Define the Standard
MBOK® provides the developing standards foundation for mentoring principles, ethics, competencies, methods, and evaluation.
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Advancing Mentoring as a Global Professional Standard
GMI is building the standards, education pathways, assessment architecture, applied programs, research agenda, and IMPACT operating infrastructure needed to make mentoring more ethical, measurable, scalable, and trusted across institutions.
Choose Your Path
Find the adoption case that fits your institution.
Start with the audience, decision, or implementation model you need to move first.
Academic CaseUniversities & Academic Institutions
Student success, career readiness, alumni mentoring, and measurable outcomes.
Employer CaseCorporate HR / EmployersRetention, engagement, internal mobility, leadership readiness, and skills transformation.
Transition CaseVeteran Program PartnersEmployment navigation, skills translation, family-aware support, and referral pathways.
Funding PathwayFunders & PhilanthropySupport standards infrastructure, pilot evidence, implementation learning, and responsible scale.
Education QualityEducation ProvidersExplore REP alignment, MBOK®-based education, CEU expectations, and future certification preparation.
Public WorkforcePublic Upskilling PartnersCareer navigation, skills translation, learner confidence, promotability, and measurable advancement.
Not Sure Where to Start?
Schedule a focused briefing.
GMI can help identify the right adoption case, pilot path, funding model, or education-provider route.
Standards Infrastructure
The Infrastructure Behind a Professional Mentoring Standard
GMI is building the core components institutions expect before adopting, funding, or scaling a professional standard.
Standards
MBOK® Standard
A developing body of knowledge for mentoring principles, ethics, competencies, methods, and evaluation.
Assessment MLA / MEA AssessmentsPrototype mentor and mentee instruments designed for pilot validation, developmental insight, and responsible use.
Credentials Certification PathwaysPlanned credentialing pathways tied to MBOK® competencies, ethical expectations, and continuing development.
Education Quality REP NetworkA developing approval framework for education providers delivering MBOK®-aligned training.
Validation Research PilotA 12-18 month validation initiative targeting 300-800 participants and 100-200 mentoring pairs.
What GMI Does
GMI turns mentoring from informal goodwill into governed infrastructure.
GMI brings the pieces together that institutions need before mentoring can be adopted, funded, taught, measured, and improved responsibly: standards, assessment insight, credential pathways, education-provider alignment, IMPACT operating workflows, and research validation.
Standards to Evidence
Enough structure to scale. Enough humanity to keep mentoring real.
GMI helps organizations connect preparation, support, reporting, and improvement without reducing mentoring to a transaction.
Measure What Matters
MLA and MEA assessment architecture supports readiness insight, development planning, matching support, and validation.
Explore assessmentsOperate With Evidence
IMPACT helps institutions apply the standards through workflows, lifecycle tracking, support escalation, and evidence reporting.
View IMPACT roleWho GMI Serves
Clear pathways for institutions, providers, funders, and practitioners.
Visitors should be able to recognize themselves quickly, then move toward the right conversation.
Funders & Grant Issuers
Invest in standards, pilots, evidence infrastructure, and scalable models for accountable mentoring.
Review partner opportunityUniversities
Strengthen career readiness, student success, alumni engagement, mentor preparation, and reporting.
Explore academic caseCorporate HR & Talent
Use mentoring as a formal talent architecture for onboarding, leadership development, retention, and mobility.
Explore employer caseVeteran & Workforce Partners
Support transitions through structured mentoring, career translation, support pathways, and long-term progression.
Explore veteran caseEducation Providers
Align training programs with the developing MBOK® Standard through the Registered Education Partner framework.
Become a REPMentors & Practitioners
Use GMI standards, ethics, and future credential pathways to strengthen responsible mentoring practice.
Start with MBOK®Pilot & Research Validation
GMI's pilot strategy validates the standards, assessment tools, IMPACT operating workflows, matching approach, evidence model, and implementation conditions before broader institutional scale.
Research Initiative
What the Pilot Proves
The pilot is structured to generate decision-ready evidence for funders, universities, employers, veteran partners, and education providers. The pilot tests whether the GMI model operates effectively in real settings, produces useful assessment data, supports mentoring relationships responsibly, and identifies refinements before scale.
Planned Pilot Targets
Planning assumptions for partner review, not completed outcome claims.
Participant Range300-800
Mentoring Pairs100-200
Validation FocusMLA / MEA
Pilot Window12-18 months
The research plan informs standards refinement, responsible assessment use, partner implementation guidance, and future scale decisions.