ABSTRACT
This short chapter turns to the Sponsor role. In general, being a sponsor means using any power you have in the service of your mentee rather than for your own gain. Power, as in the ability to make things happen, can be accrued if we have one or more of three things: money, knowledge and good relationships with powerful others. Being a sponsor in mentoring relates to using two of those three things – a mentor’s knowledge and contacts – to help the mentee. The chapter provides specific examples of how this role could be, and has been, enacted.
