Stop running your business, team or department
alone.
Hand-picked expert mentors for leaders, founders and teams who are done figuring it out on their own.
By video · Wherever you are · A session in your calendar this week
Being a leader or entrepreneur is lonely.
I find it hard to make a decision.
I need a safe space to share my thoughts.
I'm anxious and feel like an imposter.
Our mentors carry scars and medals. They have built it and rebuilt it — so you never walk the hard road alone.
Strategic clarity · Revenue growth · Better decisions · Stronger leadership · Accountability · Operational clarity · Increased confidence · Long-term partnership
Not generic coaches. People who have done the thing.
Unlocked mentors are founders, operators, NEDs, sector specialists and senior leaders who have built, scaled, sold, funded, restructured and led real businesses.
Built and exited companies
Founders who have taken a business from first revenue through to a sale.
Raised funding and sat on boards
People who have stood on both sides of the table — raising it and investing it.
Led through growth and crisis
Operators who have scaled teams, restructured them, and held the line in hard moments.
Across every kind of organisation
Experience drawn from SMEs, scale-ups, corporates and public-sector programmes.
Specialists in their field
Finance, sales, operations, marketing, people and leadership — depth, not generalities.
Curated through The Experience Bank
A network built over a decade, verified before joining — lived experience, not job titles.
A mentor in your week, wherever you are.
Unlocked is an online platform. Sessions run by video — on a laptop in the office, a phone between meetings, a quiet kitchen on a Sunday. Wherever you do your best thinking, your mentor can meet you there.
By video
Sessions happen on your laptop or phone — anywhere with a camera and a signal.
From anywhere
A mentor for a founder in Edinburgh, a leader in London, a team between flights. Geography stops being the constraint.
In your calendar this week
Brief us in five minutes, meet three mentors who fit, book the one who is right. Most founders are in their first session within the week.
Mentoring changes the odds.
The evidence shows that relevant, timely mentoring improves confidence, resilience, decision-making and business growth.
Higher revenues for mentored business owners
Small Business Administration
Mentored start-ups survive 5+ years (vs 30% without)
Federation of Small Businesses
of SMEs report positive impact on growth & survival
Dept for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
Real decisions, moved forward by relevant experience.
“Finding the right fit is genuinely game-changing, particularly for a start-up where you're often navigating so much without a roadmap.”
Six hours that helped a SaaS go to market with confidence.
A sustainability ratings platform needed senior cybersecurity, data protection and policy expertise that is impossible to hire for at their stage. Six hours with a specialist mentor delivered exactly that.
“It led to me repositioning my offer which has given me more confidence to take things forward.”
“Angelina gave me actionable guidance and specific tasks to take away, and these were extremely useful. She was able to provide advice I would not have been able to access otherwise.”
From our most recent programme evaluation: 100% of participants said they would recommend mentoring to other business owners.
Stop running the decision alone.
Book a session with a mentor who has already faced the challenge in front of you, or speak to us about mentoring for your team, programme or organisation.