MENTORSHIP FOR SKILLED IMMIGRANTS

August 2023 – December 2023

REGISTRATION IS OPEN!

The program is free for all participants!

What is Zenith Mentorship


The Zenith Mentorship Program helps people with immigrant and minority backgrounds in Norway to find relevant employment or scale-up their existing businesses via one-on-one primary and secondary mentorship, peer learning, professional development workshops and events.

Through mentorship, job seekers and future entrepreneurs can be encouraged and empowered to identify and achieve their career goals, while increasing their confidence and gaining a broader business and personal perspectives.

The core of our mentor program is the collaboration that takes place between each mentee and their personal mentor. Mentor and mentee meet 2 times a month for a time span of upto 6 months. To increase the mentee’s and the mentor’s chances of success, they are followed up by a wide range of support function.

Mentees

Who you are

Identity

18 – 55 years of age, skilled and identify as being an immigrant or a member of minority group in Norway

Interest

Ready to find relevant employment or scale up your business

Personality

Responsible, ambitious and committed to professional growth

What you get

Mentoring & Learning

Different types of mentorship and group support: one-on-one, advisory pool of mentors, peer learning.

Networking and Community Building

Increased professional networks in relevant professional fields through our events, activities, support from mentors, workshop facilitators and other program participants.

Professional Development

Monthly professional courses and workshops focused on finding employment or scaling up your business.

The mentee registration period has concluded.

Mentors

Mentorship is a proven method that is beneficial for both mentor and the mentee in building their self-confidence, communication and leadership skills. 

Become a mentor and provide guidance, give advice and share your experience to help mentees grow as entrepreneurs and future employees.

Benefits for Mentors

Expand Your Network

Hone & Leverage Your Leadership and Communication Skills

Empower and Learn from your mentees

Reap immeasurable Reverse Mentoring benefit

Who you are

We are searching for professionals with both immigrant and/or Norwegian backgrounds coming from all kinds of work fields in Norway, who are passionate about sharing their job-searching and work-related experience, inspire, motivate and lift up others to fulfill their aspirations of working within their fields of expertise in Norway.

Together, we can foster diversity and inclusion within Norwegian workspaces, help people get their dream jobs, and fight `brain waste` in Norway.

What you get

As a mentor at our Zenith Mentorship program, you will have a chance to develop your leadership skills alongside other professionals from a variety of fields in Norway. Throughout the program, the mentors will receive guidance and supervision, while also having access to our wide network of experts and like-minded people from all around the globe, living in Norway. Moreover, as a mentor, the interaction with a mentee from the same or similar field of expertise will be enriching for both, as you will exchange thoughts, experiences and viewpoints on similar topics from different angles.

If you would like to become our mentor, register here.

Become a mentor

To join us as a mentor at ZENITH program please fill the form

Become a mentor

To join us as a mentor at NEXUS program please fill the form

Chisom Udeze

Founder of Diversify, Diversify Consult, HerSpace & The Annual

Chisom is an Economist, a Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (DEIB) Strategist, and a 3 times founder of impact driven companies. She has over 14 years of experience working with organizations like the European Commission, The United Nations, ExxonMobil and The Economist Group. Chisom is analytical and a data enthusiast. She is passionate about interrogating the cross-sectoral relationship between society’s inhabitants, resources, production, technology, distribution and output. She efficiently and effectively unlocks complex systems, interprets data, forecasts socio-economic trends and conducts research.

Having lived and worked in 7 countries across 3 continents, she is highly adaptable to different circumstances and people, and thrives in uncertain environments.

As the founder of Diversify and Diversify Consult, Chisom and her team work with companies, institutions, governments and civil society to develop sustainable DEIB strategies and embed measurable diversity and inclusion initiatives in the workplace and society. In addition, in 2022, Diversify launched the Diversify Nordics Summit, the largest conference in the Nordics that gathers cross-sectoral stakeholders to amplify DEIB in the Nordics and beyond.

In 2020, she founded HerSpace, a diverse and inclusive co-creation community for all genders, with particular focus on women and non-binary people. In 2022, HerSpace launched HerTech, Women in Tech incubator, for women-led companies, with a focus on the inclusion of diverse founders. 

Chisom is a thought-leader in DEIB and a passionate advocate for mental health and wellness. She writes often on DEIB and justice related topics, some of her work is published on Forbes.

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