Great mentorship isn't spontaneous - it's deliberately designed into leadership systems.

When leaders treat mentorship as random advice-giving, they miss the opportunity to create leadership pipelines that scale impact sustainably.

For CEOs, founders, and leadership architects, strategic mentorship isn’t a side activity - it's core infrastructure for growing aligned leadership inside organizations.

In this Forbes feature, I contributed thinking around how mentorship, when properly structured, builds resilience, trust, and innovation across leadership layers.

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"Great mentors look out for you. I am all about being proactive—100%! Everyone should find a mentor if they can. I also believe the right thing to do when someone has not had the same privileges in life as others is for leaders to take a step back with compassion. A good mentor will feel compelled to act. They will find you. They notice who is not asking for help, but needs it, and they give it kindly. "

~ Kinga Vajda, Agile Group Leader, Q3 & Q4 Best New Group – Forbes Coaches Council

Mentorship that scales isn't about creating dependency - it's about engineering capacity into the next generation of systems thinkers.

Where is your leadership development system still relying on personality-driven mentorship...instead of designing scalable systems for resilience?

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🛡️ This quote was originally published by Forbes as part of a Forbes Coaches Council Expert Panel. Reprinted here with permission in accordance with member guidelines.