Peer Mentorship Group

In partnership with WeBC

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Peer Mentorship Group

Connect with other women entrepreneurs to gain support for your business.

Peer Groups for

Growth-Minded Women

As a business owner, you know it’s a challenge to grow your business while keeping balance in your life. You have hard-earned experience and networks; at the same time, you’re entering new territory as you scale operations, build a team and enter new markets. You’re not alone!

Peer Groups offer feedback and fresh perspectives on your business challenges and growth opportunities, using a solution-based approach. Sessions are guided by a Mentor who is an experienced entrepreneur, and the Mentees use action learning to problem-solve in real time.

Peer groups allow you to:

  • Learn from the insights and diverse experiences of a group.

  • Explore alternative solutions or approaches you may not get to on your own.

  • Shorten the learning curve by benefiting from other women’s knowledge.

  • Overcome the overwhelm of increased responsibility and risk as you grow.

  • Extend your network: Need new talent, a new supplier? Tap your peer group for referrals.

Program Details

All applicants must:

  • Actively operate a business in Canada that is generating revenue

  • Be focused on growing your business

  • Identify as a woman, and over the age of 19

  • We screen all applicants to ensure each group includes non-competing businesses with complementary needs and goals.

  • Unsuccessful applicants will stay on our program waitlist and will be notified when the next intake opens.

Process

 

Due to grant funding from WeBC, the program is FREE to all participants in the Nation2Nation mentorship group for 2024.

Please note: As there are limited spaces for this program, all participants must commit to attending all sessions. Registrants who miss more than 25% of sessions will be charged an administrative fee of $150.

Cost

 

Eligibility

 

Interested in Being a Mentor?

Why mentor?

Women entrepreneurs around BC are looking for experienced business owners to help them navigate the stages of their business growth.

Key benefits of becoming a mentor:

  • Learn new skills—75% of WeBC mentors say that being a mentor has helped them in their own business

  • As you share your own insights and perspectives with your mentee, gain new ones yourself

  • Connect with other WeBC mentors to extend your business networks, share resources and tap into new ideas

  • Give back to your community

Mentor requirements

To be a mentor, you should have:

  • 5 plus years (or equivalent experience) operating your own business

  • The willingness to communicate, empathize and inspire trust

  • The availability to commit to 8, one to two-hour sessions

The program is funded, in part, by the Government of Canada’s Women Entrepreneurship Strategy.

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