The problem
Women often do the heavy lifting in their teams but get passed over for promotions. They have the skills, but they lack access to the rooms where decisions are made.
Without someone to show them the unwritten rules of the organisation, they can spend years waiting to be noticed. Hard work alone is rarely enough to reach a senior role.
How organizations usually handle it
Women's networks often organise panel discussions, networking events and guest speakers. These events bring people together and offer good advice, but they end quickly. A participant goes back to her desk the next day with no clear next step and no one to hold her accountable.
How mentoring solves it
Mentoring means an experienced person meets one participant regularly, over months, with a clear goal. Here, the right mentor is a senior leader who knows how the organisation works. They help the participant see her own strengths and plan her next career move.
Because they meet again and again, the mentor can guide her through real challenges as they happen. A senior leader who sees her progress is also someone who can speak up for her when a new role opens.
How it works on Mentornity
Matched with a senior leader
Mentors and participants apply through your own forms. Matching rules and Mentornity AI propose a senior leader for each woman, and your team approves every match.
A clear development plan
With the Development Plan tool, the mentor and participant turn broad career goals into clear activities with dates.
Checking the relationship
The Relationship Check-in tool asks four questions scored from zero to ten: goals, way of working, feeling heard and progress.
Booking all meetings at once
The Meeting Planner books every meeting of the match at once in both calendars, with a link for the built-in video room, Zoom, Microsoft Teams or Google Meet.
Or a mentor pool, with rules
Not every program needs fixed matches. In a pool program, mentors open their free hours and participants book them themselves. Rules still decide who sees whom: for example, a founder sees only mentors from her own sector.
What you can measure
Your team sees goals scored at the start, the middle and the end of the program. Change is counted only for people who answered both times.
The Coordination Center shows a list of matches that have not met for 21, 30 or 90 days, so your team can step in.
An end-of-program form asks participants about their progress, and asks mentors whether they would mentor again.
Questions
Can we match people from different departments?
Yes. Your application forms use custom fields. Matching rules compare one form field with another, so you can ensure a participant meets a leader from a different department.
How does the team know why a match was proposed?
Each proposed match shows a score and the rule-by-rule reasons. Your team can review these reasons before they click to approve the match.
Can we run the same program again next year?
Yes. You can copy a program for the next term with its settings, forms, sessions and rules. Last term's mentors can be invited back in one step.