Hello, I am Roach the Coach and I am your guide through the Coaching Chronicles. There are 4,500 species of us cockroaches so we are well placed, across the globe, and across time, to tell you about coaching… Galileo is one of the most formative ancestors of coaching. The son of a musician, it is rumoured that his father asked his good friend, Franco Mercury, what his baby son’s first thoughts might be. Franco paused, and in a hushed tone said, “I suspect he would say something like: ‘Is this real life or just a fantasy?’ ” Born an Aquarian on 15 February, 1564, near Pisa,...