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DONE FOR YOU

A mentoring program for your people, built to last.

The full program, designed and run for you from end to end. For the 20 to 150 people your organisation cannot afford to lose. I handle everything, from planning to evaluation, so you get a program that becomes part of the culture rather than another initiative that quietly fizzles out.

From $25,000

 

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WHY MOST PROGRAMS DO NOT DELIVER

Good intentions are not the problem.

Every year, organisations across Australia launch mentoring programs with the best of intentions. Pair some people up. Send an email. Hope for the best. Three months in, half the pairs have stopped meeting. Six months in, the program has quietly disappeared, and nobody wants to be the one to say it did not work.

Others buy software to handle it. The platforms are good at matching names and sending reminders. But software cannot train a mentor, coach someone through their goals, or step in when a pairing is not working. It solves the logistics, which is not where programs fail.

Programs fail because mentoring gets treated as a nice-to-have. That is the thing I fix.

WHAT YOU GET

The whole program, run for you.

I design and run the entire program, so your team is not left carrying it. You get the structure, the training, the coaching and the accountability that sit underneath a mentoring program and make it actually deliver.

Here is what is included:

Planning workshop to design the program around your people, your goals and your culture.

Internal communication material to drive uptake and get the right people through the door.

My mentee-led matchmaking process, where the mentee has a real say in who their mentor is.

Mentor and mentee training through my online portal, so everyone starts from the same base.

Program kick-off to launch the program with energy and set the tone.

RATED THE HIGHLIGHT BY PARTICIPANTS

Goals coaching session for every pair where I sit with each mentee and mentor to define and refine the goals the mentee wants to achieve in the program.

A mid-program pulse check to get deeper feedback and to allow the mentees and mentors to calibrate their own progress vs their peers.

Closing ceremony to self-reflect and celebrate the unique journeys everyone has been on.

Mentor accreditation to formally reward the mentors.

End-of-program evaluation report with the results and clear recommendations for next time.

You get me running it throughout. Not a login to mentoring software and a good-luck email. Because your people deserve the human touch.

HOW IT WORKS

Built on a five-stage framework.

Every program follows the same proven loop. Each cycle builds on the last, so the program matures year on year and embeds mentoring deeper into your culture.

Stage 1 - Plan

Design the program around your objectives, structure and culture.

Stage 2 - Establish

Identify participants, run the matching, and train everyone before you start.

Stage 3 - Execute 

Kick off, coaching, facilitate sessions and support the pairs throughout their journey.

Stage 4 - Conclude

Close with a celebration of the journey and accredit every mentor.

Stage 5 - Evaluate

Gather feedback, measure results, and refine the next program.

Read more about our framework ->

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN IT IS DONE PROPERLY

This is not theory

At the Department of Water and Environmental Regulation, my program has run for four consecutive years and grown every year, from 16 pairs to 30. The Director General now volunteers as a mentor himself.

Read the case study here ->

39%

of mentees promoted during the program.

9 in 10

pairs kept meeting after the program ended

230%

growth in mentor applications

"This mentoring program allowed me to witness the real value mentoring brings to people across our organisation. It created genuine connection, supported people in identifying their future paths, and strengthened capability."

Alistair Jones, Director General, DWER

WHO IT IS FOR

For 20 to 150 people who matter.

This is for organisations with key people worth developing, and a leader responsible for making that happen. If you are a Head of People and Culture, an OD leader, or an HR Director at a government agency or large organisation, you already know that developing your next generation of leaders is one of the hardest things to get right.

You have probably tried courses that get forgotten within weeks. You may have looked at software and wondered whether it actually delivers. You do not need another platform. You need a partner who will build it, run it, and make it work. That is what I do.

WHY A MANAGED SERVICE

Software matches names. People change careers.

Most mentoring platforms are built to solve a logistics problem. They match, they remind, they report. For running thousands of people through a process, that makes sense.

But if your goal is genuine leadership development for your key people, logistics is not where programs fail. They fail because mentors are not trained, mentees have no goals, and pairings are left to figure it out alone. And when momentum drops after month three, there is no one there to step in. Software cannot do that. Only a person can.

SOFTWARE PLATFORMS

  • Automated matching
  • Self-paced video libraries
  • Email reminders
  • Best for massive scale

NEXT LEVEL MENTORING

  • Automated matching
  • Self-paced video libraries
  • Email reminders
  • Best for massive scale

If you want a mentoring program that cannot fail for 30 to 150 key people, that is exactly what I am here for.

what it is worth

Keep one person and its paid for itself

~$250,000

the average cost to an organisation of losing one senior person.

Give your people a mentoring experience worth talking about, and if just one of them stays because you invested in their growth, the program has already paid for itself several times over. Everything after that is upside.

THE INVESTMENT

Programs start from $25,000

priced to your organisation

The final figure depends on how many people are involved and what you want the program to achieve, so it is scoped properly in our first conversation. One clear price for the whole program, run for you start to finish, with no surprises bolted on later.

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Turn your people into your next generation of leaders. 

If you are responsible for developing leaders in your organisation and you want a mentoring program that actually delivers, let us have a conversation.

Tell me a little about your workforce and your goals, and I will outline what a program would look like for you.

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