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Every Manager Is Becoming a Coach. Most of Them Don't Have One.

AI is reshaping what managers do. The support managers get hasn't caught up.

September 21, 2026

Why Building Your Own AI Coach Is the Easy Part

David Meehan has spent several years working in conversational AI in the Learning and Development (L&D) space, with a recent focus on scalable AI coaching systems. His experience spans agentic systems in the areas of coaching, consulting, counseling and education. He acted both as a product-oriented AI engineer and strategic advisor across various technologies and client sizes, from emerging agent platforms, enterprise environments and open-source frameworks. Over the past six months, he advised CoachBot AI on applied AI product strategy with a focus on enterprise L&D adoption. Here, he shares his view on where the market is heading.

September 10, 2026

Rethinking Directiveness

A CoachBot research partnership with Stellenbosch Business School

September 9, 2026

Only 10% of Your Workforce Gets a Coach. AI Just Broke That Model

Lewin Keller on Triple Win Leadership with Will Linssen: what AI already does better than a human coach, and why “we’re doing this for efficiency” is the fastest way to lose your team’s trust.

Coaching Voices, the Association for Coaching podcast — episode with Lewin Keller

August 31, 2026

Building AI Coaching: From Literacy to Maturity

Lewin Keller talks with host Smaranda Dochia on Coaching Voices, the Association for Coaching podcast, as part of the AI, Ethics and Trust in Coaching series.

August 29, 2026

Executive Coaching: Transforming Leadership

Executive coaching is a focused partnership that helps senior leaders make better decisions, lead through complexity, and grow with intention. A skilled executive coach gives leaders a confidential space to examine habits, strengthen self-awareness, and turn business pressure into clearer action. For organizations, executive coaching for Leadership Development can connect individual growth with stronger teams, healthier culture, and more consistent execution.

August 29, 2026

How Can AI Coaching Strengthen Leadership Development?

AI is changing leadership development from a scheduled event into an everyday support system. With the right AI coaching strategy, managers can practice difficult conversations, receive timely feedback, build habits, and connect learning to real work instead of waiting for the next workshop. The goal is not to replace human coaches, mentors, or HR teams; it is to make development more accessible, consistent, and practical at scale.

August 29, 2026

Why Enterprise Coaching Investments Aren't Delivering — And What L&D Leaders Can Do About It

Executive coaching returns 5–7x, but 58% of it reaches only senior leaders — while L&D teams lose twelve hours a week each to admin.

August 21, 2026

Complement or compromise? A practitioner's guide to choosing AI tools responsibly

A coach-friendly, framework-agnostic checklist of ten questions to ask before you let an AI tool near your practice — written with EMCC and ICF practitioners.

August 18, 2026

From Boutique Expertise to Enterprise Scale: How D4S Partnership Built SOLAS with CoachBot

D4S Partnership turned nearly two decades of coaching methodology into SOLAS, their own AI coaching companion — built in about four weeks, and the reason they won a two-year programme for more than 200 leaders.

August 15, 2026

30 years of coaching experience, now baked into the infrastructure

The Berlin-based coaching infrastructure platform strengthens its leadership team with a dedicated CCO.

August 13, 2026

Markus Väth and CoachBot: Taking Proven Methodology to Scale

Twenty years of organizational psychology, a client list from Volkswagen to Porsche, and the PEARL framework — now with infrastructure that can carry it past the leadership layer.