FAQ

Mentoring is a confidential relationship that creates space for you to think beyond the pace and pressure of daily work. It’s a place to slow down, see yourself clearly, and understand the forces shaping your decisions, direction, and leadership.

A mentor doesn’t provide answers; they help you explore the questions that matter.

The work is reflective, strategic, and centred on who you are becoming.

An external mentor brings perspective you can’t easily find inside your organisation:

• No internal agenda. A neutral place where you can speak freely and think honestly.
• Distance from the noise. Space to step out of the “fast water” and see what’s really driving your choices.
• Clarity and alignment. Support to navigate transitions, complexity, and the moments where leadership feels heaviest.
• Depth over instruction. A focus on what’s beneath the surface - assumptions, patterns, and blind spots that shape impact.

External mentoring gives leaders the room to grow not just in competence, but in presence, self-awareness, and direction.

A typical mentoring relationship, conducted via Zoom or Teams includes:

1. Initial Conversation

A short, informal discussion to understand what brings you here and whether mentoring is the right step.

2. Chemistry Session 

A more in-depth 30 minute exploration of your expectations and whether we have the right chemistry to work together.

3. Contracting

Agreeing how we’ll work together: boundaries, confidentiality, pacing, direction and expectations to create a clear and safe environment for the work.

4. Regular Sessions

Usually monthly, 60 – 75 minutes. The first few sessions may be more closely spaced. You bring what feels important; together we explore what’s underneath it and what it means for your leadership and direction.

5. Review

Every six months we review progress via questionnaires and feedback.

The entire process is designed to support reflection, perspective, and with the ultimate goal of lasting change.

Mentoring

Focuses on your leadership, decisions, development and direction. Exploratory, reflective, relational. Helps you understand how you lead and why you choose as you do. Longer term.

Coaching

Goal-focused: skills, behaviours, quantitative outcomes, often shorter term.

Counselling

Concerned with emotional wellbeing, personal history, and healing. Restorative rather than developmental.