Harnessing AI: Empowering Coaches to Inspire and Ignite Client Growth, January 13, 2027
AI offers new possibilities and innovative tools for coaches looking to better serve their clients, expand their influence, and grow their businesses. This session introduces generative AI’s application in enhancing client relationships, personalizing growth strategies, and optimizing business tasks. Coaches will engage in practical, hands-on exploration of AI tools to automate repetitive tasks and improve client collaboration.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
1. Learn how incorporating AI properly supports ethical coaching practices, improves coaching agreements, and maintains confidentiality while streamlining business operations.
2. Explore how AI tools can enhance coaching presence, active listening, and powerful questioning in alignment with ICF Core Competencies.
3. Understand how AI can amplify coaching practices by automating repetitive tasks, resulting in improved client engagement, collaboration, and growth.
SPEAKER BIO:
Lei Comerford is an award-winning Executive & Leadership Coach, Workshop Facilitator, and Certified AI Consultant with over 25 years of strategic and operational leadership experience in healthcare and hospitality. Her background spans pharmacy benefit management, biopharma, and consulting services, ultimately guiding her into Learning & Development, where she discovered a deep passion for coaching and empowering leaders.
As founder of her own leadership development practice, Lei works with a diverse range of clients, including HR and L&D professionals, coaches, leadership teams, and organizations. A PCC-accredited ICF coach, she was recently named one of the 2025 Top Coaches in America by Top Coach Awards. Known for her warm, welcoming presence and deep commitment to growth, Lei designs and facilitates transformative workshops and retreats focused on cognitive diversity, Whole Brain Thinking, and core leadership competencies. Her signature program, the Advancement Leadership Development Program, equips emerging leaders to lead with confidence and prepare for what’s next.
With a mission to “Help Leaders Advance,” Lei blends cutting-edge AI fluency training with human-centered coaching to challenge the status quo and guide clients from surviving to thriving. Whether speaking at SHRM and ICF conferences, leading AI webinars, facilitating on-site training, or coaching one-on-one, Lei empowers leaders to unlock what’s possible—with integrity, positivity, and a growth mindset.
Lei currently volunteers with the ATD Nashville Chapter, serves as an Advisor for The Healthcare Business Woman’s Association Ambassador program, mentors through The Vanderbilt University Women in Business program, and gives back via coaching services through the Humanitarian Coaches Network. She resides in the Nashville, TN area.
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