Clutterbuck Associates

Speaking Engagements

A number of our senior consultants regularly speak at conferences within their specialisms and can deliver keynotes on request. We also run ‘Lunch and Learn’ presentations for internal teams and HR teams on a range of topics.

David Clutterbuck - is one of Europe’s best-known and innovative writers and thinkers on leadership and the foremost authority globally on mentoring. He has a rare talent for making complex topics understandable and for presenting them with humour and insight.

Sara Hope – Sara regularly speaks around her research, practice and consultancy insights into internal coaching.

Lis Merrick – Lis is a regular speaker within the mentoring space and core specialisms and interest areas for Lis are around talent mentoring, supervision and also women in mentoring.

Some recent keynotes, seminars and session topics that our consultants have delivered include: 

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  • The power of mentoring – conversations that achieve great things
    a keynote around the how to harness the power of mentoring; the benefits that mentoring can bring to you and your organisation; how practically you can implement and make a mentoring programme work; what great mentoring looks like and what being a mentor or mentee involves
  • If succession planning works, why do the wrong people get to the top?
    detailed and controversial look at the problems of conventional succession planning, plus exploration of radical alternatives to current approaches
  • Time to decrease reliance on external coaching?
    cases studies of how employers are developing in-house capability to manage external coaching more effectively (and at lower cost), while developing internal coaches. Includes research into the relationship between external coaches and HR buyers; and practical experience equipping HR Business Partners with skills to facilitate effective coaching interventions
  • Time to re-visit our obsession with goals
    according to recent US research, too great a focus on SMART goals kills companies – and people. David has for some years explore the nature of goals in people development and reached the conclusion that very specific goals frequently hinder both career and personal development. He explains why and offers alternative strategies for both HR and people developers in general
  • What’s happening in mentoring
    an overview of good practice and innovative trends in mentoring, from reverse mentoring to e-mentoring
  • Virtual coach, virtual mentor -
    this is the title of David’s 50th book, due out within weeks. In it, he explores the practicalities of coaching and mentoring at a distance, through case studies and a wealth of research
  • Who’s in control of coaching and mentoring?
    CIPD surveys show that, far from collapsing, spend on coaching is increasing. The critical question for HR in this area a year or so ago was “How do we measure the RoI of coaching and mentoring?” For many organisations, the question has moved on to: “How do we manage coaching and mentoring?” Measurement is now only one small part of a picture that encompasses: 
    • Integration of initiatives in coaching and mentoring within a clear and consistent strategy of organisational development
    • Clarity about the respective roles of the centre and HR Business Partners in championing and overseeing coaching and mentoring
    • Developing the capability of HRBPs to assess and use coaches in ways that deliver maximum value-added
    • Addressing coaching and mentoring culture as a systemic issue, which can best be addressed through simultaneous change at both organisational and work team levels

    In this interactive seminar/workshop we explore how companies around the world are getting to grips with the management of coaching and mentoring. In many cases, they start from a point where no-one knows what coaching and mentoring is occurring, how effective it is, and who is responsible for it. We will make the case for establishing greater control now, with a view to creating the platforms, from which more powerful, informal coaching and mentoring can flourish in the future.

  • Staying ahead of the game: the role of coaching and mentoring
    Studies of high performing top teams show that one of their core characteristics is how they apply a coaching and mentoring mindset to the way they approach both everyday and extraordinary issues. But how do you create a coaching and mentoring mindset? And how do you embed that mindset not just in the top team, but throughout the organisation?

    In this thought-provoking yet intensely practical seminar, we will explore a range of factors that help create and sustain a coaching and mentoring mindset, including:
    • Developing clarity around the return on investment from coaching and mentoring
    • Linking individual and team coaching
    • What does continuous development for coaches (internal and external) look like?
    • How can you create and support coaching and mentoring champions throughout the organisation, both in the line and in HR?
    • How can external executive coaches enhance the value they bring to corporate clients?
  • Creating and Sustaining the Coaching and Mentoring Culture
    Pioneering research into the practicalities of managing the change to a culture fully supportive of coaching and mentoring behaviours led to the book, Coaching at Work, by David Clutterbuck and David Megginson. The two researchers and authors have continued their research, working with organisations to identify and overcome the barriers to developing and sustaining a coaching and mentoring culture. This session is aimed at organisational leaders, human resource professionals, or both, with minor adaptations to the structure and content according to the audience. The style of the session is interactive, with short bursts of knowledge transfer interspersed with practical discussions, diagnostics and exercises
  • Advanced Techniques in Coaching and Mentoring
    This unique masterclass draws together a vast range of experience in the delivery of coaching and mentoring, current research into both roles from across the world, and the continuing project by Clutterbuck Associates and the Mentoring and Coaching Research Unit at Sheffield Hallam University to gather appropriate techniques from a wide range of related disciplines and approaches. Many of these techniques have been published in the book Further Techniques in Coaching and Mentoring
  • Coaching the Team at Work
    Team coaching at work is frequently confused with team facilitation or team building and there is no significant body of published good practice to draw upon. David Clutterbuck’s book Coaching the Team at Work, the first in-depth study of team coaching outside the world of sport, forms the basis for this input and aims to show how coaching can be a powerful approach to team performance and development