Events industry mentoring scheme, Elevate, has launched its
eighth season and is inviting new mentees and mentors to apply now.
Founded in 2016 and led by industry professionals, Melissa
Noakes, Max Fellows and Peter Kerwood, Elevate’s programme was conceived to provide
training and personal development. It is now the biggest community of its kind
in the world with an alumnus of over 1,500 from across every sector within the
events industry.
In 2023, 268 mentors and mentees from eight countries
successfully completed the mentoring programme. Mentees benefitted from more
than 800 mentoring hours fuelled by combined experience of more than 2,270
years from their industry mentors.
Dan Keene, Elevate advisory board member and director at
Wonder said: “As an industry, we all have a collective responsibility to pass
the baton on. Like many others, I wouldn't be in the lucky position I am today
without the help, belief, guidance and support of kind peers and mentors at
critical moments of the journey. In its eighth year, it's doubly impressive
that we're already seeing Elevate go full circle, with mentees of yesterday
becoming the industry leaders and mentors of tomorrow.”
Anton Jerges, CEO at We Are Collider, joined the Elevate
advisory board in 2024, describing the Elevate programme as ‘fantastic’. “The
people behind it are brilliant. Mel, Max and Pete have created something
incredibly professional. They are people with big hearts, and they set the tone
for the organisation as a whole. A community of lovely, friendly people who
want to do good things and help people do better, it’s amazing to be involved
in something like that.”
All applications should be made via the Elevate website: www.elevateme.co
