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Quarterly series · Leaders & Coaches of Asia
LCA Signals.
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.
Next session
Choiceful Leadership
Leading beyond autopilot
Date
Wed, 23 Sep
2026 · 6–7 PM IST
Cadence
4 a year
60 minutes, online
Who’s in the room
Leaders & coaches
ICF-credentialed, across Asia
The series
Why this.
Why right now.
By 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.
The rhythm behind it
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.
The case for continued learning
Why leaders still need to learn from coaches.
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.
9,000+
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.
Deloitte · 2026 Global Human Capital Trends
7 in 10
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.
Deloitte · 2026 Global Human Capital Trends
122,974
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.
ICF · 2025 Global Coaching Study, with PwC
The role
The leader’s job is being rewritten, not retired.
As AI absorbs routine coordination, what remains is coaching, judgment and relationship-building. Deloitte’s 2026 research describes a shift from managing tasks to orchestrating human and machine capability together, a skill set no leader was trained for.
The ground
Psychological safety has become infrastructure.
Through constant technological change and restructuring, leaders are the primary source of stability for their people. Building that steadiness is developmental work, and coaching is the discipline built for it.
The mirror
Coaching is being reshaped too, so the questions are shared.
The 2026 ICF Coaching Futures Report maps five drivers of change and four plausible scenarios for the profession through 2036, from AI-enabled scale to community-centred connection. ICF has also issued an AI Coaching Framework and Standards for ethical AI integration. Coaches face the same disruption as their clients, which makes the dialogue honest rather than instructional.
The cadence
Learning has to be continuous to keep pace.
An annual leadership programme cannot track a field that moves every quarter. A regular rhythm can. That is the design principle behind Signals: little and often, in the company of people solving the same problems.
The yearly rhythm
Four sessions a year. Plus the conference.
Four sessions a year, one each quarter, each taking on a single shift worth understanding early. The series runs on its own rhythm, and every July the threads come together at the annual LCA Conference.
Next up
Q3 2026
Choiceful Leadership: Leading Beyond Autopilot
Wednesday, 23 September, 6:00–7:00 PM IST. Registration open now.
Q4 2026
One emerging shift in leadership and coaching practice, examined before it becomes consensus. Topic announced closer to the date.
Q1 2027
Field signals from across Asia-Pacific, carried in by the leaders and coaches working in them.
Q2 2027
What the year has revealed, and the questions we take into the conference in July.
19–21 July 2027LCA2027
And once a year, the whole community in one place.
Three days of keynotes, live coaching and unscripted leader and coach dialogue. The four signals of the year come together here.
What to expect
Built to be useful
on a Monday.
The format
- 60 minutes, live and online
- A leader and an ICF-credentialed coach in conversation, not a one-way presentation
- Open Q&A with the community
- Practical takeaways you can apply the same week
- Recording shared afterwards with everyone who registers
Who it’s for
- Organizational leaders navigating AI, change and the demands on their teams
- HR and people leaders building leadership capability
- ICF-credentialed and professional coaches working with organizations
- Anyone who has joined an LCA Conference and wants the conversation to continue
1,560+
Registrants to date
60
Countries
35+
Expert speakers
3
Conference editions
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.
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Executive Development
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Human Advantage
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Leadership Transformation
Asia-Pacific Leaders
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