The Association for Management Education and Development (AMED) has formed an alliance with the Coaching and Mentoring Network (CMN) to make the most of their common ground, and to benefit their respective memberships.

AMED is a not-for-profit forum encouraging the sharing of ideas and research for and by professionals in people and organisation development. CMN provides news, discussion and directory listings to coaches and mentors.

The new arrangement will allow members of each organisation to use the network provided by the other at a discounted rate. The move also aims to extend the networking and learning opportunities so important to both organisations, and will be developed through newsletters, workshops and events.