"A mentor supports us, broadens our view of the world and helps us aspire to goals that might otherwise lie beyond our reach. Mentorship is important for everyone, and has been the work of my lifetime. With a mentor, we are no longer alone and untethered.

With a mentor, we are better able to actualize our potential, as a student, as a professional, as a parent. Only by working in close relationship with people of all backgrounds can we gain the courage to experiment, to know that failures are normal on the pathway to success, and to make decisions that are enlightened by mentored reflection."

world Mentor

Leigh Teece is founder and CEO of World Mentor, which is dedicated to helping students advance through personalized mentoring by experienced professionals. World Mentor enables students to discover their passion through authentic, experiential learning. Leigh is also co-creator of the innovative learning model, Bionic Learning, which enables students to learn the skills of innovation through abductive reasoning and the scientific method. The manifestation of Leigh's values and vision is World Mentor's game-changing program, Mentored Pathways, where students are supported and safeguarded by mentors on their journey through high school, community college and university.

Mentored Pathways

Students enrolled in the Mentored Pathways program gain the opportunity to tackle real industry problems while working with professionals in industry. Engagement is virtual and convenient on our proprietary mentoring platform, producing lasting impact for both students and mentors. In the process of creatively solving real problems, students generate competitive career plans to guide their futures. They concurrently build networks of contacts in industry with whom they can communicate as needed over time. Mentors participate in the education of young people who potentially fill their talent pipeline, observe first hand the quality of candidates who they might ultimately hire, and nurture their own careers in the process. Teachers have windows into industry that enable them to connect curricular classroom materials to relevant real-world issues, which assists in their own professional development. This experiential learning process makes course material far stickier than traditional methods that require students to study for high grades and poorly correlated test scores. At Mentored Pathways, students graduate with three important assets: 

Students enrolled in World Mentor's programs gain a competitive advantage through Leigh's purposeful relationships with force-multiplying partners whose vision and mission promote the education, well-being and career interests of students. These include Project Lead The Way, STEMconnector, Million Women Mentors, Mentoring.org., and the Stem Innovation Task Force, among others. Working together, we assess the latest talent pipelines with leading corporations, large and small, including: 

avisory & Boards

The Kravis Leadership Institute, for which Leigh is an advisor, informs the research and curricular activities of the leadership-oriented, top-tier Claremont McKenna College. Global Citizen Year, for which Leigh is also an advisory, is the award winning program that has changed the experience of gap years for high school graduates. Since the role of arts in innovation is empirically validated, Leigh's role on the Board of Directors of the University of California, Berkeley's art, theatre and dance company, Cal Performances, informs her input into her contemporary learning model, Bionic Learning. Staying at the cutting edge of innovation and entrepreneurship is important for students, who benefit from Leigh's active engagement as advisor to startups at Cal Berkeley's premier accelerator SkyDeck. As Chair of the Silicon Valley Institute for Business Innovation, Leigh shares input with students from the innovation rock stars of academia, including Clay Christensen, Gary Hamel, Richard Rumelt, and David Teece, among others.

ventures & Bio

The education-oriented Teece Family Foundation, which Leigh guides as President, supports students at the University of Pennsylvania, Philips Academy Andover, the Eaglebrook Junior Boarding School, World Mentor, and myriad other student-related programs. On the business side, Leigh is co-founder and owner of Mt. Beautiful Winery, the Teece Family Farms in North Canterbury, New Zealand, and President of expert-services firm, Enterprise Research.

Prior to proudly raising four industrious children, Leigh was an engaged innovator as co-founder and Senior Vice President of Technology Interlink, Vice President of Technology Funding Venture Capital, and Vice President of Wells Fargo & Co.

Leigh earned her MBA from the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business, and her BA from the University of Southern California’s School of International Relations. . 

influencers of well-being: creativity, freedom, support & self-development

founder

Founder & Executive Chair
World Mentor connects students with mentors to inspire personal, career and leadership development. Leigh focuses on strategy, innovation and management for World Mentor, a 501c3, and its exceptional program, Mentored Pathways. Leigh's deep immersion in the globally charged ecosystems of Berkeley and Silicon Valley feed the the innovation of all World Mentor's stakeholders.

Co-Founder, Director
Mentored Pathways, a ground-breaking program of World Mentor, was co-founded by Leigh. The program enables students to cultivate critical-thinking and creative problem solving, which lie at the heart of learning the skills of innovation. Mentors and teachers gain unparalleled and invaluable professional development.

Partners

Project Lead The Way  partners with Mentored Pathways to provide transformative learning experiences for grades 9-12 students and teachers across the U.S. PLTW creates an engaging, hands-on classroom environment and empowers students to develop in-demand knowledge and skills they need to thrive. It also provides teachers with the training, resources, and supports their need to engage students in real-world learning.

The Million Women Mentors® (MWM) movement supports the engagement of millions of Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) mentors (male and female) to increase the interest and confidence of girls and women to persist and succeed in STEM programs and careers by 2020. The movement has garnered over 2 million pledges from professionals in industry. MWM aspires to gain commitments from 5 million professionals in the next two years. Mentored Pathways is MWM's preferred web-based program to enable millions of mentors to empower women and girls to achieve the career heights their STEM skills warrant.

 STEMconnector® is a consortium of companies, nonprofit associations and professional societies, STEM-related research & policy organizations, government entities, universities and academic institutions concerned with STEM education and the future of human capital in the United States. STEMconnector® is both a resource and a service, designed to link “all things STEM” through a comprehensive website and portfolio of products that connect national, state and local STEM entities.

Mentoring, at its core, guarantees young people that there is someone who cares about them, assures them they are not alone in dealing with day-to-day challenges, and makes them feel like they matter. Ultimately, mentoring connects a young person to personal growth and development, and social and economic opportunity. Yet one in three young people will grow up without this critical asset.

Leigh is a proactive member of MWM's formative STEM Innovation Task Force that deconstructs and analyzes innovation and imparts those learnings to education to better prepare students to fill the nation's talent pipeline for industry. The Task Force works under the auspices of STEMconnector and Million Women Mentors. The task force met most recently November 28 and 29 in the PepsiCo headquarters in Rye, New York.