GUIDING STUDENTS ON THEIR PATHS TO CAREER SUCCESS
Mentored Pathways takes your interests and aptitudes seriously. We've teamed up with YouScience, a leader in aptitude testing and industry certifications.
With one on one mentor support you'll be able to fully leverage your aptitude results and choose certifications that fit
your goals. As you explore opportunities based on your aptitudes and interests your future options increase dramatically.
Mentored Pathways helps you learn how to develop, implement, invest in and leverage a professional
network. These professionals will help you create and get traction with career plans that are personal and powerful.
By being connected you'll avoid isolation and have real support to pursue your interests.
To succeed you must be connected to the professionals who have blazed the trail ahead of you. You start
these connections by tackling real issues these professionals care about. Now you're ready to add this work to a professional
portfolio, create a career plan that holds water and develop a professional network simultaneously. Having these three assets
in place puts you miles ahead.
CURRENT CHALLENGE
Only industry professionals can provide the knowledge, long-term support,
and connections that students need for career success
OUR SOLUTION
Students do authentic work in their own area of interest and create a career and academic plan that they own personally
Our program
supports students from
middle school all the
way into employment
Students can be
mentored anytime
anywhere in a safe, virtual
environment
Industry sets the bar of quality of student work rather than academia
A high-quality
mentor match for
every student
3,000 mentors from 30 countries
48,000 students mentored
OUR Team
David launched The International Telementor program in 1995, which became Mentored Pathways in 2016. Previously, David was a software developer for Hewlett- Packard. Through Mentored Pathways, David made it possible for more than 47,000 youth to receive academic mentoring support from hundreds of industry professionals worldwide, representing a variety of fields. David is a frequent speaker on the value of mentoring, as well as the school-to-work transition and purpose-driven education.
Kurt is the Executive Director of WorldMentor, a non-profit organization that merged with the International Telementor Program in 2016 to form Mentored Pathways. Passionate about improving the individual growth of others, Kurt has a 20-year background in mentoring, learning and development, customer feedback management, and enterprise sales. Kurt currently serves as a Small Business Development Center mentor to over a dozen startup companies in California and Colorado.
Ms. Teece is Founder and Chair of World Mentor, a global web-based mentoring program serving schools, companies and NGOs since 2006. She is Co-founder and co-director of Mentored Pathways, an important World Mentor program launched in 2016 in conjunction with our partner, formerly known as International Telementor Program. Ms. Teece also serves as President of the Teece Family Foundation, which focuses on supporting educational excellence in universities and high schools. She sits on the board of Cal Performances of the University of California Berkeley, on the Advisory Board of the Kravis Leadership Institute of Claremont McKenna College, and on the Advisory Council of Global Citizens Year. Ms Teece was formerly a Vice President with Wells Fargo & Company and with the venture firm Technology Funding, a Research Assistant at High Scope Educational Research Foundation in Ypsilanti, Michigan. She completed her MBA in finance at the Paul Ross School at the University of Michigan, filling a BA from the School if International Relations at USC.
MENTORED PATHWAYS VOLUNTEERS
Mentored Pathways is fortunate to have hundreds of teachers, students,
mentors and others who volunteer their time to improve the program and
share the results with new communities. We salute these contributors
who help continue to refine this program.