Frequently Asked Questions

About Business and Well-Being/Life Mentoring

Q. What is the difference between a mentor and a coach?

A. Coaching is a dimension of mentoring and not the other way around. A coach is task and performance-focused toward specific goals. A mentor has a developmental focus. Two different perspectives and ways they work with you. A competent coach and mentor have the same desire to help you grow and become a better leader, performer, and human.

We build competencies in business ownership and leadership. We are immersed in the process as you implement and tweak new skill sets. Mentors teach new skills as the learner implements new ways of leading. An effective mentor knows when a client needs support, encouragement, and a nudge to grow.

We work to develop an underlying friendship over time based on trust, accountability, and mutual understanding that both of our best interest is being considered in a relationship. Our relationship is not transactional. We equally shift as we grow to understand one another and share our learnings.

We improve how we communicate and connect with others by learning what it feels like to be in healthy relationships and get our needs met. It is so gratifying to have clients become friends and improve all of their relationships as a result. To become great at anything it takes practice and lots of do-overs and perseverance. We learn by taking risks, getting feedback, and making mistakes. We have room for do-overs. Progress not perfection is our motto.

WeMentor by building a resilient mindset and discussing your well-being openly. We address your immediate needs, shore up business development gaps, expand relational literacy, and build upon your entrepreneurial leadership skillsets with short-term value-based goals and a long-term perspective. We address all aspects of one’s life and business.

We do complex things by creating the time for heart conversations as our relationship evolves and changes. You don’t have to guess or wonder what is happening. We share our insights. We use our influence to share power through a collaborative learning process as you expand and increase your ability to relate in healthy ways as you lead and mentor others. Courage is built one layer or block at a time.

“Even a 10% increase in relational literacy can improve all of your relatings,” says Melanie Joy, Ph.D.

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Join your peers to become relationally literate and learn the mindset, heart space, and skillsets of innovators and entrepreneurial leaders changing the world for the better.

Q. How do I know I have the right mentor?

A. “The undistinguished teacher/mentor/parent tells.

The good teacher/mentor/parent explains.

The great teacher/mentor/parent demonstrates, collaborates, and inspires.” -Nancy A. Meyer, M.A.

Through our mentoring process, we will empower you to think more deeply, act, and lead more effectively. We invest in your evolutionary leadership journey, not control it or have control over you. You are in charge of your path. We look to you to assert self-leadership and take charge of all aspects of your life and how you lead.

We collaborate with you to set strategic value-based goals, help you overcome barriers as you evolve and innovate, and sort out what you feel you need to learn. We inspire you to live your values by becoming skilled in practicing integrity and honoring dignity in every interaction while building upon your business acumen. Nancy calls this Dual Innovation Leadership because you redefine how you lead while redesigning your business. We encourage bravery by helping you do the heart things.

Nancy is exceptionally skilled at exploring opportunities and turning workable ideas into reality. She can help you understand how you lead and become more profitable in your venture.

WHAT DO YOU NEED? We would love to know. Please complete our brief survey HERE.

Our mission is to be part of the change you wish to make in the world. We lead by expanding an entrepreneurial leader’s capacity to lead. We mentor by collaborating with you to co-create a plan. We role model equality, inclusion, healthy relating, resiliency, wealth creation, and accountability. We value wholehearted living and leading (compassion, courage, and grounded confidence).

When WeMentor, you design an integrated life and an interdependent future:

As a Resilient Leader/Innovator,
As a Competent Business Owner/Practitioner,
As a Mentor/Role Model, and
As a Spiritual Being and Self-Leadership Master!

Q. Why do I need a mentor?

A. Great leaders hire skilled mentors and coaches to gain the following skill set required in Self-Leadership Mastery. Why? We need feedback and insight to acquire a less attached view of ourselves. We need “relational literacy,” according to Dr. Melanie Joy, “the understanding of and ability to practice healthy ways of relating – is essential for personal, social, and ecological transformation.”

According to developmental psychologist Susanne Cook-Greuter, only 3% of people have mastered the art of observing and managing themselves. We are not taught relational literacy. We can increase that percentage with your collaborations and training with competent mentors. We can practice integrity and honor one’s dignity in every interaction. We can expand our consciousness and be more present.

