Ai is not as much of a threat if we see how we can collaborate with it rather than see it as a competitor. The human interface in coaching is still invaluable. The blend of coaching with tools that assist with the tangible elements and the human interface with the intangibles will help in effectiveness of our journeys together with our clients.

with people working later in life retirement coaching could be huge. Coaches could help clients design new paths like starting a business or volunteering. Tools like VR might even let them test these lives first.

I started using this mindfulness app that links to my smartwatch, and it’s been a game changer for tracking my stress. It made me think, what if coaching uses more of that? A client wearing something that tracks their focus or anxiety during sessions and you could see that data. It feels like it could take coaching to a whole new level to use tech with a personal touch.

as soon as a larger player in tech gives ai coaching bots sensors (to see and hear) we will see a dramatic shift in capabilities and adoption. A software/ hardware combination in your device camera linked to the “office suite” you use makes the feature standard and overcomes adoption decisions. Current limitations are due to trying ti force a text interface to do something that was never done by text.

ICF is becoming an instrument in the hands of technology corporations, and therefore, state authorities. The coaching I felt attracted to is not about brain-computer interfaces tracking emotions and cognitive states. I am not interested in being an agent of government bodies using tech to control human inner states and human behaviour. Have we not learned anything from the experience of communism? Our highest human potential does not wait to be tracked – but uncovered and reverently supported.