Active Conversation Coaching

Elevate every conversation that matters

Practice coaching conversations out loud or by text — and get scored instantly against five proven frameworks including Parlare originals.

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Built from 16 years of leadership development practice — and a conviction that great coaching shouldn't be out of reach.
How it works

Three steps to better conversations

No theory. No passive watching. Just deliberate practice with instant, actionable feedback.

1

Choose your scenario

Pick from common leadership challenges — missed deadlines, difficult feedback, conflict, trust repair — or describe your own situation in plain language.

2

Have the conversation

Coach a realistic AI counterpart by text — or switch to 🎙️ Live voice and speak out loud. They push back, get emotional, and respond to your actual technique.

3

Get your report

Receive scores across five coaching frameworks — BID / SBI, the Conversation Elevator, Humble Inquiry, the Middle Path, and Clear is Kind — plus a rewrite of one moment showing how a stronger response would have landed.

What you get

Built for deliberate practice

Everything you need to close the gap between knowing what good looks like and actually doing it.

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Live voice coaching

Practice out loud using your microphone. Gemini's real-time voice API powers a natural back-and-forth with your AI coachee — no typing, no lag. Your session is still scored against all five frameworks the moment you say you're done.

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Instant scored feedback

Every session is scored across five expert frameworks the moment you finish. No waiting, no guesswork — just a clear picture of what landed and what didn't.

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Gold Standard rewrites

One moment from your session gets rewritten to show how the same conversation could have gone — with the frameworks that explain why it lands differently.

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Realistic AI counterparts

Practice against AI that pushes back, gets defensive, and responds to your actual technique. Not a chatbot — a pressure-test for your real coaching instincts.

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Session history & trends

Every session is saved. Track your scores over time, see which frameworks you're strongest in, and watch your averages move as your skills sharpen.

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Evaluate real transcripts

Paste in a conversation that already happened — a tricky 1:1, a difficult debrief — and get it scored against all five frameworks instantly. Sensitive details are stripped before anything is sent: it's here to sharpen how you show up, not to build a file on anyone.

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Framework Q&A anytime

Ask anything mid-session and the facilitator steps in with a concise, practical answer — then hands the conversation back to you without breaking flow.

The frameworks

Five lenses. One conversation.

Parlare scores every session against five frameworks. Each one targeting a different way a coaching conversation can go wrong — or go right.

Structure

BID & SBI

Behaviour · Impact · Desired outcome. The primary framework for structuring feedback. SBI (Situation · Behaviour · Impact) is used when coaching up to a leader — observational, non-prescriptive, and appropriate when you can't direct outcomes.

Industry standard
Arc

Conversation Elevator

Most coaching conversations go up too fast. The Conversation Elevator is a four-floor arc — from creating safety, to going deep, to helping someone find their own clarity, to walking out with something real. The floor you skip is usually where the real conversation was.

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Inquiry

Humble Inquiry

The fine art of drawing someone out, asking questions you genuinely don't know the answer to, and building the relationship before offering solutions.

Edgar Schein
Balance

The Middle Path

Two failure modes: watering it down so much the message doesn't land, or delivering it so bluntly it damages trust. The Middle Path is scored on whether the coach found the space between.

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Clarity

Clear is Kind

Unclear feedback is unkind. Brené Brown's principle that vague, softened messages protect the speaker — not the recipient. Scored on directness, specificity, and follow-through.

Brené Brown

A real coaching conversation, scored turn by turn.

Priya leads a team. Mike is a senior IC who's missed his last three sprint commitments. She's about to have the 1:1 every leader dreads. Watch what each of her sentences does to Mike's openness — the Engagement Arc.

Open Engaged Neutral Guarded Closed 1 2 3 4
1
0:00 · Priya jumped straight to prescription
"Your velocity's dropped — you need to estimate more carefully and break tasks down." Skipped the Lobby. Mike braced. Guarded.
2/5
2
0:30 · Mike shut down — the Expert Trap fired
"I'm doing my best with what I've got." Advice before inquiry. Mike defended instead of reflected. Closed.
1/5
3
1:30 · Priya recovered — Humble Inquiry, real silence
"Let me back up. What's been on your mind that hasn't made it into a 1:1 yet?" Descended to the Basement. Mike opened up about mentoring Maya. Engaged.
4/5
4
3:00 · Mike owned the next step — Real Exit
"Let me put the mentoring time on the board this sprint." The action came from Mike, not installed by Priya. Open.
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Five framework scores. Cited line by line.

Every Parlare coaching session produces a behavioural report scored against five named frameworks. Every Strength and Gap cites the exact transcript line plus the framework rule applied. No black-box scoring. No "you did a great job — keep practicing!"

