30 minutes per session
That's the whole time commitment. Short enough to fit into any week, long enough to change a career.
For business
Motivate your
people at work.
mentorhero turns your people into mentors supporting the next generation, giving back through short, structured sessions that create purpose, impact and brand awareness.
Why now
In a world of AI, give your people human connection.
The more AI does, the more your people value the things it can't replace: connection, meaning, and the feeling that their experience counts for something. mentorhero turns that into action, giving your people purpose beyond the everyday, while your business builds engagement, impact and brand awareness.
92%
of people are more likely to stay with a company that supports giving back
Workplace volunteering survey, 2025Our impact
Proof that 30 minutes changes everything.
mentorhero already connects the next generation with the people who have done the job, in every corner of the world.
30,000young people mentored each year
13,500active mentors across the globe
43mentors and mentees countries
The challenge
Help the next generation find a way forward.
Careers still turn on who you happen to know, and nobody teaches the next generation how to pay for life. Our partners are changing that, 30 minutes at a time.
- 01
A way into industry
Give the next generation direct access to your people, so they can understand your industry and see a future in it.
- 02
Skills that last a career
Provide the next generation with real conversations via your people that build the confidence, communication and soft skills to serve them for life.
- 03
A better shot at work
Reduce the risk of long-term unemployment for young people and give them the momentum to move forward.
Sharper leaders and communicators
Mentoring builds real leadership beyond the day job. Your people learn to inspire and motivate others, communicate more clearly, give constructive feedback and grow in confidence with every session.
Fresh perspective from the next generation
Mentoring runs both ways. Your people gain a fresh outlook on their industry, learn from a younger generation through reverse mentoring, and build the cross-generational understanding that makes them better at work.
Purpose, pride and recognition
Mentoring gives your people something meaningful beyond their role. They make a genuine difference in someone's life, stand out as people who invest in others, and become proud ambassadors for your business in the community.
The mission
To make career-defining conversations available to everyone.
10M
mentoring sessions a year
1M
mentors in the network
10K
partner organisations
How it works
A programme your team doesn't have to manage.
mentorhero saves your team time by handling onboarding, training, matching, scheduling and reporting. Your people show up to mentor, and the impact report lands with you ready to share.
- Step 01
Complete the eligibility check
Takes 2 minutes, a few quick questions to see if mentorhero is right for your organisation.
- Step 02
Receive your results by email
Instant results, with a clear picture of what your programme could look like.
- Step 03
Speak to an expert
A 15-minute digital call to walk through the programme and tailor it to your goals.
Step 04Launch your programme
Live within 30 days, with your mentors engaged and Academy training booked, run entirely by us.
- Step 05
Deliver scalable impact
Sessions run, trees go in the ground and your report fills up from week one. Measurable impact inside 90 days.
The mentor commitment
A 30-minute commitment, on your people's terms.
Each session is just 30 minutes, and your people choose how often they mentor, scaling up or down around work. Every session counts towards their volunteering hours, their development plan and your organisation's social impact strategy.
Booked around their schedule
Sessions slot around meetings and business-critical work, never the other way round.
As often as your people like
Once a month, once a week, their call. Mentors decide the rhythm that fits their life.
Scale up or down anytime
Ramp up in quiet periods, ease off when busy. No fixed quotas, no awkward conversations.
Counts as volunteering hours
Every session logs towards their volunteering commitment and your social impact reporting.
A tree planted every session
Each completed session plants a tree on their behalf. Real careers changed, real forests grown.
Mentoring topics
Topics your people can mentor on.
Your people have career experience worth passing on. These are the topics that matter most to the next generation.
Mentoring topics 1 of 11
One programme, every department
A programme the whole business benefits from.
One programme, many wins. mentorhero delivers across brand, comms, ESG, L&D and DEI, so the whole business benefits from a single commitment.
Brand & Comms
Turn your people into your brand's best advocates.
Films and photography captured across your partnership, edited, branded and handed over ready to publish.
Short films of your mentors and the people they helped, in their own words, cut for internal and external channels.
Every session puts one of your people in front of someone starting out. That is how a generation learns what your company stands for.
An agreed calendar of external social, comms and PR moments across the term, built around your impact and activity.
Why mentorhero
Serious backing for a serious mission.
