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Vertical and Horizontal Mentors

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Last discussed Nov 10, 2026

A mentorship approach that pairs vertical mentors (experienced leaders a generation ahead) with horizontal mentors (peer groups facing similar challenges).

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Jon McNeill
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Used for: Career acceleration; quarterly peer group meetings to work through each member's biggest problem Praised: Peers look at a problem from a side angle while you look at it head-on; mento...

"There's a vertical mentor, which means somebody has been down the path ahead of you... Then there's horizontal mentors, which I found to be equally valuable, and those are peers that are going through the same stuff you are... So you need to have ..."

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