The AC Podcast

Sam Isaacson, coach, author, Chair of Coaching Professional apprenticeship trailblazer group and in his new role as Global Director of Consulting at CoachHub, talks to our host, Claudia Day, about various cutting-edge tools that can enhance and grow our creativity as coaches. Sam speaks about the wide variety of technological tools he uses in his coaching, ranging from PowerPoint to Virtual Reality. He became the first executive coach to offer virtual reality coaching, which he enthusiastically advocates as a much more natural, easier tool for coaches and coachees to use than video calls and one that we need to get used to. “Honestly, virtual reality is so much less intense than video." For the episode resources and guest bio, please visit:  https://www.associationforcoaching.com/page/technology_and_innovation_podcast_Sam_Isaacson

Carol Braddick, Executive coach, author, and member of the Future of Coaching Collaboration: a group taking a multi-stakeholder view of the coaching market and the impact of technology, joins our host Claudia Day to discuss technology in coaching, both for the sceptics and enthusiasts amongst us.    Carol asks us to examine our attitudes to tech and how these influence our appetites for learning and using it, and the different options for coaches as new tools, platforms, and providers enter the market. Listen in as Carol shares practical starting points to pivot some CPD time and budget towards technology. “Tech may be able to help us have a deeper impact." For the episode resources and guest bio, please visit:  https://associationforcoaching.site-ym.com/page/technology_and_innovation_podcast_Carol_Braddick 

Alex Haitoglou, a tech entrepreneur and business leader and co-founder of Ovida, joins our host Claudia Day to share his mission to use AI in the service of coaching, training and developing coaches, assist mentoring and supervision and help clients grow.   Listen to the second part of this interview where Alex discusses why most coaching has shifted online and the challenges and opportunities when delivering great coaching, including the focus on data privacy, consent and security. He speaks about Ovida and how AI tools can significantly enhance the coaching experience through improved human-to-human connection if engaged ethically.    “We need to find a way to use all this technology to help us be more human.”  For the episode resources and guest bio, please visit:   https://associationforcoaching.site-ym.com/page/technology_and_innovation_podcast_Alex_Haitoglou   

Alex Haitoglou, a tech entrepreneur and business leader and co-founder of Ovida, joins our host Claudia Day to share his mission to use AI in the service of coaching, training and developing coaches, assist mentoring and supervision and help clients grow. Alex discusses why most coaching have shifted online and the challenges and opportunities when delivering great coaching, including the focus on data privacy, consent and security. He speaks about Ovida and how AI tools can significantly enhance the coaching experience through improved human-to-human connection if engaged ethically. “We need to find a way to use all this technology to help us be more human.”   For the episode resources and guest bio, please visit:  https://associationforcoaching.site-ym.com/page/technology_and_innovation_podcast_Alex_Haitoglou  

Rebecca Rutschmann, a tech entrepreneur, business coach and co-founder of Evoach: a self-coaching chatbot, joins our host, Claudia Day, to share her experiences using AI technology with coaching. She encourages us all to be curious about AI, coaching chatbots and other technology that can support our coaching practice. Rebecca discusses how AI can enlarge the coaching market through greater accessibility, reach and affordability. “We have to adapt, it’s a thing we always have to do, as human beings.” For the episode resources and guest bio, please visit:  https://associationforcoaching.site-ym.com/page/technology_and_innovation_podcast_Rebecca_Rutschmann  

Dr Nicky Terblanche, an executive coach, researcher and senior lecturer at the University of Stellenbosch, joins our host, Claudia Day, in this insightful conversation about AI and Coaching. With a background as a software engineer, Nicky gives an overview of AI, his collaborative research into coaching using chatbots, both text and voice and the creation of coach Vici: a chatbot based on the GROW model and goal attaining coaching: not to replace coaches, but instead enlarge the market and access to coaching. For the episode resources and guest bio, please visit: https://www.associationforcoaching.com/page/technology_and_innovation_podcast_Dr_Nicky_Terblanche

David Clutterbuck, a coaching pioneer, author of over 70 books and a co-founder of the European Mentoring and Coaching Council,  joins Claudia Day in this fascinating conversation about using the ever-evolving technology in coaching. David highlights the fun and serious aspects of using technology, such as VR for coaching, the emerging ethical issues and what an effective partnership with AI might look like. “Ethics is a state of mind, not just a bunch of rules."   For the episode resources and guest bio, please visit: https://associationforcoaching.site-ym.com/page/technology_and_innovation_podcast_David_Clutterbuck

In this special one-off episode, we are proud to unite our podcast hosts in a rich, reflective, insightful and celebratory conversation about their experiences as hosts and the topics tackled in our 2021 podcast series.   Discover how hosting and interviewing our amazing guests impacted the hosts, what they learnt and remember most. Listen to this episode to gain real food for thought about the maturation of the coaching profession and its role in our changing world. For the episode resources and guest bio, please visit:  https://associationforcoaching.site-ym.com/page/2021_Podcast_Reflections_RobLawrence

Shalini Sequeira, Executive Coach and part of the leadership team at ‘’She Leads Change”, joins Dr Alexandra Morgan to reflect on inequity and lack of diversity in coaching. Shalini shares her personal experiences of inequity and how this has set her on a mission to challenge racism and inequalities at all levels and sectors of the coaching industry, assisting those previously marginalized to enter leadership roles.

Jenny Plaister-Ten, Accredited Master Coach and Coaching Supervisor, joins Dr. Alexandra Morgan in a podcast about the impact of culture in coaching. Jenny argues that values are formed in our culture of origin; however, coaches are not trained to identify cultural values. Some coaches work at the level of values, yet, how our values are formed is often overlooked. Therefore, in a complex context such as a multi-national/cultural organization whose values take precedence and why? Who, if anyone, should allow their values to be eroded and why?  “Your cultural self is more just the personality; it is definitely a trench of values and beliefs that are out of awareness.”