The Coach's Journey - build a coaching business with integrity
Robbie Swale
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Sam Isaacson saw the rise of artificial intelligence coming, and he was ready for it. With his background in managing technology risk and change, he could see the impact that rapid AI development would have on his current profession as a coach, and in this episode of The Coach’s Journey Podcast he addresses some of the most pressing issues facing coaches all over the world.
Very few people are as well placed as Sam to speak about the threats and the benefits AI holds for human coaches. After all, he has developed his own AI coaching product, AICoach.chat, which provides its clients with a “distraction-free space for thinking, challenging and reframing, not reacting”.
In conversation with episode host Neil Mackinnon, Sam addresses questions of ethics, efficacy and economy that have been brought to bear on the coaching industry by the rise of products like his.
The coach, author and founder of The Coachtech Collective offers his perspective on the qualitative difference between being coached by a human and an AI, and the crucial question of what role relationship plays in successful coaching engagements.
Sam, who was the first person to ever coach people in virtual reality, describes this and many other remarkable achievements in vivid detail, painting a picture of the limitless possibilities held by emergent technologies.
Sam and Neil also talk about:
The AI-enabled coaching products and facilities that are available now
The work Sam has done to align the world of coaching with the world of apprenticeships
The pros and cons of content creation as a coach
The coaching conferences Sam recommends (including his own!)
In this deep-dive into cutting edge coaching technology, Sam picks out the products that can be of most benefit to your coaching practice right now, and explains the transformative impact they can have.
THINGS WE TALKED ABOUT THAT YOU MIGHT BE INTERESTED IN:
- Transforming Coaching with AI and Technology with Sam Isaacson – Delenta podcast https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qa3q3KqXzhc
- Myers Briggs https://www.myersbriggs.org/my-mbti-personality-type/myers-briggs-overview/
- Sam Isaacson – Coach, author, founder of The Coachtech Collective https://isaacson.uk/
- The Coachtech Collective – community exploring coaching + tech https://isaacson.uk/buy/the-coachtech-collective/
- EMCC – European Mentoring and Coaching Council https://www.emccglobal.org/
- ILM – Institute of Leadership & Management https://www.institutelm.com/
- Apprenticeship Trailblazer (UK coaching apprenticeship framework) https://www.instituteforapprenticeships.org/
- Patrick Lencioni – The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, founder of The Table Group https://www.tablegroup.com/
- Challenging Coaching by Blakey & Day https://www.amazon.co.uk/Challenging-Coaching-Transforming-Performance-Organisations/dp/1857885753
- “High Support, High Challenge” https://www.maier.co.uk/insights/high_support_high_challenge/
- Toku McCree – Coach, author of “Love on the End of a Sword” https://coachingmba.co/about/
- John Whitmore – Coaching for Performance, GROW modelhttps://www.performanceconsultants.com/grow-model
- Nancy Kline – Time to Think model https://www.timetothink.com/
- Nicholas Janni – Leader as Healer https://www.nicholasjanni.com/book-leader-as-healer/
- Video session by Nicholas Janni (theme: presence-based coaching) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuXDCUcDsu4
- WBX / Coaching.com Summit – Global coaching & leadership summit https://www.coaching.com/summit/
- Coaching.com – Coaching management platform https://www.coaching.com/
- Alex Pascal – Founder of Coaching.com (in memoriam) https://www.coaching.com/about/
- Coach Is Rising – Coaching organisation & training platform https://www.coachisrising.com/
- Digital & AI Coaches’ Conference (founded by Sam Isaacson) https://isaacson.uk/digital-and-ai-coaches-conference/
- Jonathan Passmore – Coaching psychologist, author, academic https://www.henley.ac.uk/people/dr-jonathan-passmore
- Sandra Diller – Editor / academic in coaching and leadership (co-editor with Passmore & Isaacson) (No central site; academic publications: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8793-1946)
- Max Blumberg / Max Brantle (likely Max Blumberg, co-editor of coaching texts) https://www.maxblumberg.com/
- Joel Monk – Host of Coaches Rising podcast (sometimes written as Munch in transcripts) https://www.coachesrising.com/podcast/
- Robbie Swale – Coach & author (How to Start When You’re Stuck) https://robbieswale.com/
- The World Humanoid Robot Games https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/cvg3mv3rz60o
- AICoach.chat – Sam’s AI coaching product https://www.aicoach.chat/
- Make.com https://www.make.com/en
- The CoachTech Collective http://coachtech.uk/
BIOGRAPHY FROM SAM
Sam Isaacson is a coaching thought leader and consultant whose work leans into technology as an enabler for revolutionising coaching strategies and approaches. He has been writing about cutting-edge technologies, including AI, blockchain and the metaverse, for many years and now works with organisations and coaches around the world on their use of technology. Sam's books include several on the impact of technology on the coaching profession, and others on the use of coaching as a strategic tool within organisations. He has regularly contributed to Choice magazine and Coaching at Work, and frequently speaks at respected coaching conferences. Sam lives in West London in the UK, in a home made noisy by his four sons. In his spare time he is deeply involved in the world of tabletop miniature wargaming, where he co-hosts a podcast.
