Nigel Cumberland

Nigel Cumberland
Born	(1967-07-26) July 26, 1967 York, England
Alma mater	University of Cambridge
Occupation	Author Coach
Spouse(s)	Evelyn Capel
Children	2
Website	nigelcumberland.com

Nigel Cumberland is an English author, leadership coach, and a founder of The Silk Road Partnership.^[1][2] He is the author of eight books, a number of which have been translated into foreign languages, including into Chinese and Brazilian Portuguese.^[3][4] He writes self-development and leadership skills books, some of which have been serialized.^[5]

Education

Cumberland read Economics at Queens’ College,^[6] University of Cambridge graduating in 1989. He had come up to Cambridge from Archbishop Holgate's Grammar School in York. He later studied management accounting and since 2005 holds the Fellow ("FCMA") title with the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants ("CIMA").^[7][8] He is trained and certified as a Marshall Goldsmith Stakeholder Centered Coach.^[9]

Cumberland with fellow author & coach Marshall Goldsmith in Dubai on September 6 2015

Career

Earlier in his career Cumberland had been an expatriate Finance Director with Coats plc and also held Managing Director positions with groups such as Adecco SA.^[10] In 2000, he founded St. George’s Consulting, a recruitment and coaching company with offices in Hong Kong and China. It merged with the Asian arm of Harvey Nash plc in 2003 and renamed St. George’s Harvey Nash.^[11] firm was sold to UK recruitment company, Hays plc, in May 2006.^[12][13][14]

In 2006, Cumberland renamed the part of St. George’s that he retained as The Silk Road Partnership which merged with the business in London of Philip Beddows. Cumberland provides leadership coaching, mentoring, training and facilitation for C-suite leaders and Board members through The Silk Road Partnership from his base in Dubai, UAE.^[15][16]

Cumberland is an Accredited Coach (Senior Practitioner Level) with the European Mentoring and Coaching Council,^[17] and at its request was part of a small working group which created an industry-wide Global Code of Ethics for coaches and mentors.^[18] In January 2016, he was invited to become a founding member of a not-for-profit Gulf Coaching Alliance,^[19] which supports knowledge sharing about the coaching profession in the Middle East.^[20] He is also a Founding Fellow of the Harvard Medical School-affiliated Institute of Coaching.^[21]

Cumberland regularly writes in the media on career and leadership related topics.^[22][23] He is often interviewed for articles on similar topics.^{[24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32]} He is regularly invited to chair, facilitate and/or speak at various events.^{[33][34][35][36][37][38]}

Volunteer and causes

In 2015 The City of London's Court of Common Council passed an order for Cumberland to be admitted to the Freedom of the City of London.^[39][40]

Cumberland founded a Hong Kong-based charity called The Getting Back to Work Foundation, in 2002, which helped job-seekers to find work.^[41][42][43]

Cumberland with his wife and co-founder of St. George's Consulting, receiving the 2002 China Staff Magazine HR Award for their firm at Hong Kong's Ritz Carlton Hotel.

Cumberland had been a Board Member and the Treasurer of the International School of Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia, a not for profit parent governed school, for four years until about 2011.^[44][45]

Cumberland was quoted in different publications for his slightly controversial "You end up with boring adults" comment regarding the effects of poor parenting and nurturing of young people after he was interviewed and quoted by Carl Honoré in his 2008 book Under Pressure.^{[46][47][48][49]}

Bibliography

Cumberland receiving the Freedom of the City of London at a June 2016 ceremony in a court of London's Guildhall

Cumberland at the Hong Kong's Foreign Correspondents' Club in June 2006

• Your Job-Hunt Ltd – Advice from an Award-Winning Asian Headhunter (published by Pilgrims Guides in 2003; ISBN 0-9532796-5-0)
• Your Job-Hunt Ltd – Advice from an Award-Winning Asian Headhunter (a Hong Kong-Chinese language updated Edition published by Wan Li Book Co. Ltd. In 2004; ISBN 962-14-2809-2)^[50][51]
• Successful Recruitment in a Week – Teach Yourself series (published by Hodder Education in UK & McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. in US in 2012)^[52]
• Managing Teams in a Week – Teach Yourself series (published by Hodder Education in UK & McGraw-Hill Companies Inc. in US in 2013)^[53]
• Secrets of Success at Work – 50 techniques to excel (published by Hodder & Stoughton in UK & McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. in US in 2014; ISBN 978 1 473 60024 9)^[54]
• Management in 4 Weeks – the Complete Guide to Success Teach Yourself series (one of 4 authors) (published by Hodder & Stoughton in UK & McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. in US in 2015; ISBN 978 1 473 605 268)^[55]
• 50 Segredos do Sucesso no Trabalho (published by Self-desenvolvimento Pessoal in Portugal in 2015; ISBN 9789898781352)
• Recrutamento em Uma Semana (published by Figurati in Brazil in 2015; ISBN 9788567871172)^[56]
• Finding and Hiring Talent in a Week – Teach Yourself series (updated edition of Successful Recruitment in a Week – Teach Yourself series) (published by John Murray Learning in UK & Quercus in US in 2016)^[57]
• Leading Teams in a Week – Teach Yourself series (updated edition of Managing Teams in a Week – Teach Yourself series) (published by John Murray Learning in UK & Quercus in US in 2016)^[58]
• 100 Things Successful People Do: Little Exercises for Successful Living (published in UK by John Murray Learning and in the US by Nicholas Brealey Publishing in 2016; ISBN 978-1473635043)^[59]

References

External links

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• The European Mentoring and Coaching Council
• The International Association of Coaching
• The Gulf Coaching Alliance
• The Harvard Medical School-affiliated Institute of Coaching
• The Silk Road Partnership