094: Tom Marsden: The Future of Coaching: Saberr’s Digital Coach for Teams

What role can technology play in helping teams form, develop and grow? Will coach bots and artificial intelligence replace the need for human-based team coaching?

Tune in to this week’s episode of The Team Coaching Zone podcast where host Dr. Krister Lowe explores these and other compelling questions with Tom Marsden, CEO of Saberr—a people analytics company that leverages technology to improve collaboration and help people create happy, high performing teams. In this episode Tom shares his journey from an early career in private equity to management consulting and then to discovering a passion for teams and technology as the CEO of Saberr. Themes explored in the podcast include:

•Origin story of Saberr

•The role of values in predicting team success

•Team composition and formation

•Saberr’s 3 core offerings: Base, CoachBot and Coaching

•How to integrate both technology as well as human-based coaching to foster self-coaching teams

•How to generate buy-in for using technology and coaching in teams

•Stories and lessons learned using Saberr’s approach in a range of companies

•How the future will continue to integrate technological as well as human-based approaches to fostering more engaged and successful teams

•How artificial intelligence and coachbots will increase the need for human-based team coaching rather than reducing it

•And more!

This episode is a must listen for all team coaches who are interested in how to incorporate technology into their practices and who are wary of being potentially outsourced by that very technology itself. Tom’s vision of the future of team coaching is inspiring and a blue ocean for those willing to dive in! Tune in and listen to this episode today and get ready to take your team coaching practice to the next level!