MENTORING
Mentors play an important role in helping people develop professionally and lead more effectively. The Forem’s Mentor Platform seamlessly enables employees to connect with a wide range of experts.
- Drop In Mentoring: Employees can select their mentors based on needs or challenges they are navigating
- Mentors include Executive Coaches, as well as Operators and Leaders across the Org
- Every program we run includes access to mentoring, which helps reinforce program outcomes and ROI
WHAT MENTORS DO
Mentors share their knowledge and offer their time and support to help mentees:
- Grow their skills
- Achieve their own personal visions of success
Mentors provide:
- Real-life, tangible suggestions
- Insights that mentees can leverage to overcome challenges and reach professional goals
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 featured mentors
Laurie D. Battaglia
CEO
Aligned at Work
Andrew Brook
Engineering Director
Google Cloud
Jason Dailey
Director, Head of Agency
Meta
Debbie Munoz
Sr. Director, Office of the CISO
Yahoo, Inc.
Sharen Phillips
Director, Global News Partnerships
Google
Jose Ramirez
Senior VP,
Technical Customer Operations
Integral Ad Science
Sara Snyder
Head of Creator Acquisitions
YouTube
Scott Vejdani
Director, Strategic Consulting Epsilon
Michelle Vincent
CEO
Mofilm
MENTOR QUALIFICATIONS
EXPECTATIONS & COMMITMENT
We ask that Mentors allocate a minimum of 4 hours per month to mentoring. On average, The Forem mentors have between 3-5, 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 within 5 business days of receiving onboarding instructions
- 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