Trainers

Prof David Clutterbuck

Practice Lead

David has been responsible for the implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of highly successful mentoring and coaching programmes in numerous organisations around the world, including Standard Chartered Bank, Goldman Sachs, Lloyds TSB, World Bank and Nokia. David has worked with the Audit Commission in the UK, implementing a diversity mentoring programme that is now in its fifth phase. In October 2003, the Audit Commission scheme achieved a Gold Standard under assessment by the International Standards for Mentoring Programmes in Employment (ISMPE).

He also researches, publishes and consults widely on Board Performance and behaviour; and is currently investigating why succession planning so often doesn’t work. The link between these interests is the critical importance of dialogue between individuals and between them and the organisations in which they work. He has helped hundreds of senior teams across the world find the Massively Difficult Questions that lead to deeper understanding of themselves and their businesses.

Listed as one of the top 25 most influential thinkers in the field of Human Resources in the HR Magazine sponsored survey, and described by The Sunday Independent as second in the list of top business coaches in the UK, David is an Honorary Vice President of the European Mentoring and Coaching Council. He is a visiting professor at both Sheffield Hallam University and Oxford Brookes University and is active in a charity he co-founded to develop new ways of using mentoring and coaching style approaches to support young people with learning or social disabilities.