GenMentor: Find the Right Mentor. Become the Right Mentor. is a practical, straight-talking guide for anyone who wants to find a mentor, become a mentor, or deepen a mentoring relationship that is already in place. Grounded in more than twenty years of real-world coaching experience, this book restores mentoring to its rightful place as one of the most powerful forces in human development. Organized into seven parts, it guides readers through the full arc of the mentoring relationship - from finding the right mentor and approaching them with confidence, to becoming the kind of mentor who changes lives and builds a legacy that outlasts them.
What Will You Learn From This Book
•Find the Right Mentor: Learn exactly where mentors are hiding in plain sight, how to approach them with confidence, and how to build a relationship that lasts.
•Become the Mentor Others Need: Discover what it truly takes to guide another person - how to choose who to mentor, how to pass wisdom without imposing it,and how to ask questions that changes everything.
•Navigate the Hard Moments: Master the conversations that most mentors and mentees avoid - pushback, difficult feedback, stalled progress, how to work through all of it without losing the relationship.
•Understand What Mentoring Really Is: Learn the critical difference between a mentor, a coach, a teacher, and a sponsor - why getting that distinction right changes everything about how you show up.
•Build a Relationship That Produces Real Results: Complete hands-on exercises designed for both the mentor and the mentee - and finish the book with the tools to build, sustain, and honor a mentoring relationship that genuinely changes lives.
•Leave a Legacy: Understand the long game - how one mentor ripples outward through generations, and how to build a mentoring legacy that outlasts you.
•The Mentoring Book That Works for Both Sides of the Relationship Most books on mentoring speak to one person. This book speaks to both - the mentor and the mentee - simultaneously. Every concept, every tool, and every exercise is designed for both parties to use together. No other book in this category delivers this.
•Practical Tools, Not Inspiration GenMentor does not traffic in motivation. It delivers a step-by-step framework for finding the right mentor, becoming the right mentor, and navigating every stage of the relationship - from the first conversation to the lasting legacy. Every tool is field-tested. Every exercise is immediately usable.
•The Wisdom of Twenty-Plus Years of Coaching in One Book Oreste J. D'Aversa, CPC has spent more than twenty years sitting across from people at every stage of life and career. GenMentor is that experience distilled - the real conversations, the hard lessons, the tools that actually work - written in plain language that anyone can pick up and use today.
