International Mentoring Program: West Africa

enpact launched a new chapter in Sub-Saharan Africa with the International Mentoring Program in 2017/2018.

The successful model of the International mentoring Program was brought to West Africa starting 2017. During the 8-months program, 29 entrepreneurs developed a strong international network, received insights and learnings from mentors and their peers, and were able to improve and grow their businesses.

5 Nigerians, 16 Ghanaians, 1 Cameroonian and 7 Europeans were selected from 242 applicants. This diverse collection of business owners met for the first time at a bootcamp in Germany for 5 days packed with interactive workshops, mentoring, story-telling, pitch training and other activities aimed at personal and professional development. The program also featured a site visit for each of the entrepreneurs’ local hubs from their mentors, then everyone regrouped for a bootcamp in Ghana near the end of the eight months.

The core of the enpact mentoring program is always the focus on deep-dive one-on-one mentoring sessions, starting off with face-to-face during the camps and supplemented by regular online calls in between.

Our international mentors were specifically selected based on their coaching ability and their relevant entrepreneurial experience. 

Photo by Der Gottwald.