x Contributors Geoffrey Abbott is an executive coach and researcher currently based in El Salvador where he has been completing his doctoral studies on coaching with the Australian National University. Geoff was previously an executive with the Special Broadcasting Service in Sydney, Australia, where he managed strategic planning processes and cross-cultural research. He is an Associate of ESEN (the School of Economics and Business) in San Salvador. Geoff works mainly in Central America with clients from the commercial and development sectors. He has a particular interest in cross-cultural coaching as a strategy for enhancing global competitiveness. He can be contacted at geoffabbott@yahoo.com. Graham Alexander is often described as a `super coach' and has been attributed with introducing business coaching to the UK. He is one of the few people coaching at the top level of UK/international business, specifically CEOs,