Mentor Mindset: Mentoring For Success - Helping Candidates Thrive While Growing as a Mentor

Effective mentoring goes beyond helping candidates meet requirements. The most impactful mentors create supportive, accountable relationships that encourage growth, confidence, and professional excellence while developing their own leadership and coaching skills along the way. Join us for an interactive webinar designed for CPA Mentors who want to elevate their mentoring practice, navigate common challenges with confidence, and create meaningful learning experiences for their candidates.

Through a facilitated discussion with a panel of experienced CPA mentors, we'll explore practical approaches to fostering strong mentoring relationships, encouraging accountability, promoting candidate growth, and creating an environment where both mentors and mentees can thrive.

Key Themes

• Building strong, productive mentoring relationships
• Encouraging accountability and ownership in the mentoring process
• Supporting candidates through challenges
• Fostering a growth mindset and professional excellence
• Leveraging mentoring as an opportunity for your own professional development

Interactive Breakout Discussions

In addition to the expert panel discussion, participants will have the opportunity to join small-group breakout rooms hosted by experienced CPABC Mentors. These interactive discussions are designed to help you learn from peers, share experiences, ask questions, and exchange practical mentoring strategies in a supportive environment.

What You'll Take Away

By the end of this session, you'll leave with actionable tools, fresh perspectives, and a stronger network of fellow mentors, helping you make an even greater impact on candidate success while continuing to grow in your own mentoring journey.

Speakers

Jeff Chapman

For the past 16 years, Jeff has been helping high-net-worth families across Canada to succeed in doing business and wealth together, successfully through the generations.  Along with his partners and support team at Covenant Family Wealth Advisors, they accomplish this goal through broad service offerings in the areas of Financial & Estate Planning, and Business and Wealth Succession Planning. Covenant leads a collaborative effort involving the Covenant team, the family stakeholders, and the family’s other professionals to bring stability, efficiency and longevity to families’ wealth systems. Jeff is a CPA, CMA, a Fellow of the Family Firm Institute, and a Senior Consultant in The Birkman Method.

Jeff has been engaged in numerous mentoring roles including 10 years as a mentor for the CPA program and 6 years on the CPA Mentor Advisory Committee. Through his firm, Jeff also offers a mentorship program for business students, and he has recently become a mentor for the Family Firm Institute’s Global Education Network (Gen) program. Jeff enjoys mentoring and believes it to be a win:win process. Mentees gain encouragement, enhanced learning, and exposure to how things work in the “real world”. Jeff benefits from having to answer questions, articulate and even defend his thoughts, while learning new perspectives from his Mentees.

Nadine Haddad

Nadine Haddad, CPA, CPA, MBA, is the Director of Finance and Operations at British Canadian Importers Ltd. and a part-time professor at Vancouver Community College. With more than 30 years of experience in accounting, finance, and business operations, she earned her CPA designation in 2017 through a pathway similar to today's Experience Verification Route. A former volunteer with CPA BC's Mentor Advisory Group, she is passionate about mentoring CPA candidates, supporting professional growth, and helping the next generation of finance professionals succeed.

Troy Sinclair

Troy is the CFO at Commissionaires British Columbia, part of a national not-for-profit organization with more than 20,000 employees across Canada. The BC Division has a proud history of creating meaningful employment opportunities for former military members and RCMP personnel, and recently celebrated its 100th anniversary.

What Troy loves most about mentorship is its ability to accelerate growth for both the mentor and the mentee. Every mentoring relationship strengthens leadership skills, deepens empathy, and serves as a reminder of how impactful it can be to invest in others. In his words, ‘there is something incredibly rewarding about helping people recognize their potential and supporting them as they work toward their goals’.

Troy has been mentoring for over a decade, primarily in a PPR (Pre-Approved Program Route) setting. His mentoring relationships often form organically, which allows for open and authentic conversations. Within his organization, he’s had the privilege of mentoring his Controller from senior accountant to financial leader—an incredibly rewarding experience. In addition to mentoring through the CPABC Mentor Program, he also mentors with SFU Beedie “Mentors in Business” program, and has served on the CPABC Mentor Advisory Group and Capilano University Accounting and Finance Advisory Committee.

Note: This session is eligible for CPD hours if you are currently an approved and active Mentor.