Building a mentoring culture that lasts

Following on from National Mentoring Day (27th October), this webinar explores how mentoring can transform business performance, strengthen leadership, and embed a culture of growth within small and medium-sized enterprises.  

Drawing on new insights from the Association of Business Mentors’ 2025 Unlocking Impact report, the session will unpack why mentoring is increasingly viewed as essential for employee development, retention, and wellbeing – and how smaller businesses can make it work, even with limited time and resources.  

In this webinar you’ll learn:

• Practical guidance on setting up and sustaining mentoring in the workplace 
• How to measure and prove ROI on workplace mentoring 
• The benefits of mentoring and how it has worked for SME leaders within their workplace

Please find a recording of the session below

Resources

• Ben Jacobs
  • Download the Workplace Mentoring Report
  • Apply as a volunteer mentor for the Help to Grow: Management Course
  • Nominate your mentor from Help to Grow: Management Course for an award (2025 participants)
  • Association of Business Mentors slide deck
• Pete Wortley
• Lizzie Williams

About our Speakers

Ben Jacobs Chief Project Officer, Association of Business Mentors

With senior experience across the education, charity, and creative sectors, leading national and international programmes focused on learning and development. At ABM, Ben oversees delivery of the Help to Grow: Management Course, managing the team responsible for onboarding, training, and supporting mentors. An associate member of ABM himself, he also mentors leaders navigating periods of […]

Pete Wortley Head of Workplace Services, Association of Business Mentors

Leads the design, delivery, and development of workplace coaching and mentoring programmes. His work focuses on helping organisations embed high-impact initiatives that strengthen leadership, enhance performance, and drive long-term success.  

Lizzie Williams Group Managing Director, Apollo Business Finance

With a passion for empowerment and growth, Lizzie champions access to finance for SMEs through her asset-based lending businesses supporting start-ups and growing companies across the UK. She fosters a culture of trust, opportunity, and development, leading with a focus on sustainable cashflow and people-first growth.