Prof David Clutterbuck is one of HR Magazine’s top 15 HR influencers. Author of 60 books, he is visiting professor at both Oxford Brookes and Sheffield Hallam Universities. One of the pioneers of developmental coaching and mentoring, he is co-founder of the European Mentoring and Coaching Council. An energetic and humorous speaker (he has trained as a stand-up comic), he has a reputation for making complex topics accessible and for challenging HR and management practice. He has been described as the “master of the powerful question”. His evidence-based research into whether HR common practice in talent management delivers what it is supposed to has stirred international controversy, while gaining substantial support from those, who feel that the HR profession can far contribute more than it does now.