Mentor Network

Student Competitions are Opportunities to Meet Mentors

Tonight as I judged Laurier Entrepreneurship Competition – I was struck not only by the entrepreneurial talent of the competitors, but also by the pedigree of the judging panel: Colleen Moorehead – Founder of E*Trade and Chief Client Officer at Osler Ted Hastings – President at Cyberplex Marc de Grave – Embedded Executive and VP Business [...]

Her confidence soared…

“Her confidence soared as she realized she had something to offer.” A New Canadian with a backgroung in Food Management, Tolulope didn’t really hit her stride in Canada until she engaged a mentor and showed what she was made of as a volunteer.  Check out her mentorship success story in the Toronto Star.  This is [...]

Mentoring – Guest Post by Donna Messer

Mentoring is increasingly being recognized as important in career and small business development. It has been acknowledged that companies thrive when they have some form of mentoring as part of their growth. The trend toward mentoring has grown dramatically throughout the world and today, many companies automatically assigning a mentor to new employees. The following [...]

MENTORnetwork Launch

10 years can fly by! In January 2001, I began writing a business plan for a concept I called StudentPD (Professional Development).  I was in my final semester of university and saw many of my friends making career decisions that didn’t seem to align to who I’d known them to be (their values and goals).  [...]