Reverse Mentoring: Removing Barriers and Building Belonging in the Workplace

Reverse Mentoring is a program where senior leaders learn from junior employees, creating a safe and engaging culture. It helps leaders lean into their vulnerability, form relationships with underrepresented employees, and amplify the voice of marginalized people. Patrice Gordon offers tips to make reverse mentorship work, such as embracing uncomfortable and awkward moments as key points of transformation. She believes that bringing more humanity into organizations allows us to see one another and ourselves in a radically new light.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 224 pages
Publication date: 01 November 2022
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group

Most organizations today strive for goals such as employee diversity, inclusive leadership, and younger and fresher ideas. However, how do we get there? In her groundbreaking Reverse Mentorship program, world-renowned executive coach and personal development advocate Patrice Gordon creates a safe and engaging culture by having senior leaders learn from junior employees. While typical mentoring programs arrange for a senior manager to teach the more junior employee, Reverse Mentoring is the opposite: it's all about a leader leaning into their vulnerability, forming a relationship with an underrepresented employee, and amplifying the voice of marginalized people within the company.

Reverse Mentoring offers various tips to make reverse mentorship work. Gordon explores the power of uncomfortable and awkward moments becoming key points of transformation when people have to pause, reflect, and assess their past behaviors and current assumptions, which are at odds with the topic at hand. She ultimately reveals how bringing more humanity into our organizations allows us to see one another and ourselves in a radically new light.

You can't help but be excited about what the future will look like if all businesses embrace Patrice's passion for reverse mentorship; her passion for a world in which all businesses are 100% diverse, inclusive, and equitable shines through on every page - from the Foreword by Holly Branson, Chief Purpose and Vision Officer of Virgin Group.

Weight: 244g
Dimension: 135 x 215 x 19 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780349435015