One-to-one professional mentoring with Euan Wilmshurst, for senior communications, engagement, and advocacy leads and managers across philanthropy, non-profits, and social impact. Sessions are built around the mentee's actual work.
Comms leads spend their days advising everyone else. It is rare that anyone experienced advises them. Whether they lead a team or work alone, the craft has to be learned somewhere.
Euan mentors senior communications, engagement, and advocacy leads and managers, one to one. A scoping session sets the agenda. Working sessions follow, themed to the mentee's priorities and paced to their calendar, with a framing note before each one and a written summary after it, so that what is worked out in the room survives contact with the week that follows.
The sessions use the mentee's live material. The strategy in draft, the board paper due next month, and the decisions in front of them all move forward through the mentoring.
Every mentee sets their own agenda. These are the kinds of questions the sessions are built around.
A defined engagement with a clear cadence. Each element is there to move the mentee and their work forward.
A scoping session sets the agenda. Themed working sessions follow, in person or remote, each shaped by what the mentee needs next.
A short framing note before each session, and a written summary after it recording the thinking and the next steps.
Sessions work on the strategy in draft, the board paper due next month, and the decisions in front of the mentee now.
Input within reason when something live comes up, on a defined cadence agreed at the start.
Introductions to people doing the same job in other organisations across philanthropy, non-profits, and social impact.
The two are often used interchangeably. They are different things.
Euan Wilmshurst is not a certified coach and does not claim to be one. He is a practitioner who has run communications, advocacy, and social impact functions inside The Coca-Cola Company, IBM, Pearson, and The LEGO Foundation over thirty years, and led Burson-Marsteller in Singapore as its CEO and Market Leader. The mentoring draws on that experience and the judgement that came with it.
Where formal coaching is the right tool, he says so and recommends qualified coaches.
Euan has spent 30 years advising senior leaders on strategic communications, advocacy, and social impact, with a particular focus on philanthropy, education, early childhood, and international development.
His last executive role was at the LEGO Foundation, leading advocacy, partner engagement, and external communications. Before that, senior roles at CIFF, The Coca-Cola Company, Pearson, WPP, and IBM. He has twice represented private philanthropy on the global Board and Executive Committee of the Global Partnership for Education.
He has led communications and advocacy functions at every scale, and has mentored practitioners throughout his career.
Always interested in hearing from communications, engagement, and advocacy leaders considering mentoring, and from the chief executives who lead them. Do get in touch.
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