Reverse Mentoring with Patrice Gordon

Reverse mentoring is a management practice in which a senior employee seeks leadership insights from a junior staff member.

Instead of senior staff members passing on their experience to subordinates, reverse mentoring matches junior team members, often from underrepresented groups, with senior employees.

Reverse mentoring is based on the premise that everyone can learn from everyone else, regardless of age, job title or racial background. It is a powerful way to bring employees together and build trust in an organization.

Virgin Atlantic’s reverse mentoring pilot program was so successful, HR incorporated it into its people strategy.

The vice president of people experience at Virgin Atlantic invited Patrice Gordon to become a “reverse mentor” to company CEO Craig Kreeger, after he expressed an interest in learning more about employees from backgrounds that were not represented ...