The Art of Mentoring for Associations: A Conversation with Alex Richardson

In this episode, we talk to Alex Richardson, CEO and co-founder of The Art of Mentoring. He joins our hosts Steven Stout, FASAE, CAE, and Katy Markert for an engaging conversation wrapped around, what else – mentorship! They chat about the importance of mentorship in the association space, taking advantage of untapped expertise, setting up a formal mentorship program, qualities of a good mentor (and mentee), and the value of belonging to an association.

Better By Association is produced by Association Briefings.

Show notes

Alex Richardson is the CEO, co-founder and tech enabler behind Art of
Mentoring, a HR technology company that designs strategic mentoring
programs for corporates, associations and government departments in
Australasia and North America.

Alex co-founded of Art of Mentoring alongside his mother, global mentoring
expert, Melissa Richardson in 2013. The combination of Alex’s deep
understanding of technology and Melissa’s mentoring mastery presented an
opportunity to leverage technology to mobilise strategic mentoring programs
and help associations attract, develop and retain their members.

Whilst mentoring has been an important part of Alex’s life, he also has a
passion for music that runs deeps, which saw Alex study sound engineering
and go on to produce albums throughout Australia, Africa and Brazil. Agile,
adaptive, and technologically creative, Alex has been instrumental (pardon the
pun) in the development of mentoring technology from the ground up. His nous
for establishing long-standing relationships with partners and clients, has
propelled Art of Mentoring into the HR Tech sector, and he’s not slowing down.

Alex has built some of the world’s largest mentoring programs across a variety
of sectors such as Government, Defense, Membership Associations and
Corporates in countries all around the world. He specializes in programs that
create transformational mentoring relationships, shift culture and solve
complex problems. Under his leadership, Art of Mentoring will continue to push
the boundaries of unlocking the potential of powerful relationships enabled by
technology.