About Us
Our Story

I learned from John what it means to treat people well and the loyalty that results. I learned to trust my senior people and expect the most from them. I find, like you, that people live up to their expectations.
Beginnings
Founded 20 years ago by Mentor, Business CEO and Author John Bittleston, TerrificMentors is a group of skilled mentors and coaches with considerable management experience who share a passion for reviving human spirits and balance sheets; the two often go together.
Our Personal Mentoring Programmes like The PASDAQ Review and the Career and Jobs Programme have successfully helped some 4,000 people of all levels of education find jobs to build rewarding careers and personal prosperity. Those who want to improve their relationships with bosses, peers and others by being more socially and culturally competent sign up for our Handle Yourself and Others Better.
Targeted at business owners and leaders, TerrificMentors Corporate Mentoring Programmes provides strategic guidance through closed-door Strategy Mentoring sessions. We also conduct stimulating talks and workshops on Creativity, Leadership and Changing Workplace Behaviours. The eclectic combination of brains, experience and forecasting wisdom encourages new ways of management in a rapidly-changing world – and practical actions to deal with and benefit from those changes.
We continue to receive positive feedback and reviews of John’s fortnightly columns in TODAY Newspaper and his Business Nanny TV Programmes. His regular creative reflections on current questions are more than a blog in print. Our readers get the essential Third Opinion about what recent events mean for them as individuals and for the companies they own, manage or work for. His perspectives apply wisdom and commonsense to seemingly complex problems. Those who want a deeper perspective on these topics sign on for to THE MENTOR MOMENT, a monthly reflection emailed direct to you and posted on our website.
Our Commitment
All Terrific Mentors have been personally selected by John Bittleston. They observe the strict codes of conduct set by Terrific Mentors at all times and treat all our Mentees’ matters with total confidence. Our commitment is to building trust with our Mentees and corporate clients that allows us to work deeply with them on areas that are highly confidential and personal.

Corporate Mentoring
If management isn’t creative, today’s businesses will fail. The first job of a leader requires power to control and power to develop.
Personal Mentoring
Stuck in your career? Finding your work relationships difficult to handle? Stumped for creativity?
Mentoring Partnerships
Training and Mentoring system set up for universities and companies who want to start an in-house Mentoring Programme.Videos - May 30, 2013 21:24 - 0 Comments
Drink & Think [16 May 2013]
More In Videos
- Apartheid Dismantled
- Regulation and Reformation – How to Achieve the Balance
- What is Mentoring?
- Sean Flynn, Brotzeit Group
- Tracy Chia, Prudential Assurance Co (Singapore) Pte Ltd
Daily Paradox - Jun 19, 2013 5:00 - 0 Comments
Tough Love
by John Bittleston
Can’t see the player? – Click here.
We hear about tough love from time to time. It is meant to be a caring but disciplined form of control by parent or by manager. It conjures up images of barking Sergeant-Majors on the parade ground, or of bosses meting out unpleasant orders softened by an Ang Pow.
More In Daily Paradox
- Elevator Pitch
- Lessons From A Six-year-old
- The Leader’s Mentor
- Kissinger and Mandela
- Asleep At The Helm

John Bittleston
Eliza Quek
Sandy Oh
Mike Langton
Tan Chi Chiu
Denise Pang
Bob Gattie
Renyung Ho

