Call for nominations: Mentor of the Year 2025
Who has served as a mentor multiple times and shown exceptional dedication to their mentees? Who deserves greater recognition as a role model?
These outstanding mentors can now be honored with the "Mentor of the Year" award. Nominations are being accepted effective immediately. Individuals and organizations are eligible to submit nominations, with a maximum of two submissions allowed per person or nominating organization.
The DGM board will select this year's winners from the submitted nominations. In addition to multiple terms of service as a mentor, selection criteria include a commitment to diversity within structured mentoring programs that meet DGM quality standards.
Nominations can be submitted until June 30, 2025 here .
The award ceremony will take place during the DGM annual conference on September 26, 2025, in Berlin.
More about the DGM
The DGM is the network for mentoring experts from business, government, and society. As an independent organization, it is committed to ensuring quality standards in mentoring and has developed a certification process for this purpose. Further information can be found here.
The DGM has been recognizing exceptionally dedicated mentors since 2018.
Previous winners
Dr. Tagrid Yousef, Mentor, including for the Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach Foundation, the Telekom Foundation for FundaMINT, the Heinrich Böll Foundation, and MentorMe
Rudi Hielscher, Mentor at MentorMe
Dinye Hernanda, Mentor in reverse mentoring programs
Rolf Mertens, Mentor for cross-mentoring in Düsseldorf and for the ERGO Group AG internal mentoring program for high-potential women
Weronika Dr. Priesmeyer-Tkocz, Mentor in the PolMotion mentoring program for Polish women at the association agitPolska e.V.
Dieter Gelzer, Mentor in the internal mentoring program at Cargill Deutschland GmbH and in the program for women’s career advancement in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
Claudia Zeimes, Mentor for programs including Aufsteiger and Cross-Mentoring Munich
Stephan Chrobok, Mentor in the internal EY mentoring program and at MentorMe
Karen Schallert, Mentor at iXNet-Mentoring of the Hildegardis-Verein e.V.
Kay Schäfer, Mentor in the Frankfurt regional mentoring program and in the internal mentoring program at Deutsche Börse
Nicole Riggers, Mentor at the Women into Leadership e.V. (IWiL) initiative
Dr. Birgit Vemmer, mentor for CrossMentoring OWL in Bielefeld
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