Mentee Spotlight: Dalal Al Kabkabi
Why did you join this programme? As an entrepreneur I face many issues that I cannot share with my team. One of the most important things I felt I lacked was a confidant and guide. I wanted to have someone that I could share my ideas and challenges with, and I found one through this […]
Oxfam OPTI and Mowgli Mentoring combine forces to enhance market development within the West Bank and Gaza agricultural sectors
The success of a mentoring programme lies in setting the right foundation, and for Mowgli this means making sure that we select the right people onto our programmes while managing expectations about what mentoring is all about and how it can support the personal and professional development of both mentor and mentee. Within all Mowgli […]
Over sixty women graduate from the ‘Mentoring for Success Programme’ delivered in Jordan.
Over sixty women graduate from the ‘Mentoring for Success Programme’ delivered in Jordan. Mowgli Mentoring, in partnership with UN Women and with the generous support of the EU Regional Trust Fund in response to the Syrian Crisis (the “Madad Fund”), organized a graduation ceremony which saw 69 women graduate from a six-month micro-entrepreneurial mentoring programme. […]
SANAD and Mowgli Mentoring team up to support Syrian and Lebanese entrepreneurs in Lebanon
The Entrepreneurship Academy of the SANAD Fund for MSME and Mowgli Mentoring have launched their second joint initiative, a mentoring program aimed at boosting the success of Syrian and Lebanese micro-entrepreneurs in the Middle East. Following on the success of the six-month pilot project conducted in Jordan in 2018, the SANAD Technical Assistance Facility (TAF) […]
How Can I Become an Effective Mentor?
So you’ve been matched with a mentee, what next? How can you make sure that you keep the momentum going, and have an impactful and mutually beneficial relationship? Mowgli Mentors share some tips on what has worked for them. 1. Commit to regular meetings with your mentee and to holding each other accountable “Besides a […]
How can I make the most of being mentored?
Whenever we match a mentor and mentee pair within Mowgli’s mentoring programs, one of the recurring questions we come across from mentees is how to make the most of the mentoring relationship. To answer this popular question, we spoke to a few of our mentors and mentees, here’s what they had to share about how they […]
Shoulder to shoulder: The mentoring journey
Why do so many businesses fail in the first five years of operation? Why do so many promising businesses stagnate after the initial burst of success? Why do the few entrepreneurs who reach the heights of success often jeopardise it all through bad decisions? AtMowgli, we believe the answer lies within the nature of the […]
Alumni Spotlight: Maya Terro
Combating food insecurity in Lebanon “In Lebanon, where around 30 percent of the population lives in poverty, almost 30 percent of all edible food never gets eaten. I started FoodBlessed in 2012 to provide a sustainable solution to the twin problems of food insecurity and food waste by pioneering a local, community-based, volunteer-driven approach. “In 2015, […]
How we pioneered mentoring
With 19 startups to his name, serial entrepreneur Tony Bury credits much of his success to his own mentoring experiences, which have enabled him to continuously develop as an entrepreneur, father, husband, friend and mentor. He founded Mowgli Mentoring in 2008 to share the benefits of mentoring with the region in which he has spent much of […]
Mowgli Alumni Spotlight: Hani Thalji
Mentor name: Hani Thalji Designation: CEO, VARARI Country: Jordan Mowgli Mentoring Program: THE NEXT SOCIETY Regional Mentoring Program Why Mentoring? I wanted to give back and help others overcome challenges and find their way towards success. Describe your relationship with your mentee and the mentoring experience over the past 12 months It was a very nice experience and we became […]