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The Academy: live launch event

One hour. Your people walk out as mentors.

Most programmes launch with an email nobody opens. The Academy puts your people in one room, shows them what 30 minutes can do, and gets them signed up before they leave.

Enrol your teamSee the run of show
Runs for
60 minutes
Format
In person or online
Attendance
No cap
You leave with
A live mentor list
The run of show

Minute by minute, this is the hour.

We host it, you invite the people. Everything else happens between the first slide and the last.

  1. 00:00

    Doors and welcome

    Your host opens the hour and sets out what mentoring at your organisation is going to look like.

  2. 00:10

    What mentees actually ask

    Real questions from real mentees, so the room can see exactly where their experience is useful.

  3. 00:25

    Questions, answered live

    Time commitment, confidentiality, who they will be matched with. Nothing is left to a follow up email.

  4. 00:35

    Profiles built in the room

    Phones and laptops out. Everyone creates their mentor profile and picks the topics they are happy to cover.

  5. 00:55

    First bookings open

    Mentees can book that week, and your dashboard starts filling with real take up.

Good intentions fade. A room full of people does not.

People say yes to mentoring and then never find the time to set up a profile. The Academy closes that gap by doing the sign up together, live, while the reason for it is still fresh.

The point of the hour is not awareness. It is a list of named mentors with topics against them, ready for mentees to book that same week.

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What you get

A launch that ends with mentors, not with a slide deck.

  1. 01A host who plans and runs the whole hour
  2. 02In person, online or hybrid across offices
  3. 03Real mentee stories, not a sales pitch
  4. 04Mentor profiles created live in the room
  5. 05Invite copy and reminders written for you
  6. 06Topic setup so mentors are asked what they know
  7. 07Questions answered on the spot
  8. 08Sign up numbers reported straight after
What is included

We bring the event, you bring the people.

The Academy comes with every programme. There is nothing to build internally and no facilitator to find.

  • A mentorhero host to plan and run the live session
  • Invite copy and reminders for your internal channels
  • Mentor sign up in the room, in person or online
  • Topic setup so mentors only get asked what they know
  • A follow up report with sign ups and first bookings
  • A repeat session for anyone who could not attend
Success stories

What mentors and organisations say after an Academy.

“We had more mentors signed up by the end of the hour than we managed in a year of asking by email.”
Placeholder nameHead of people, placeholder organisation
“I said yes in the room, built my profile there and then, and had my first session booked that week.”
Placeholder nameMentor, placeholder organisation
“The host did the hard part. We invited people, and we walked out with a real mentor list.”
Placeholder nameProgramme lead, placeholder organisation

Every Academy adds mentors to a growing network.

30,000

young people mentored each year

13,500

active mentors across the globe

43

mentor and mentee countries

Questions

What people ask about the Academy.

About an hour, questions and sign up included. We can run a shorter 30-minute version if that is all your teams can spare.

Book your Academy

Put your date in and we will bring the host.

Leave your work email and we will send you the run sheet, the invite copy and two dates that work for your teams.

No obligation. We only use this to arrange your session.

Launch your programme in a single hour.

Tell us when you want to run it and we will bring the host, the invites and the sign up.

Book your Academy hourAsk about scheduling

In their words

Mentors on the academy

Twenty minutes of preparation made my first session twice as useful.
Sonia L.New mentor
The boundaries module answered the thing I was quietly worried about.
Hugh M.Mentor
It taught me to shut up for longer, which turned out to be the whole skill.
Femi A.Mentor

The numbers so far

What the academy covers

20Minutes to completeShort, practical and done before your first session rather than a course you never finish.
3Core areasRunning the conversation, holding boundaries and knowing what to do when something is raised.
0Cost to mentorsFree for everyone who mentors through mentorhero, with refreshers available at any point.

Before you ask

About the academy

Is it compulsory?

The safeguarding element is. The rest is there because mentors asked for it.

Do I get anything to show for it?

Yes, a record of completion you can keep for your own professional development log.

Will it take a whole evening?

No. It is designed to be finished in one sitting of about twenty minutes.