Mentors
Finding the right mentor
The startup world is fast-paced, complex and constantly evolving.
Finding the right mentor – someone who has been where you are now, understands the journey you’re on and has valuable learnings to share – can make all the difference.
A good mentor isn’t about having you emulate exactly what they’ve done; it’s about giving you the confidence and guidance to navigate the rookie pitfalls and shape your own fast-tracked path to success.
“Accessing this breadth of perspectives is a unique opportunity… it’s a rapid gain in knowledge instead of a drawn out process of selfguided research or hard lessons.”
Experts in Residence
Our Experts in Residence are experienced and successful entrepreneurs located on a part-time basis at the iAccelerate Centre.
They’re ready to assist resident companies to grow their business and may even join a start-up as a founder or invest in the company. They may also be involved in running learning sessions and workshops as part of iAccelerate Educate.
Kylie Flament
Kylie is an internationally-recognised leader in sustainability and social enterprise. She brings a wealth of experience in business growth and operations, purpose and impact, and community leadership. She is the winner of multiple business awards including Outstanding Young Business Leader 2021.
Daniel Saffioti
Danial is a transformational leader a with over 25 years experience supporting, developing and leading digital functions in Education, Research and Corporate institutions. During this time he has demonstrated expertise and commitment to strategy, architecture, innovation, communications, change and all things digital!
With a proven track record helping organisations realise their strategic aspirations in the digital world, Daniel credits this to the application of his belief that "digital capacity and capability is best cultivated by focussing on people and their experiences".
Facilitators
iAccelerate Educate learning sessions and workshops are delivered by experts in their field.
Global mentors
Our iAccelerate Global mentors bring a wealth of entrepreneurial talent to help you scale your idea and your business globally. They can be based anywhere in the world, offering unique insights and connections to international markets.
Becoming a mentor or training facilitator
Interested in volunteering as a mentor?
This is a call out for mentors and facilitators who are capable of leading conversations with emerging entrepreneurs on a range of different topics and entrepreneurial challenges.
We are always on the lookout for dedicated mentors to connect with the iAccelerate residents and join our mentor network. We are looking for mentors to advise residents on the key areas of creating high-growth businesses.
Are you a successful entrepreneur with a flair for training?
Would you like to:
- Mentor a new generation of start-ups and entrepreneurs?
- Expand your network?
- Associate with emerging leaders?
- Upskill your management team?
We are currently looking for passionate, experienced facilitators with a background in entrepreneurship, who are ready to give back to the community through a couple of hours of facilitating or mentoring.
Our facilitators are individuals that can command a room, are open to new innovative teaching techniques like blended learning and dual synchronous delivery and can work with existing curriculum.
Different levels of engagement
Facilitator – You will run training sessions with us based on sound educational principles and cutting edge teaching.
Mentor – Do you prefer to give more in-depth/ hands-on support for a handful of entrepreneurs? Why not become a mentor? By providing support to a company or founder via office hours.
Expert in residence – You can become an expert in residence with or without training load and will typically contribute a regular 1/2 – 2 days a week to the iAccelerate ecosystem, its start-ups and entrepreneurs. You will build rich, growth focussed relationships over a longer period of time.
We will pass on – Trainers that will only train one way or individuals being service providers that are attempting to obtain future business from our companies.
How much time is involved?
Ideally we are looking for people who are ready to give back to the community through a couple of hours of facilitating or mentoring per week.
However depending on your expertise and our current training needs you could run sessions anywhere between 2 and 20 times a year for us. We are regularly looking for facilitators, mentors or experts in residence in the social responsibility, pitching, branding, marketing and lean methodology space.
Does this sound like you?
This as a call for interest for facilitators and mentors who are capable of leading conversations with emerging entrepreneurs on a range of different topics and entrepreneurial challenges.
iAccelerate offers a variety of compensation arrangements. If you are interested please reach to us [email protected]
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