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Partnering With AI: Practical use of AI for Coaching Professionals

 

April 21, 2026
11:00 AM PDT - 12:30 PM PDT
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AI can enhance your coaching. It should never replace it.

This dynamic, hands-on session equips you to integrate AI with confidence—without compromising ethics, presence, or coaching mastery. You’ll learn a clear, coach-friendly framework that answers three essential questions: What can I delegate? What must I protect? What should never be outsourced?

Through real, practical examples, you’ll discover how AI can support faster session preparation, sharper question development, clearer theme recognition, stronger between-session practices, and follow-through that keeps the client firmly in the driver’s seat.

We’ll also address responsible use head-on—confidentiality, informed consent, bias, and data safety—so you can strengthen trust while elevating outcomes.

You’ll leave with practical workflows, ready-to-use prompts, and a focused “first 7 days” action plan to begin partnering with AI immediately.

Because the future of coaching isn’t human or AI.

It’s human leadership—with AI used wisely.

What You'll Gain

  • Clarify what it truly means to partner with AI—using it as a strategic assistant that enhances coaching excellence, never replaces the coach-client relationship.
  • Apply a practical decision framework to determine what to delegate, what to safeguard, and what should never be outsourced.
  • Strengthen critical moments in the coaching journey—from intake and preparation to live sessions, reflection, between-session support, and progress reviews.
  • Craft and refine high-quality prompts that generate meaningful insights while protecting client agency and avoiding bias.
  • Implement ethical guardrails around confidentiality, informed consent, data handling, transparency, bias awareness, and professional boundaries.
  • Design a personalized AI integration plan—tools, workflows, policies, and next steps—aligned with your niche, standards, and comfort level.

Meet the Speaker

Susan Caesar is a strategist, storyteller, and systems leader working at the intersection of artificial intelligence, human development, and the living world.

She serves as the Director of Artificial Intelligence at the International Coaching Federation (ICF), where she leads the responsible integration of AI across a global community of more than 60,000 coaches. Susan guides ICF’s AI strategy for 2026 and beyond, ensuring that emerging technologies strengthen human capability, elevate professional standards, and uphold the dignity, agency, and wellbeing of people worldwide. Susan is also the Founder of humain.org, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit advancing life-centered leadership and innovation. Her work at Humain.org champions two core commitments: women leading with life and innovation that regenerates the natural world. Through applied research, thought leadership, and cross-sector partnerships spanning technology and conservation, she is helping to redefine progress in service of both humanity and the planet.

She hosts two podcast shows one for coaches and another for leaders featuring global voices who are reimagining how technology, nature, and society can flourish together. As a writer and speaker, Susan explores ethical innovation, regenerative futures, and the cultural transformations needed to usher in a truly life-centered era.

In addition, Susan is the co-founder of the Lead With Purpose movement, created with Donna Potts McKenzie, which delivers leadership programs for community colleges (including Harper College) and future-of-work pathways for organizations navigating rapid transformation.

Across her work in strategy, storytelling, and systems change, Susan’s purpose is clear: to help people, organizations, and technologies lead with wisdom, so that human potential, innovation, and the living planet can thrive together.

Earn 0.50 Core Competencies & 1.00 Resource Development CCE units for attending this event
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