What AI Can't Coach: The Neuroscience of the Skills Your Leaders Can't Afford to Lose | Braintrust Webinar with Dr. Dan Docherty
Live Virtual Keynote

What AI can't coach: the neuroscience of the skills your leaders can't afford to lose.

The Gartner CSO & Sales Leader keynote, run back as a live virtual session. Same 20 minute format. No show-floor noise. No fighting for headphones. Just the neuroscience of what AI accelerates, what it can't replicate, and why the human skills underneath every coaching conversation matter more now, not less.

Date May 29, 2026
Time 12PM ET
Length 20 min + moderated Q&A
Cost Free
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Originally Presented • Gartner CSO & Sales Leader Conference
May 20, 2026
Caesars Palace • Exhibit Showcase Theater

What AI Can't Coach: The Neuroscience of the Skills Your Leaders Can't Afford to Lose

AI is transforming how teams train and scale, but it's also creating the illusion that performance can be automated. While AI accelerates knowledge, it can't coach the human skills that drive trust, influence, and decisions. This keynote explores the neuroscience of connection and shows leaders how to leverage AI without losing the behaviors that make performance truly effective.

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Dan Docherty, PhD
Chief Coaching Officer, Braintrust
Dr. Dan Docherty speaking at Gartner CSO & Sales Leader Conference
About the Speaker
Dr. Dan Docherty
Chief Coaching Officer, Braintrust • Author of NeuroCoaching

Dan is the Chief Coaching Officer at Braintrust and the author of NeuroCoaching, the methodology that applies behavioral neuroscience to how leaders develop their teams. His work focuses on the gap most coaching programs miss: teaching the framework without teaching leaders why it actually works in the brain, which is why adoption dies the moment pressure hits.

His PhD work, combined with two decades of applied practice with commercial and operational leaders, has shaped how Braintrust trains managers across life sciences, financial services, manufacturing, and software. Dan has coached executives and senior leaders through transformations where the difference between a team that scales and a team that fractures came down to a handful of specific behaviors that AI can accelerate but never replicate.

This session is the companion to Jeff Bloomfield's pressure keynote and one of the most attended talks at the May Gartner Exhibit Showcase Theater. If you missed it, or if you were there and couldn't hear over the floor noise, this is the replay you've been asking for.

Save your seat. The room won't run out this time.

A 20 minute session with moderated Q&A after. Same content that packed the Gartner Exhibit Showcase, delivered live so you can ask Dan the questions you couldn't ask on the show floor.

20 minute live session with moderated Q&A
Recording sent to all registrants (even if you can't make it live)
Built for CSOs, VPs of Sales, and heads of enablement
No pitch. The diagnostic conversation comes later, if you want one.

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