Your Experience Could Be Someone Else’s Next Step
Become a mentor in our free, virtual 12-week program and use your professional knowledge and experience to help another woman move forward in her business, career, or leadership journey.
YOUR ROLE
What Does A Mentor Do?
As a mentor, or should we say “collaborator”, your role is to help your mentee work toward one primary goal or challenge over the course of 12 weeks. You’ll get to know what she hopes to accomplish, help her set realistic goals, and offer guidance based on your own knowledge and experience.
Depending on the match, that could mean reviewing a plan, talking through an idea, teaching a skill, offering feedback, recommending resources, or helping her see a challenge from a new perspective. You’ll also help her stay accountable, recognize her progress, and determine what to focus on next.
You are not expected to complete the work for your mentee or have an answer to every question. Your role is to listen, guide, encourage, and help her make informed progress while keeping ownership of her own journey.
Free to participate · Fully virtual · Open to women across the United States
WHY MENTOR?
What Can You Bring to the Experience?
Turn the lessons, skills, and perspective you’ve gained into practical guidance that can help someone else move forward.
Make a Meaningful Impact
Use your experience to help another woman gain clarity, build confidence, and make real progress toward her own professional goals.
Share What You’ve Learned
Connect with women across industries who are committed to sharing resources, creating opportunities, and helping one another succeed.
Grow As A Leader
Strengthen your communication, listening, coaching, and leadership skills while building a genuine relationship with your mentee.
Join A Community With Purpose
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We’re looking for CPAs, accountants, financial planners, funding advisors, and other professionals who can help women better understand the financial side of their goals or businesses.
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Brand strategists, marketing strategists, digital marketers, content professionals, and sales coaches can help mentees clarify their message, reach the right audience, and market their work with greater confidence.
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Operations professionals and technology or tools mentors can help mentees create stronger systems, improve workflows, get organized, and make the behind-the-scenes parts of their work more manageable.
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Legal professionals can help mentees become more aware of important legal considerations and understand when they may need additional professional support.
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HR professionals, executive coaches, networking mentors, and communication coaches can guide women through career changes, professional development, workplace challenges, and leadership growth.
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Business coaches can support mentees who need help seeing the bigger picture, organizing their ideas, setting priorities, or identifying the next stage of their business journey.
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Professionals in healthcare, finance, technology, education, government, and other industries can share insight shaped by firsthand experience in a mentee’s field.
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Don’t see your expertise listed? This is not an exhaustive list. If your professional knowledge or lived experience could help another woman move forward, we still encourage you to express interest.
SHARE YOUR EXPERTISE
Where Could Your Experience Make a Difference?
Our mentees enter the program with different goals, challenges, and levels of experience. We thoughtfully match each mentee with a mentor whose background aligns with the type of support she needs.
WHAT TO EXPECT
A Clear Structure With Support Along The Way
You’ll stay in communication with your mentee each week throughout the 12-week program. Some weeks will include longer, hands-on support sessions, while others will focus on goal setting, progress, reflection, or shorter check-ins.
The program includes four support sessions that typically last 45–60 minutes and two check-ins that last approximately 20–30 minutes. Meeting times are arranged between you and your mentee, giving you flexibility to find a schedule that works for both of you.
You won’t be expected to plan the entire mentorship experience on your own. Creating Space provides a clear weekly outline, session templates, conversation prompts, goal-setting tools, progress resources, and guidance for each stage of the program. You’ll also have a point of contact if questions, concerns, or challenges come up along the way.
You bring your experience and perspective. We’ll provide the structure and resources to help you share them meaningfully.
GETTING STARTED
How to Become a Mentor/Collaborator
1. Join the Interest List
Tell us a little about yourself and the area in which you may be interested in mentoring. You’ll be among the first to know when mentor applications open.
2. Complete Your Application
When applications become available, you’ll share more about your experience, expertise, availability, communication style, and the type of support you feel prepared to provide.
3. Meet With Our Team
Selected applicants will be invited to a brief interview. This gives us an opportunity to learn more about you, answer your questions, and make sure the program feels like a good fit.
4. Get Matched
If we identify a mentee whose goal and needs align with your experience, you’ll complete onboarding, receive the program materials, and be introduced before the 12 weeks begin.
Frequently Asked Questions: Mentors/Collaborators
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Being a mentor means sharing your knowledge, experience, and encouragement with a woman entrepreneur who is looking for guidance and support. It’s about building a meaningful connection, offering perspective, and helping someone grow with confidence.
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The time commitment is designed to be manageable. Mentors communicate with their mentees every week for 12 weeks. Longer support sessions generally last 45–60 minutes, while shorter check-ins typically last 20–30 minutes. Some preparation or follow-up may also be needed.
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Mentors may help with goal-setting, idea development, problem-solving, accountability, and general encouragement. The focus is on practical support and meaningful conversation rather than formal teaching or advising.
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No. We value a range of experiences, and different mentors can offer different strengths. If you have experience in entrepreneurship, leadership, marketing, operations, finance, or another area that could help someone grow, we’d love to hear from you.
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That’s completely okay. We’ll provide orientation and guidance so you understand what the role looks like and how to build a supportive mentoring relationship. Many great mentors are simply people who care and are willing to learn alongside the process.
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After you apply, our team will review your application, may follow up with an interview, and then let you know the next steps. If selected, you’ll receive onboarding information and details about matching.
