What is Maya?
Maya is an AI coach available at any time during your coaching program. She can support reflection, accountability, and continuous learning between meetings with your human coach.
You can bring a real-time situation or challenge to Maya, and she will help you work through it using a coaching approach similar to the one you may experience with a human coach. Maya is intentionally non-directive. Rather than telling you what to do, she primarily asks thoughtful questions to help you gain clarity, uncover insights, and identify solutions that work for you.
Maya can also build on insights from your previous conversations, allowing for greater continuity throughout your development journey.
How You Can Use Maya
Maya can help you:
Bridge sessions with your human coach by reinforcing insights and deepening your thinking.
Build self-awareness and resilience through meaningful reflection.
Work through an in-the-moment challenge when your human coach is unavailable.
Prepare for an important meeting, conversation, or decision.
Stay accountable to goals and actions discussed with your human coach.
Process what is happening for you as a leader in a private coaching space.
Quick Start – How to Access Maya
Steps:
Locate and click the Maya tab to open a chat.
Sample Prompts for Your AI Coaching Conversations
Between coaching meetings, you can use Maya to explore challenges, prepare for upcoming discussions, or reflect on recent experiences.
Maya uses thoughtful, human-like questions to spark insight rather than prescribe solutions. There are many ways Maya can support you, so feel free to experiment.
Planning and Goal-Setting
“I have too much on my plate this week. Can you help me prioritize?”
“I’m responsible for a big new project and want to set it up for success. Can you help me think it through?”
“I’ve been asked to set my annual performance goals, and I don’t know where to start.”
Development and Growth
“I was recently promoted, and I’m not sure what I should be doing differently.”
“I want my team to communicate more effectively, but I don’t know how to help make that happen.”
“My performance review is coming up. Can you help me prepare?”
Navigating Challenges
“I’m leading a major project and struggling to get people to follow through on their responsibilities.”
“I want to talk with my manager about feeling micromanaged, but I need to approach the conversation constructively.”
“I’m feeling overwhelmed by everything I have to do. Can you help me work through it?”
“I’m having difficulty collaborating with a coworker. How can I think about the situation differently?”
Reflection and Accountability
“I discussed new communication strategies with my coach. How can I make sure I put them into practice?”
“I’m working on listening more and inviting input from my team, but I didn’t do that well in a recent meeting. What should I do next?”
“I’ve realized that I shut down when I feel underestimated. Can you help me explore why?”
What to Expect from Maya
Reflective Questions
Maya helps you explore your thinking by asking meaningful questions rather than prescribing solutions.
Meaningful Reflection in the Moment
Even a brief conversation with Maya can help you pause, gain perspective, and identify a productive next step.
Personalized Continuity
Maya uses information from prior completed conversations, along with relevant engagement goals and notes, to provide continuity over time.
Anytime Access
You can use Maya whenever you need space to reflect—before a meeting, after a coaching session, or in the middle of a challenging situation.
Coaching-Focused Support
Maya is designed around a non-directive coaching approach that encourages self-reflection, ownership, and autonomy.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can Maya replace my human coach?
No. Maya is designed to complement your human coaching experience, not replace it. She supports your growth between sessions by encouraging continued reflection, exploration, and accountability while providing immediate support when needed.
What topics can Maya handle?
Maya is designed to support leadership growth and professional development. You can use her to explore goals, workplace relationships, communication challenges, decision-making, accountability, confidence, and other leadership-related situations.
Maya is not a substitute for therapy, medical care, crisis services, legal advice, or other professional support. If a concern appears to be outside the scope of coaching, Maya may recommend seeking help from a human coach, therapist, or another qualified professional.
Why won’t Maya give me direct advice?
Maya uses a non-directive coaching approach. Instead of telling you what to do, she asks thoughtful questions that help you uncover your own insights and determine which solutions are right for you. This approach supports greater ownership, commitment, and lasting change.
When should I use Maya?
You can use Maya anytime, including:
Before a meeting or difficult conversation to plan your approach.
After a coaching session to reflect on what you learned.
When you want to stay accountable to a goal or action.
When you feel stuck and need a thought partner.
When a situation arises and your human coach is not immediately available.
Are my conversations with Maya saved?
Yes. Your inputs and Maya’s responses are automatically saved as part of each conversation thread. You do not need to take an additional step to save the conversation.
If you leave the page without formally ending a conversation, the thread remains available so you can return to it later.
What happens when I end a conversation?
When you explicitly end a conversation, Maya automatically generates and stores a summary along with suggested goals or actions associated with that conversation.
