How coaches in conversation started

Coaches in Conversation was born from an uncomfortable truth that as coaches we often long for connection and collaboration with one another, but we also compete. It’s a tension many of us feel but rarely name. What does it mean to genuinely support peers in the same space we're trying to stand out in?

A few of us started wondering what might be possible if we held both truths at the same time. What if we acknowledged the quiet competition and chose to collaborate anyway?

That question stayed with us. For more than a year, we circled around it over coffee chats, deeper conversations and messages, exploring what we might create together without needing to have all the answers upfront. What would it look like to connect more deeply with other coaches in the realities we all face: time pressure, uncertainty, tricky boundaries, difficult systems, and still make space to speak meaningfully?

Coaches in Conversation is what grew from that. It’s deliberately simple. We meet when we can, reflect on a theme that matters, and write short, unpolished articles that speak from experience.

The pieces we share aren’t comprehensive or conclusive. They’re snapshots of thought, questions we’re living, rather than answers we’ve mastered. I hope they offer something useful to fellow coaches and to the clients and systems we’re all trying to support.