Mentoring Programme Upgrades

In September 2026, Thrive released a set of upgrades for mentoring programmes. Mentoring programmes in Thrive match mentors and mentees and support them through structured relationships, and admins now have more control over how matches are made and approved. It makes programmes easier to run at scale, from leadership development to onboarding buddies.

• A relationship approval workflow for new mentoring relationships.
• Programme settings for mentee enrolment pacing and who can match.
• Suggested matches in the manual matching flow.
• Calendar integration that creates events for mentoring sessions.

• More control over who is matched and when.
• Faster manual matching, with suggestions to start from.
• Programmes that scale without overloading mentors.
• Sessions that land straight in people's calendars.

• Programme admins configure approval, pacing and matching settings for each mentoring programme.
• When matching manually, admins see suggested matches to choose from.
• New relationships can go through an approval step before they start.
• Mentoring sessions can create calendar events.

• A programme admin reviews new mentoring relationships before they go live.
• An admin matching people manually picks from suggested matches instead of searching from scratch.
• A large programme paces mentee enrolment so mentors aren't overwhelmed.

• Programme admins and L&D leaders running mentoring programmes.
• Mentors and mentees, who get well-matched, approved relationships.