Meet Johan Torgeby at SEB
What happens when a bank allows its employees to volunteer as mentors for young people during working hours? For SEB, the answer is clear: it builds pride, motivation – and a workplace with heart.
Building trust as mentors
Since 1997, SEB has partnered with Mentor Sweden, a foundation focusing on offering schools various types of mentoring programmes, to help young people grow and strengthen their self-belief.
SEB employees are involved as mentors – either for individually mentorships for one young person, in or by engaging with several young people, through school visits classes on several occasions, or for just one day at a school. Students also get to visit SEB's offices, to get a glimpse of how it might be like to work in a bank. Through Mentor Sverige, our employees are given the opportunity to contribute to society, while developing themselves and their own leadership.
Over the year, SEB and Mentor Sverige have reached more than 50 000 young people across Sweden. Hundreds of SEB employees have participated as volunteers and role models in various programmes, among them:
- Mentor Boost
Workshops where young people gain valuable knowledge about themselves and their future. We discuss identity, aspirations, and career pathways, in collaboration with representatives from partner companies such as SEB. - Mentor Inspo
A digital lecture series brought directly into classrooms, where speakers share their career journeys alongside students C&A sessions, and interactive exercises. - The Mentor programme
Mentors Core Programme where young people ( either individually or in groups) are matched with a mentor whom the meet twice a month for six months.
Key figures from 2025
1 111
Youths have participated in the programme Mentor Boost.
43 354
youths have participated in the programme Mentor Inspo and Sweden´s largest digital school event, Mentor Inspo Mega.
644
young people were matched with their own mentors – positive role models who provide guidance, listen, and help them navigate their thoughts, ideas and challenges.
The figures show the total number of young people reached by Mentor with SEB and other partners during 2025.
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Anuja inspires young people to dare to go their own way
Anuja Back works as a Scrum Master within SEB’s IT operations for foreign exchange trading. When the opportunity arose to take part in Mentor Inspo – Mentor’s digital career inspiration programme for lower and upper secondary school students – it was an easy yes for her.
