Experts: Mentorship Gap Hindering Business Sustainability, Growth

Nume Ekeghe

Founder, Mother Eagle Mentoring and Advisory (MEMA) and Adjunct Professor at Geneva Business School, Jane Oma has emphasised the need for a rise in knowledge exchange through mentorship across all age groups citing its crucial role this plays in cultivating sustainable businesses.

Oma who has a successful mentorshoring advisory and other thriving businesses noted that her core aim is to bridge the gap between different generations, recognising that each group has unique contributions to offer.

She added that by uniting their insights, businesses can thrive, young people can excel, and older individuals can revitalise existing enterprises.

Speaking at a dinner event to conclude the two-day Global Mentorbridge summit Oma said: “There is a gap between the business leadership, so we have the senior leaders who have been experienced and we have the young ones who are innovative with the readiness to change things, do better and to try new things.

“So, we are trying to create a platform where people of diverse generations interact together in a way that fosters positive collaboration, partnership, innovation and sustainable business growth.”

However, she pointed out the need for the nation to take advantage of its teaming young population.

“For me providing the right support that can help these young people to build sustainable and to understand what it means to build sustainable businesses. Also, to be equipped with what they need to be able to make it happen. So that is one thing that I would identify.”

She said, “Our biggest goal is to bridge the gap between the older generation and younger generation, because what we found out is that each of these groups have something to offer each other. If we are able to bring it together our businesses will stand, our young.”

Also speaking virtually, the Strategic partner to Mother Eagle Mentoring Academy, Moe Hamid, said, “Every entrepreneur must be taught empathy, resilience, and ethics and all this can be done through mentoring.”