Call for Volunteer Business Mentors

Want to showcase your expertise, meet potential clients and partners and actively help others?  Consider becoming a volunteer business mentor with the ITC!

Sharing your knowledge as mentor is not only beneficial for mentees and has a positive social impact, but it also allows you to learn, meet talented people and find out the latest innovations on the way. Join the ITC's board of mentors and work with the most promising projects and innovations!

If you would like to improve your managerial and leadership skills through collaborative learning, while getting to know cutting-edge projects on deep-tech, you should join our program now! The ITC offers the opportunity to experienced entrepreneurs, founders and professionals to exchange their knowledge, expand their own skills, and help shaping the deep-tech startup ecosystem.

How the Mentoring Program Works

1. Apply to be a mentor here: https://tradecouncil.org/become-a-mentor/
   
   
2. Attend an online session with an ITC staff member so we can talk about your expertise and interest and work out how best to profile you and match your goals with the mentoring program.
    
3. Participate as the guest speaker in a virtual mentoring day.
   
   On this day we will invite businesses with specific challenges (whose needs match your own experience) to come along and ask questions and participate in an informal session with you.
   
   From there you will be able to select 1 or more companies for regular mentoring sessions. (Don't worry - you can decline to mentor those who are not a 'fit' for your expertise and interest(s)).
    
4. Once approved as a mentor we will list you on the ITC website together with your photo, biography and company information and provide 4 x email shots (once every three months) featuring you and your company to our newsletter subscriber list (2.4 million CEOs globally).

1. Mentoring is a great way to get your name and organization heard of. We market our mentors to 2.4 million newsletter recipients every quarter and will be producing a special page on our web portal highlighting each mentors information, experience and organizations details.
2. Mentoring should be held at a set time every week, unless otherwise agreed between both mentors and mentees.
3. Mentoring can be done online using our virtual platform or offline. The choice is yours.
4. Mentoring will usually involve anywhere from 2-8 hours per month.
5. You can choose who you wish to mentor from a list of applicants.
6. You can do group mentoring or 1:1 mentoring - just let us know your preference.