Help Build the Global Standard for Mentoring
Volunteer with the Global Mentoring Institute and contribute your experience to advancing mentoring practice, research, and leadership development worldwide.
The Global Mentoring Vision
The Global Mentoring Institute is building the standards, research, certifications, and partnerships that define mentoring as a professional discipline. This work depends on a global community of contributors who bring expertise from leadership development, education, research, and organizational practice.
By contributing your experience, you help shape the systems that support mentoring worldwide.
What You’ll Help Build
Mentoring is one of the most powerful tools for leadership development, career advancement, and community impact. Yet the field remains fragmented and lacks consistent global standards.
GMI is building the professional infrastructure required to elevate mentoring worldwide.
Our ecosystem integrates standards, education, certifications, research, and partnerships into a single framework designed to support mentoring across sectors and cultures.
MBOK® Global Standard
The MBOK defines the competencies, ethical principles, and best practices that guide professional mentoring.
Professional Certifications
Tiered credentials validate mentoring expertise and create recognized career pathways.
Assessments & Research
Evidence-based tools measure mentoring effectiveness, readiness, and program maturity.
Education Partner Network
Universities, training providers, and institutions deliver MBOK-aligned learning worldwide
Social Impact Programs
Mentoring initiatives support workforce development, education, and community advancement.
Global
Community
Professionals, organizations, and researchers collaborate to advance mentoring practice.
Choose How You Want to Contribute
We welcome diverse voices — practitioners, educators, researchers, leaders, technologists, and global changemakers — to help evolve MBOK® standards, education, research, assessments, and partnerships.
If you share our commitment to inclusive, evidence-based mentoring, we’d love to hear from you.
Your background and passion could make a real difference.
Subject Matter
Experts
Contribute expertise to MBOK®, helping develop mentoring competencies, methodologies, and ethical standards grounded in real-world practice across industries.
Certification & Education Advisors
Help develop mentoring certification standards, training programs, and learning pathways that support professional mentoring education worldwide.
Research & Assessment
Advance mentoring research and assessment, strengthening the evidence base behind mentoring practices, standards, and program outcomes.
Enterprise & Organizational
Enterprise and organizational partners pilot mentoring frameworks, share program insights, and help validate standards through real-world implementation across workplaces and communities.
Community & Partnerships
Build partnerships and grow the global mentoring ecosystem by connecting organizations, institutions, and communities with the mentoring they need to grow, develop, and thrive together.
Social Impact Programs
Support initiatives that strengthen workforce development, education, and community impact through structured mentoring programs that expand opportunity and leadership development.
Help Build the Future of Mentoring
Join the Global Mentoring Institute in shaping a globally recognized mentoring discipline through service, research, education and collaboration.
Volunteer
Contribute your time and expertise to help advance the Global Mentoring Standard.
Academic Partnership
Collaborate and advise on psychometric research and curriculum to strengthen mentoring as a discipline.
Enterprise Partnership
Work with us to strengthen workforce development or support the mission as a sponsor.