Next Generation
BoardMentoring
The program
BoardMentoring is an introductory program for qualified board candidates who wish to prepare, in a targeted manner, for their first term of office on the board of directors of a large company. A BoardMentoring period is 18 months.
Become a mentee
Female professionals who are under 50 years of age and already have group or management experience and operational budget responsibility, and who are interested in a term of office on a board of directors may take part.
Mentors
Over 30 chairpersons of boards of directors and multiple boards of directors make themselves available as mentors. Contact is exclusively established through GetDiversity.
BoardMentoring program sequence
Our mentors in the BoardMentoring program
BoardMentoring advisory board
The BoardMentoring program is a “not for profit” initiative, which was initiated by Tanja Weiher as a promotional program for female board members in 2011. GetDiversity coordinates the program, which has been expanded and focused in line with market requirements, and conducts it. Our vision is to increase the proportion of female professionals deployed at managerial level, in cooperation with business partners, and enlarge the pool of qualified board candidates for demanding terms of office, throughout the country. The BoardMentoring advisory board includes the initiator Tanja Weiher (UBS), Reto Jauch (Jauch Associates) and Barbara Rigassi (CEO of Brugger und Partner AG and founder of GetDiversity).
Opinion of a mentee on the BoardMentoring program
“I highly recommend the Board Mentoring Program to aspiring board members. The program was beneficial for me because I was able to discuss concrete, current situations from my own board activities with my mentor in confidence and reflect on them openly. There is less opportunity for this in more formal continuing education courses. There were no “theoretical case study examples” in mentoring, as one sometimes encounters in board courses, but rather strategic situations and experiences taken from practice with real consequences and interpersonal dynamics. With my mentor, I was able to have a good exchange about the associated own feelings as well as rational, strategic considerations. His wealth of experience, neutral perspective, and sound know-how were extremely valuable.”
Sunnie J. Groeneveld, Managing Partner at Inspire 925, Board Member & Head of Study Program
Your contact
My name is Gabriela Blesi and I work at GetDiversity as a
Program Manager BoardMentoring and BoardClub.
Please write to me if you have any questions regarding the program, at
boardmentoring@getdiversity.ch.
