EMINERE is a global leadership consultancy founded by Patrice Gordon - the world’s leading expert on reverse mentoring, airline executive, author, and two-time TED speaker.
Patrice held senior roles at British Airways, Royal Mail and Virgin Atlantic - where she led the transatlantic joint business with Delta Air Lines, Air France, and KLM, and pioneered the first CEO Reverse Mentoring relationship. That moment changed what she understood about power, leadership and listening.
Eminere exists to do for other organisations what that moment made possible - closing the understanding gap between leadership and the people they lead. Built on the conviction that inclusive leadership and commercial performance are not in competition, Eminere delivers reverse mentoring programmes, executive coaching and inclusive leadership frameworks that shift cultures, not just conversations. Its work has shaped leadership practice at AstraZeneca, BlackRock, Toyota GB, Nasdaq, Dentsu, and Delta Air Lines.
"The heartbeat of every organisation is it’s people. Real leadership begins the moment you decide to listen to all of them.” - Patrice Gordon, the world’s leading expert on reverse mentoring, author, and two-time TED speaker.
Top 150 Women of the Diaspora, Caribbean Business Network - 2025-2026
World’s Leading Expert on Reverse Mentoring - 2024-2026
Business Book Awards 2023: Diversity, Inclusion & Equality'
Black Business Awards: Consumer and Luxury Senior Leader of the Year 2023
Reverse Mentoring: Removing Barriers and Building Belonging in the Workplace by Patrice Gordon
“Reverse Mentoring offers various tips to make reverse mentorship work. Gordon explores the power of uncomfortable and awkward moments becoming key points
of transformation when people have to pause, reflect and assess their past behaviours and current assumptions which are at odds with the topic at hand.
She ultimately reveals how bringing more humanity into our organizations
allows us to see one another and ourselves in a radically new light.”
A Business Book of the Year finalist, endorsed by Sir Richard Branson, Brené Brown, Adam Grant, and Verna M
Frequently Asked Questions
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Reverse mentoring is a structured practice in which junior or less senior employees mentor those at leadership level - sharing perspectives on culture, lived experience, and organisational reality that leaders cannot access from above. It works because it closes the understanding gap that most leadership teams don't realise they have. When that gap closes, decision-making improves, inclusion deepens, and engagement follows. Patrice Gordon pioneered the first CEO reverse mentoring relationship at Virgin Atlantic. That first-hand experience and the outcomes it produced is the foundation every Eminere programme is built on.
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Most leadership programmes start from the outside in, generic frameworks applied to a specific organisation. Eminere starts from the inside out. Every programme is built around the organisation's actual culture, leadership dynamics, and gaps - not a standardised model. Patrice Gordon is the world's leading expert on reverse mentoring and a former senior leader in global aviation and commercial finance. She has sat in the rooms she now consults in. That is the difference.
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Yes, when it is structured with accountability built in. Reverse mentoring that is treated as a conversation produces conversations. Reverse mentoring that is treated as a programme, with clear objectives, psychological safety, and senior-level follow-through, produces measurable shifts in leadership behaviour, inclusion outcomes, and team engagement. Eminere's programmes are designed for the second kind.
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Eminere works across three areas: reverse mentoring programme design and implementation, executive coaching for senior leaders, and inclusive leadership development for teams and organisations. Engagements are tailored, there is no off-the-shelf version. Work begins with a conversation about where the organisation is and what it is trying to build. Clients include AstraZeneca, BlackRock, Toyota GB, Nasdaq, Dentsu, and Delta Air Lines.
“Patrice was absolutely amazing. She's a good listener, totally neutral and non-judgemental. It was so easy to speak to her. She has such a calm aura, simply speaking to her/airing my thoughts made me feel lighter and also so motivated to get things done”
Participant, Executive Coaching