Suppose that isn’t convincing enough for you to hire a coach or mentor. How about this sobering fact? “While the path to building a great company is narrow, there are many ways to succumb to catastrophic decline and failure.” —Jim Collins (2020, Beyond Entrepreneurship 2.0: Turning Your Business into an Enduring Great Company, p. 169).

Great mentors guide you along the narrow path to building an enduring legacy. They can encourage swimming in the middle of a river flowing with the current instead of trying to swim upstream. Or, as actor and producer Michael Douglas put it, “a great mentor can save you a lot of pain.” Learning relational literacy and simultaneously expanding your business acumen with a mentor can help you increase the odds of building a healthy legacy worth passing on. Isn’t that something worth pondering?

Q. How much does it cost to reach self-leadership mastery, boost one's business acumen, and build an enduring legacy?

A. It depends on your goals, project timelines, and the pace of how you evolve. Evolving leaders learn that being resilient leaders is inevitable. They are eager to invest in self-leadership development and build business competencies because they know it is part of the innovation process and builds confidence grounded in reality.

Nancy works with you on the length of time and the pacing. Think in terms of years and phases, not months. Nancy has many resources and will help you find other mentors.

The interest in finding a mentor begins with a nudge or an internal desire you have to change something.

The need for mentoring can also arise from a crisis forced upon us, like responding to the coronavirus pandemic and its variants from 2020 to 2023. The global shutdown was the crisis that forced us to change our lives and how we do business. We needed to respond immediately and creatively to generate cash and adapt to the changing needs of our clients or end users. We start the mentoring process where innovation begins, with you and your curiosity.

Mentoring Options:

One-on-one strategic mentoring sessions range from $300/session to $3,000/month, or more, depending on goals and project timelines.

WeMentor LABs. Together we figure out the best LAB for you of the three LABs offered with an investment of $60 to $295 monthly.

Another resource for developing leadership skills is here.

Q. How do I know I have the right mentor?

Q. What qualities do I look for in an effective mentor and how long do mentoring relationships last?

A. Entrepreneurship and business ownership are quite an unexpected self-discovery journey at every turning point. Consider learning from many mentors your entire life. One criterion in picking your next mentor could be considering someone one or two years from where you want to be.

You will know intuitively when it is time to transition to a new mentor or take a break. Some mentors become lifelong friends.

Effective mentors foster long-term change, expand your awareness, offer wisdom, constructive feedback, and insight. They have a purpose and are invested in helping you realize goals through accountability, education, and clarity of purpose.

An effective mentor inspires you to understand and own your history instead of outrunning it. Imagine uncovering new things about yourself that you can bring forward through your venture. You get to co-create your future with new tactics, tools, and strategies for massive implementation and action to realize an evolving vision for your business and life—simple, intentional steps day after day.

Q. What are the next steps?

A. You can take these steps:

1. Join our WeMentor Self-Leadership Community. Start by subscribing to WeMentor Mondays With Nancy PODCAST, HERE!
2. Due Diligence: Who is Nancy? Find out HERE!
3. Why is Nancy doing a podcast? Listen HERE!
4. Scroll down this page. Explore three WeMentor LAB options.
5. Schedule a One-on-One Mentoring Session with Nancy.

Client Testimonials

WeMentor Mission

Our mission is to be part of the change we want to make in the world. We lead with unconditional love and harmony in money matters, relationships, and mentoring others as they evolve with their businesses. We role model equality, justice, healthy relating, financial responsibility, and accountability. When WeMentor, you design an integrated life and an interdependent future: * As a Resilient Leader/Innovator, * As a Competent Business Owner/Practitioner, * As a Mentor/Role Model, and * As a Spiritual Being/Master of Self-Leadership!

WeMentor LABs and On-on-Ones

3 Types of LABs and One-On-One Strategic Mentoring Sessions

WHY WeMentor

You Desire A Change.

