Augmenting Human Coaches With AI To Scale Leadership Development with Louise Doorn of CoachNova

Disruptive Innovators: Champions of Digital Business · 2026-06-07 · 39 min

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This week, David Wright sits down with Louise Doorn , CEO and Founder of CoachNova , to discuss how AI is reshaping the executive coaching industry. Louise shares the vision behind CoachNova, a platform designed to augment human coaches with AI - capturing coaching signatures from session transcriptions, extending client relationships beyond scheduled hours and building a privacy-first infrastructure under the EU AI Act. Key Takeaways: 00:00 Introduction. 02:30 Why Louise believes agentic AI and digital knowledge gardens are a game-changer for leaders who cannot scale themselves. 05:10 How inner development and stepping away from the day-to-day have driven Louise's biggest breakthroughs. 11:20 The moment a failed IPO led Louise to a year of exploration - and ultimately to entrepreneurship. 22:05 How CoachNova built its MVP within two months following an AI and coaching conference at Columbia. 23:06 How the platform uses prompt engineering and ICF and EMCC accreditation standards to generate session notes. 24:45 Why CoachNova built on EU infrastructure to comply with GDPR and the EU AI Act - and what that means for data security in coaching.

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