USASBE Conference 2020: Scaling Your Mentorship Program: How to Facilitate Hundreds of Mentor Meetings Each Semester

Mentorship has been shown to have a significant impact in the development of entrepreneurs, and the success of their ventures. As a result, many entrepreneurship programs have mentorship initiatives or programming as a core component. This Programming Expose will introduce a proven program: the Entrepreneurs in Residence program at the Pillsbury Institute (Cornell University), and review some of their Best Practices, organized in 4 Key Steps:
1. relationship building strategies to build a strong mentor network
2. successfully onboarding mentors onto an online platform for data metrics
3. incentivizing students and mentors to stay engaged
4. processes to fill up available time and providing takeaways on how to run and scale their mentoring programs to carry out hundreds of meetings each semester.