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Mainline Executive Coaching ACT Podcast
Episode 366May 16, 2026

Why Would You Trust AI to Coach Your Future Leaders?

Rich BaronMaikel Bailey
Rich Baron & Maikel Bailey

Episode Notes

The big question being asked today is:

What is the future of executive coaching in the age of AI?

Artificial Intelligence is rapidly changing how leaders learn, communicate, make decisions, and even how they receive coaching. But can AI truly replace the human connection, emotional intelligence, trust, and vulnerability required for transformational leadership development?

Joining us today is executive coach, consultant, and leadership advisor Megan Broker. Megan has spent decades helping leaders close the gap between their intent and their impact — developing stronger cultures, more self-aware leaders, and healthier organizations.

In this conversation, we explore:

  • The opportunities AI creates for expanding access to coaching
  • The limitations of AI in handling complexity, emotion, and vulnerability
  • The seductive nature of AI engagement
  • Why human connection still matters in leadership development
  • And whether AI is becoming a leadership tool… or a leadership crutch

This is not a conversation about whether AI is coming.

It’s already here.

The real question is:

What happens to leadership when technology begins replacing human reflection, feedback, and connection?

And if organizations choose the wrong coaching path...

what does that future look like?

Megan Broker joins Rich and Maikel as they dive headfirst into one of the most disruptive and important conversations impacting leadership and executive coaching today on this episode of Mainline Executive Coaching ACT.

You can reach Megan Broker at:

https://www.linkedin.com/company/megan-broker-consulting/

https://www.meganbrokerconsulting.com/

Megan@MeganBrokerConsulting.com

About the Hosts

Rich Baron

Rich Baron

Chief Operating Officer & Master Certified IL Coach

Master Certified IL Executive Coach, Lean Six Sigma, 100% Customer Retention (2006-2019)

As JMG's Chief Operating Officer and a Master Certified Intelligent Leadership Executive Coach, Rich brings diverse expertise in cultural transformation, operational leadership, and coaching leaders from emerging talent to CEOs.

Maikel Bailey

Maikel Bailey

Master Certified IL Executive Coach

Master Certified IL Executive Coach

Maikel Bailey is a Master Certified Intelligent Leadership Executive Coach with extensive experience in executive leadership, cultural transformation, and emerging leader development.

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