Mentors

Become a Mentor: Or sponsor your staff to receive mentorship training where they’ll learn the transferable Leadership Skills needed to support a young woman on our empowerment programme.

For Professionals

Mentoring programme

If you’re an employee who wants to develop their management skills, while giving something back

Empowerment programmes 24, 25 and 26

For four months, beneficiaries weekly accessed:

One-to-one mentoring with carefully matched, networked and nurturing professionals, supporting participants to identify personal and professional goals and take actionable steps towards achieving them;

Ethos Farm's Story

February 19, 2025

Images and names have been changed to provide anonymity but our stories are real.

Mat Garner co-founded Ethos Farm, an award-winning specialists group for employee and customer experience that works with leading brands globally. He mentored Amara* (25) who completed the programme in November 2024. The key results for him were:

reinforcing his commitment to being an ally and offering support to those facing adversity;
helping to support young women in the workplace and giving them the confidence to succeed in finding employment and the skills necessary to succeed; and
understanding how he can support others from his position of privilege and experience.

“Mentoring for You Make It shines a light on how challenging the circumstances can be for some mentees,” says Mat. While his company had been involved with the programme for the last two years, he participated for the first time, finding the experience unique compared to his usual mentoring roles, which are often for employees within established companies. “It was extremely insightful and eye-opening to go on a journey that is very, very different to the usual mentoring roles.”

Initially, Mat had concerns regarding his ability to provide the best possible support for a mentee who had gone through very different life experiences to his own. “But the YMI team were fantastic. They gave some great training; it specifically went into detail about the nuances of this particular programme, which is ultimately working with people who don’t necessarily have the same level of privilege that I do. And seeing the world from their perspective, which is incredibly important.”

When he met his mentee, Amara, for the first time, both were slightly nervous. “So, the key was not to try and cover too much too quickly; it was just to find out a little bit more about each other, to understand the journeys that we’ve been on.” For the next 16 weeks, they would meet online and in person for an hour, gradually creating a framework for and path to the next steps in her life.

* Pseudonym