Lucy - Mentors information

Empower business students with your knowledge

Join our Lucy Program as a mentor and help shape the future careers of women and gender-diverse business students.

About Lucy

Lucy is a mentoring program in the Macquarie Business School for currently enrolled students in their second year and above who identify as women, including cis- and trans-women and gender-diverse students.

The program empowers students to identify the skills they need to become future leaders and map their career paths by establishing relationships between them and senior executives from the public, private and not-for-profit sectors.

Mentors commit to approximately 20 hours of mentoring throughout the program (May – October).

As a mentor, you will:

• guide a motivated leader of the future by providing career guidance, conducting goal-setting sessions, planning small work-based activities for your mentee such as attending mock interviews
• help your mentee improve their networking skills, confidence and awareness of work culture
• attend the program launch, a mid-session check-in, and end of program event to meet and network with other mentors and mentees
• learn fresh perspectives, new technologies and new ways of working from your mentee.

2026 Program timeframe

Mentor eligibility

• Women, men and gender-diverse people from the public, private and not-for-profit sectors.
• We particularly encourage professionals with at least 5-10 years' industry experience in team leading or managerial roles to apply.
• Mentors will be considered based on their industry experience in areas of business, these can include but are not limited to:
  • Accounting
  • Marketing
  • Finance
  • Economics
  • Business Analytics
  • Management

If you are unsure, please feel free to reach out and we will see if we can match you with one of our students.

Mentors do not have to be based in Sydney, Australia. We value mentors, their experience and contribution to mentee’s learning journey, and as such, encourage offshore mentors to apply too!

You should show a commitment to:

• spending time with your mentee
• sharing your personal and professional experience
• developing the next generation of leaders.

Why become a mentor

You will be given the opportunity to:

• guide future leaders in their career paths, by immersing students in your work environment and allowing them to observe and discuss business issues with you
• prepare your mentee for their career by encouraging them to think about the range of available career options and explaining ways of overcoming challenges experienced by women and gender-diverse people in the workplace
• share your skills and passion for your industry
• gain positive visibility and demonstrate you can work successfully with the next generation.

Register

Register your interest for the 2026 intake