Collusion with leader clients is a widespread problem among executive coaches, suggests Professor David Clutterbuck In 2013, Professor Clutterbuck began exploring with coaches whether leaders and managers could be using having a coach as an excuse to abdicate their responsibilities for their self-development. In his recent blog article: Leader development: Are executive coaches part of the problem or part of the solution? he writes that many coaches admitted  that this was “one of the great taboo topics in coaching” and that they raised “a concern to...