What are the most exciting changes you've seen over the past 16 years?

There are two exciting changes. One is that where there was so little information and understanding, now there is almost too much! As well as about 106 million results if you Google "mentoring" there is a wealth of solid academic as well as practitioner resources available. There is less here in Australia than Europe and the USA but there is still plenty.

The other change is the move from the traditional idea of a mentor being older and wiser to the concept that mentors are partners and collaborators whose different experience is what adds value.

Mentoring is used in many more ways than ever before. I work mainly in corporate and government organizations with a focus on career, personal and professional development and leadership. But mentoring helps youth, disadvantaged people, community and small business groups, the arts, 
and science in fact the applications are only limited by our imagination!