Safaricom, Mowgli partner to mentor female leadership in Kenya

Safaricom has partnered with Mowgli Mentoring to provide corporate female mentorship for her employees. This mentorship program is as a key initiative to increase to 50% the female representation within Safaricom’s management by 2020.

Mowgli Mentoring will acquaint 15 female business and technical experts from Safaricom with skills in personal mentoring. They will get capacity building training then get matched with two mentees over a period of a year.

Each matched mentor-mentee pair will then be supported through a 6-months structured program, that will then sustain the foundation setting, so the relationship continues throughout and beyond the mentorship program.

This mentoring program, aimed at empowering a strong pool of women leaders across senior and middle management levels, will support Safaricom’s 100% Human at Work initiative. The initiative seeks to create a workplace where employees enjoy a sense of balance between their personal and professional desires. It also supports employees in unlocking their potential and becoming the best versions of themselves.

Speaking on the importance of the program, Paul Kasimu, who is the director for resources at Safaricom noted, “We aim to build a human centric and inclusive leadership culture in the organization, that gives equal opportunities to all and supports our employees to be at their best. Our Women in Leadership program supports our goal of achieving diversity in leadership. In addition, it helps enhance capacity building for our women as we prepare the women leadership pipeline for the 50:50 senior management gender representation agenda by FY 2020.”

The CEO for Mowgli Mentoring, Kathleen Bury also shared her enthusiasm on the partnership program stating the joy for partnering with Safaricom.  Bury noted that over 70% of Fortune 500 companies use mentoring to develop organizational strategies.

“We’re thrilled to be kicking off our first 360 degree mentoring project in Kenya with Safaricom. The mentoring programs will nurture leadership and talent development alongside support succession planning and increase innovation. It will also foster cohesion and knowledge sharing through reverse mentoring, which ultimately drives productivity and performance.”  Kathleen Bury.

The 360 degree mentoring program provides the trusted space for transformational growth, personally and professionally. It has facilitated over 100 mentoring programs across the Middle East, UK and Africa, using their European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC) accredited syllabus. The syllabus provides a supportive framework for the development of mentors and mentees.

Over the past 10 years, Mowgli Mentoring has successfully built a case for 360 degree mentoring, as a vital and cost effective tool of developing human capital, to increase economic growth, drive social change and business performance. The mentoring has also been used for organizational development and personal fulfillment.