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Last month, I had the pleasure of having Dr. Anna Tavis — Clinical Professor and Chair of the Human Capital Management Department at NYU and author of The Digital Coaching Revolution (2024) — join my private community, Talent Edge Circle, as a guest for a discussion on how AI-enabled and digital coaching are reshaping how organizations develop employees at scale. We covered everything from the democratization of coaching and the emergence of fully AI-powered coaches to privacy and data ownership, to name a few. As this topic continues to generate strong interest among Talent Edge Weekly readers, I want to share this 76-page report by the International Coaching Federation. While published earlier this year, it remains highly relevant for HR, learning, and talent leaders thinking through how coaching strategy and tactics may need to evolve, including the role AI-enabled coaching might play. It provides a glimpse into five drivers of change shaping the future of coaching and four plausible scenarios for what coaching could look like by 2036, from a high-tech, high-collaboration future where AI expands access broadly, to scenarios marked by digital divides or a return to locally rooted, human-centered models. The report provides a useful starting point as you begin to think through how AI-enabled coaching might fit into your organization’s overall coaching strategy. For those already in Talent Edge Circle, the replay and discussion notes from our conversation with Anna are also available in the community.
