MARKETING MENTORSHIP PROGRAM
Our CONNECT & INSPIRE mentorship program pairs established marketing experts with future marketing leaders to facilitate the exchange of ideas and knowledge.
Enrollment for the 2024-25 cohort is now open!
(Note: Application requires a Gmail account • Questions? mentorship@triangleama.org)
AMA Triangle Mentorship Program
Gain access to key opinion leaders and top marketing talent through unparalleled networking opportunities.
Why get involved?
Our goal is to make mentorship a fun and easy process. We do the matchmaking and hold several events for each cohort, including a kickoff and graduation ceremony.
Even if you only have an hour a month, you can still make a difference through mentorship. We invite you to find out how.
Want to get started? Check out our Protégé Conversation Starter Guide.
Protégé
The value of a mentor who can help cultivate leadership skills one-on-one in real-time, reduce the anxiety in taking big steps, and focus leaders on achieving their goals – is huge. But finding the right mentor can be challenging…AMA Triangle is here to help!
Benefits:
- Gain knowledge and experience to advance your career
- Access to mentors from a variety of industries to best suit your needs
- Enhance your confidence
- Challenge yourself to set higher goals, take risks, and achieve at higher levels
- Receive individual recognition, encouragement, and professional advice
- Learn and enhance your leadership and interpersonal skills
- Exposure yourself to diverse perspectives, experiences, and resources
- Grow your personal network
Requirements:
- Collegiate-level protégés should be undergraduates in their junior or senior year with an interest in marketing, business or a related field
- Professional-level protégés must have a minimum of one year of industry or internship experience (regardless of age or education)
Mentor
Mentoring is a two-way street where both participants give and take, learn & grow, and enhance their professional skills. It’s also a great way to give back to the community while gaining a different perspective from up-and-coming marketers.
Benefits:
- Gain a fresh perspective
- Build valuable, long-lasting relationships while expanding your network
- Support and foster the next generation of marketers
- Contribute to your own personal and professional growth
- Gain exposure to new and emerging talent pools
- Enhance your coaching, leadership, management and recruiting skills
- Help emerging professionals develop to their potential
Requirements:
- Must have at least five years continuous, professional experience
Five Things to Know About CONNECT & INSPIRE
- Investment:
- Free for AMA Triangle members, NC collegiate AMA chapter members, and mentors
- $49 non-refundable fee for professional-level, non-member protégés
- $29 non-refundable fee for collegiate-level protégés not in a collegiate chapter, which includes a 1 year membership to AMA Triangle
- Requirements:
- Mentors = 5+ years of experience
- Protégés = 1 year of experience – or – junior/senior year of undergrad
- Matching:
- We’ve developed a 3-point matching system that’s designed to create a genuine connection based on personality, skills, and goals. To get started, check out our Protege Conversation Starter Guide
- Flexibility:
- Every mentor/protégé pair is unique, so we encourage each pair to develop their own schedules to determine when, how frequently, and what methods of communication they’ll use
- Timing:
- The program will begin with a kick-off event where our participants will meet in a speed dating session to determine personality matches. (*After the match event, we will take applications and pair participants based on other factors.)
- Those results will be paired with resumes + applications over the next week or so to determine mentor/protégé pairs.
- From there, mentor/protégé pairs will meet according to their schedules and we’ll check in periodically, just to make sure things are going smoothly.
- We’ll also provide plenty of resources and networking opportunities with the whole CONNECT & INSPIRE program.
- Finally, we’ll wrap the program up in June with a CONNECT & INSPIRE Graduation to celebrate your incredible journey with your partner throughout the year.