About David
David Clutterbuck is one of Europe’s most influential management thinkers. Author or co-author of 50 books, with more in the pipeline, he has a well-deserved reputation for developing and pioneering innovation in management, from 360 feedback to developmental mentoring. He is a stimulating, humorous and challenging speaker, who spends much of his life travelling the world helping organizations and leaders develop the capability to have more effective and more powerful conversations.
Some facts about David:
- He learns a new sport every year (in 2009, it was caving)
- He is visiting professor at both Sheffield Hallam and Oxford Brookes Universities
- He was ranked by the Sunday Independent as second in the list of the UK’s top coaches
- His pastimes include writing limericks
- One of his 50 books is a collection of original children’s stories The Tales of Gribble the Goblin
- He is active in charities that he co-founded, promoting the social inclusion of young people with learning or social disabilities
- He lives in the Thames Valley, UK, with his wife of nearly 40 years, Polly; and has four sons
- When he dies, his tombstone will carry the limerick:
Under this marble slab lies Dave,
Who never quite learned to behave.
His great epitaph?
He made people laugh
And he’s chuckling still in his grave.
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