The Hawaiian Business Mentoring program is a six-month program for Hawaiian professionals to enhance their skills and relationships as business professionals. The program incorporates elements of traditional mentoring practices, skills development, and professional networking. Through the program participants will meet more experienced professionals who are able and willing to be mentors and guides. The program is intended to teach participants of the value and ways of mentoring and to arm them with more tools and relationships to be more effective business professionals.

The program is built around four basic areas of discussion and development: Skills, Knowledge, Experience, and Relationships. The Skills area deals with demonstrable and valuable business skills common to many organizational settings. The Knowledge area is concerned with information about critical business topics that participants should be familiar with, such as Human Resources issues and Tax issues. The Experience area deals with the difficult issues that business people face and explores how such issues have been dealt with by others. The final area of Relationships focuses on the importance of and the ways of developing and maintaining relationships, such as those of the mentor and protégé.

The program includes four half-day seminars, with each seminar focused on one of the four areas mentioned. At the seminars participants and mentors engage each other, invited experts, and other guests in group and one-on-one discussions about various topics. The mentors in the program, along with the program staff, help to suggest topics for each seminar that would be useful, and then the program participants collectively choose some of the key topics of discussion.