Mentor training that meets you where you are
Show up in the conversations that matter
with more clarity, connection, and capability
Mentor training that meets you where you are
Show up in the conversations that matter with more clarity, connection, and capability
Whether you’re stepping into mentoring for the first time, supporting others as a leader, or looking to strengthen your mentoring approach, Mastering a Mentoring Mindset (MMM) gives you a practical and personalised foundation for high-impact mentoring.
Through MMM, you'll explore how you naturally show up in mentoring conversations, strengthen the skills that support meaningful growth, and discover practical ways to create more impactful mentoring experiences.
Mentoring isn't about having all the answers. It's about creating the conditions for growth, trust, insight, and meaningful conversation.
Who is MMM for?
First-time mentors
Learn how to create meaningful mentoring conversations from the start.
Leaders
Empower others through a mentoring approach using emotional intelligence.
Experienced Mentors
Discover new ways to increase your mentoring impact.
Mentoring Program Participants
Get more value, clarity, and confidence from the mentoring experience.
Professionals
Support learning, growth and career development in others.
Organisations
Build mentoring capability across teams and programs.
Why mentoring matters

What makes MMM different?
And while MMM absolutely includes practical application, it also helps you understand how you naturally show up in mentoring conversations. The way we listen, respond, guide, question, and connect all shape the impact we have.
At the heart of this course is the Mentoring Activation Framework - a practical model designed to help you develop the mindset, behaviours, and emotional intelligence behind high-impact mentoring.
- Achieving objectives
- Increasing knowledge
- Building collaboration

Inside MMM, you'll explore:
- The foundations of high-impact mentoring
- How emotional intelligence shapes mentoring effectiveness
- Your own mentoring style, strengths, and development opportunities
- The difference between mentoring, coaching, leadership, and advice-giving
- Practical tools to support mentoring conversations
- How to leverage powerful questions and create deeper conversations
- Ways to build trust, psychological safety, and connection
- Practical reflection and action strategies to embed learning into real conversations

High-impact mentoring starts here
Mentoring shapes how people learn, grow, connect, collaborate, and support one another - creating ripple effects across teams, leadership, and workplace culture.
At its best, mentoring helps create environments where people feel safe to learn and grow together:
- Where knowledge is shared more openly
- Where development conversations become more meaningful
- Where leadership becomes more human
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Where growth is supported through connection, trust, and shared learning
MMM provides an accessible and practical foundation for developing that capability - whether you’re supporting mentors within a formal program, strengthening leadership capability across a team, or investing in your own growth as a mentor.
A learning experience designed to grow with you
MMM is designed to feel practical, personal, and immediately relevant to help you build mentoring capability step-by-step as you move through the course.
Rather than overwhelming you with theory or rigid formulas, it guides you through a structured and reflective learning journey that helps you better understand yourself, your mentoring style, and the conversations that create meaningful impact.
Through video lessons, reflection prompts, downloadable resources, practical tools, and your personalised Mentoring Activation Profile (MAP), you’ll explore mentoring in a way that feels engaging, accessible, and grounded in real-world application.
The course is fully self-paced, allowing you to move through the content in a way that works for you. It's designed to help you grow confidence, deepen self-awareness, and develop a more intentional way of showing up for others.
Created by Amanda Jones

Amanda is a Leadership & Mentoring Strategist, founder of Leadership Shapers, and cultivator of MINT Mentoring Intelligence. In Mastering a Mentoring Mindset, she shares the insights, tools, and frameworks that have shaped her approach to high-impact mentoring - helping you grow in confidence, clarity, and connection.
Frequently Asked Questions
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MMM is designed for aspiring mentors, new mentors, leaders, mentoring program participants, and anyone wanting to support others through more meaningful and impactful conversations.
Whether you’re mentoring formally or simply wanting to strengthen your mentoring capability as a leader, MMM provides a practical and personalised foundation to help you grow.
Not at all.
MMM is designed to meet you where you are – whether you’re completely new to mentoring or looking to strengthen an existing mentoring approach.
The course is structured to help you build confidence, clarity, and practical mentoring capability step-by-step.
MMM combines practical mentoring tools with emotional intelligence, reflective learning, and personalised insight through your Mentoring Activation Profile (MAP).
MMM helps you explore how you naturally show up in mentoring conversations, turning insight into practical action and growth.
The MAP is a personalised mentoring profile grounded in emotional intelligence and neuroscience.
It helps you better understand your natural mentoring style, strengths, and development opportunities, providing a practical foundation for reflection and growth throughout the course.
MMM is self-paced and designed to fit into real life.
The course takes approximately 2–3 hours to complete if undertaken in one sitting, depending on how much time you spend reflecting, writing notes, and exploring the activities and resources.
Many people choose to move through the course in smaller sections over time, allowing space for reflection and application between lessons.
You’ll have 12 months’ access to revisit the content, resources, and reflections throughout your learning journey.
Yes.
MMM is designed to support both individuals and organisations wanting to strengthen mentoring capability across teams, leadership groups, or formal mentoring programs.
The flexible online format makes it accessible, scalable, and easy to integrate into broader mentoring and leadership initiatives.
Absolutely.
You can access a free preview lesson to experience the tone, structure, and learning approach before deciding whether MMM is right for you.
Yes.
MMM can also be licensed for teams, mentoring programs, leadership groups, and organisations wanting to build mentoring capability at scale.
If you’d like to explore group access or organisational implementation options, please get in touch.
What people are saying
This course benefits mentors, teaching them how to get the most out of mentoring. I love the way in which the factors can be used to analyse a conversation. I'm so happy to be able to implement the course through our mentoring program!
Kelly Larson
Mastering a Mentoring Mindset provides a great foundation to guide mentors. I loved the structure and resources that help learning and growth. This course helped define a strong path of support for a mentor and provided a strong framework for success.
Amy Scheller