Nigel Cumberland is a British author, leadership coach and mentor, and a founder of The Silk Road Partnership. He is the author of nine self-development and leadership books, some of which have been serialised and translated into several foreign languages. Cumberland is an award-winning and Accredited Coach (Master Practitioner Level), and an accredited Coach/Mentor Supervisor with the European Mentoring and Coaching Council, and at its request was part of a small working group which created an industry-wide Global Code of Ethics for coaches and mentors. He is also a Founding Fellow of the Harvard Medical School-affiliated Institute of Coaching. He is also an International Ambassador on the Board of Directors of the US-based International Mentoring Association. Less