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As we navigate a rapidly changing landscape, our mission to empower ALL individuals to reach their full potential is more critical than ever. I am excited to announce that Mentor Collective is evolving from a peer-to-peer mentorship company focused exclusively on higher education to a leading mentorship provider across sectors, spanning Fortune 100 companies, nonprofit organizations, and professional associations. Through this expansion, we aim to drive meaningful change across the workforce by harnessing the transformative power of mentorship, bridging the gap between academic learning and real-world professional success, ensuring that learners are not just 'career ready' but 'future ready.'
We aim to drive meaningful change across the workforce by harnessing the transformative power of mentorship, bridging the gap between academic learning and real-world professional success, ensuring that learners are not just 'career ready' but 'future ready.'
- Erin Mayhood, Mentor Collective CEO
The pathway from ‘learner to life’ presents significant challenges for individuals and institutions. Students often grapple with aligning their academic experiences with workforce expectations, leaving them unprepared for the realities of employment. Concurrently, higher education institutions frequently operate in silos, which hinders guidance for students and collaboration among essential stakeholders, such as student services, career offices, and alumni networks. As these newly minted graduates enter the workforce, their struggles continue. Employers frequently encounter difficulties hiring recent grads who may not be ready to run, leading to retention issues and limited upward mobility. This fragmented journey from education to employment ultimately fails to support those involved.
So, how do we address this complicated yet necessary transition for hundreds of thousands of individuals each year?
The answer is mentorship. The quality of human connection that mentorship provides fills the cracks and gaps left by traditional policies, systems and funding.
- Erin Mayhood, Mentor Collective CEO
The answer is mentorship. The quality of human connection that mentorship provides fills the cracks and gaps left by traditional policies, systems and funding. We know this impact is transformative, backed by over 10 years of industry experience and the most comprehensive dataset on mentorship’s effectiveness. Mentor Collective is uniquely positioned to bridge institutional silos, align academia with business needs and effectively usher graduates into the workforce.
Our expanded vision aims to close the gaps between:
- Curriculum & Skill Development: Ensure students develop both technical and human-centered skills
- Durable Skills & Career Access: Help students apply what they have learned in real-world settings
- Experiential Learning & Employer Connections: Integrate mentorship into work-based learning and career services
Our proven mentorship models can be scaled to work-based learning, career and technical education, and workforce development, preparing students for real-world success. In addition, our extensive datasets yield actionable insights and help institutions build strong, engaged communities through a blend of quantitative data and qualitative feedback.
We invite you to join us in this mission. We aim to partner with higher education leaders to build alumni cohorts that actively mentor students, with employers looking to leverage mentorship as a strategic tool for attracting and retaining talent, and with philanthropic and policy leaders to invest in mentorship as a proven intervention for workforce mobility.
Together, we can illuminate the path to success for countless individuals and create a lasting impact across all sectors.
Join us.
Mentorship for All,
-Erin Mayhood, Mentor Collective CEO
We invite you to join us in this mission.
If you are an investor looking to partner with Mentor Collective, please email Erin Mayhood.