Driving Personal and Professional Development Through Mentorship at AMD

Mentorship plays a vital role in fostering a culture of growth and collaboration. By sharing their knowledge and experience, mentors help develop the next generation of leaders, while mentees gain valuable insights, skills and confidence. For AMD, mentorship strengthens employee engagement, enhances cross-functional collaboration and contributes to a thriving, high-performing workplace.

In 2024, we launched the AMD Mentoring Programs, ranging from skills-based to broader career development initiatives. The two skills-based programs – Technology and Engineering Skills and Business and Corporate Functions Skills – are designed for our technical and non-engineering employees respectively. They help mentees develop skills through three-month relationships with mentors. Career Mentoring enables participants to create career plans and strategy through nine-month relationships, and I-WIL (International Women in Leadership) is focused on the personal and professional development of our global talent.

Another program, emERGe, is for members of AMD Employee Resource Groups (ERGs). Designed to empower participants, emERGe integrates inclusion-focused content to inspire meaningful personal and professional growth, while leveraging mentorship to amplify innovation and enhance business performance.

emERGe started out as a limited pilot, with 674 mentoring relationships in 2024. We use a matching tool to pair and guide participants, survey mentees monthly and provide a resource library with videos, getting started guides, mentoring action plans and evaluation forms.

The program has been successful so far, with an overall satisfaction score of 4.8 out of 5. To increase its reach and impact, we will open emERGe to all ERG members and adopt an open-program design, enabling participants to enter, exit and extend a relationship based on both parties’ needs.

“Mentoring has been one of the greatest accelerators in my career, and even now, I continue to be mentored by AMD leaders. Their investment in me is invaluable and has afforded me opportunities that have altered the course of my professional journey in immeasurable ways,” said Mark Pearson, corporate vice president of talent, AMD.

Originally published in AMD 2024-25 Corporate Responsibility Report