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Sam Isaacson saw the rise of artificial intelligence coming, and he was ready for it. With his background in managing technology risk and change, he could see the impact that rapid AI development would have on his current profession as a coach, and in this episode of The Coach’s Journey Podcast he addresses some of the most pressing issues facing coaches all over the world.
Very few people are as well placed as Sam to speak about the threats and the benefits AI holds for human coaches. After all, he has developed his own AI coaching product, AICoach.chat, which provides its clients with a “distraction-free space for thinking, challenging and reframing, not reacting”.
In conversation with episode host Neil Mackinnon, Sam addresses questions of ethics, efficacy and economy that have been brought to bear on the coaching industry by the rise of products like his.
The coach, author and founder of The Coachtech Collective offers his perspective on the qualitative difference between being coached by a human and an AI, and the crucial question of what role relationship plays in successful coaching engagements.
Sam, who was the first person to ever coach people in virtual reality, describes this and many other remarkable achievements in vivid detail, painting a picture of the limitless possibilities held by emergent technologies.
Sam and Neil also talk about:
The AI-enabled coaching products and facilities that are available now
The work Sam has done to align the world of coaching with the world of apprenticeships
The pros and cons of content creation as a coach
The coaching conferences Sam recommends (including his own!)
In this deep-dive into cutting edge coaching technology, Sam picks out the products that can be of most benefit to your coaching practice right now, and explains the transformative impact they can have.
THINGS WE TALKED ABOUT THAT YOU MIGHT BE INTERESTED IN:
- Transforming Coaching with AI and Technology with Sam Isaacson – Delenta podcast https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qa3q3KqXzhc
- Myers Briggs https://www.myersbriggs.org/my-mbti-personality-type/myers-briggs-overview/
- Sam Isaacson – Coach, author, founder of The Coachtech Collective https://isaacson.uk/
- The Coachtech Collective – community exploring coaching + tech https://isaacson.uk/buy/the-coachtech-collective/
- EMCC – European Mentoring and Coaching Council https://www.emccglobal.org/
- ILM – Institute of Leadership & Management https://www.institutelm.com/
- Apprenticeship Trailblazer (UK coaching apprenticeship framework) https://www.instituteforapprenticeships.org/
- Patrick Lencioni – The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, founder of The Table Group https://www.tablegroup.com/
- Challenging Coaching by Blakey & Day https://www.amazon.co.uk/Challenging-Coaching-Transforming-Performance-Organisations/dp/1857885753
- “High Support, High Challenge” https://www.maier.co.uk/insights/high_support_high_challenge/
- Toku McCree – Coach, author of “Love on the End of a Sword” https://coachingmba.co/about/
- John Whitmore – Coaching for Performance, GROW modelhttps://www.performanceconsultants.com/grow-model
- Nancy Kline – Time to Think model https://www.timetothink.com/
- Nicholas Janni – Leader as Healer https://www.nicholasjanni.com/book-leader-as-healer/
- Video session by Nicholas Janni (theme: presence-based coaching) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuXDCUcDsu4
- WBX / Coaching.com Summit – Global coaching & leadership summit https://www.coaching.com/summit/
- Coaching.com – Coaching management platform https://www.coaching.com/
- Alex Pascal – Founder of Coaching.com (in memoriam) https://www.coaching.com/about/
- Coach Is Rising – Coaching organisation & training platform https://www.coachisrising.com/
- Digital & AI Coaches’ Conference (founded by Sam Isaacson) https://isaacson.uk/digital-and-ai-coaches-conference/
- Jonathan Passmore – Coaching psychologist, author, academic https://www.henley.ac.uk/people/dr-jonathan-passmore
- Sandra Diller – Editor / academic in coaching and leadership (co-editor with Passmore & Isaacson) (No central site; academic publications: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8793-1946)
- Max Blumberg / Max Brantle (likely Max Blumberg, co-editor of coaching texts) https://www.maxblumberg.com/
- Joel Monk – Host of Coaches Rising podcast (sometimes written as Munch in transcripts) https://www.coachesrising.com/podcast/
- Robbie Swale – Coach & author (How to Start When You’re Stuck) https://robbieswale.com/
- The World Humanoid Robot Games https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/cvg3mv3rz60o
- AICoach.chat – Sam’s AI coaching product https://www.aicoach.chat/
- Make.com https://www.make.com/en
- The CoachTech Collective http://coachtech.uk/
BIOGRAPHY FROM SAM
Sam Isaacson is a coaching thought leader and consultant whose work leans into technology as an enabler for revolutionising coaching strategies and approaches. He has been writing about cutting-edge technologies, including AI, blockchain and the metaverse, for many years and now works with organisations and coaches around the world on their use of technology. Sam's books include several on the impact of technology on the coaching profession, and others on the use of coaching as a strategic tool within organisations. He has regularly contributed to Choice magazine and Coaching at Work, and frequently speaks at respected coaching conferences. Sam lives in West London in the UK, in a home made noisy by his four sons. In his spare time he is deeply involved in the world of tabletop miniature wargaming, where he co-hosts a podcast.
