Artificial intelligence is not just changing how organisations work, it is sending a signal about what they value. It optimises for the linear: fixed problems, predicted outcomes, discrete solutions. And here lies an uncomfortable truth for team coaches. The coaching many practitioners are most comfortable with: structured, goal-oriented, intervention-based, and one which ironically operates in exactly the same register that AI is rapidly colonising.

Meanwhile, teams are navigating a world of genuine complexity. Post-pandemic relational thinning, geopolitical instability, and accelerating uncertainty mean that what teams most need is not more efficient process, it is a coach who can hold the whole system in view, read what isn’t in the data, and resist the pressure to resolve complexity before it is ready.

This session explores the conundrum at the heart of contemporary team coaching practice: the pull toward linear comfort in a world that urgently needs systemic depth. Drawing on the Spiralling the Field model and the linear/systemic distinction, Tammy invites participants to examine where they are truly operating, and what they are being called to hold that no algorithm can.

The session closes with a single question for breakout reflection: In a world that optimises for efficiency over emergence, what is the irreducibly human act of team coaching?

Key Learning Takeaways:

1. Why the coaching you are most comfortable with may be the coaching most vulnerable to AI displacement, and what that means for how you position your work.

2. How to use the linear/systemic distinction as a diagnostic mirror for your own practice, and recognise where you default when complexity increases.

3. What the Spiralling the Field model asks of you as a practitioner: developing the reflexive capacity to hold what no algorithm can.

Zoom lockout is at strictly 5 minutes after the start. I CCEU is allocated to those who attend the whole session. Please join with cameras on and microphones muted. Please note: this event will be recorded. Signing up to attend means you have given consent to be part of the recording.

Together, we will explore:

• What AI can and cannot offer teams
• Why complexity requires a different coaching stance
• The tension between intervention and emergence
• The value of systemic team coaching in uncertain environments
• What the future may hold for team coaches and leadership teams

Whether you are a team coach, leadership coach, organisational development practitioner, HR professional, or leader interested in the future of coaching, this promises to be a rich and engaging conversation.

Resources:

1. All participants will receive the spiralling the field model, slides and article for their future use.

2. Participants will also receive: Turner, T. & Lucas, M. (2022). 'Spiralling the field: A dynamic model exploring reflective maturity, reflective capacity and the expanding reflective field.' Oxford Brookes International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentoring (IJEBCM).

Our Hosts

Jacqui Ferris, MCC & ACTC

Jacqui Ferris is an Executive and Team Coach who holds the Master Certified Coach (MCC) and Advanced Certification in Team Coaching (ACTC) with the International Coaching Federation. She is also a qualified Coach Supervisor and Mentor Coach.

Jacqui serves on the Board of the Australasian Charter Chapter of the ICF as Director of Coach Development and leads her own practice, PerformanceHQ, specialising in executive and team alignment and group process.

A graduate of the Masters of Coaching Psychology at the University of Sydney, Jacqui brings over 15 years and 5,000+ hours of coaching experience. Her approach is grounded in evidence-based practice, adult development, and psychodynamic principles.

Working closely with corporate clients, she offers coaches and leaders practical insight into contemporary systemic challenges, ethical dilemmas, and the realities of leading and coaching in complex organisational environments.

Tammy Turner, MCC & ACTC

Tammy Turner is CEO of Turner International and one of the world’s most experienced systemic team coaches, with over 12,000 coaching hours across 120+ industries, 70+ CEO clients, and 80+ C-suite executives. Since 2001, she has coached over 100 teams and groups at all levels, supervised and mentored coaches, and trained leaders and HR professionals in the art and science of systemic practice.

She holds ICF Master Certified Coach (MCC) and Accredited Team Coach credentials, EMCC Master Practitioner accreditations in both team coaching and supervision, and the Global Individual Supervision Accreditation (GISA). She won the 2023 EMCC Global Supervision Award. As a practitioner, supervisor, and educator, she has taught Hawkins’ systemic team coaching methodology and CCMI team coaching materials to practitioners across the globe.

Tammy co-edited the Team Coaching Casebook with David Clutterbuck and co-authored the Spiralling the Field reflexivity model with Michelle Lucas, published in the Oxford Brookes International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentoring (IJEBCM). She has authored over 25 books and articles on team coaching, coaching supervision, and multicultural coaching.