Biographical Description:

John Whitmore is the UK's founder of modern coaching having worked with the grandfather of coaching (Tim Gallwey) in the US. This marked the change from show-and-tell to the familiar methodolgies based upon pure facilitation which John called 'coaching' and this has been the main understanding about coaching ever since. 

John works and travels the world taking his adapted techniques (based upon the GROW model) to organisations and people in many nations. John is author of 'Coaching for Performance' now in  a bigger second edition, his books having sold in excess of 120,000 copies. 

John is currently the honorary President of the Coaching Foundation.