Become a Wavemakers Mentor

Wavemakers mentors serve as peer educators and advisors, leveraging their real-life experiences to support students on their career paths. By fostering a reciprocal learning environment, our mentors empower students to overcome obstacles, unlock their potential, and gain confidence in advancing their careers. Acting as allies and advocates, our mentors play a crucial role in guiding students toward success.

Immerse yourself in our virtual reality campus as you focus on meaningful and rewarding collaboration that helps prepare students for entering the workforce with confidence, and the capabilities to thrive!


Ready to start your Mentorship journey?

ENCOURAGE

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SUPPORT

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GUIDE

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EMPOWER

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ADVOCATE

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SHARE

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LEARN

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INSPIRE

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INNOVATE

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IMPACT

ENCOURAGE — SUPPORT — GUIDE — EMPOWER — ADVOCATE — SHARE — LEARN — INSPIRE — INNOVATE — IMPACT

Mentoring provides the opportunity to:

  • Practice and enhance your leadership and communication skills

    Facilitate group-led discussions as your students work to build their work-integrated learning project.

  • Gain new perspectives

    Learn from talented and diverse students with unique backgrounds and experiences towards solving real world problems.

  • Expand your network

    Meet other mentors from different industries and global expert-led speakers and forward thinkers, while you collaborate with the next generation’s workforce.

  • Create positive social change and lasting impact

    Support our next generation of leaders as they prepare to enter the workforce while sharing your advice and lived experience.

Mentor Perks [What’s in it for you?]

  • Mentorship experience to add to your career portfolio

  • Practice and enhance future-proof capabilities like leadership, critical thinking, and initiative

  • Opportunity to network with other mentors, speakers and students during and after program completion

  • Level up skills in the Metaverse

  • Flexible schedules, accessible from anywhere

  • Mentorship digital credential

  • Facilitate a student team through the development of their work-integrated learning project, and learn symbiotically from them 

  • Gain experience collaborating with the next generation of Canada’s diverse workforce

  • Recognize students who embody future-proof skills, which earns them digital credentials

  • Company invite to participate in the Wavemakers Virtual Career Fair

Are you ready to start your mentorship journey with Wavemakers? Fill in our Registration Form and a member of our team will get in touch with you. 

The mentor commitment is 4 hours a week over five weeks, including 2 hours of in-session mentoring per week held entirely in the Wavemakers Virtual Campus. 

What Do Our Mentors Have to Say?

  • What I liked about the program was the unique focus on both future-proof skills and mentor-mentee relationships. Wavemakers made sure to induce a growth and inclusive learning environment. In addition to mentees, we mentors also developed skills which we can use in the workplace while working with teams, and in daily life.

    Anirban, Wavemakers Mentor

  • I find it really interesting to work with young people - they are very different from when I was their age, and I like that about them. They ask questions and question things a lot. [...] There’s not a huge age difference, but there’s definitely a generational difference. [...] It’s great to get their feedback and learn from them.

    Summer, Wavemakers Mentor

  • [The greatest benefit to participating in this program was] learning that I can adapt myself to such an exotic facilitation setting, that students appreciated my approach with them and that I had fun collaborating with the Wavemakers team.

    Matt, Wavemakers Mentor

  • I liked to connect with new people and work together to brainstorm new ideas for the project. I love the energy of the students as well as other people in the program that [are always] there to support throughout the mentorship experience.

    Lori, Wavemakers Mentor

  • [The thing I enjoyed the most was] connecting with students, guiding motivated and ambitious individuals through finding a real life solution to a real life problem.

    Dimitra, Wavemakers Mentor

  • [The greatest benefit to participating in this program is] knowing that I might have a small touch on helping young people build a future, [and] learning about a great program.

    Erin, Wavemakers Mentor