#103: Bob Singha – Coaching Is Not Learning; It Is Remembering
The Coach's Journey - build a coaching business with integrity
2 hours 11 minutes 8 seconds
4 months ago
#103: Bob Singha – Coaching Is Not Learning; It Is Remembering
Every village and every community throughout human history has relied upon people who can facilitate conversations, allowing sacred truths to be passed along generations. In a modern world gripped by a process of massive transformation, this vital, ancient work now falls to coaches.
That is the view of Bob Singha, a master coach who has spent 28 years helping people connect the day-to-day reality of their lives with the eternal teachings of their ancestral heritage. In conversation with Alex Swallow, Bob reflects on his evolution as a coach and as an elder, which he sees as a process of remembering rather than one of learning.
Across decades of work with young people around the world, facing lives blighted by trauma and violence, Bob has found that communities everywhere face similar problems, and that the solutions to them lie in the deep wisdom of our ancestral memories.
Using stories as medicine and as conveyors of wisdom, Bob helps people to remember something about themselves.
In this conversation, Bob and Alex acknowledge the call being sounded for coaches who don’t feel at home in the standard business models that commodify and separate us. They also illustrate the remarkable role coaches can play in connecting communities with the intelligence that gave birth to them.
In this episode, Bob and Alex also talk about:
• How studying something as if you’re going to teach it leads to accelerated learning
• Our connection with the sages, the rishis, the sadhus and fakirs who throughout history have integrated spiritual wisdom and worldly responsibilities
• The power of the question: what are the whispers of your ancestors saying in this moment?
• The relationship between the way we play games and the way we live our lives
• A hilarious story that revealed to Bob at a young age the importance of language, and how we can use it to speak to both the temporary and the eternal.
THINGS WE TALKED ABOUT THAT YOU MIGHT BE INTERESTED IN:
- Timothy Gallwey https://theinnergame.com/
- John Whitmore https://www.performanceconsultants.com/about-us/sir-john-whitmore/
- Tony Robbins https://www.tonyrobbins.com/
- Stephen Covey on interdependence https://challengingcoaching.co.uk/stephen-covey-interdependence-the-deeper-facts/
- Spark Inside https://www.sparkinside.org/
- The Coaching Inn https://thecoachinginn.podbean.com/
- It Takes A Village https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llpz6bADkZU
- Gladeana McMahon http://gladeanamcmahon.com/
- Anthony Eldridge Rogers https://uk.linkedin.com/in/anthonyeldridgerogers
The Coach's Journey - build a coaching business with integrity
Sam Isaacson saw the rise of artificial intelligence coming, and he was ready for it. With his background in managing technology risk and change, he could see the impact that rapid AI development would have on his current profession as a coach, and in this episode of The Coach’s Journey Podcast he addresses some of the most pressing issues facing coaches all over the world.
Very few people are as well placed as Sam to speak about the threats and the benefits AI holds for human coaches. After all, he has developed his own AI coaching product, AICoach.chat, which provides its clients with a “distraction-free space for thinking, challenging and reframing, not reacting”.
In conversation with episode host Neil Mackinnon, Sam addresses questions of ethics, efficacy and economy that have been brought to bear on the coaching industry by the rise of products like his.
