In this HRchat we consider why the time for leadership coaching is now. Bill's guest this time is Christine Tao, co-founder & CEO at Sounding Board, a fast-growing scalable leadership development platform, combining technology and coaches to drive business impact for global enterprises.  Christine's rapid career growth in Silicon Valley at Google and various startups inspired her to co-found Sounding Board with Lori Mazan, her executive coach. She has scaled hyper-growth startups to over $100M in revenue. Sounding Board is backed by leading investors like Bloomberg Beta and Precursor, and one of <3% of female-founded companies to raise venture capital.Sounding Board is a cloud-based coaching platform and managed network of leadership coaches that makes leadership development scalable and measurable. Customers include leading enterprises such as Cloudera and Kraft Heinz as well as hyper growth startups like Chime, Bill.com, UserTesting and Klarna. We do our best to ensure editorial objectivity. The views and ideas shared by our guests and sponsors are entirely independent of The HR Gazette, HRchat Podcast, and Iceni Media Inc.  Support the showFeature Your Brand on the HRchat PodcastThe HRchat show has had 100,000s of downloads and is frequently listed as one of the most popular global podcasts for HR pros, Talent execs and leaders. It is ranked in the top ten in the world based on traffic, social media followers, domain authority & freshness. The podcast is also ranked as the Best Canadian HR Podcast by FeedSpot and one of the top 10% most popular shows by Listen Score. Want to share the story of how your business is helping to shape the world of work? We offer sponsored episodes, audio adverts, email campaigns, and a host of other options. Check out packages here. Follow us on LinkedIn Subscribe to our newsletter Check out our in-person events