Since 1987, IMA has been the premier source for best practice solutions and support of mentoring and coaching programs.

We're renovating …

Mentoring-association.org has been growing for quite a while, and if you've visited this site before, you know there is a vast amount of mentoring knowledge available to both members and nonmembers.

Now it's time to give our site a fresh new look. Over the next weeks and months current pages will be updated and new pages will be added in both the members and nonmembers areas.

We hope the changes we make will help visitors find the mentoring help and information they need more quickly and easily. Help us make this site more useful. Please give us your feedback on our progress.

Mentoring Best Practices

The International Mentoring Association (IMA) promotes individual and organizational development through mentoring best practices in public and private institutions, businesses and industry. This diverse and dynamic worldwide organization unites a broad cross-section of hundreds of individuals interested in the theory and practice of mentoring. Each member brings a unique experience and a fresh perspective from various fields of mentoring. Working together, IMA members share a common commitment to finding ways to increase the effectiveness of mentoring. Membership is open to all who support the objectives of the Association:

• Provide professional development activities for members of the Association and mentor program leaders
• Identify and maintain effective practice and research information on mentoring strategies and programs
• Facilitate effective mentoring and implementation of mentoring programs
• Provide a regular, public forum for learning about effective mentoring

Commitment to Our Diversity

IMA is committed to model and support a wider understanding of the term "diversity." All of IMA's activities and publications focus on building on the strengths provided by dialogue across all settings and contexts, all age and experience levels, gender, viewpoint, and every other difference. By working together through our common commitment to mentoring as a tool for increased learning and performance and our diversity as a strength, we can truly change the world.

Your Source for Mentoring Information & Experience

The International Mentoring Association (IMA) is committed to increasing access to the proven information and best practices that you need for planning, implementing, monitoring, evaluating, and improving the impact of your mentoring program and your personal mentoring and leadership.

This site comprises a huge resource for anyone concerned with the theory, research, and application of mentoring. While some of these resources are available to all visitors, access to many areas of the site is restricted to members only. Consider joining IMA if you are:

• A mentoring organization, a program director, or staff development leader
• An educator or education staff (from K-12 to graduate)
• A human resources or other business or non-profit professional
• A mentoring researcher, trainer or consultant
• A mentor, mentee or protégé

Learn more now about how to join IMA. Working together, we can accomplish so much more!

Member Resources

Find out how to access members-only resources while the site in being updated.

IMA Annual Conference

Get the latest details on the next IMA Conference. Don't miss it!

View the slideshow of photos from 2008 IMA Las Vegas Conference.