Episode Description:
How are artificial intelligence-based tools shaking up the coaching industry? In this episode of Coaching Revealed, IOC Executive Director Jeffrey Hull sits down with AI Coaching Consultant and Speaker Rebecca Rutschmann to explore the impact of AI on the coaching industry. Rebecca shares the history leading to the explosion of AI-driven coaching tools, and provides unique insights into the promises and pitfalls of AI use in professional and coaching environments.
In this episode, Jeff and Rebecca cover:

• The changing nature of AI-based coaching tools from early tools to today.
• How AI is reshaping client expectations for coaching engagements
• Ethical concerns surrounding AI coaching including data privacy
• The differences between AI tools and the capabilities of human coaches

Episode Summary
How are artificial intelligence-based tools shaking up the coaching industry? An emergence of tools has pushed AI-driven conversations into a mainstream reality. In this episode of Coaching Revealed, IOC Executive Director Jeff Hull sits down with AI Coaching Consultant and Speaker Rebecca Rutschmann to explore the impact of AI on the coaching industry.
Rebecca and Jeff discuss her early work designing AI coaching tools, and the impact of natural language processing on the continually chaning landscape.

Jeff and Rebecca discuss not only the increasing sophistication of artificial intelligence, but also the current gaps that exist within these tools, and the components that differentiate them from human capabilities.
Rebecca also touches on the evolving expectations from clients as a result of changing technology, along with concerns involving AI-generated coaching avatars and broad ethical considerations.
With the rapid evolution of AI, Rebecca highlights the value coaches provide through their humanity, and ability to hold space and create nuance. As the coaching industry adapts, Rebecca envisions a hybrid model–where AI enhances but doesn’t replace the role of human coaches.