Sounding Board FAQs

  • Who is Sounding Board best for - their role(s) within what kind of companies.

    We believe that leaders exist at all levels, not just in the C-suite. By partnering with Sounding Board, you can develop all of your leaders’ foundational leadership capabilities, and measure their direct, positive, and near immediate impact on your business.

  • How does Sounding Board benefit them?

    With Sounding Board, there’s no more juggling multiple leadership coaching programs, no more manual tracking, hit or miss coach matching, or lackluster data. With our new Leader Development Platform, you’ll save time with AI-powered coach matching — we vet thoroughly, and all of our coaches are certified, reliable, and experienced — and get actionable data that you can use to drive leadership development and near immediate business outcomes. Plus, the digital user experience on our platform makes personalized learning easier and more trackable than ever. That means you’ll have easy access to actionable ROI metrics that you can use to scale your organization’s leadership coaching impact to more leaders at all levels.

  • How technical do users need to be to use Sounding Board's software?

    Our Leader Development Platform is designed for ease of use and ease of integration into an employee’s daily workflows. That can happen through a desktop app, mobile application, Slack integration, and via automated email notifications. The platform is open source, and manages engagements for your coaches and ours. All data is housed in one place, regardless of vendor. It is enterprise-ready and built to support multiple user roles across organizations.

    Our platform creates a system of leadership development support around employees, including their manager, HR business partners, peers and of course, their coach in the process. Fast onboarding, progress tracking, and automated workflows are built into the platform, and our proprietary coach matching algorithm has achieved a 97% success rate. That’s notable because one of the most critical components in delivering a successful coaching outcome is that right-fit coach-leader relationship.

  • What makes Sounding Board a leader in this space?

    Sounding Board is the first-to-market Leader Development Platform designed to bridge the leadership gap. We combine the power of a managed coaching network with an open-source technology platform to deliver on-demand, personalized, leadership coaching globally. We deliver virtual development that’s scalable across an organization at a fraction of the price of traditional executive coaching, making it more accessible to more leaders at all levels than ever before.

  • Who are Sounding Board's biggest competitors (3-5 companies)?

    Torch.io, CoachHub, BetterUp

  • How/why is Sounding Board better than those competitors (or most others in their market)? What about Sounding Board is unique, stronger, easier, etc.?

    While some companies focus on coaching to increase well-being and emotional health, Sounding Board focuses exclusively on leadership coaching that creates direct, near immediate impacts on a business’ bottom line. By leveraging the technology of Sounding Board’s Leader Development Platform, talent leaders can deploy, track, and measure their leadership development programs, and scale at will.

  • What kind of features can customers expect Sounding Board to release in the near future? And longer term?

    Our open source technology is continuously evolving. In the future, our valued partners can expect:

    More communications tools with which to stay in touch with your coach between sessions along with a direct team integration.

    More ways to customize the user experience for your leaders by cobranding your user interface.

  • Which popular or common software does Sounding Board integrate with?

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  • Does Sounding Board offer a trial or free download available?

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  • Does Sounding Board offer any kind of training/education for their product?

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  • What are the Sounding Board support options? List all.

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