Mentor of the Year Award

This award for 2024/25 is intended to recognise a mentor who has empowered and gone the extra mile in supporting their mentee’s growth and progress and helping them achieve their professional goals.

Mentees can send in nominations until 15 November 2024.

The accolade will be presented at our prestigious awards ceremony held at Mansion House, London, on 29 April 2025.

Timeline

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To nominate your mentor, please complete the nomination form by 15 November 2024.

Nominate Mentor

You will be asked to answer a few questions about your mentor and to give specific examples of how they have supported your development and inspired you.

Please note that the mentoring must have taken place during the last year (October 2023 – October 2024) and both you and your mentor must be current members.

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If your mentor is shortlisted, we will be in touch to invite them to an interview with the judging panel in the new year.

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Successful applicants will be notified of the outcome of the first round by 31 December 2024.

The top shortlisted Applicants will be invited to attend an interview with a Judging Panel comprising CISI representatives in January 2025.

The winning Mentor and nominating Mentee will be invited to attend the 2025 CISI Annual Awards Ceremony

Accolades

The award-winning mentor will receive:

Profile on CISI social media channels and in The Review, CISI members’ magazine
The accolade of winning
'Mentor of the Year' digital badge and certificate

Guidance for mentees submitting nominations

Entries will be assessed against the following criteria, with non-exhaustive examples shown below:

How has the mentor demonstrated their commitment to supporting the mentee’s learning and development? This could include:

  • Providing technical / industry-related advice or guidance to the mentee
  • Helping the mentee uncover or firm up their goals in financial services

How has the mentor inspired the mentee? This could include:

  • Sharing career advice
  • Supporting the mentee with a particular issue
  • Demonstrating wider involvement or showing leadership in the sector
  • Championing sector issues such as diversity and inclusion

How has the mentor helped the mentee to achieve their goals? Please give specific examples.

  • Commitment to meetings and general responsiveness to the mentee
  • Helping the mentee plan out a route to achieving a particular goal or career plan
  • Connect the mentee with a network or to other resources

Is there anything else the mentee would like to say in support of their nomination for their mentor to be awarded the CISI Mentor of the Year?

  • Any other examples of ways in which the mentor has gone above and beyond in their mentoring, that are not covered by the above questions

If more than one mentee nominates the same mentor, then each entry will be considered on its own merits (the nominations will not combine or ‘stack’).

Hear from our Mentor of the Year Award 2024 winner

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I am deeply honoured to be recognised as CISI Mentor of the Year. It has been a privilege to share some of the knowledge and guidance I have received in the past from my mentors and from my experiences so far in the financial service industry.

Tsitsi Mutiti, Chartered FCSI

Inaugural winner of the Mentor of the Year Award, Tsitsi Mutiti, Chartered FCSI

Tsitsi Mutiti, Chartered FCSI, with her nominating Mentee, Beverley Aubrey ACSI

Tsitsi Mutiti, Chartered FCSI and Beverley Aubrey ACSI with our CEO Tracy Vegro and Chairman Michael Cole-Fontayn

Explore our Mentor of the Year 2024 articles in The Review