Free white paper
Connected, not created: the business case for women’s mentoring programmes
Most organisations already have the women leaders their rising talent needs. They just haven’t been connected yet. This white paper sets out the case for a women’s mentoring programme in plain numbers.
ROI worksheet
Put in your own salaries, turnover and a retention assumption you choose, and get a break-even figure finance can test.
30-day launch checklist
Four weeks, about an hour of your time each week, from deciding what success means to the first matches.
Board reporting template
Participation, quality and outcomes at 6 and 12 months, plus the story of the cycle, ready from your first cohort.
20 pages · PDF · Written by OneUpOneDown for HR, L&D, inclusion and association leaders who need to take a proposal to their leadership team.
What’s inside
The research, the reasons programmes stall, and what works.
What the research says about retention and promotion, why so many programmes stall after the first meeting, and what a programme that works looks like in practice.
- 1The problem in numbers: the UK picture, the broken rung and what mentoring is linked to
- 2Why most programmes underdeliver: matching quality, pairs that never meet, admin load, no reporting
- 3What works: near-peer matching, AI matching with a human check, three-month cycles
- 4Building your business case: the ROI worksheet, step by step
- 5A 30-day launch checklist
- 6A board reporting template
Some of the organisations we run mentorship with
Prefer to build the business case together?
Bring your numbers to a 30-minute call and we’ll fill in the ROI worksheet with you.
A 30-minute demo with Dzhuliana, our co-founder and CTO.