Mentoring
Your leadership journey, refined.
cto craft mentoring
We believe that great CTOs aren’t born, they’re crafted. CTO Craft offers a thriving community where you can connect, learn, and grow alongside your peers.
CTO Craft helps you navigate the challenges and opportunities of your role with greater confidence.
We provide mentorship, curated content, and events to help CTOs, tech and engineering leaders navigate the complexities of leadership, culture, technology and wellbeing, from scaling or downsizing teams, to driving innovation.
Whether you’re seeking support, expert advice, or connections with peers, CTO Craft is your go-to platform for growth, collaboration, and learning in tech leadership.
Join us and discover the power of a crafted leadership journey. We have a number of ways to Mentor and support our Members.
Mentoring options
CIRCLES
A Mentoring Circle is a year-long, monthly meetup of CTOs or tech leaders, guided by an experienced CTO coach. It fosters peer-led discussions, sustainable practices, confidence, and resilience, equipping you for long-term success.
Mentoring Circles help you “Level Up Your Leadership” by connecting you with a supportive peer group and an experienced CTO coach. Gain guidance, feedback, and a strong network to enhance your leadership skills and grow professionally.
Mentoring Circles help you:
- Build a trusted network of peers
- Collaborate in a carefully selected group
- Receive guidance from an expert CTO facilitator
- Share experiences and accelerate personal development
Coaching
CTO Craft offers One-on-One Coaching, connecting you with experienced CTO coaches who specialise in mentoring and leadership development. Our service matches you with the right coach to help you achieve your personal and professional goals, and tackle specific challenges.
Coaching can support areas like leadership growth, stress management, and overall well-being. Through individual sessions, your coach works with you to create a customised plan, offering targeted guidance, feedback, and encouragement.
Because our coaches are CTOs themselves, they understand your unique challenges, ensuring relevant, practical advice. Coaching is flexible and can be delivered via in-person meetings or virtual calls to suit your needs.
CAMPUS
Campus offers a wealth of knowledge, case studies, and real-world insights from CTOs and tech leaders. As a member, you’ll join our dynamic Slack community—a hub for connecting, collaborating, and exchanging ideas with like-minded professionals.
Members share valuable insights through articles, videos, and other media, created by CTOs for CTOs, providing you with relevant, actionable advice whenever you need it.
EVENTS
CTO Craft is a vibrant community of over 15,000 CTOs, tech leaders, and innovators, providing a platform to connect, share challenges, and build meaningful relationships.
Our events are thoughtfully designed to encourage both formal and informal networking and mentoring, ensuring the connections you make extend beyond the event, enriching your career and professional journey.
Grants & Scholarships
Grants for mentoring
CTO Craft, in collaboration with Skiller Whale, is offering grants totaling £100,000 to support its members in enhancing their engineering teams’ skills. These grants range from £2,500 to £15,000, tailored to the unique needs of each organisation, and aim to empower teams through targeted, live coaching. The initiative is ideal for CTOs who need to bridge skill gaps or align their teams with a strategic tech vision.
Key Features
- Live, Expert-Led Coaching: Skiller Whale’s sessions are led by expert engineers in a modular format (60-90 mins), designed to be hands-on, feedback-driven, and directly applicable.
- Diagnostics and Customisation: The program begins with a skills diagnostic to identify team needs, aligning training with tech goals.
- Flexible for Team Size: Suitable for teams of 4-20 members focused on similar technologies, supporting both technical and human skills.
Scholarships
CTO Craft offers several Scholarship programs exclusively for our members:
Event Attendance: If you’d like to attend one of our events but need financial assistance, you can apply to have your fee covered through our Scholarship program. Simply complete the form provided.
Mentoring Circles: Joining a Mentoring Circle, priced at £2199+VAT annually, is a transformative experience. Scholarships are available for eligible candidates to make this opportunity more accessible.
Mentoring circle facilitators
Our CTO Craft Mentoring Circle facilitators guide group discussions, helping steer your leadership journey with expert insights and support.
FEEDBACK FROM our circles Members
We love hearing from our Community and Circle members – see how CTO Craft has helped them below
Nayur Khan, Global Head of Technical Delivery at QuantumBlack
“The workshop was incredibly insightful and very well run. It aimed to brainstorm through unconscious biases and fears around recruiting junior talent, and provide useful and practical tips to overcome them.”
Matt Varughese, CTO at Drover
“It was a great way to find new and practical solutions to various real challenges I have faced. Overall a fantastic opportunity to learn from others, who have been through similar experiences and can share their thoughts and advice.”
Dr Ole Moeller-Nilsson, CTO at Pivigo
“The CTO Craft mentoring group was fantastic; the various open discussions in a small group around a wide variety of topics really helped me build my confidence as first time CTO.”
Allistair Crossley, CTO at Coconut
“Taking part in a Circle whilst also launching a FinTech business was especially useful to me as I was able to raise a bunch of real-time challenges and get the group’s take every week, practice and report back the week after on results (CI with people!). By the end of the Circle I felt more confident, capable and equipped to discharge the role of CTO.”
Arif Shanji, Head of Development at Kano
“I think the sessions are brilliant and I’m learning a lot. There’s a good mix of participants at different levels. We’re going at a good pace with bite-sized material.”
John Plummer, Head of Development at Reevoo
“What I have appreciated most is being able to ask very specific questions about real situations and getting actionable feedback and also recommendations on tools and reading that would be useful in similar future situations.”
Guy Farley, CTO at Bought By Many
“The CTO Craft Mentoring Circle was a great learning experience and huge fun. Our Coach had a model to share for every conceivable management situation and it was great just to share experiences, and frustrations, with other CTOs.”
Charaka Goonatilake, CTO at Panaseer
“A truly unique coaching experience – providing sorely needed support for technical leaders. It’s a hugely effective concept to bring together individuals leading technical organisations together with a seasoned CTO to discuss problems and actionable solutions.”
Tom Watson, CTO at Hubble
“The Circle was an amazing experience. Not only was the coach great but hearing from other CTOs with similar challenges at different stages was equally as valuable. I feel a lot more equipped to manage as the company grows and changes.”
Marcus Lambert, CTO at Omobono
“The Mentoring Circle has been outstanding – it has helped me to reflect on my leadership style, identifying areas for improvement and helped me communicate clearly with my teams. As I direct result of an idea/perspective we had in the circle, I have made 50k cost-saving at Omobono, highly recommended.”
Emanuele Blanco, CTO at Moneyfarm
“I heard about the great CTO Craft community from a fellow CTO and was glad to join. There’s lots of different experiences and points of view, and I felt I could both get and give back to the community.”
Sarah Hale, Director of Engineering at Unity
“The Mentoring Circles in particular have been a highlight – having an experienced coach facilitating discussions between engineering leaders from different backgrounds who are facing similar challenges has been incredibly valuable.”
Jon Topper, CTO at The Scale Factory
“The Mentoring Circle was extremely valuable – it was useful to be able to talk openly about our challenges, gain insights and new perspectives from other attendees, and to learn new tools and techniques useful to the CTO role.”
Claire Donald, VP Engineering at MOO.com
“Being part of a Mentoring Circle has been a very valuable learning experience. I’m able to connect with other leaders outside of my own industry, where we can share knowledge and give advice on our own individual challenges”
Meet our coaches
Circles and One-to-One Coaching Programmes are facilitated by experienced former CTOs from businesses like Made.com, Secret Sales, MyDeco, Photobox, Graze and more.
