Name: Everything you need to know about mentoring
Start: 2025-10-29T16:30:00+00:00
End: 2025-10-29T19:00:00+00:00
Location: Allam Medical Building

Everything you need to know about mentoring

Explore CIPD’s new mentoring programme—learn the benefits, hear from speakers, and try mentoring tools as mentor and mentee!
About this Event

This event introduces everything participants need to know about mentoring. Inspiring speakers will showcase the benefits of CIPD’s new Member-to-Member Mentoring Programme and demonstrate how easy it is to get involved. Attendees will also experience mentoring in action, trying out the roles of mentor and mentee using best practice tools and techniques.

This interactive event is designed to provide participants with everything they need to know about mentoring, whether they are mentors or coaches, looking to use mentoring for their own development, seeking a mentor, or employers interested in embedding mentoring within their L&D strategy.

Inspiring speakers will highlight the benefits of mentoring and demonstrate how straightforward it is to access and use CIPD’s new Member-to-Member Mentoring Programme.

Attendees will also have the opportunity to experience mentoring first-hand by taking on the role of both mentor and mentee, using best practice tools and techniques to gain a practical understanding of the value mentoring can offer.

Speakers bio:

Annabel Graham is an active member of the CIPD Northeast Branch Committee and also supports CIPD’s national mentoring offering through webinars and events. With extensive experience in mentoring, she has led branch mentoring schemes for CIPD since 2015 and played a key role in piloting the programme. Most recently, Annabel delivered the national ‘Getting the Most out of Mentoring session’, designed to support both current and prospective mentors in maximising the value of their mentoring relationships.

Tina Greaves is an ICF-ACC accredited coach and certified DISC practitioner who delivers mentor training for CIMA's Global Mentoring Scheme. With 25+ years in senior leadership across finance (CIMA) and HR (CIPD), she specialises in leadership transitions - helping new and emerging leaders step confidently into their roles, build resilience, and lead with impact. Host of "Confessions of a Leader: Unfiltered" podcast.

Trayton Vance is the founder and CEO of Coaching Focus Group that helps organisations develop high performance workplace cultures. To be successful, these culture change programs require executive sponsorship and enlightened leadership.

Trayton works with and supports forward-looking business leaders and Senior HR and L&D professionals who recognise the value of a coaching and mentoring culture to achieve transformational change and skills development in themselves, and in their leadership team.

Directions:

Please note:

1. Reminder emails will be sent to you the day before, with a further reminder on the day of the event.

2. Photography and video production may be taking place at the event, and these images may be used in the CIPD newsletters.

3. By attending the event, you are giving your consent for your image to be used on any CIPD promotional materials.

4. As we are supplying refreshments, if you can no longer attend, please cancel your place either on Eventbrite, responding to this email.

5. This event may include an external speaker who has prepared their own presentation. Any views or opinions expressed by the speaker are their own and do not reflect those of the CIPD.

6. If you require any reasonable adjustments to enhance your experience, please get in contact with us by responding to this email and we will do our best to accommodate.