Mentorship Program Details

Our next session will be Fall 2025. Join our email list to learn more and to be notified when the next application period opens.

What makes this program unique?

  • Tailored For Women

    A program designed for up-and-coming women in the electrical industry, focusing on unique needs, topics, and goals to help mentees grow and succeed.

  • Guided By Experts

    Our mentors are industry leaders, both men and women who are experienced veterans from the electrical industry.

  • Expand Your Network

    There are opportunities throughout the program to meet and connect with other professionals in the industry – broadening your network.

  • Make It Your Own

    The program provides structure with flexibility to adapt to individual needs, helping mentees maximize their experience and achieve their goals.

Sponsor a Mentee

The mentee’s role in the relationship is just as important as the mentor’s. Where the mentor offers guidance, motivation and support, the mentee identifies the skills and competencies you wish to gain and demonstrate that, over time, you are learning from the relationship.

The mentee is responsible for owning, driving, and developing the relationship. But you’re not in it alone. We provide worksheets and templates, plus KJ, Stacey, and your mentor are all here to support and help you on your journey.

  • In the Empowering Women Mentorship Program, the mentee holds the responsibility for driving the relationship forward. This helps show her dedication to the program and her own personal development – as well as a way to utilize her management and communication skills. The mentee is responsible for identifying her strengths and gaps (areas of curiosity) that are used to match them with the right mentor. The mentee sets the agenda for each meeting, asks thoughtful questions, takes notes, tries out some of the ideas and reports back to her mentor.

    • Identifying your why

    • Setting the agenda for the meetings

    • Asking questions

    • Listening and learning

    • Trying out some ideas

    • Being grateful

    • Sharing knowledge and information with your mentor

    • Being flexible, keeping an open mind, and having fun

    • Maintaining confidentiality

  • You are committing to giving this program the effort and energy needed. To grow personally and professionally when you join the mentorship program as a mentee. Here’s what you’ll do:

    • Set Goals: Complete a self-assessment to figure out your goals. This helps match you with the best mentor.

    • Meetings: After the virtual kick-off, plan and attend six 60-minute meetings with your mentor over 14 weeks (about every two weeks).

    • Check-Ins: Let the program manager know when your meetings happen (no need to share details).

    • Wrap-Up: Join the virtual celebration at the end of the program.

    You won’t be doing this alone! You’ll get helpful tools and guidance to build a great mentoring relationship. Plus, you’ll be part of about 100 other women on this same journey.

    This program takes time and effort. Before you join, make sure you’re ready to commit to the meetings and stay in touch with your mentor.

  • Having a mentor can provide you with many advantages, personally and professionally. Some of the benefits mentoring provides are:

    • Shorten your learning curve and become more productive quickly.

    • Make Connections - feel like you are part of the team.

    • Sounding board for ideas - mentors can offer valuable insight into what it takes to get ahead. Giving insight on the best course of action in difficult situations.

    • Develop your knowledge and skills – mentors help you identify the skills and expertise you need to succeed. They may teach you or advise you on where to go for the information you need.

    • Encouragement, support and help working through specific problems, challenges or issues – at work or in your personal life.

    • Improve your communication skills – Learn to communicate and/or communicate more effectively with people not like you, or that don’t “speak the same language”.

    • Advance your career – a mentor helps you stay focused and on track in your career through advice, skills development and networking. Employees who received mentoring were promoted FIVE times more often than people who didn’t have mentors. (Sun Microsystems)

    • Gain insights into best practices, new ideas, opportunities, possibilities and perspectives.

  • By nominating you, your sponsor has agreed to pay your $550 program fee. The program fee provides you access to everything listed above.

Become a Mentor

Mentors serve as a role model, trusted advisor, and confidant, sharing relevant experiences to help their mentee build skills and confidence. They inspire by setting an example and encouraging the mentee to reach beyond their original dreams, while also fostering balance in their learning journey. Mentors should be fully present, committed to the relationship, and maintain confidentiality in their discussions.

    • Someone that wants to give back to this industry

    • Someone willing to be transparent, open and honest 

    • Capable of given honest and critical feedback when needed

    • Someone who cares

  • We start the process with a one hour ‘How to be a great mentor’ training session, there is an hour long virtual kick off session. Then the mentor will meet with their mentee for six - one hour long sessions over the course of the next 14 weeks. Then we have a wrap up celebration at the end of the session. 

    Following the wrap-up celebration, your commitment is complete. You and your mentee may choose to continue the conversation, but we spell out in the kick-off that there will be no hard feelings if/when the relationship ends.

    • Encourage and support

    • Share – experiences, insights and expertise, but don’t teach or preach

    • Role model & sounding board –

    • Accessible and fully present – full attention, ample time and energy

    • Confidentiality – safe place

    • Have fun – Be yourself – remember it’s a conversation

  • You are not alone in the journey, you will receive the tools and guidance for taking the steps you need to ensure a successful mentoring relationship.

    • Guidebook - We provide a step-by-step guidebook to get you and your mentor started with tips and templates that you can customize to ensure the program meets your needs.

    • Mentor webinar - Mentors can participate in a webinar on “How to be a great mentor”. In this webinar, KJ and Stacey share tips and best practices on being a mentor and facilitate an interactive discussion with other mentors in the program.

What People Are Saying

  • “The Empowering Women Mentorship Program has been a game-changer for me, fostering both personal and professional growth. Despite initial reservations, the program’s matching process led to a strong and trusting relationship with my mentor...”

    Krystal Morales, Operations Assistant with Summit Electric

  • "... As a mentor, you hope your experiences and insights can help an up-and-coming woman advance and grow - personally and professionally. But it goes both ways. The time spent with every mentee helps me learn and grow too.”

    Sheila Hernandez - Vice President, Marketing & Supplier Relations with Summit Electric Supply

  • "“We can all learn something new from others regardless of our age and experience. I feel like I'm living, walking proof of that! Much of my success came later in my career and would not have happened without the guidance and advice of my mentors during that time.”

    Jeanne Naughton - Channel Account Manager, Americas with uPanduit