Mentoring
Green Mentoring
For leaders of green technology and sustainability businesses past the proof stage: the technology works, the money is committed, and the constraint has moved to strategy and people.
Mentoring is not coaching with a green filter. It is judgement lent from someone who has run the operating role, and who now works on the standards your market will be measured by.
Who it is for
Founders & CEOs
Scaling from a technical team to an organisation, with investors who now expect operating discipline rather than a thesis.
Sustainability leads
Accountable for circularity targets without owning the budget or the plant. The work is influence, sequencing and evidence.
Management teams
Groups that agree in the room and diverge in the corridor. Mentoring here is team development with a strategy attached.
Practitioners
Consultants and coaches moving their practice towards the green market, who want method rather than vocabulary.
How an engagement runs
Six months minimum. Monthly sessions, with access in between.
Diagnose
Two sessions on the real constraint — usually not the one named in the brief — plus a read of the business model and the team.
Frame
A written plan against the 7Domains model, reduced to the five strategic conversations you will actually hold this year.
Work
Monthly sessions on live decisions: hires, structure, partners, standards and the board narrative. Notes after each one.
Review
At six months we test the plan against what happened, and decide plainly whether to continue, hand over, or stop.
The five pillars for action
The agenda every engagement is measured against.
Reduce footprints
Wherever they can be reduced, starting with what the business already measures and can act on this quarter.
Think circular economy
Reuse, repair, remanufacture and recycling treated as business model questions, not waste-handling questions.
Find change accelerators
Seventy per cent of organisational development fails to meet expectations. The work is finding what moves in your case.
Get reporting right
ISO, EU, GRI and IFRS frameworks used deliberately, so the numbers you publish survive scrutiny.
Mentoring projects to reach all
Strategic mentoring and tacit knowledge management reaching every level — and the trading partners around it.
The community behind it
Reporting is the easy part of sustainability. The harder question is whether the projects and the business model are good enough to survive — and that is what the Green Mentors network exists to work on: experienced coaches, business mentors and consultants trained through the LAB, supporting each other's client projects rather than competing for them.
The network has its own home at greenmentors.org, and cohort programmes are enrolled through the course site.
“What makes you exceptional is the background in industrial practice coupled with a thorough understanding of mentoring — topped off by the doctorate in psychology.”
Start with the briefing
A monthly letter on circular-economy standards and what they mean for green scale-ups. Reply to it and we can talk about mentoring.