Mentorship Program

“A mentor is someone who sees more talent and ability within you, than you see in yourself, and helps bring it out of you.” — Bob Proctor

Program Overview

The MJAA Mentorship Program helps Asian professionals gain the skills and strategies necessary to become the leaders of tomorrow. Mentees are matched to a close-knit mentorship family led by an Asian executive mentor, who has excelled in their chosen field. Mentors provide personalized feedback for each mentee to help them achieve their goals, overcome career challenges, and accelerate their career growth.

The program also provides in-depth training through a series of focused workshops to develop key skills in business leadership, management, and communication.

Who Should Attend?

The MJAA Mentorship program is ideal for early- to mid-career Asian professionals with at least 3 years of experience in U.S. or global companies, looking to advance their management and leadership skills.
The program focuses on developing skills to help:

transition from an individual contributor role to their first management role.
Advance from first or second level managers into higher management and leadership roles.

Mentorship

Our Executive Mentors

We are honored to have these successful executives share their knowledge, wisdom, and experience with us. Their perspectives in framing problems, adopting the proper mindsets, and overcoming challenges related to diversity and inclusion, have provided the foundation on which mentees are able to build their own career success.

David Jeng

CEO, Wintec Industries Inc

Denise Peck

Executive Advisor, Ascend

Peter Chu

Board Member, Startup Advisor

View Mentor Profiles

Workshops

The program also provides in-depth training through a series of focused workshops to develop key skills in leadership, management, and communication.

2024 – 2025 Workshop Schedule

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Workshop Highlights

Below are just a few of the sessions you’ll attend as part of the program.

Effective Communication and Constructive Feedback

Communicating effectively is a critical skill for leadership growth; and ideally developed as early in your career as possible. In this workshop, you will learn frameworks for effective outbound communication.

Influence LEadership

Influence leadership is a competency that is needed in every stage of your career. Simply put, influence leadership is the ability to impact the behaviors, attitudes, opinions, and choices of others.

How to Tell a Compelling Story That Connects With Your Audience

In this personal storytelling workshop, long-time MJAA mentor and New York Times best-selling author Chris Yeh will explain the principles of storytelling, and how you can apply them to accomplish your professional goals.

2025 – 2026 Mentorship Program

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MJAA Mentorship Program

October 2025 – March 2026

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FAQs

The mentorship program focuses heavily on communication, professional development, and resolving issues in the workplace.

In order to ensure that all participants have sufficient understanding of the professional working environment to fully participate, we require candidates to have at least 3 years of professional working experience.

Ideal candidates will demonstrate a strong desire for continued self improvement, professional growth, and collaborative learning. Candidates may come from any industry.

Please feel free to contact us at [email protected] if you have any questions about the requirement or your specific experiences.

The Mentorship program is ideal for early to mid-stage career professionals.

There are generally 3 groups of mentees that benefit the most from the program:

1. Individuals looking to transition from an individual contributor role to their first management role.

2. Those who are already first or second level managers looking to advance to a higher leadership role.

3. Early stage founders looking to refine their communication and presentation skills.

The 2024 – 2025 Mentorship Program will be held in person.

Mentees are expected to attend all 6 workshops as well as family meetings in person except for emergencies or special circumstances.

While we do not have any specific geographic requirements or limitations, all events will be held in person in the SF Bay Area. Mentees are expected to attend all workshops and family meetings.

Starting in April our admission committee will be reviewing applications on a rolling basis.

Accepted applicants will receive notice of their acceptance via email within 2-3 weeks.

To guarantee their seat in the program, accepted applicants must complete payment of the program fee within 2 weeks of acceptance. After which time their seat may be made available to other candidates.

We will be accepting applications until all seats are filled. We advise you to apply as early as possible.

The mentorship program would involve ~10 hours per month from Oct 2024-Mar 2025:

-Workshops (4-8 hours each)
-Family Meetings (2-3 hour each)

Mentor groups are primarily formed based on the information provided in your program application.

Generally, group members will have a similar number of years of professional and management experience, as well as similar interests and professional goals.

Family members will often come from multiple different industries in order to promote a diversity of perspectives and experiences.

In order to provide a safe environment for open discussion no family will contain members from the same company.

Full day workshops begin with a networking breakfast before diving into the first workshop topic.

After the first session we will host a social lunch hour before heading into the second session.

The day will conclude with some closing remarks followed by a celebratory happy hour social.

Workshops are designed to be engaging and interactive so be prepared to get out of your seat and dive right into a case studies or role play activity.

Special Topic Dinners and Fireside are supplementary events that mentees will have the opportunity to attend throughout the program.

Special topic dinners serve as an opportunity for open discussion with executives over a casual meal.

Fireside Chats provide a small private interview style session with top executives, venture capitalists, and industry experts. Both formats provide ample time for audience questions.

The program will conclude with a celebratory lunch to celebrate the completion of the program. All mentees, mentors, guest speakers, and volunteers will be invited to commemorate the occasion.

Though the formal program will conclude, program alumni will continue to have access to speaker sessions and networking events hosted by our Alumni team.

Those especially interested in taking an active leadership role in the program are encouraged to volunteer for the upcoming year’s program.

The cost to attend the 2024 – 2025 Mentorship program is $1200.

Many companies provide reimbursements for professional conferences or continuing education that may cover the program fee.

Check with your manager or HR team to see if you are eligible for these benefits. If you need help with process feel free to contact us and we can provide email templates to help facilitate the process.

MJAA is a non-profit Organization and is completely operated by volunteers. Program fees are used exclusively to cover the cost of venues, speakers, and other expenses related to running the mentorship program.

Please reach out to us at [email protected]