Traditional 1:1 mentoring programs no longer have the ability to meet today’s workplace needs. Instead, new mentoring programs that offer more mentorship, partnership, and sponsorship opportunities have the potential to carry everyone forward.

It’s hard to find anyone who’ll argue against the value of mentorship. In fact, some 70% of Fortune 500 companies have at least one official mentoring program. Unfortunately, many of these mentoring programs are the traditional, hierarchical senior-junior pairs that are available only to a chosen few. Even worse? Those placed into these stiff, formal mentor programs often find that they fail to live up to the full promises of men....