An interview with David Megginson

David Megginson is Visiting Professor of HRD at Sheffield Hallam University and founder of the Mentoring and Coaching Research Unit in the University. He has written and researched extensively about coaching, mentoring and other topics. Two books, Techniques for Coaching and Mentoring, and Creating a Coaching Culture (written jointly with David Clutterbuck) are to be published shortly. Two further books, Mentoring in Action and Mentoring Executives and Directors, have also been written with David Clutterbuck. The two Davids founded the European Mentoring and Coaching Council in 1992, and David Megginson now co‐chairs it, with Sir John Whitmore. He is also Chairman of strategy consultancy The idm Group, and an executive coach. Here he answers questions about his work.