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ARTICLE · 02 JUNE 2026

Experience Becomes Opportunity Through Mentoring

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Technology and economic uncertainty are reshaping work, but access to opportunity remains uneven. Through mentoring programs spanning from professionals over 50 to young people and trauma survivors...

United KingdomEmployment and HR

Technology, demographic shifts, and economic uncertainty are reshaping the future of work. But one thing remains constant: people thrive when opportunity is matched with belief. Yet for many, access to that opportunity is uneven—often shaped by age, background, circumstance, or geography.

Mentoring is one of the most powerful ways our firm helps close that gap. Across multiple initiatives—from supporting professionals over 50 to backing young people, entrepreneurs, and trauma survivors—mentoring lets colleagues use their skills, judgment, and lived experience to create outcomes beyond our firm.

ReStart: a decade of volunteering that changes direction

Our UK mentoring program, ReStart, reflects this commitment in action. We created the program in 2017 in partnership with The Executive Coaching Consultancy (ECC). ReStart supports unemployed people over 50 to reenter and reposition themselves in today’s labor market. Now a decade in operation, the program has helped 240 people, with a

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