We collaborate with you to do what will work for YOU in redefining how you lead as you redesign your business! We start with where you are, whether turning around a financial crisis, growing to the next level, or somewhere in between. We address your immediate needs, shore up business development gaps, expand relational literacy, and build upon your entrepreneurial leadership skillsets with a short-term results orientation and a long-term perspective.

Nancy founded WeMentor, inc. in 1992 to change the leadership in this country by mentoring a concept she developed called Dual Innovation Leadership. The ability to evolve how you lead as you redesign your business model. Now it is in vogue to address your emotional needs while leading others. Brave leaders take charge of how they evolve and learn how to respond to the unpredictable nature of business ownership by innovating on purpose. Nancy is exceptionally skilled at exploring opportunities and fettering workable ideas to bring into reality.

We know that Dual Innovation Leadership works from the inside out! You can redefine how you lead as you redesign your business. We have mentored thousands of business owners in various industries as they evolve and reach their aspirations. WE are here to co-create a mentoring process where you can take charge of how you innovate as you consciously create a new future and realize your dreams. Let’s get started.

Our Mission

Our mission is to be part of the change you wish to make in the world. We lead by expanding an entrepreneurial leader's capacity to lead. We mentor by collaborating with you to co-create a plan. We role model equality, inclusion, healthy relating, resiliency, wealth creation, and accountability. We value wholehearted living and leading (compassion, courage, and grounded confidence). When WeMentor, you design an integrated life and an interdependent future: *As a Resilient Leader/Innovator, *As a Competent Business Owner/Practitioner, *As a Mentor/Role Model, and *As a Spiritual Being and Self-Leadership Master!

One-on-One Strategic Mentoring Sessions

Great leaders hire skilled mentors and coaches to gain the following skillset required in Self-Leadership Mastery and life success. Why? We need feedback and insight to acquire a less attached view of ourselves. We co-create a success plan that will work for you as you evolve as a leader and redesign your business. An introduction to Dual Innovation Leadership where you evolve how you lead while redesigning your business. We do what works.

Dual Innovation Leadership LAB

An explorers' path to redefine how we lead while redesigning our businesses. Nancy calls this Dual Innovation Leadership. Become the leader you envision yourself to be in a group setting with other business owners.

WHAT AM i MADE FOR LAB

This Lab is based on Nancy's book, "What Am I Made For? Incubate and Birth Big and Little Ideas." Learn, practice, and assert self-leadership mastery on the ascent to a higher plane of innovation consciousness as an entrenovator; a WeMentor Conscious Intuitive Leader and Mentor. Create resiliency within yourself and your venture as you redesign your future. Each LAB starts with where you are as a solopreneur, president, CEO, partner, or another executive role in a business.

WeMeditate and Do Yoga with Nancy LAB

To broaden your human capacity for awareness, resiliency, innovation, and focus. Actively integrate your mind, body, and breath with a regular practice you can sustain over time. Mindfulness yoga and meditation are for e-v-e-r-y-b-o-d-y, including you! Join your peers. Click on the heading to sign-up.

Client Case Studies

WeMentor LAB Results

A president working in a technology firm being considered to become a shareholder with two partners. She joined WeMentor to sort out: 1. the dynamics between the two partners, 2. decide if she wanted to buy into the company, and 3. help with the strategic direction of the company. During the 18-months of strategic mentoring sessions, it became clear that the two partners were not getting along and were driving the company deep into trauma and drama. The President was able to maintain her professionalism while being truthful with both partners in providing options for them to work out this partnership. The partners chose not to clean up the chaos and dysfunction. As a result, with Nancy's mentoring, the President helped stabilize the staff while she secured a healthier executive role with another company in the same field. Her husband was much happier, too!

Always an entreprenuer, this owner has had two other successful ventures prior to his current one. He vowed not to bring in any partners, since it negatively impacted him and the growth of his past companies. In the media arena, he has experienced growth through sales and acquistions of other small ventures. He came to WeMentor for a focused WeMentor E.L.M. LAB experience where he could plan, practice leading differently, troubleshoot, and brainstorm with peers. He was open to being challenged to grow into becoming a more effective leader. He had a learning difficulty and was unable to write. As a result, he developed an amazing mind and elephant like memory. Where he needed mentoring was with getting his thoughts on paper, organizational and time management training, and in learning how to stop procrastination on resolving people conflicts. His technical expertise provided a training ground for those in his media production education programs, where he was extremely influential in mentoring others. Within two years, we helped him stabilize his business while he gained focus, purpose, and aligned his resources to support a more meaningful mission. During this time we also helped him after his divorce to reinvent himself, attract a new life partner, and improve his relationship with his two children.

