Mentoring Māori within a Pākehā framework is a challenge that faces many government agencies and corporate entities in New Zealand as they try to promote more Māori into management and upper management roles. Unless this process is considered and carefully managed it could give rise to unexpected outcomes such as resentment and dissention triggered by insensitive attempts to layer one set of cultural values on those of another. While the intentions may be good the pathways leading to hoped for outcomes are not identical for Māori and Pākehā. For example, the reductionistic approach to business management of Pākehā contrasts with the holistic approach arising out of the Māori world view and the individualistic or self-centred philosophies of Pākehā contrast with the group orientation of Māori. In this paper the two approaches to mentoring are compared and contrasted with the intention of reaching a studied and useful integrated approach to the mentoring of Māori  workers in a Pākehā framework