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Marketing Mentoring for Founders and Marketing Leaders

Structured, one-to-one mentoring that builds confidence, sharpens judgement, and accelerates your effectiveness as a marketing leader.

Marketing leaders from big brands...

the confidence gap

Why Business Leaders Seek Marketing Mentoring

Many founders and senior marketers reach a point where:

  • The responsibility has outgrown the support around them
  • Decisions carry more commercial risk
  • Confidence wobbles under pressure
  • They feel isolated at the top
  • They want a sounding board — not another opinionated consultant

At this stage, tactical advice is not enough. You need experienced perspective, structure, and challenge.

our solution

What VCMO Marketing Mentoring Delivers

VCMO’s Marketing Mentoring gives you:

✅ A trusted senior marketing mentor, Chartered with the CIM

✅ A confidential space to think clearly

✅ Structured guidance grounded in real leadership experience

✅ Commercial challenge — not comfort

✅ Practical frameworks to support better decisions

This is not:

❌ Coaching based on theory

❌ Motivation sessions

❌ Generic “business mentoring”

This is practical marketing leadership mentoringgrounded in real operating experience.

core outcome

You Lead With Greater Confidence, Clarity and Control

Through our mentoring process, you'll be able to:

  • Make better strategic decisions
  • Handle pressure with perspective
  • Improve how you lead and influence
  • Develop commercial judgement faster
  • Avoid costly trial-and-error
who we help

Who Marketing Mentoring Is For

This service is best suited to:

  • Founders leading their own marketing function
  • Heads of Marketing stepping into broader leadership
  • CMOs who want independent challenge and perspective
  • Senior marketers navigating scale, change, or pressure

If you are responsible for performance but carry the weight alone, mentoring provides the support structure that most organisations do not.

How the Mentoring Works

Whether you’re at the start of a leadership journey or navigating complex growth, we provide a structured path to stronger marketing outcomes.

This is not prescriptive consultingit is structured leadership development.

Scoping Conversation

Share your specific needs and current personal objectives with one of our mentors.

2-4 Sessions / Month

We typically schedule 2-4 mentoring sessions per month (90 mins each) that are conducted remotely. Transcripts are shared after each session.

On-Going Support

There is on-going email and phone support between mentoring sessions (based on a fair use policy).

Cancel When Confident

You can cancel our mentoring when you feel you can lead with more confidence.

still deciding?

Why VCMO's Marketing Mentoring Is Different

✅ Delivered by Chartered (CIM) marketing leaders

✅ Built on real board-level experience — not coaching theory

✅ Confidential and independent

✅ Commercially grounded

✅ Designed for people carrying real responsibility

Are you ready to be mentored?


Take our 3-minute diagnostic to assess whether our Marketing Mentoring is the right next step for you.

flexible & affordable

Engagement Options & Pricing

We offer flexible engagement options to suit both urgent challenges and long-term career development. Our pricing is reflective of the amount of time you need with our mentors.

Mentoring Plan Sessions / Month 3-Months Upfront (+ VAT) Monthly Thereafter (+VAT) Best For
Essentials 2 £2,250 £750 Founders or early-stage marketers needing accountability
Performance 3 £3,375 £1,125 Marketing leaders navigating strategy or team complexity
Executive 4 £4,400 £1,500 CMOs, succession planning, high-growth environments

Note: Minimum commitment is 3-months. You can change to a different plan or cancel anytime after month three.

cost of inaction

The Cost of Not Having Mentorship

Without structured senior mentoring, leaders often experience:

❌ Slow confidence development

❌ Repeated strategic mistakes

❌ Avoidable stress and burnout

❌ Poor stakeholder management

❌ Stagnant leadership growth

❌ Slower career progression

Experience still accumulatesbut at a much higher cost.

case study

VCMO Mentored CatSci Limited's Marketing Manager

CatSci Limited engaged VCMO to deliver mentoring for Caitlin, their Marketing Manager, to strengthen her strategic and technical skills while rebuilding the company’s marketing function.

What Happens Next?

Book a Confidential Mentoring Consultation

Your journey to increased leadership performance begins with a no-obligation call with one of our Chartered marketing mentors.

In 60-minutes we will...

✅ Understand your role, challenges and ambitions
✅ Determine whether mentoring is the right support
✅ Recommend the appropriate engagement model

If mentoring is not the right fit, we’ll tell you.

FAQ’s

Our mentoring exists to support the people carrying marketing responsibility — not just the businesses they lead.

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