portfolio, with extensive experience coaching senior executives and boards. She has been the Deputy Chair of Herron Todd White since 2014 and was Managing Director and Global Head of Talent for BNY Mellon.

Our mentors

Women on Boards has engaged more than 35 highly experienced men and women who can guide and support mentees across all career levels to develop a thoughtful approach to planning and achieving their goals. They are all well-known to WOB, support our work and have a strong desire to share their knowledge, skills and experience to enable others to realise their career potential in leadership and director roles.

Program deliverables

The program can be undertaken face-to-face, by telephone or online and provides:

An introductory session (usually by telephone) with Ruth Jones, the My Mentor program manager, to discuss your goals for the program, the mentee agreement and identify an appropriate mentor.
Five one-hour face-to-face, phone or online sessions with your assigned mentor.
Tracking of progress and accumulation of feedback.
Opportunity to purchase additional mentoring sessions.
Option to move to a different mentor if a 'fit' is not realised at the first session.

Program Evaluation

Mentees and mentors are encouraged to provide feedback at the conclusion of the sessions. During the program the program manager keeps in touch with your progress via your mentor. Mentees can also contact the program manager at any time.

All sessions are expected to be completed in 6-8 months. The program will be deemed completed at the expiration of 9 months from the first session, unless specific clearance has been given by WOB.

Testimonials

See what previous participants have to say about the program here.
The program has been critical to the success of many women in the WOB network read the case study.
Read an interview with Ruth Jones on the benefits of mentoring here.

Enrolment

The mentoring program is open to Women on Boards Full, Premium & Corporate Members. Click here to join.
The cost of the program is $2,530 (inc GST). To sign up click the Register button below.

Following the completion of the program, mentees have the option of purchasing additional mentoring sessions in packages of three one hour sessions for $1,452 (inc GST) or six one hour sessions for $2,772 (inc GST).

Contact

Registration Support: email Angela Bowen 02 4321 0100
Program Information: email Catherine Brown

Find out more

Mentoring stories and case studies
The Benefits of Mentoring
Testimonials
9 tips of mentoring
Mentoring podcast