Leadership & Mentors
MentorShop is your gateway to an extensive and continuously evolving multidisciplinary network of leaders, influencers, sector champions, NXDs, research specialists, mentors, coaches, trainers, strategists, and other professional service providers.
BOB CREIGHTON, MBE
CAPITAL, COACHING & CONSULTANCY
Bob is Chairman of MentorShop, a co-located US and European business development consultancy, and an advisor to a number of high-growth technology companies in Europe and the US.
Bob was made an MBE by Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth and has also been honored with appointments to the Smithsonian in Washington DC. He is also the recipient of the 2020 National Tartan Day Award. He is a past President of NHSCOT and currently chairs their Council of Advisors. He is also founder of UI-Global.com.
NANCY FULTON
EXPERT IN PUBLISHING, PRODUCING, PROMOTION, PRACTICED IN SOLVING START UP & GROWTH PROBLEMS QUICKLY
Seasoned serial entrepreneur with decades of experience in creating content and technology across media including print, podcasting, documentary, and feature film development.
Very experienced marketing and PR leader, who has helped thousands of individuals and companies get the attention they deserve. Effective event organizer, community builder, and search engine & AI marketer.
Seasoned business mentor and mentoring team manager, with experience supporting new business owners in the US, UK, Romania, Africa, etc. Has consulted for Autodesk Inc., Walt Disney Imagineering, Frank Gehry & Associates, Arup Structure Engineers, THUMS Islands, UCLA, ITT Tech, School for Creative Startups, Advanstar Media, Eve Brandstein’s Poetry in Motion, Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, and delivered training and support to thousands of individual, producers, and publishers through NFM24.
THAÏS DARBLAY
CAREERTECH FOUNDER • WORK PSYCHOLOGY ADVOCATE • FUTURE OF WORK STRATEGIST
Thaïs is the co-founder and CEO of Jurni, an AI-powered career navigation tool that helps individuals identify the roles where they’ll naturally thrive and perform. The paltform is grounded in 25+ years of work psychology expertise and built for the reality of today’s non-linear career paths.
Her work sits at the intersection of human motivation, emerging technology and organizational performance. Having spent a decade navigating her own professional pivots before building Jurni, Thaïs brings both personal depth and methodological rigour to the question most companies are quietly struggling with: how do you retain talented people when they don’t know where they fit next, and neither do you?
Through Jurni, Thaïs is now bringing this methodology inside companies, helping organisations tackle internal mobility and talent retention by starting where most frameworks don’t: with the individual. Her focus is on building environments where employees don’t just stay, but genuinely thrive in their next move.
JIMM MELOY
PRODUCT, EDUCATION & MARKETING STRATEGIST
MentorShop Co-Founder and seasoned strategic advisor with more than 30 years experience in education and professional development, design technologies, corporate pivots, and helping businesses, cultural and non-profit organizations manage growth & transitions, productize and scale & reframe their identity, using contemporary techniques like Chasm Modeling & Job to be Done, PR/FAQ & AI.
A Seasoned Mentor with experience in the US, UK, EU & Saudi Arabia. Career has led from Academia to Worldwide Director of e-Learning & Training for Autodesk and VP, Marketing & Products of CADKEY to NFP organisations Board Member, successful Entrepreneur and Author on e-learning. Based in New York City.
JENNIFER HOUSE, PhD
SPECIALIST IN EDUCATION FUNDING, ED TECH PRODUCT ANALYSIS, EXPERT SUPPORT FOR MARKETING PRODUCTS & SERVICES TO EDUCATIONAL MARKETS
Jenny provides intel to companies selling into education about funds institutions can use to purchase their products.
Jenny monitors funding policies at the federal, state and local levels to help companies strategize where to invest their personnel and resources to help grow their business.
Jenny works with C-Level teams to ensure product development plans align with current policy and funding requirements. This informs geomarketing activities identifying where and when to target their sales and marketing initiatives, including the marketing mix – product, price, promotion, and place.
