Featured in Semafor on the Rise of Structured CEO Mentoring
Global Mentors Group was recently featured in Semafor, exploring why CEOs are turning to structured, confidential mentoring for support at top.
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In May, Global Mentors Group was featured in a Semafor article by Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, looking at why more chief executives are choosing structured, confidential mentoring over informal peer networks.
The piece profiles the mentoring relationship between Cognizant CEO Ravi Kumar S and Paula Rosput Reynolds, the two-time CEO who now chairs National Grid, and one of Global Mentors Group’s mentors. As Kumar puts it, “you’re looking for somebody you can work with where you have psychological safety.”
Reynolds points to a different benefit: the discipline a mentor brings before an idea ever reaches the board, giving CEOs a low-stakes space to pressure-test their thinking.
Our Group Managing Director, Sara Parker, spoke to Semafor about the wider shift behind these relationships as companies invest more seriously in leadership development, demand for this kind of structured, confidential support at the top is growing.
Read the full article via our LinkedIn post, where Ravi, Paula and Sara share more on what makes mentoring work at the very top.
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