Liz Hall The time has come to consider the benefits and challenges of professional coaching and mentoring bodies merging, Lise Lewis, the new president of the European Mentoring & Coaching Council (EMCC), has suggested. Lewis, who stepped into her new role at the EMCC annual conference in Paris on 17-19 November, may be setting the cat amongst the pigeons with her proposal that “leaders in the coaching and mentoring world propose a strategy for considering the benefits and challenges of merger opportunities between professional and associated bodies” but she...