The coach, author and founder of The Coachtech Collective offers his perspective on the qualitative difference between being coached by a human and an AI, and the crucial question of what role relationship plays in successful coaching engagements.
Sam, who was the first person to ever coach people in virtual reality, describes this and many other remarkable achievements in vivid detail, painting a picture of the limitless possibilities held by emergent technologies.
Sam and Neil also talk about:
The AI-enabled coaching products and facilities that are available now
The work Sam has done to align the world of coaching with the world of apprenticeships
The pros and cons of content creation as a coach
The coaching conferences Sam recommends (including his own!)
In this deep-dive into cutting edge coaching technology, Sam picks out the products that can be of most benefit to your coaching practice right now, and explains the transformative impact they can have.
THINGS WE TALKED ABOUT THAT YOU MIGHT BE INTERESTED IN:
- Transforming Coaching with AI and Technology with Sam Isaacson – Delenta podcast https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qa3q3KqXzhc
- Myers Briggs https://www.myersbriggs.org/my-mbti-personality-type/myers-briggs-overview/
- Sam Isaacson – Coach, author, founder of The Coachtech Collective https://isaacson.uk/
- The Coachtech Collective – community exploring coaching + tech https://isaacson.uk/buy/the-coachtech-collective/
- EMCC – European Mentoring and Coaching Council https://www.emccglobal.org/
- ILM – Institute of Leadership & Management https://www.institutelm.com/
- Apprenticeship Trailblazer (UK coaching apprenticeship framework) https://www.instituteforapprenticeships.org/
- Patrick Lencioni – The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, founder of The Table Group https://www.tablegroup.com/
- Challenging Coaching by Blakey & Day https://www.amazon.co.uk/Challenging-Coaching-Transforming-Performance-Organisations/dp/1857885753
- “High Support, High Challenge” https://www.maier.co.uk/insights/high_support_high_challenge/
- Toku McCree – Coach, author of “Love on the End of a Sword” https://coachingmba.co/about/
- John Whitmore – Coaching for Performance, GROW modelhttps://www.performanceconsultants.com/grow-model
- Nancy Kline – Time to Think model https://www.timetothink.com/
- Nicholas Janni – Leader as Healer https://www.nicholasjanni.com/book-leader-as-healer/
- Video session by Nicholas Janni (theme: presence-based coaching) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuXDCUcDsu4
- WBX / Coaching.com Summit – Global coaching & leadership summit https://www.coaching.com/summit/
- Coaching.com – Coaching management platform https://www.coaching.com/
- Alex Pascal – Founder of Coaching.com (in memoriam) https://www.coaching.com/about/
- Coach Is Rising – Coaching organisation & training platform https://www.coachisrising.com/
- Digital & AI Coaches’ Conference (founded by Sam Isaacson) https://isaacson.uk/digital-and-ai-coaches-conference/
- Jonathan Passmore – Coaching psychologist, author, academic https://www.henley.ac.uk/people/dr-jonathan-passmore
- Sandra Diller – Editor / academic in coaching and leadership (co-editor with Passmore & Isaacson) (No central site; academic publications: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8793-1946)
- Max Blumberg / Max Brantle (likely Max Blumberg, co-editor of coaching texts) https://www.maxblumberg.com/
- Joel Monk – Host of Coaches Rising podcast (sometimes written as Munch in transcripts) https://www.coachesrising.com/podcast/
- Robbie Swale – Coach & author (How to Start When You’re Stuck) https://robbieswale.com/
- The World Humanoid Robot Games https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/cvg3mv3rz60o
- AICoach.chat – Sam’s AI coaching product https://www.aicoach.chat/
- Make.com https://www.make.com/en
- The CoachTech Collective http://coachtech.uk/
BIOGRAPHY FROM SAM
Sam Isaacson is a coaching thought leader and consultant whose work leans into technology as an enabler for revolutionising coaching strategies and approaches. He has been writing about cutting-edge technologies, including AI, blockchain and the metaverse, for many years and now works with organisations and coaches around the world on their use of technology. Sam's books include several on the impact of technology on the coaching profession, and others on the use of coaching as a strategic tool within organisations. He has regularly contributed to Choice magazine and Coaching at Work, and frequently speaks at respected coaching conferences. Sam lives in West London in the UK, in a home made noisy by his four sons. In his spare time he is deeply involved in the world of tabletop miniature wargaming, where he co-hosts a podcast.
