Todd Sampson and Jackie Frank offer mentorships for money in aid of kids’ auction

March 8, 2016 9:16

Todd Sampson: mentor skills available to highest bidder at charity auction

Todd Sampson, sometime adman, Fairfax director and TV star, will join Pacific Magazines’ group publisher – fashion and health, Jackie Frank, and a host of other senior business executives auctioning off their talents as mentors to help boost children’s charity ChildFund Australia.

The MentorMe Auction is underway with bidders having the chance to earn one-on-one time with Sampson, Frank, award-winning producer Jason Burrows, Carnival Australia CEO Ann Sherry, and LinkedIn Australia, New Zealand and Southeast Asia MD, Cliff Rosenberg, among others.

In total 10 executives are auctioning an hour of their time in what ChildFund CEO Nigel Spence describes as “an experiment”.

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Simon Canning

Simon Canning was Mumbrella's marketing and advertising editor from 2015-2017. In a career spanning journalism and communications over more than 30 years Simon has become one of Australia’s most respected analysts and commentators on the advertising, marketing and media industries. A regular commentator on radio and TV, Simon has also worked in media in the US and UK .

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4 COMMENTS

Aaron 8 Mar 16

This is more consultancy than mentorship. But I hope the auction goes well.

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Dee 11 Mar 16

Coming from a marketing background I don’t understand this logic at all? What donor would ‘bid’ to get business tips from entrepreneurs?
Good luck to them but cannot see this idea working for a small international development charity like ChildFund Australia.

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Jody 11 Mar 16

Hmmm… what a waste of time! I don’t see this being beneficial and assume the amount of time taken to organise this could have been spent elsewhere. Good luck ChildFund…

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Gary 12 Mar 16

This ‘experiment’ as the CEO put it looks like a waste of Australian donations.

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