IWF Announces 2024-2025 Mentors

The IWF Leadership Fellows Program accelerates the career paths of accomplished women, catalyzing their potential, and elevating their impact within organizations worldwide. Now in its 31st year, the program addresses the three barriers that have consistently restricted the potential of women leaders by providing leadership training, access to professional networks, and mentors. We celebrate the generous IWF members who have volunteered to devote their time and counsel as mentors to our 2024-2025 IWF Leadership Fellows Program class.

IWF Mentors break down one of the three top barriers to women fulfilling their leadership potential: A lack of mentorship. Mentors are matched to meet the specific leadership development needs of Fellows, and work with them one-on-one throughout the fellowship.

Mentors are a crucial component of the broader IWF Leadership Fellows Program, which was created in response to the US Department of Labor’s 1991 Glass Ceiling Report which identified three key forces that propelled men in their careers but weren’t there for women: Formal leadership training, mentorship, and access to networks. These forces have been confirmed repeatedly over the last three decades by institutions like Harvard, and companies like Deloitte and Accenture.

Our program was custom built to provide women with these important resources. In partnership with world class resources like INSEAD and Harvard Business School, the Leadership Fellows program provides customized leadership training, as well as global networking opportunities with both a peer cohort and IWF members around the world.

This year’s IWF Member Mentors are from 27 IWF forums in 8 countries, including Australia, Canada, Finland, South Africa, Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, United Kingdom, and United States.  Nine Mentors are Leadership Fellows program alumnae. Fifteen Mentors have shown exceptional commitment to the program, having served as Mentors for Fellows in previous program years.

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