Employee Engagement Programs
Foster your employees’ engagement through skill-based volunteering & make an impact on the SDGs
Change old-fashion volunteering for an employee engagement program that connects employees to the entrepreneurship ecosystem and infuse your team with startup energy.

Keep top employees engaged through innovation

Do you want to increase your employees’ loyalty, engagement and retention?
Connect your employees with founders tackling today's most pressing challenges.

Do you want to develop your employees skill set?
Turn your employees into mentors for early-stage founders.

Do you want the new generation of employees to be attracted to your company’s purpose?
Employees will accompany startups globally to have a tangible impact in the SDGs


Employees develop key skills by becoming mentors
This is the consolidated data from our study on 40 participants with two Fortune 500 Companies
100%
Improve their empathy, curiosity, collaboration skills & persuasive communication
100%
Developed their entrepreneurial skills, pragmatism & business knowledge
80%
Became more innovative & more agile with change
75%
Improve their leadership & job satisfaction
Our pedagogy will help your employees overcome the initial and natural “impostor’s syndrom” and guide them in a structured way throughout the program, from supporting the entrepreneur they matched with in the development of their value proposition all the way to defining their growth plan. All while your employees develop their soft and hard skills, and train their own entrepreneurial muscle.
The program design is tailored to your specific organization’s context. Whether you’d like to increase your employees engagement, boost leadership and entrepreneurial skills or directly support the SDGs we’ll co-create the program with you from A to Z and co-manage it with you. Our structured process ensures they are accountable to the program and that you get results.
- Pre-program
- During Program
- Post-Program
Employee engagement program design
We’ll jointly define the:
- Innovation and engagement goals you need
- Program milestones and calendar
- Selection criteria for entrepreneurs, mentors and/or employees
Internal call for mentors & training
We’ll headhunt the innovators you need:
- We’ll help you identify and select participating employees as well as startups.
- We’ll run workshops to prepare your employees to become startup mentors
- We’ll onboard them to the platform and share all the resources they need to best guide the entrepreneurs.
Onboarding & intelligent matching
We’ll onboard entrepreneurs and employees:
- Give them a warm welcome to the program and set expectations
- Run a fun and optimized mentors-startups ‘Matching’ process
- Make sure they both select the mentor/entrepreneur they prefer to work with
Program with a proven methodology
Your employees will:
- Provide a new pair of eyes and confidence to their mentee, all online!
- Meet 1.5 hour weekly over 3 to 6 months with their mentee through our guided methodology
- Give constant feedback to the founders based on their challenges
Business plans, investment readiness & demo day
The startups obtain:
- Their downloadable business plan
- Investment readiness training
- Pitch training
Program closing
We will:
- Reflect on the learnings with your employees
- Measure the concrete soft and hard skills developed
- Measure how it increases their loyalty, commitment and engagement with your company
- We’ll learn and optimize for the second edition of your new employee engagement program!
Dive inside a purpose-driven entrepreneurship program
After meeting at One Young World in 2018, a few super motivated BMW employees set out to create a mentoring program themselves to support global changemakers. Together we selected ~20 top BMW employees, trained them to become mentors and help them develop new innovation skills, a more agile mindset, and of course contribute to the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

SAVIA mentorship program