Our impact

Where global leadership makes its mark

In a complex, fast-changing world, mentoring sharpens judgement and decision-making through trusted reflection and challenge, enabling leaders to perform with confidence under pressure.

From Insight to Impact

Our mentors strengthen enterprise-wide thinking, strategic execution and influence, helping leaders navigate complex global challenges with resilience, mitigate risk and catalyse meaningful change.

Impact is reviewed through regular sponsor check-ins against agreed success measures, ensuring alignment to business context, leadership priorities and sustained organisational performance

Our global impact in numbers

Our work spans continents, industries and governance systems. These figures demonstrate the depth of experience across our mentoring community and the scale of trust placed in us by senior leaders worldwide.

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A global presence in 34 countries across four continents

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Global businesses where we have mentored senior leaders.

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Current listed board roles held by our Mentors.

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Leaders mentored

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Years of experience developing leaders globally

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Mentors globally

From Individual Performance to Organisational Impact

At pivotal moments of change, growth or increased complexity, the impact of having the right mentor is profound. Global Mentors Group enables leaders to perform at a higher level by strengthening judgement, confidence and decision quality at critical inflection points.

This individual impact translates directly into organisational benefit – stronger execution, reduced risk, more effective leadership cultures and sustained performance that extends well beyond the mentoring relationship.

My mentor gave me a truly independent perspective, offering different points of view or approaches and often a framework to help thinking and decision-making. The total confidentially in the relationship ensured I had a safe space to reflect and think about what I needed to do differently in the future. 

Divisional CEO,

FTSE250 Aerospace & Defence Sector

My mentor has been priceless – helping me navigate several complex issues with clarity and confidence. I’ve learned a great deal – not only through hearing about real-world business experience, but by testing and refining my own thinking in a space that is safe, insightful and challenging in all the right ways. Above all, it has been an energising experience – one that has sharpened my thinking and approach.

Margherita Della Valle,

CEO, Vodafone plc

There are very few places where a sitting CEO can speak openly, think clearly and be truly challenged in total confidence. Mentoring creates that place – and it does so with a level of integrity, insight and discretion that is unmatched. It is tailored directly to the realities of senior leadership – not in theory, but in practice. The mentoring is sharp, grounded and consistently focused on what really matters. For me, it has been a critical source of clarity during moments of pressure, complexity and change.

Sean Doyle,

CEO, British Airways

The team have been working on both 1:1 and team mentoring for the last 10 months. We found the individual retreats very helpful with thoughtful, quality interventions and appropriate challenges from our mentors. As the leader of the team, I have found the time with my mentor very valuable in helping me to set out a clear agenda, actions and priorities for both myself and the leadership team.

Howard Watson,

Chief Technology & Information Officer, BT Group

There are some things that you can learn only from people who have been there and done it.

CS Venkatakrishnan,

Group Chief Executive, Barclays 

Global scale, local understanding

With mentors operating across Europe, the Americas, Asia, the Middle East, Australia and New Zealand, our counsel reflects international breadth alongside deep local expertise.

We understand how leadership expectations, governance environments and market pressures differ by region and tailor our support accordingly. 

Where we operate

A selection of our clients 

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The Original Mentor

Mentoring has its roots in one of the oldest leadership stories. In Homer’s Odyssey, Mentor was entrusted with guiding the young Telemachus while Odysseus was away — not by directing him, but by offering judgement, perspective and wisdom born of experience. This enduring idea of counsel, grounded in trust rather than instruction, remains the essence of mentoring today.

That same tradition sits at the heart of Global Mentors Group today. 

We exist to provide leaders with access to seasoned peers who have walked the path before them, offering the clarity, judgement and discretion required to lead at the highest level.