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Business Leadership Council
Mentorship / Leadership Program

 

BLC MembersThe Business Leadership Council (BLC) Mentorship Program for Bay Area Jewish business professionals offers an opportunity to bring together veteran Jewish community business leaders with emerging Jewish business professionals to build one-on-one relationships with the principal goal to develop the next generation of Jewish professionally business leaders who have a purposeful goal to connect as Jews. These professional relationships will serve to benefit BLC, the Jewish Community Federation and Endowment Fund, and the Jewish community at large.
 
For mentors and mentees, the program offers the opportunity to develop value-based professional leadership skills, expand professional networks, to grow personally and professionally and to connect more strongly with the Jewish community.  Both Mentors and Mentees must qualify as BLC members as defined by a minimum $365 gift to the Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco’s annual campaign, and be business leaders of today or tomorrow. 

The BLC Mentorship Program serves to cultivate existing BLC members, to recruit new BLC members/Federation donors, and to identify and nurture the next generation of Jewish business leaders.

Applications from mentors and mentees will be reviewed, and matches made whenever there is a good fit.  Both the mentee and mentor must agree to the pairing.
 
Time Commitment: At least six (every other month) one-on-one mentor/mentee meetings in an annual period.  A group event for all mentors and mentees will also be offered.


A Mentor must:

  • Apply NowDemonstrate leadership level involvement in their profession/industry in the Bay Area;
  • Be active in or strongly interested in becoming involved in the Bay Area Jewish Community;
  • Be prepared to serve as a coach, advisor, and role model;
  • Be willing to guide a mentee capably through personal and professional growth initiatives.
 

A Mentee must:

  • Be committed to a meaningful values-based working relationship with a mentor;
  • Aspire to develop personally and professionally with the guidance of a mentor;
  • Express desire to become engaged in Jewish leadership opportunities.

Mentor's Roles and Responsibilities

  • Set achievable goals for the mentor/mentee relationship
  • Plan and execute an activity twice during the year that is in the mentee’s professional field and offers the mentee an opportunity to learn and/or network
  • Leverage mentor’s connections within the Jewish community in an effort to make a successful match between mentee and a non-profit committee, agency, or board.
  • Develop an open, candid relationship in which you are able to:
  • Share insights, valuable information to help mentee learn and grow;
  • Exchange publications, articles, and information;
  • Provide open, constructive feedback;
  • Encourage expansion of mentee’s network;
  • Introduce one another to key people in each other’s networks.
  
 

Mentee's Roles and Responsibilities

  • Honor the time commitment needed for a productive mentor/mentee relationship;
  • Play an active role in the mentor/mentee relationship;
  • Remain committed to the established goals and/or revise as appropriate
  
 

Interested mentors and mentees should fill out the application form and submit it to Eve Myers, volunteer member of the BLC Membership Development Committee, and a Financial Analyst at Wells Fargo's Global Banking Group.  Please send it to her at evemyers@gmail.com.  For questions, she can be reached via phone at 415-302-1025.

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