Writing & Podcasts

Using disruption theory to examine coaching's future: Can human coaches compete with AI, or do we need to fundamentally redefine what coaching is? Exploring the shift from intervention to being-centred practice.

Midlife stress is a familiar visitor for engineers – but the instinct to fix it by changing jobs or chasing a new role often makes things worse. This article explores why the problem-solving approach that serves you so well professionally can work against you when the real questions are existential ones, and offers a different frame: midlife not as a crisis to be managed, but as a threshold to be met.

How many times have you thought, "I'll be a better X when I've achieved Y"? Like: "I'll be a better leader when I'm more confident."

Do you recognise this pattern? If so, welcome to being stuck in a problem-solving approach....

Ironically, we’re simultaneously more “connected” and “disconnected” than ever before. Video calls across continents. Instant messages. Global communities.

Yet, something fundamental is missing. And I think I know what it is: we’ve lost connection to our bodies.

I know. This might sound like a strange thing to say....

I was delighted to join Tracy Sinclair MCC on her Coaching in Conversation podcast in January 2025 — a series that explores not just how coaches can grow and develop, but how coaching itself is evolving as a vehicle for genuine human transformation.

AI coaching systems can mimic empathy but can't genuinely feel, connect, or be present. Exploring what psychopathy reveals about the limits of AI in coaching — and why a coach's irreplaceable humanity matters. As a technologist and coach, Stephen loves how these two worlds sometimes intersect. Read a recent thought-leadership article he published on AI and Coaching.