The 2026 GMC Women in Manufacturing Network Mentoring Program is open for registrations.
If you, or one of your valued team is a woman in the manufacturing or engineering industry, this program can help clarify and drive career and leadership development.
GMC’s WIMN is working to support manufacturing and grow the skills base by encouraging more women to participate, stay in and take up leadership roles in the sector.
The GMC WIMN Mentoring Program has supported over 150 mentees and industry mentors. The feedback from this program has been consistently outstanding.
Mentoring is recognised as effective in catalysing individual career development. Having an experienced, independent resource available to guide their own decision making helped many of our mentees develop clarity around their careers and to take on the next challenge.
It’s not only mentees that benefit. Businesses understand the benefits of having a diverse workforce, but often find it difficult to execute diversity and inclusion policies. The feedback we received from our mentors, and particularly our male mentors, is that participating in the GMC WIMN Mentoring Program has helped them better understand the challenges faced by all diverse groups within their organisation and how to better attract, retain and harness the skills and potential of these groups.
This program, commencing March 31 and running to November 2026, includes:
- Mentors and Mentees are matched based on industry, experience and program goals
- Mentor and Mentee induction sessions with our experienced Program Facilitator, Linda Betts – to understand what a mentor is (and isn’t), how to get the most out the program and what to expect
- 3 x Networking and PD Sessions – dive deeper into the mentoring relationship and learn to overcome some of the challenges uncovered
- A commitment to at least six one on one mentoring sessions
Register your interest as a mentee
Register your interest as a mentor (open to men and women)