Robert (Bob) G. Hamlin is Emeritus Professor and Chair of Human Resource Development at the University of Wolverhampton in the UK and Honorary Treasurer of the University Forum for Human Resource Development-an international association for universities, reflective practitioners, and learning oriented organizations.His research is focused mainly on perceived managerial and leadership effectiveness and managerial coaching effectiveness within public, private and third sector organizations in the UK and in other countries within Africa, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, North America and South America. The findings of his research have been published nationally and internationally in a wide range of management and HRD related books and academic journals. Bob is lead co-editor of Organizational Change and Development: A reflective guide for managers, trainers and developers (FT Prentice Hall, 2001) and sole author of Universalistic Models of Managerial and Leadership Effectiveness: A cumulative and multiple cross-case empirical study of effective and ineffective managerial behaviour (VDM Verlag Dr Muller, 2009). He serves on several editorial boards including Human Resource Development Quarterly,Human Resource Development International, the European Journal of Training and Development, and the International Journal of Evidence-based Coaching and Mentoring.