Hi!
I'm Avil Beckford
The Invisible Mentor! Before I dive into why I do what I do, let me define who an invisible mentor is. It's really a very positive thing. An invisible mentor is someone you can learn from by observing them from a distance!
As a business owner, who has reaped some of the benefits of reading, I want professionals to take charge of their careers. I'll make an awesome podcast guest talking about books and effective reading strategies.
Global problems can be solved by reading and implementing ideas from books. My mission is to mobilize 5000 professionals to read a book a week, bringing together masterminds of socially conscious people to read and implement the breakthrough ideas.
WHY is this important to me?
I see people like Elon Musk, Oprah Winfrey, and Mark Cuban who have achieved high levels of success because they read books and implemented the ideas. Countless other successful people have done the same thing. They profited from the ideas they discovered in books.
I want that for YOU and for MYSELF. And that’s WHY I do what I do. WHY is critical to sustained success. I also created the MoreReads: Blueprint to Change the World to enable me to achieve that ambitious goal. I created a Free Reading & Learning Tips Sheet to help professionals to become more effective readers.
How We Do What We Do
Reading to learn!
At The Invisible Mentor, our tagline is Learn. Stretch. Grow. And that's the essence of what we're about. The interviews and book summaries are meant for you to use them to learn, stretch, and grow. Additionally, we have three core products to help you to do that.
No one wants to spend all day reading books with the intent to learn. With that in mind, I designed the Learning How to Learn Again Program. When you complete the program, doing all the exercises, you'll know how to digest a book in 30 to 60 minutes.
The MoreReads Leadership Development Program helps professionals to learn key skills to succeed in 2022 by reading the right books. There is a Facebook group where participants support each other to build COMMUNITY. I am also reading books that teach the key skills, so I can provide solid book recommendations to the participants. After you signed up for MoreReads: Blueprint to Change the World, you'll be invited to join the Read to Learn, Read for Solutions Facebook Group!
Additionally, you'll learn how to digest the average non-fiction book in about an hour. Very few books are worthy of being read cover-to-cover. Author add in a lot of extraneous information to get to the publisher's word count. Why should you read information that you don't need. I created a Playbook with some essential information that you can always refer to so you can successfully complete the MoreReads Leadership Development Plan.
I can also design MoreReads: Blueprint to Change Your World for organizations, so employees have access to a professional online book club. This helps your workforce to develop marketable skills.
I surveyed professionals participating in MoreReads: Blueprint to Change Your World and they told me to create a lite version.
These are the skills you'll be learning when you participate in the MoreReads: Blueprint to Change Your World.
My story
My mother died unexpectedly from a heart attack. I created my first reading challenge to heal my broken heart. To start the healing process, I needed to do something I loved. I experienced a lot of benefits from the reading challenge and wanted others to experience those benefits. That reading challenge evolved into the MoreReads Leadership Development Program.
Besides here, you can also find my work on Forbes and Medium. Also, I’ve been featured in Investor’s Business Daily where I talked about the importance of reading broadly.
- Avil is the Recipient of the 2015 TIAW World of Difference 100 Award
How the invisible mentor idea was born.
While on my morning walk in Toronto's High Park in the fall of 2007, “Tales of People Who Get It is your Board of Invisible Mentors” pops into my consciousness. I quickly pull my mini notebook and pen out of my back pocket and jot down my epiphany. I had thought about how to describe my book for a few months, but wasn't sure where to start, so I let it percolate for a while. Board of Invisible Mentors made perfect sense to me because when I face a challenge, I remember parts of the interviews I conducted for the book and I would know exactly what to do, or how to proceed.
Later that day, I confide in a friend about my epiphany, and she tells me that the idea is pure genius. Then she says that the idea is ahead of its time, so I should alter it to, Tales of People Who Get It is your Board of Mentors. This doesn’t work for me because “invisible” is what makes it so special. Discouraged, I park my idea for nearly eighteen months.
What We Can Do For You
Reading for Solutions
I created and host the MoreReads: Blueprint to Change the World to help professionals learn the key skills they need to succeed in 2022. This is also a way for me to achieve my goal of getting 1,000 professionals reading a book each week within two years. I invite you to get MoreReads Leadership Development Program.
Buy the workbook that teaches you to become a better problem solver, critical thinker, decision maker and creative. You learn four of the 10 skills by practicing them.
Have you ever postponed your dreams because of naysayers?
The Invisible Mentor was BORN in March 2009 in the form of a blog, and has evolved over the years to be much more. My name is Avil Beckford, also known as, Expert Interviewer, Writer, Author and Chief Reading Evangelist. But I am also the girl next door, who is always working on improving her situation. I am a voracious reader, and I cannot remember a period in my life when I wasn't reading books. I am embarking on an informal classical education, and you are the beneficiary!
Each month, I invest over 200 hours of my time reading books and culling the great ideas, as well as researching great thinkers. I present you with invisible mentors – unique leaders you can learn things from by observing them from a distance or by reading about them – in the form of interviews with highly accomplished people, mini biographies of wise people and great thinkers, and hybrid book reviews and summaries. The Invisible Mentor blog bridges the new ideas with old ones. Imagine the great ideas you’ll generate by being exposed to old and forgotten ideas! What that means for you and for me is that we can use old and forgotten, but not outdated ideas, to solve today's problems.
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