August 8, 2025
MENTOR Employees, Company Engagement
On July 24 2025, I had the unbelievable alternative to accomplice with the NBA Basis in Miami Seaside to steer a 90-minute coaching:
“Adopting the Mentoring Mindset: Turning into a Higher Mentor.”
This was greater than an expert second, it was a private one.
The chance got here via a strong reference to Candice Haynes, Director on the NBA, who I first met by way of e mail MENTOR Nationwide, and later in individual on the Nationwide Mentoring Summit. That one genuine dialog sparked a collaboration that introduced me right into a room full of mentors guiding the subsequent technology of NBA and WNBA prospects.
What occurred in that session was particular.
Candice’s mentors turned a coaching into a colourful, susceptible, and deeply respectful dialog. Their engagement, honesty, and dedication have been inspiring. They didn’t simply present up, they leaned in, requested exhausting questions, and modeled precisely what mentorship ought to seem like on the highest stage.
The NBA Basis is proving that mentorship isn’t non-compulsory, it’s important. Not only for success on the courtroom, however for progress, management, and legacy off the courtroom.
To Candice: thanks to your belief and imaginative and prescient.
To the mentors: your presence issues.
To Each: Thanks to your time and vitality.
Fred T. Whitted Jr., Director of Partnerships & Strategic Initiatives, MENTOR