How Coaches Can Use AI as a Thinking Partner | Rita Cincotta
What if you stopped asking AI for answers and started using it to think better? Leadership coach Rita Cincotta reckons that flip changes everything.
Key takeaway AI works best when it's a sparring partner, not a search engine.
Rita Cincotta, a leadership coach, walks through how coaches and leaders can reframe their relationship with AI - moving from treating it as a tool that spits out answers to using it as a genuine thinking partner. The shift matters because it opens up new ways to work through problems, test ideas, and develop thinking in real time, rather than just outsourcing the cognitive heavy lifting.
Cincotta explores what this actually looks like in practice for coaching conversations and leadership work. The video digs into the question of how people can get more out of AI by changing how they engage with it - not just what they ask it to do.
For New Zealand coaches, leaders, and organisations exploring AI adoption, this frames a practical mindset shift: the technology's real value might lie in how it reshapes thinking and problem-solving, not in automating answers away.
“Turns out the best AI partner won't do your thinking for you - just help you think better.” — The Main Anchor, The 6 O’Clock News