The Next Mentoring Program for Leaders
January 23′ 2026 – June 12′ 2026
You can apply to the program as a mentor or a mentee until 15th of December.
Mentor – a senior manager for whom it is important to obtain practical training as a coaching mentor and to support manager from another organisation regarding important topics and development issues.
Mentee – a middle manager, first-line manager or specialist with management potential and ambition who is interested in development cooperation with a mentor who is a senior manager from another organisation in order to discuss important topics.
Our Trainers – will bring you together by using the personality and manager profile assessment and provide support as well as developing and horizon-broadening activities.
Benefits of Being a Mentor
- Self Reflection and Development
Awareness of unique qualities as a mentor and leader as well as possible development directions.
- Learning by doing
Better understanding of mentorship opportunities by taking a challenge and dealing with a real mentee in the framework of mentoring cooperation. Acquired coaching techniques applied into practice that can also be used in everyday work as a senior manager.
- Learning Community
Development of personal network and exchange of experiences with other managers. It is useful to listen to other perspectives, to understand that others have similar topics they are dealing with, to know that you have group-mates with similar experiences, to whom you can always turn to.
- Meaningfulness
Possibility to share experience and knowledge with the mentee. Contribution to the realisation of the mentee’s development plans on a personal, as well as organisational level.
Benefits of Being a Mentee
- Self Reflection and Development
Awareness of unique qualities as a leader as well as possible development directions.
- Personal approach to Individual Development
A personal mentor who focuses on their needs and goals, and with whom important subjects can be discussed. Opportunity to think through the career goals and possible directions.
- Learning Community
Development of personal network and exchange of experiences with other managers. It is useful to listen to other perspectives, to understand that others have similar topics they are dealing with, to know that you have group-mates with similar experiences, to whom you can always turn to.
- Organization Visits
Possibility of site-visits to group-mates’ organizations in various sectors.
Program
The two groups
A mentors’ group and a mentees’ group will meet in separate workshops and at joint events. Individual mentoring meetings between assigned pair of mentor-mentee will be held from February to June 2026.
Inspiring workshops
- Discussion focus on Leadership/management, using relevant examples from Latvia and the rest of the world.
- The nature of the manager’s development, mentoring and coaching will be revealed by listening to guest speakers, discussing watched films and engaging in group activities.
- The participants will speak about their goals and challenges as managers, mentors or mentees, and share their experiences in supervision groups.
- Mentors will have opportunity to train coaching and mentoring skills in Coaching Labs safe and supportive atmosphere.
Events
- The opening event of the program is where the participants meet their mentors or mentees for the first time.
- The mentors and mentees visit a couple of organizations.
- The final event of the program is where the participants will look back at their time together and give acknowledgement to each other.
Support
- Every mentor-mentee pair will be assigned a support person who will look after them during the entire program. The mentors will receive a personal coaching session.
- Our trainers will carry out an individual leadership and mentor profile analysis.
- Our trainers will match the mentor and mentee pairs.
Schedule of the Program
| Event | Mentors | Mentees |
| Collective opening event | 23.01.2026 /15:00-17:00 | 23.01.2026 /15:00-1700 |
| I Workshop | 23.01.2026 / 9:00-17:00 | 30.01.2026 /13:00-17:00 |
| II Workshop | 20.02.2026 / 9:00-17:00 | 27.02.2026 /13:00-17:00 |
| III Workshop | 20.03.2026 / 9:00-17:00 | 27.03.2026 /13:00-17:00 |
| Supervision group | 24.04.2026 /10:00-13:00 | 24.04.2026 /14:00-17:00 |
| IV Workshop | 15.05.2026 / 9:00-17:00 | |
| V Workshop | 12.06.2026 / 9:00-17:00 | |
| Collective final event | 12.06.2026 /16:00-18:00 | 12.06.2026 /16:00-18:00 |
Your Investment
Mentor: 4’650 EUR + VAT
Activities included
Mentor profile analysis
5 workshops – full day event
Supervision group – 3 h
5-6 Meetings with a mentee
Collaboration with the development partner
Individual Coaching session
Any additional support needed to enhance the mentoring process
Visiting organizations
Mentee: 2’800 EUR + VAT
Activities included
Leader potential/profile analysis
3 workshops – 4 h per day
Supervision group – 3 h
5-6 Meetings with a mentor
Collaboration with the development partner
Visiting organizations
Guest Speakers
Thomas Bothe
Leadership Communication Trainer and Coach
Gunnar Toomemets
Fontes Estonia Mentoring Program Trainer and Program Designer/Leader
Member of the Board, Estonian Chamber of Mentors
Sandra Lāce
Experienced Mentor and Supervisor, “Inner Wings”
Our Team
Betija Līduma – Program Manager and Designer, Trainer and Coach/Supervisor
Igors Rautmanis – Program Trainer and Coach/Support Person
Liena Krūmiņa – Program Coordinator
Piret Jamnes – Coach/Support Person/Program Designer
Tiiu Allikvee – Coach/Support Person/Program Designer
Igors Rautmanis, Betija Līduma, Liena Krūmiņa
Partner organisations
