Frequently asked questions

• What is the time commitment per cohort?

  This is not published as a generic figure. Time commitment is confirmed at expression of interest, against the specific problem and cohort you would be matched to, rather than set as a standard number that would not hold across five different problem categories. See what is not yet fixed for why.

• What is the compensation basis?

  Also confirmed at expression of interest, for the same reason: it is set against the actual problem and cohort, not published as a headline number ahead of the first cohort running. Registering interest does not commit you to a cohort or to a figure; it is the point at which this gets discussed with you directly.

• What experience is required?

  Five or more years delivering transformation, operations or technology work inside organisations, not only advising on it, evidenced by CV and reference at the expression-of-interest stage rather than a self-declared checkbox.

  A mentor's own practice does not need to span every problem category the pipeline handles. Cohorts are matched to the category or categories you actually work in, currently process automation, legacy system modernisation, data strategy, AI adoption and change management.

• What support and materials are provided?

  Contact time is structured around review points in the cohort's schedule rather than delivered as a lecture series, and a problem is matched to your stated domain expertise before you are assigned to it. The quality gate you review against is agreed at the scoping stage for that problem, not improvised per cohort.

  Beyond that structure, the operational detail of what is provided to you, and in what form, is confirmed when you are matched to a cohort. The pipeline is still at pilot stage, with a small number of cohorts running, so this is not yet a fixed, published package.

• What is the mentor's accountability for participant output?

  You review the cohort's work against the stated quality gate and are named as accountable for what the cohort produces before it reaches the partner. This is the same disclosure made to organisations engaging a cohort, stated here from the mentor's side: work is performed by supervised participants, not by employed consultants, and your review is what allows the output to be treated as reviewed work rather than unsupervised coursework.

  See the mentorship model for the full disclosure.

• Is there a conflict-of-interest restriction relating to the mentor's own clients?

  Yes. The expression-of-interest form asks you to declare any current client relationships, employers or business interests that could conflict with supervising specific problem categories, so this is assessed before you are matched to a cohort rather than left for you to raise if it becomes a problem later.

Question not covered here? Register your interest and raise it directly, or read what the role involves.