Reverse Mentoring: The Power of Learning Up

What if the most valuable mentorship came from those you least expect? This session explores how "learning up" from junior colleagues, especially those from underrepresented groups, can provide fresh perspectives and drive innovation. 

Our expert panel will discuss: 

• The benefits of reverse mentoring: How it can foster mutual understanding, break down hierarchies, and promote inclusion. 

• Creating a successful reverse mentoring program: Key elements of effective program design and implementation. 

• Building trust and psychological safety: Ensuring that both mentors and mentees feel comfortable sharing their experiences and perspectives. 

• Leveraging reverse mentoring for organisational change: How to use insights from reverse mentoring to drive positive change and create a more inclusive culture. 

Join us to discover how reverse mentoring can empower individuals, foster innovation, and create a more equitable and inclusive workplace. 

Book your place now - spaces are limited.

**This event is Free, however, Eventbrite now charges us to list with them.

Please consider a nominal £1 contribution to attend this event

Your Host for this event is:

Jenny Garrett OBE - Leadership Development Consultant

Jenny Garrett is a Leadership Development Consultant, specialising in executive coaching, facilitation and research in the area of leadership and change.

She is an experienced facilitator of programmes for Managers, Directors and CEOs from a variety of organisations, including the private and public sectors.

Prior to this, she held senior Marketing Roles for organisations such as Ashridge Business School, Hamptons International and Schroder Leasing.

Jenny’s specialist areas include:

• Diversity – ‘no longer counting people, but making people count’, exploring and appreciating differences, cultures and beliefs to provide the best organisational solutions.
• Leadership Coaching – providing the challenge and support that can be missing for executives at the most senior levels of an organisation to keep them on track.
• Team Performance – through team coaching, enabling improved lines of communication, increased self-awareness and an understanding of others' perceptions.

Jenny has a Masters Degree MA (Management Learning & Leadership) Lancaster University. BA Honours Business, University of Westminster and Coaching Qualifications with Ashridge Business School and Lancaster University. She has the highest honorary award of ‘ Companion’ from the Institute of Leadership and Management.

Jenny’s latest practical and empowering book is Equality vs Equity, tackling issues of Race in the workplace

Your Speakers for this event are:

Hira Ali – Executive & Leadership Coach

An inspiring leadership development specialist, executive career coach, and acclaimed writer and speaker, Hira Ali has been committed to helping others achieve their inherent potential throughout her award-winning career. Her work has been published in The Harvard Business Review, Forbes, Telegraph, B.B.C., Harper’s Bazaar, Independent, C.B.C., Huff Post, and Entrepreneur, among hundreds of other print, radio and television outlets, and has earned Hira several prestigious honours, titles and awards. She serves as The Senior Advisory Team member at The Benedictine University Illinois L.E.A.D.S. leadership program for undergraduate women and has joined W.L.G.’S Conversations with Men Advisory Council. In 2022, Hira was named one of the top 100 influential Muslims in the U.K.

Ola Molade – Executive & Leadership Coach

My background includes over 25 years’ experience working in financial services running multi-million £ change programmes; running my own business supporting fast growing businesses to scale effectively; and, bringing up 2 children.

I’m a qualified nutritionist, a life coach, & a published author. I came to coaching having had first-hand experience of how coaching can open up new possibilities and opportunities, which allowed me to resolve situations that had seemed completely impossible.

The transformational effects coaching had on my life led me to explore coaching further and become an accredited coach. I regularly work with senior female leaders who might be dealing with impostor syndrome, confidence crises, work/life balance concerns or burnout. I also assist leaders who would like to use a coaching approach to support their teams.

Jessica Rogers – Executive & Leadership Coach

For more than 15 years, I’ve coached ambitious, values-driven senior leaders to strengthen their voice, lead with authenticity, and progress in their careers without compromising who they are.

Many of the leaders I work with, directors, VPs, chiefs of staff, senior counsel and others care deeply about their teams and the difference they make. Yet they often feel unseen, undervalued, or pressured to fit into leadership models that don’t reflect their true selves.