Mentoring
The Forem’s Mentor Platform seamlessly enables employees to connect with their ideal mentor match across a global network of curated experts. Mentors offer real-life, tangible suggestions & insights that mentees can leverage to overcome challenges and reach professional goals.
- The Forem's easy-to-use Mentor Platform allows for flexible scheduling and customized tags and filters to help employees find the best match
- Our mentors are certified coaches, seasoned leaders, and senior industry operators
- Access to one-on-one mentoring empowers employees with actionable guidance, which reinforces program outcomes and ROI
WHAT MENTORS DO
Mentors offer their time, knowledge, and support to help employees grow their skills, overcome challenges, and reach professional goals.
- Real-life, tangible suggestions
- Insights that mentees can leverage to overcome challenges and achieve growth
The Impact of Mentoring
Available Mentors
Areas of Expertise
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Mentees Find the Session Valuable
WHO MENTORS ARE
Mentors are mission-aligned volunteers who want to give back to those who are earlier on in their careers. Many of our mentors are existing operators in their field — from entrepreneurs, to business executives, to engineers.
To participate in The Forem’s mentor program, mentors must have a minimum of 15 years of professional experience, guaranteeing a certain level of foresight, expertise, and lived wisdom when advising mentees.
Our Mentors Represent Leading Companies
Our Featured Mentors
Melanie Cristi
Managing Director, Head of Global Markets and Financing Strategy
Jason Dailey
Director, Head of Agency
Meta
Our Mentors Represent Leading Companies
EXPECTATIONS & COMMITMENT
We ask that Mentors allocate a minimum of 4 hours per month to mentoring. On average, The Forem mentors have between 2-4, thirty-minute mentor sessions per month. Mentors are also expected to:
- Give a minimum 24-hour notice to a mentee if a mentor session needs to be rescheduled or canceled
- Complete mentor onboarding, connect a calendar for booking sessions, and maintain an up-to-date profile
- Agree to and abide by The Forem’s Terms & Conditions, NDA, and Mentor Code of Conduct
Qualities of a good Mentor
- Good listener and sounding board
- Positive attitude
- Values a diversity of perspectives
- Nonjudgmental
- Able to give constructive feedback
- Willing and able to devote time to supporting others
- Eager to learn from others
- Reliable and trustworthy
- Good listener/sounding board
- Positive attitude
- Values a diversity of perspectives
- Nonjudgmental
- Able to give constructive feedback
- Willing/able to devote time to supporting others
- Eager to learn from others
- Reliable and trustworthy
Mentor Benefits
Complimentary registration to The Forem’s public Level Up programs
Access to The Forem’s proprietary career resources, networking, and mentoring hubs
The opportunity to share your knowledge and expertise, helping others advance their careers
Opportunities to connect with other mentors and grow your network
Testimonials
Ashlee C.
Mentee
Healthcare Technology
This is an amazing program that gives people access to leaders that you otherwise wouldn’t have access to.
Kelly C.
Mentee
Cybersecurity
Have really enjoyed the insights of different mentors, each one has give different perspectives which has been helpful for me to see varying viewpoints.
Sana C.
Mentee
Tech Startup
Tushara J.
Mentee
Tech Startup
Lynn T.
Mentor
Advertising
Ashwini S.
Mentor
Cybersecurity
Richard M.
Mentor
FinTech