Professor Bob Garvey is one of Europe’s leading academic practitioners of mentoring and coaching.  Bob has extensive experience in working across many sectors of social and economic activity. This includes both large and small business and the public and voluntary sectors. He has developed many training films, delivered international Webinars and developed interactive training materials on a variety of coaching and mentoring topics.  Bob mentors/coaches a number of people from a variety of organisations and walks of life. Currently, he is supervising 10 research projects on a range of coaching and mentoring issues.  Bob has published many papers on the practice of coaching and mentoring in a variety of journals including the bestselling ‘Mentoring Pocket Book’ and ‘A very short, slightly interesting and reasonably cheap book on Coaching and Mentoring’. He is a member of the European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC) and the International Mentoring Association (IMA).  He regularly contributes to the professional journal ‘Coaching at Work’ and in 2014 ‘Coaching at Work’ awarded him a life time achievement award for contributions to mentoring. Also in 2014, Bob received the EMCC’s mentor of the year award. He recently published ‘The Fundamentals of Coaching and Mentoring’: a 6 volume reference collection in the Sage ‘Major Work Series’.