Maya can use information from summaries, goals, and actions from previously completed conversations—along with relevant engagement goals and notes—to provide greater continuity in future conversations.
Do I need to save a summary for Maya to remember the conversation?
No. Conversation threads are saved automatically. When you formally end a conversation, a summary and suggested goals or actions are also generated and stored automatically. You do not need to copy the summary into your notes for Maya to access this information in the future.
Can I return to a previous conversation?
Yes. You can view your saved conversations and continue reflecting on the same topic.
Can I have conversations about more than one topic?
Yes. You can create multiple conversation threads about different topics and return to any of them later.
Tips for Getting the Most from Maya
Be open and specific about what is happening.
Share what you are thinking and feeling, even if you have not fully made sense of it yet.
Tell Maya when a question does not resonate or when you want to explore something from a different perspective.
Return after an important event to reflect on what happened and what you learned.
Use Maya to continue exploring insights and actions from meetings with your human coach.
There is no single right way to use Maya. Start with what is most present for you, and allow the conversation to develop from there.
How you can use Maya
Bridge sessions with your human coach—reinforce insights and deepen thinking.
Boost self-awareness and resilience by facilitating meaningful reflection, gently.
When you need some coaching in the moment and your human coach isn't available.
When you want a secure, confidential place to process what's going on for you as a leader.
Sample Prompts for Your AI Coaching Chat
Between your coaching conversations, you can use Maya to explore challenges, prepare for upcoming discussions, or reflect on recent experiences. Maya uses reflective intelligence—smart, human-like questioning that sparks insight rather than giving instructions. It adopts a purely non-directive approach, encouraging self-reflection and autonomy rather than delivering advice.
There are myriad ways Maya can help. Feel free to explore! Here are a few examples:
Planning & Goal-Setting
“I have too much on my plate this week. Can you help me prioritize?”
“I’m responsible for a big new project and I want to make sure it’s successful. Can you help?”
“I’ve been asked to set my annual performance goals and don’t know where to start.”
Developmental Needs
“I just got promoted and I’m not sure what I should be doing differently.”
“I want my team to improve the way we communicate and I don’t know how to help make that happen.”
“My performance review is coming up. Can you help me get prepared?”
Navigating Challenges
“I’m working on a big project and am not sure how to get people to do what they need to do.”
“I want to talk with my manager about how they’re micro-managing me and they need to lay off. But I know I need to approach it more constructively than that.”
“I’m feeling overwhelmed with everything I have to do. Help!”
“I’m having beef with a co-worker who’s hard to work with. She’s not going to be fired, so how can I get her to be more collaborative?”
Reflection / Accountability
“I talked with my coach about new communication strategies to use with my team. How can I make sure I actually put them into practice?”
“I’m working on listening more to my team and inviting their input, but I just blew it in a meeting. What should I do now?”
“I just realized that I get upset when people underestimate me, and then I shut down. What’s that all about??”
Reflective Prompts: Ask the right questions, not preach solutions.
Mini Breakthroughs: Quick, meaningful reflections fit for busy schedules.
Personalized Learning: Learns from past sessions to provide better continuity.
Always Available: Access Maya anytime, anywhere.
Ethical & Trustworthy: Built on coaching best practices and validated by experts and studies.
FAQ
Can Maya replace my coach?
No. Maya is designed to complement your coaching, not replace them. It supports your growth between sessions by prompting further reflection and exploration, and providing immediate support when needed.
What topics can Maya handle and not handle?
Maya is designed to support leadership growth and development but is not a substitute for professional human support. If Maya detects that a challenge may be beyond its scope—such as those better addressed by a human coach, therapist, or other qualified professional—it will recommend that you seek support from the appropriate resource.
Why won’t Maya give me direct advice?
Maya takes a non-directive coaching approach, asking thoughtful questions to help clients uncover their own insights and solutions. Research consistently shows that people are more committed to solutions they discover themselves, making them more likely to follow through and create lasting change.
When should I use Maya?
You can use Maya anytime—before a meeting to plan your approach, after a coaching session to reflect, or whenever you feel stuck and need a thought partner.
Can I restart a conversation?
Yes. Your conversations with Maya are saved so you can revisit them later for continued reflection and follow-up.
Can I have conversations on more than one topic?
Yes. You can have multiple conversations on different topics that you can go back to and continue at any time.
Who can see my conversations?
Your conversations with Maya are private and can only be viewed by you. No one else has access to your chat history. Please see the Privacy page of AICoach.chat, which powers Maya, for further information.
What if I’m not sure what to ask?
Simply share what’s on your mind—Maya will guide the conversation from there.