A management level executive at General Mills left to purchase a convenience store and gas station franchise. With his wife, he ran the store for a couple of years. Their two teenage sons and daughter also pitched in to help out. As the store grew in sales, his wife went back to her nursing career and he hired help to fill her position. The owner joined a WeMentor E.L.M. LAB to break the isolation he was experiencing, gain focus, get feedback from his peers, and tryout new ways of leading. After running his store for another two years, we continued working with him as he clarified his vision to build a new convenience store and gas station with the same franchisor. We connected him with a resource to find a location and new development to purchase. He also gave up his dictator-type leadership style. New processes and systems were implemented to run both stores. A position of general manager was created and an accountability system implemented. Net profitability since working with WeMentor, the owner has told us has increased to over 55%. His two sons now run the franchises.

An advertising executive left her position to purchase a recruiting firm with her husband. Her husband offered human resource expertise in the background. The owner sought our mentoring services to learn how to run a business and handle the financial pressure to meet payroll. During our three-year business mentoring relationship, we worked with her on every aspect of developing her values and nurturing the culture to exemplify those values. The business was not doing as well as what showed on paper when they purchased the business. She learned how to hire and fire staff and mentor them and learned the recruiting industry which was a new field for her. She became financially astute in the process. After experiencing success at turning the venture around, her noncompete with her prior company ran out so she started a recruit ad agency with another partner. All of her personal and professional relationships shifted as her lifestyle, values, and life purpose were aligned more succinctly. She eventually sold both businesses to her employees.

A marketing director and artist by trade decided to leave a large firm to start his own venture. He struggled six years before making the decision to get professional mentoring help. His inadequate feelings as a financially astute business owner, manager, and mentor of his employees were bogging him down and skewering his view of life. Over the next three years we worked with him as he evolved into an internally strong, clear-headed, impactful leader. We put together a detailed strategic mentoring plan for his staff and an achievable sales plan with many needed variables. Through the planning process this owner made his mistakes on paper and was able to pull in his 15-year vision to merge with another company into making it happen during the time we worked with him. His thorough business plan made his venture more credible which in turn, put him into an excellent negotiating spot to sell the company for more and gain him a higher percentage of the stock ownership in the venture he merged with. He has since then moved on to another venture opportunity.

A manufacturer and designer of women's dresses, gowns, and band and dance costumes had been a seamstress and entrepreneur all her career. After 17 years of running her business experiencing incremental growth, she desired to grow differently and needed guidance in shifting her perspective. Over the next five years with us she refined her line of clothing, expanded her space, let go of some long time employees that hadn't been a fit and needed to go, she gained control over her finances. Managing and mentoring others has never been her forte. Her relaxed work environment and brash communication style demoralized people in the work environment. Over time she has tapered her communications as her vision and values were crystallized. It has taken several years to feel the positive financial impact of the expansion of her manufacturing space and increased national exposure. Effective marketing strategies and selling items over the internet have opened an unexpected avenue for another revenue stream. They are still in business.

An entrepreneur who founded a public relations firm five years prior to joining a WeMentor E.L.M. LAB, was making good progress in her field and business. Over the next five years of working together, she facilitated a LAB, continued being in her own group, and worked one-on-one to complete a thorough business plan, implementing and refining her plan as we went along. We brought her vision to be a Minnesota State Legislature forward by convincing her she could sell her business instead of just closing it. Until then, she had not heard of a public relations firm being sold before. She sold her business, and won her first and second-term seat in the Legislature. In addition, she was appointed to serve as the trainer of the 14-member freshmen Republican House legislative class. Her zeal and clear vision opened other opportunities for her to redesign her life as she reinvented her next best self.