Professional Program / Executive Program
Introductory session: ~ 20 minutes, ideally face-to-face online or in-person. Discuss your backgrounds, experiences, interests, and expectations; agree about confidentiality; define the main goals of the mentoring project and an action plan to achieve the goals; discuss mentoring process; and establish a schedule for communicating regularly, whether in-person, online, via text messaging, e-mail, etc.
Mentoring sessions: 3-7 contact sessions of 20-60 minutes each in which mentor guides mentee towards goal through a series of assignments, milestones, challenges, progress reviews, feedbacks and recommendations.
Between sessions mentee completes assignments and submits to mentor for review. Mentor may be available for brief in-the-moment support between sessions when the need arises, usually via email or text messaging.
Mentee and mentor record activities and progress towards agreed development goal.
At the end, mentee and mentor evaluate the mentoring experience.
Flash mentoring
Introductory session: ~ 20 minutes, ideally face-to-face online or in-person. Discuss your backgrounds, experiences, interests, and expectations; agree about confidentiality; define the main goals of the mentoring project and an action plan to achieve the goals; discuss mentoring process; and establish means of delivery regularly, whether in-person, online, via text messaging, e-mail, etc.
Mentoring sessions: A single session delivered to develop a skill to solve a specific challenge, eg, a 3-hour workshop on AI ethics, or a 30-minute critique of a machine learning model.
Mentee and mentor record activities towards agreed development goal.
At the end, mentee and mentor evaluate the mentoring experience.
Our mentors
Successful executives with experience leading digital business transformation, sustained transformational impact or tech-enabled innovation, and professionals with first-hand knowledge and skills in implementing or using digital technologies from around the world. They come from all job levels, all business functions and all industries.
Executives: e.g., chief executive officer, chief finance officer, chief data officer, or non-board director
Techies: e.g., data scientist, software developer, telecom engineer, or security architect
Business users: e.g., head of marketing, human resources executive, production engineer, or revenue assurance analyst
Our mentees
They come from all job levels: trainee, professional, management, C-suite, non-executive board member,
They come from all job functions, e,g,, human capital management, customer service, or supply chain management, and all industries, eg, manufacturing, financial services, or telecommunications and media.
They have different proficiency levels in the areas they seek mentoring: fundamental awareness (basic knowledge), novice (limited experience), intermediate (practical application), advanced (applied theory), expert (recognized authority).
They may come as individuals or as a team, e.g., a company's business analytics department.
Some mentees know exactly what they want to achieve, in which case the mentor only provides guidance, while some do not know where to start and where to go, in which case the mentor provides the A-Z.
Delivery options
Online video or audio, in-person meetings, collaboration tools, plain old telephone call, or text messaging.
One-on-one, multi-party with team members, experienced panel of trusted peers and experts, moderated sessions led by an expert with first-hand experience, retreat, full transcript or audio recording of the sessions.
We encourage delivery methods that minimize data consumption as we recognize that many of our mentees have limited Internet resources.