Challenging Indian women to step up is a powerful self-guiding mentorship program developed specifically for women in India to advance personally and professionally. It has been created by Maureen Frank, an award-winning Australian entrepreneur, speaker and mother of twin daughters. Maureen has a strong affinity with India as her Father was born and raised in Mumbai.

The program is CD, DVD and Workbook based and mentors women over a period of 10 weeks. It is currently used by over 30 of Australia’s largest organisations including the largest telecommunications company (Telstra), the largest bank (Commonwealth Bank), Qantas and Pricewaterhouse Coopers  - just to name a few.

What’s in my mentor India?

Inside your kit you will receive 10 CDs, 2 DVDs and a personal workbook which follows the my mentor program. The program covers 10 modules:

•    Module 1 - Decide that the time is NOW!
•    Module 2 - Do you know who you are? Your own personal brand.
•    Module 3 - Taking calculated risks. Shift the mindset.
•    Module 4 - Building your career plan and your strategy.
•    Module 5 - Increasing your visibility and your network.
•    Module 6 - Playing and communicating to win.
•    Module 7 - Becoming a master influencer.
•    Module 8 - Negotiating to win – win.
•    Module 9 - Striking the balance – creating work life blance in your life.
•    Module 10 - Go for the KNOCK OUT!

Who is interviewed on the DVDs?

Leading Indian women who have risen to the top of some of India’s largest and most successful organisations are interviewed on the DVD and share some amazing insights and provide some useful tips to get ahead.

Some of the women featured include:

•    Shobhana Bhartia – HT Media Ltd
•    Mrinalini Ingram – Cisco
•    Ganga Sharma – Hewlett Packard
•    Lorraine Rodrigues – ANZ
•    India Sangeeta Singh - KPMG
•    Shubhada Rao – Yes Bank
•    Asha Kaul – India Institute of Management
•    Sujitha Karnad - Siemens
•    Meena Ganesh - Tesco

How to pilot my mentor within your organisation

There are five simple steps to getting a pilot started:

1. Commit to the women in your organisation by piloting the program with a minimum of 20 – up to 100 women.
2. Send out an email to managers, or to staff direct, to get nominations
3. Select the women and decide the start date, form of launch and communicate what is happening to managers and participants
4. Advise us of the number of kits you need to purchase and we will deliver them direct to each participant or to a central point in your organisation (minimum a week from start date)
5. Determine whether you will send out emails to participants and managers throughout the program - or whether you would like emberin to do it on your behalf – and get started!

What support tools can you access from emberin?

emberin provides a range of tried and tested support tools to help you successfully run the my mentor program in your organisation. These include:

• Project Management Guide which sets out instructions on how to select participants, how to run the program including copy for emails, as well as Frequently Asked Questions 
• Peer Mentoring Support Guide which provides instructions and agendas for participants to form their own peer mentoring groups and how these can work
• Surveys for your participants to complete and a report* on the results.
• A blog site for your participants to access which provides interactive peer support and discussion. emberin will monitor this. *

Why does each participant get their own personal my mentor kit?

my mentor has been created intentionally in kit format so that the recipient feels they have been given a lovely gift - a gift from their employer. The effect on women is quite powerful - similar to the effect of giving a woman flowers or another personal gift. The ability to repeat modules within the program throughout the career of each participant is a key benefit of the learning. emberin has priced the program to reflect one participant or 'license' per kit.  my mentor has been created deliberately for individuals. It cannot be copied and if an organisation or individual was to do this they would be breaching emberin's copyright.

How to Buy my mentor India

Please send us an email at connect@emberin.com and we will personally contact you to discuss your purchase.