What Differentiates IMA From Other Organizations?

All Organizations That Offer Mentoring Are NOT Created Equal


If you could only join ONE professional organization, why should you pick IMA?

1. Many other organizations include some mentoring resources or sessions in their conferences as a PART of the MIX of the info they offer, but that information is narrowly focused & limited by the perspectives of their one setting.

2. Even if that one setting is the one in which YOU work, it is not nearly comprehensive or sufficiently in-depth to provide you with the huge success you want.

3. For assured success, based on best practice, you need to access:

THAT level of expert knowledge and support is only available from ONE place, the International Mentoring Association.


Since the IMA leadership and presenters are also members of other setting-based professional organizations, IMA can provide YOU with BOTH the breadth of knowledge about mentoring within every specific setting AND the in-depth knowledge which only comes from working and collecting best practices in mentoring across all settings.

At IMA, We DO IT ALL! As an IMA member and participant, YOU GET IT ALL!

Check out the following chart to see the level of expertise, resources, and support YOU can access through IMA membership.




This article was written by Barry Sweeny.

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