A few days ago, a friend, who is also an Executive Coach, talked me off the ledge when I shared how frustrated I was about what’s happening in America, and the world. A few days later I received a book in the mail: "Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, [...]
In today’s rapidly evolving landscape, artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping every facet of work, relationships, and for some — even the understanding of what it means to be human. For executive coaches, this technological surge presents both exciting opportunities and significant challenges. Developed exclusively for ACTO, this session will help you navigate challenges and opportunities of [...]
And just like that, AI Coaches share space with Human Coaches -- and always will. If you haven't tasted from the broad menu of AI Coach options that vary greatly in quality, here's a primer. Think about your last back-and-forth experience with a customer service chatbot, but instead of discussing a refund on a recent [...]
How will the growing availability of AI-driven Coaches revolutionize and upend the coaching profession? As a Human Coach, how will you survive and thrive in a world in which the availability of AI Coaches provides 24/7 availability, personalized feedback, and tailored data-driven resources analysis and options for moving forward in real-time? In this interactive session, Human Coach participants will unpack some critical considerations present now and, in the future, using the Polarity Approach and Polarity Map® to unpack and design strategies to leverage the challenges, and opportunities. There’s good news and bad news about this session – and let’s get the bad news out of way first.
Participants will understand what the presenter sees as the ten most critical polarities for Leaders, Organizations, Nations, and the Planet now and in the future: WHY these ten were selected Implications of vicious cycles Applying your experience/wisdom to change the list Learning Objectives Use the Seeing, Step 1 to explore current/future challenges and opportunities Appreciate the [...]
Art of Presence: Sacred Ridge Mindfulness, Movement, Nature & Art Wellness Retreat 12 – 14 October 204 Berkeley Springs, WV This 3-day all-inclusive retreat is designed to offer busy professionals an opportunity to slow down and connect with other purpose-driven impact makers in a small group setting. Each day will include opportunities to practice different mindfulness [...]
She’s a millennial whip-smart tech CEO of a small woman-owned business and her organization contracts with the federal government on cyber security and national defense. For the last two years it’s just been the two of us. However, now we call it our “coaching triangle” that includes an AI Coach. It’s new and definitely different. [...]
Leveraging Technically Unsolvable Interdependencies to Accelerate Client Goal Achievement “I believe the central leadership attribute is the ability to manage polarity.” Peter Koestenbaum, Leadership, New and Revised: The Inner Side of Greatness, A Philosophy for Leaders “If your organization strategy does not account for polarity, then it is not strategic.” Bob DeWitt and Ron Meyer, Strategy Synthesis In [...]
On July 31st, I’m presenting at the Chesapeake Bay Organization Development Network Learning Series on the topic of “Technically Unsolvable Interdependencies.” A big focus of that presentation will be on most important and challenging interdependencies of our time – including the interdependency between technology and humanity. (This was also a topic I spoke on in [...]