The shifts that reshape leadership rarely announce themselves. They arrive first as signals: small changes in how teams decide, trust and work alongside AI. Four times a year, we read them together.
LCA Signals
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2026
AI coaching is evolving rapidly. What market trends matter? What does science show? How are these tools used? AI coaching is evolving rapidly. What is happening in the market? Which trends are worth paying attention to, what does the science tell us, and how are these tools being used in practice?
RegistrationBy the time a shift in leadership practice is named in a report, it has already changed how thousands of teams work. The advantage belongs to those who notice it early, while it is still a signal and not yet a standard.
LCA Signals exists to shorten that gap. Each quarter, organizational leaders and ICF-credentialed coaches from across Asia-Pacific meet in one room to examine what is genuinely shifting: how AI is reshaping decision rights, what is happening to judgment and trust inside teams, where human capability still decides the outcome, and what leading well is starting to require.
It is not a lecture and it is not a pitch. It is the same unscripted leader and coach dialogue that defines our annual conference, held four times a year instead of once.
Every July, the LCA Conference brings our community together for three days. The forces shaping our work do not wait for July.
Signals keeps the conversation alive through the year, with four checkpoints between conferences, each one building on what the last surfaced.
AI has absorbed much of the work that once filled a leader’s day. What it has not absorbed is the part that was always hardest: judgment under uncertainty, trust inside a team, and the decision nobody else can make for you. That is precisely the territory professional coaching has spent three decades developing.
Business and HR leaders across 89 countries were surveyed for Deloitte’s 2026 Global Human Capital Trends, titled Choosing the Human Advantage. Its finding: organizations are adopting AI far faster than they are redesigning leadership, work and culture to match.
Leaders say speed and adaptability now define competitiveness, yet the same research finds very few organizations genuinely leading on workforce adaptation. That gap closes by developing people, not by deploying tools.
Professional coaches worldwide, up 15% in two years, with industry revenue at USD 5.34 billion. Demand is rising precisely as AI scales, because the questions leaders bring to coaching are the ones that cannot be automated.
LCA Signals is an initiative of Leaders & Coaches of Asia. It exists to close the gap between Asia’s leadership ambition and its leadership capability.
Sources: Deloitte, 2026 Global Human Capital Trends · ICF, 2025 Global Coaching Study (with PwC) · ICF, 2026 Coaching Futures Report · ICF AI Coaching Framework and Standards.