Jenny provides professional development for marketing and sales teams to help them understand what funding schools can use to purchase their products. This includes how to identify the appropriate decision-makers with the money to buy the product, when and how to discuss optional funding sources, and tools – including corporate, community or private grants – that will help them accelerate final decisions.
Jenny is President of RedRock Reports, an education marketing and funding services company. A noted education market leader, Dr. House is a former teacher, reading specialist, school and district administrator, university instructor and educational technology innovator. In the private sector, she has led engineering education and marketing programs for Hewlett-Packard, Apple Computer, held executive positions with multiple startups and other leading K-12 organizations. She currently serves as an advisor to ed tech companies and venture capital firms investing in education. She has also served on non-profit and for-profit boards in both public and private sectors.
DAVID PENBERG, PhD
EDUCATOR, FACILITATOR, WRITER EXPERT IN LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT, PUBLIC SPEAKING, EXECUTIVE COACHING, EDUCATIONAL CONSULTING, WRITING, NON-PROFIT CONSULTING
David Penberg, Ph.D., is an urban and international educator, teacher, and writer whose work is rooted in place-based and intergenerational learning. As a facilitator, speaker, and critical friend, he partners with communities to cultivate more vital, joyful, and intentional cultures of learning and teaching. He currently serves as an education advisor and teacher with Agastya International Foundation (www.agastya.org). He is also a co-host of Educating for the World We Want, a virtual salon series for learners seeking a space of connection across borders and continents, where dialogue leads to acts that strengthen and deepen collective work.
MICHAEL CARTER, PhD.
STRATEGIC ADVISOR • INDEPENDENT DIRECTOR • LEARNING & TECHNOLOGY FUTURIST
Michael is an advisor to founders, funds, and institutions shaping the future of learning. For more than four decades, Michael Carter has helped organizations translate emerging technologies into meaningful learning experiences — spanning early academic computing, Apple’s education research initiatives, digital media & learning movements, and today’s AI-driven and game-based ecosystems.
He guides founders and leadership teams through innovation, growth, and strategic uncertainty, bridging research, design, and product strategy across education, media, and technology.
He has mentored global edtech ventures and social-impact initiatives operating across six continents.
He is a board member at a global HR firm and the non-profit Text Genome, which he co-founded.
He has held executive positions at Apple, Stanford, and several startups that span digital learning, simulations, games, and media innovation.
IDEJA BAJRA
AI ADOPTION · ORGANISATIONAL READINESS · PEOPLE & CULTURE · FUTURE OF WORK
Ideja is the Founder of Edvance AI, a consultancy focused on the people side of AI adoption. She helps leaders and teams across asset management, energy and insurance understand why AI initiatives stall – and how to build the readiness and capability needed to succeed.
Drawing on her own non-technical, cell biology background, Ideja bridges the gap between people and technology. She speaks regularly for organisations including TikTok and Salesforce, and at venues such as the House of Lords, always with the same focus: the human side of AI.
Prior to Edvance AI, she founded Based in Science, a STEM nonprofit recognised by the Prime Minister of Kosovo: an experience that taught her adoption is always about people first, technology second.
ANDREW NEMR
COACH · EDUCATOR · LEADERSHIP · CREATIVITY · TRANSITIONS · NON-PROFIT, FAITH-BASED & SPIRITUAL PROJECTS
Andrew is a coach for leaders who care about the people around them. For more than twenty years, Andrew has supported individuals and groups across creative and non-profit spaces turn challenging environments into clear actionable thinking.
He guides leaders and teams as they navigate transitions, find meaning in the midst of chaos, and learn how to actively engage in the journey of who they are becoming.
His own journey includes developing, producing, and delivering projects across the arts and culture, non-profit, and faith-based sectors. He has mentored leaders in three continents through the earliest stages of their pursuits and remains the founder of the Nemr Institute (for Spiritual Formation and Creativity).
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