Emotional Intelligence Special Interest Group
What AI Can’t Do: The Case for Human Skills
Speaker: Erika Parker Price, ACC
Host: Desiree Briel Rodi, Ph.D., PCC
Date: Tuesday, June 23, 2026
Time: 11:00 am – 12:30 pm Pacific Time
CCEs: 1.0 Core Competency and 0.5 Resource Development
Location: Virtual meeting via Zoom.us. Remember to log in before registering for the event.
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Description
As AI continues to reshape the workplace, coaches are finding themselves at the intersection of technological disruption and human development. Clients are navigating uncertainty, career transitions, shifting workplace expectations, and questions about their future relevance in a rapidly changing world. At the same time, coaches are exploring how AI may influence the future of coaching itself.
In this engaging and thought-provoking session, Erika Parker Price, ACC, draws on her experience as a former Microsoft leader, coach, and Positive Intelligence® practitioner to explore what remains uniquely human in an increasingly AI-enabled world. Together, we will examine the human capacities that AI cannot replicate—self-awareness, emotional intelligence, empathy, judgment, meaning-making, creativity, and authentic connection—and why these skills are becoming even more essential for coaches and clients alike.
Participants will explore how emotional intelligence can help clients navigate uncertainty and change, how coaches can leverage AI as a tool without losing the human essence of coaching, and how the ICF Core Competencies become increasingly valuable in a world where information is abundant but human connection is not.
Key Takeaways:
➡️ Understand the growing role of emotional intelligence in an AI-driven future and why human-centered capabilities are becoming increasingly valuable for leaders, professionals, and organizations.
➡️ Identify the coaching opportunities emerging from AI-related disruption, including career transitions, uncertainty, identity shifts, resilience, and adaptability.
➡️ Explore what AI cannot replicate—including empathy, intuition, presence, trust-building, ethical judgment, and meaning-making—and why these capabilities sit at the heart of effective coaching.
➡️ Strengthen application of the ICF Core Competencies by examining how coaching presence, active listening, awareness, and partnership become even more critical as AI tools become more prevalent.
➡️ Reflect on your own relationship with AI and develop a framework for helping clients move from fear and uncertainty toward curiosity, adaptability, and intentional action.
About Erika Parker Price
Erika Parker Price is an ICF Associate Certified Coach (ACC) and a Certified Positive Intelligence® Coach. A former Microsoft leader, she leverages her own corporate experience to coach professionals navigating one of the most disruptive job markets in recent history. As a result, she spends a lot of time thinking about what AI is changing for both her clients and her own career – and on those days when she finds clarity, she works on her fictional book on AI and job displacement. Website
About Desiree Briel Rodi
Desiree Briel Rodi is a PCC-certified coach who harnesses Emotional Intelligence to drive awareness, action, and accountability. She brings experience in higher education administration, nonprofit management, and people and business strategy. Desiree holds a B.A. from Yale University, an MBA from Seattle University, a Certificate in Evidence-Based Coaching, and an M.A. in Organizational Development and Change from Fielding Graduate University, where she recently earned her Ph.D. LinkedIn
