Ep 260: How AI is Elevating Human Coaching

Ruth Kudzi explains why the rise of AI coaching is increasing demand for human coaches. She explores how AI lowers the cost of coaching support and opens it up to more people, acting as a gateway to deeper work rather than an alternative to it. Ruth looks at what only a human coach can bring, including intuition, emotional connection and a whole-person approach. She also describes the growing split in the coaching industry between transactional coaching that AI can replicate and deeper, transformational coaching, and what that means for how coaches train. Timestamps 00:00 Why AI coaching is increasing demand for human coaching 00:33 How AI lowers the cost and widens access to coaching 01:23 AI as a gateway, not an alternative 02:11 Where human coaches fill the gap 02:45 Why human connection is becoming more prized 03:15 What a human coach brings that AI can’t 04:13 Why human coaches need to be different 05:13 Why Ruth set up Optimus differently in 2019 05:39 The split in the coaching industry 06:37 What this means for coaches: train in deeper coaching 07:01 Training with Optimus Coach Academy About Ruth Kudzi: Ruth is the founder of Optimus Coaching Academy and a well-respected and successful coach, speaker and author who has worked across sectors including leadership, career and more recently business and mindset. She has over 10,000 coaching hours and has completed hundreds of hours of training and coaching supervision. Ruth is an MCC-level coach with the ICF and is our course director and CEO. Prior to becoming a coach, Ruth was a senior leader in education. About Optimus Coach Academy: Optimus offers best in class coaching training for individuals and corporates. If you want to know more about what we offer: We also offer business support as standard at Optimus, find out more here: https://www.optimuscoachacademy.com/ https://ruthkudzi.com/ https://podfollow.com/the-coaching-hub-podcast https://www.facebook.com/Ruthkudzi2/ https://www.instagram.com/ruthkudzi/ https://www.youtube.com/@RuthKudzi https://www.linkedin.com/in/ruthkudzi/ Book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1917623453 https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0HJRYJRKH https://www.ruthkudzi.com/Coachingleaders