In a clear attempt to create paths to sustainable mentor-mentee relationships globally, the Mentors Towers, an organization that connects learners with experienced mentors, who can guide them towards achieving their personal and professional goals, launched its mobile app, over the weekend.
Globally, 4.2 million youth await mentors, but only one in three is matched (National Mentoring Partnership, 2024).
Professionals face a similar issue, with 70% valuing mentorship, yet only 30% have access (Harvard Business Review, 2024; LinkedIn, 2024).
In the same vein, entrepreneurs struggle too, with 60% lacking mentorship (GEM, 2024; World Bank, 2024).
Meanwhile, women and minorities are especially underserved, with under 15% accessing formal programs (McKinsey & Company, 2024; UN Women, 2024). Digital platforms also face scalability challenges (Mentorloop, 2024).
According to Dr. Clement Obadimu, the Mentors Towers’ visioner , ‘Mentors Tower App’ will further strengthen the provision of valuable guidance and support, helping individuals achieve their goals, and fostering development and professional growth.
Dr. Obadimu noted that the organization realized an existing gap between where people want to go, what they intend to achieve, and how to achieve it.
Thus, a practical-oriented approach through top-notch professionalism is brought about to address the gap.
He noted that the organization realized an existing gap between where people want to go, what they intend to achieve, and how to achieve them.
The award-winning mentor noted that the App was carefully designed and stratified into categories with proven professionals attached to address several areas of human endeavours such as; Parenting, Marriage and Family, Health, Career, Business, Youth/Teens, Academic, and life respectively.
While giving a spinet about the simplicity of the app, he noted that aside from bringing succour to the mentor-mentees challenge, the app will bring global opportunities, accessibility of resources, and professional guidance to people around the globe.
His words: “So on the Mentor Tower APP, or on our website you will see the profile of the mentors so you can say I want this mentor to guide me and click and you will be able to connect with the person, you will fill the form and you will meet demand
“From our end as an organization, we would be monitoring its whole processes, for effectiveness we would want to know if your purpose for connecting with that mentor of yours has been achieved.
Furthermore, we would also want to see if at least you were able to work within that short period and the challenges you have been able to work on.
“So it’s all about that and many other opportunities we would be creating. Another dimension we would be bringing to bear is the introduction of courses; so many courses are on the App to watch to develop yourself so that is the summary.”
Also giving a keynote address was Professor Odeleye, the incumbent Dean Faculty of Education Lead City University, Ibadan Oyo State Nigeria, who was represented by Reverend Rev. Tayo Adeyanju, current Ph.d candidate at the Kwara State University.
Prof Odeleye, speaks on the subject:
“The Psychology of Mentoring, Making Mentoring Effective and Efficient” where he gives a panoramic view and snapshots of the intellectual background to the subject matter of mentoring and advising the mentors and Mentees on the intricacies and sensitivity of their roles.
Reacting, Dr. Sunday Amosu, noted that the quality of mentorship, mentees, or leadership is premised on mental health which must be taken very seriously.
“We must recognize that everything we have been discussing including mentorship rests on “the Mental Health”. This is because someone who does not have mental health can not be a mentee or a mentor.
We need to have stable mental health to achieve our potential. The truth is that everybody has a potential waiting to be realized and achieved in one way or the other.
‘Specifically, as a mentor we have people to grow, but as a mentee somebody is helping you to fulfil destiny but everything goes back to a very small organ in the body that just weighs only 2% of the entire body, I am referring to the brain. It just weighs 2% of the entire body but it is the orchestra that controls you issuing specific instructions.”
Speaking further, Obadimu noted that;
“Mentors Tower simply put is all about mentoring, we noticed that religious organizations are doing their part but there are missing links, something that is not making it complete so they do not have everything put together that can make it complete.
“So we need to bring professionals that will bring people out of these challenges, many people know where they want to go, but they do not know the path to take.
“So Mentors Tower is that particular organization that connects or allows mentors to mentees and allows you to link with somebody and the Mentor Tower provides solutions to global organization challenges
“In addressing the Brain drain, he noted that ‘if one refused to get someone who knows something a mentee, over time that knowledge would go down the drain. For instance, if he retires or dies or anything unplanned happens, that knowledge would be wasted. So we need to connect those who know something and allow them to hand it over to the upcoming generation or someone else before they become weak. But when you refuse to do this, a lot of things, and information would be wasted.
‘Part of what we are doing is also helping the organization develop the mentorship structure, we go to the organization and ask them if we can help you mentor your employees and after we have done that you would begin to see improvement in your productivity and your income just because of the training. Ours is to give you the required training and expertise.
He noted that Mentors Tower looks forward to collaborating with schools, Associations, Correctional Centers, and many more in the distant future to drive leadership change across several strata of society
