Mentors for Women – Empowering Women Through Mentorship
We all need mentors at different stages of life — but finding one shouldn’t be so hard. Mentors for Women exists to change that. We’re a global mentoring platform connecting women with experienced mentors who understand your journey — career, business, or life.
Whether you’re just starting out, feeling stuck, or ready to take your next bold step, you’ll find support, guidance, and confidence through meaningful mentoring relationships. Our mentors come from diverse industries, backgrounds, and countries — but share one goal: to help women rise, thrive, and lead with impact.
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You might not think of yourself as a mentor. But if friends or colleagues come to you when something is difficult, when they need to talk it through, when they want someone who will listen without judging, you are already doing this work.
Sam Chittenden, Director of Training at Mentors for Women, says the skills behind good mentoring are natural. What structured training does is help you understand what you are already doing and take it deeper.
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Most of us think we are good listeners. But there is a difference between hearing someone and truly listening to them.
Sam Chittenden, Director of Training at Mentors for Women, is clear: listening skills are absolutely key to mentoring. Not waiting for your turn to speak. Not preparing your advice while the other person is still talking.
Real listening means staying with what the person is saying long enough to understand what sits beneath it. That is what trained mentors learn to do.
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How many people around you are struggling in silence right now? Afraid to say they do not have the answer. Afraid to admit they need support.
Sam Chittenden, Director of Training at Mentors for Women, puts it plainly: the worst case is where people are afraid to ask for help.
Mentoring exists to close that gap. A trained mentor creates a space where asking for help is not a weakness. It is the starting point.
When you remove the fear of asking, people move forward faster.
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Mentoring is often described in terms of what the mentee receives. But what about the mentor?
Sam Chittenden, Director of Training at Mentors for Women, has seen it many times: people come back to mentoring time and time again because of what they get from it.
It takes commitment, time, and effort. But the satisfaction of supporting someone through a difficult stretch, and watching them find their way, keeps mentors returning.
If you have ever considered mentoring, that two-way reward is worth knowing about.
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There is a difference between being challenged and being criticised. One makes you grow. The other makes you defensive.
Sam Chittenden, Director of Training at Mentors for Women, describes good mentoring as something that challenges your thinking in a safe way.
Not to catch you out, but to help you test your assumptions and examine what is really driving your decisions.
When you trust the person sitting across from you, a well-placed question can shift your entire perspective.
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Mentoring used to mean a senior person telling a junior person how to behave. That model has run its course.
Sam Chittenden, Director of Training at Mentors for Women, describes a different approach: put the mentee at the heart of the mentoring relationship.
The mentor listens, questions, and supports. The mentee sets the direction.
When the person being mentored is the one driving the conversation, the outcomes are more relevant, more lasting, and more likely to stick. That shift, from telling to supporting, changes everything.
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