About Us

Who are we?

Clutterbuck Associates and its franchise companies are among the world’s leading experts in mentoring and coaching. Our expertise in learning dialogue (such as takes place in any mentoring or coaching relationship) is based on more than 25 years of research by Professor David Clutterbuck, now being supplemented by research around the world from many associates. As from January 2009, this expertise is now enhanced by the complementary range of expertise that came with CA becoming a division of GP UK and its international associates.

In South Africa, the company is run by three highly experienced and well-placed individuals with a combined total of over 70 years in human development work. We are one-third Black owned and two-thirds female owned, thus measuring up well against BBBEE criteria..

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What do we do?

Our business is helping organisations to set up developmental mentoring and/or coaching schemes, whether it be in-house, industry-wide, entrepreneurial or community development schemes.

How do we work?

We are client-focused; we believe in offering sound solutions and measuring the success of what we do. We ensure our knowledge, methodologies and processes are leading edge yet accessible. We deliver both consulting and training ourselves – we do not outsource any aspect of these. By preference we transfer the skills into the client company.

We are founder members of Coaches and Mentors of South Africa (COMENSA), an umbrella body working towards improving professional standards in these areas.

History

David Clutterbuck formed Clutterbuck Associates, in 1984, as a business research and consultancy organisation, specialising in people development. It has evolved to become one of the world’s leading specialists in mentoring and coaching programme design and implementation.

During 2002, the founding partners of Clutterbuck Associates South Africa recognised that David’s work could be of great value in helping South African organisations meet the challenges of transformation and accelerated skills development – working at the personal level and thereby building up to organisational transformation.. A franchise agreement was reached and the company launched in August 2002. Since then, a prestigious client list of leading South African organisations has been built up. We have helped to implement mentoring schemes with companies in the mining, financial services, telecommunications, utility and chemical industries and have also worked with organisations in the public and voluntary sectors. Company references are available on request.

The relationship with David and the UK office remains close, with David visting every 2 or 3 years to bring out his latest work. It is also a two-way relationship, with research and experience gained in South Africa flowing to UK to update their work there.

Ethos

Clutterbuck Associates has seven key principles:

We do not offer services unless we can offer unique and leading edge solutions.
We maintain a constant programme of research into both fundamentals and good practice in each area of our service offerings.
We always offer an opportunity to transfer to our clients both knowledge and the capability to run CA-generated programmes using their own in-house resources.
No change takes place in isolation – it is part of an existing and often powerful system. We expect to work with clients to identify and manage the context in which a programme will operate.
Wherever possible, we avoid the “sheep-dip” approach – most of our programmes involve continued support to maintain sustainability.
Measurement and evaluation are essential.
We abide by the International Standard for Mentoring Programmes in Employment (ISMPE).