Coaching and Mentoring

The  purpose of FITCI's Mentoring Program  is to link clients with volunteer members of the local  community willing to share their successful  experiences.  A mentor is assigned to each FITCI client and actively meets with the client at least monthly to advise and consult on the client's progress towards a successful graduation. 

FITCI's volunteers are seasoned entrepreneurs who have already started and operated a successful business within Frederick County.  They have experience, wisdom, and influential contacts within a  particular industry segment or functional specialty that may be invaluable to start-up  companies. 

FITCI's volunteers have specialties in functional areas such as manufacturing, marketing, human resource management, or finance  or they may have more technologically or industry  focused specialties such as  Bio-defense research, pharmaceutical research, software marketing. Mentors will be selected based upon  the needs of the FITCI client as identified in the application  process.