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The Complete Mentorship Masterclass: Coach, Guide, Grow

Become a mentor people remember. Frameworks, scripts, and live role-plays from senior coaches at Fortune 500 leadership programmes.

4.7(12,348 ratings)· 48,729 learners enrolled
Created by Dr. Amara Okonkwo, Lola Adebayo
Last updated 03/2026
English
CPD-eligible

What you'll learn

Build a clear mentoring philosophy and personal brand
Run a structured 1:1 cadence: weekly, monthly, quarterly
Coach using GROW, OSKAR, and Solution-Focused frameworks
Hold the difficult conversations most mentors avoid
Set goals that survive the first week of reality
Give feedback that lands without breaking trust
Coach across difference — culture, age, function, seniority
Build a peer mentoring circle and run it at scale

This course includes

22.5 hours on-demand video
70 lectures · 14 articles
42 downloadable resources
Full lifetime access
Access on mobile and TV
Certificate of completion

Course content

5 sections · 70 lectures · 22.5h total length
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Welcome and what to expect4 lectures · 24 min
Course tour and learner workbookPreview4:32
Why mentorship — the case in numbersPreview6:18
Set your mentoring intent7:04
Workbook: First reflection6 min
Foundations: trust, agreement, cadence12 lectures · 1h 48m
The first conversation: a script you can borrowPreview11:24
Mentoring agreement template8:12
Establishing weekly cadence9:48
When trust breaks — and how to repair it14:02
Quiz: Foundations8 min
Coaching frameworks: GROW, OSKAR, Solution-Focused18 lectures · 2h 42m
Difficult conversations: feedback, conflict, exits14 lectures · 2h 18m
Scaling mentorship: programmes, circles, certification22 lectures · 3h 12m

Requirements

  • No prior coaching experience required.
  • A willingness to record and review your own role-plays.
  • Access to at least one current or aspiring mentee for the practical assignments.

Description

This is the mentoring course we wished existed when we became mentors. It is grounded in twenty years of working with senior leaders at multinational organisations, refined across 3,400 alumni of DNK Institute's leadership programmes, and structured to give you frameworks you can use in your very next conversation.

You will leave with: a written mentoring philosophy, a 1:1 template you have run end-to-end, three coaching frameworks you can hold in working memory, and the difficult-conversation scripts that 90% of mentors quietly need.

This course is for managers stepping into formal mentorship, senior individual contributors who want to multiply their impact, and HR partners running a mentoring programme who need a credible curriculum to point to.

Instructor

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Dr. Amara Okonkwo

Senior Faculty, DNK Institute · Executive Coach (ICF MCC)
4.8 instructor rating
18,432 reviews
89,342 learners
12 courses

Twenty years coaching senior leaders at multinational organisations across pharma, finance, and the public sector. Faculty lead for DNK Institute's leadership programmes since 2019.

Learner reviews

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Priya R.

3 days ago

I've taken three mentoring courses in the last five years. This is the only one I'd recommend to a peer. The role-plays alone are worth the price — they pre-empt the exact conversations I've been clumsy with.

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Kwame O.

3 days ago

Dr. Okonkwo is a remarkable teacher. I came in skeptical of the framework-heavy approach. By week three I was using GROW in actual 1:1s and the quality of conversation lifted measurably.

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Sarah M.

3 days ago

Genuinely useful and well structured. My only critique: the "scaling mentorship" section assumes you have organisational backing, which not everyone does. Otherwise excellent.

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Elena V.

3 days ago

I run a mentorship programme for a 600-person engineering org. We bought 12 seats and it has paid back in the first cohort. Easy recommend.