Some of the most respected names in global business stand behind mentorhero, because they believe the next generation deserves better.
Dominic Barton
Chairman, Rio Tinto
Meagen Burnett
Group CFO, Schroders
Nicola Green
Chief Communications Officer, Virgin Media O2
Julie Booth
Chief Operating Officer, NEC Software Solutions
Global reach
A programme that works around the world.
mentorhero is built to run anywhere your people are. Mentors and mentees connect across time zones and borders, so a single programme reaches your whole workforce, wherever they sit in the world.
United Kingdom
Germany
Australia
Spain
Ireland
United States
South Africa
New Zealand
Netherlands
Canada
France
United Kingdom
Germany
Australia
Spain
Ireland
United States
South Africa
New Zealand
Netherlands
Canada
France
Sweden
Portugal
Finland
Greece
Norway
Czech Republic
Denmark
Lithuania
Austria
Belgium
Sweden
Portugal
Finland
Greece
Norway
Czech Republic
Denmark
Lithuania
Austria
Belgium
The Academy
Every partnership starts with an Academy.
A live event at your office that builds excitement, drives engagement and gets your people signing up as mentors.
How it starts
Live within 30 days, impact inside 90
Onboarding, training, matching, scheduling and reporting are all run by us. Your people show up for 30 minutes at a time and nothing else lands on your desk.
Day one
Every partnership starts with an Academy
A live event at your office that gets your people signing up as mentors, with two Academy days a year included.
Within 30 days
Live within 30 days
From sign off to the first sessions being offered. Onboarding, training, matching, scheduling and reporting all run by us.
Within 90 days
Impact inside 90 days
Sessions delivered and the first report ready to share with your board.
Everywhere
A programme that works worldwide
Mentors and mentees connect across borders, so one programme reaches every market you hire in, on one contract and one dashboard.
Why partner with mentorhero
Partner with us and your people become the programme.
You already employ people worth listening to. We turn that into a mentoring programme with reach, safeguarding and reporting attached, and no build on your side.
We will size a programme against the hiring and development goals you already have.
Talent pipeline before the vacancy
Your team meets capable people early, in the markets you hire from, with no agency fee to find them.
Managers who get real practice
Thirty minutes of listening and advice is the cheapest leadership rep your business will ever buy.
Retention through meaning
Senior people stay engaged when their experience is worth something outside their own team.
Impact you can evidence
Hours, sessions, countries and topics come back as figures for ESG, tenders and board packs.
- Time per session
- 30 minutes
- Countries covered
- 43
- Set-up work for you
- None
WHO DEVELOPMENT REACHES
A programme for the few, or half an hour for everyone.
Leadership schemes reach a shortlist. The same budget spread across 30-minute sessions reaches your whole workforce. Switch the toggle and watch the difference.
A workforce of 48026 reached
Every session is 30 minutes, one to one and digital, so it fits around work and study.
The benefits
Why companies partner with us.
What your business gets back when you put your people's experience to work.
- 01A visible social impact programme with sessions counted, not estimated
- 02Development for your own staff, who grow by mentoring others
- 03A stronger employer brand with candidates, customers and press
- 04Evidence for social value, ESG and tender submissions
- 05Access to a global mentor network across 43 countries
- 06A fixed, predictable cost with no per-session billing
- 07A dashboard showing uptake, topics and feedback in real time
- 08A tree planted for every completed session
In their words
30 minutes changes what someone believes is possible
I had applied for eleven jobs and heard nothing. One session told me what my CV was actually saying about me.
I give two half hours a month. It is the only volunteering I have ever kept up.
We wanted our people to feel developed without another day out of the diary. Short sessions did it.
The numbers so far
What the platform is built to carry
43CountriesMentors and mentees are matched across borders rather than within one city or one employer.
30Minutes a sessionLong enough for one real question, short enough that busy people say yes and keep saying yes.
1,248Sessions completedEvery session recorded on the public impact page, including the hours given and the people reached.
Before you ask
The questions we hear most
Is mentorhero live yet?
The platform is live and matching sessions now. Register and we will pair you with a mentor.
What does a session actually look like?
A 30-minute video call with one person who has done the thing you are trying to do, focused on a single question you set in advance.
Who is it for?
Students, job seekers and working professionals on one side, and experienced people willing to give half an hour on the other.