BID / SBI · Feedback
6/10
Behaviour and Impact were named; Do was prescriptive, not co-designed. Trust prerequisite was skipped.
Conversation Elevator
7/10
Recovered to the Basement at Turn 3; landed on Exit. Started on Observation Deck instead of Lobby.
Humble Inquiry · Schein
9/10
Turn 3 was textbook — "What's been on your mind?" before any further telling. Strong recovery from a low start.
Middle Path
7/10
Didn't dilute the velocity concern, didn't damage the relationship — but didn't name both sides explicitly until the close.
Clear is Kind · Brown
8/10
The final commitment was specific, dated, owned by Mike. Directness without damage.
Sample citation · auditability built in
"Let me back up. What's been on your mind that hasn't made it into a 1:1 yet?"
Humble Inquiry · Strength Rule cited: Schein's "Access your ignorance — ask before telling" — applied at the moment of greatest coachee defensiveness.

Every Strength and Gap in a Parlare coaching report cites the transcript quote AND the framework rule applied. An HR partner, an L&D leader, or a sceptical CEO can verify every finding — there's no aggregate "leadership index" you have to take on faith.

Sample report · Priya/Mike demo session. Real Parlare coaching sessions produce these scores plus the full set — Critical Turn, Hook Moment, and a Gold Standard rewrite of the weakest moment with [Floor] and [Framework] tags on every sentence.

Why Parlare

Built for leaders who want real results.

Most coaching tools tell you what good looks like. Parlare puts you in the conversation and scores what you actually do.

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🎙️ Real-time voice practiceSpeak out loud — no typing required
Framework-scored feedbackBID / SBI, CE, Schein, Brown & more
Realistic conversation simulationAI coachees that push back
Gold Standard rewritesSee how one moment could have landed differently
Score your real conversationsPaste any transcript for instant analysis
Session history & score trendsTrack improvement over time
Available on demandPractice at 11pm before a hard conversation
No HR jargon or vague feedbackScored against rigorous frameworks, not sentiment
Affordable for individuals
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For Teams

World-class leaders are developed, not discovered.
Parlare makes that scalable.

70% of a team's engagement is attributable to its manager. Parlare gives your L&D team the visibility and infrastructure to move that number — across every manager, every week, without adding headcount.

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Consistent conversation quality, across every manager
Most orgs can name their top two or three managers by feel. Parlare gives you behavioural data — Humble Inquiry depth scores, BID specificity, Expert Trap frequency — so you can see who's actually coaching and who's performing the motions.
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The behaviours that drive engagement, made visible
You can't coach what you can't see. The org-wide dashboard surfaces the specific conversation patterns — how long managers stay in discovery, how often they anchor feedback to behaviour vs. personality — that Gallup links to a team engagement lift of up to 18%.
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Adoption that sticks because it's built into the weekly habit
Workshops are attended and forgotten. Parlare is practiced — scored sessions, personalized growth edges, and a cadence that compounds. McKinsey's study of 1,800+ companies with revenues over $100M links a focus on people performance to 30% higher average revenue growth and attrition five percentage points lower.
70%
of a team's engagement is attributable to its manager
Gallup, State of the Global Workplace 2025
18%
lift in team engagement, at the top of Gallup's reported range, when coaching is practiced and not just taught
Gallup, State of the Global Workplace 2025
30%
average revenue growth advantage in companies focused on people performance
McKinsey Global Institute · 1,800+ companies with revenues over $100M · 2024

A 20-minute walkthrough of the org dashboard and onboarding playbook. No pitch.

Reviews

The reps add up. So do the reviews.

Verified reviews from leaders practicing on Parlare.

★★★★★ 5.0 on G2 · 3 reviews
★★★★★
Clearer, more intentional, and easy to learn from
"It feels genuinely useful, not just like another software tool. I found the platform practical, intuitive, and focused on real improvement rather than just checking a box… The value is pretty obvious once you use it."
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Brent S.
VP, Credit Risk Solutions
★★★★★
Realistic conversations, great for practice
"It gives me a safe place to try different approaches and focus on the right things within a conversation… The best thing is how realistic it is, with back-and-forth feedback and the ability for the person to react in a really real way."
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Katie N.
Senior Director, Imperial Service
★★★★★
A coaching sidekick with real-time voice feedback
"Like having a personal coach in your pocket… the voice coaching option provides real-time feedback which is a real game-changer. Parlare stands out as the first app that offers a seamless experience at an affordable price."
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Alex V.
Director of Marketing
Pricing

Clear is kind. Especially at pricing time.

For individual leaders. For entire leadership teams. One mission: fewer conversations you wish you'd had differently.

Standard
The Habit Builder
$24.99 /mo
Build the habits that make hard conversations land well. Daily practice with real scoring.

  • Unlimited text-based practice
  • 5 Live Voice sessions per month
  • Full preset scenarios library
  • Full session reports & scoring
  • All coaching frameworks (Elevator, BID/SBI, Humble Inquiry)
  • Session history & progress tracking
  • 💡 Call Facilitator — pause a voice practice and ask an expert AI a framework question
  • Transcript Auditor (Pro only)
  • Team & Org analytics (Team only)
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Team
The Leadership Bench
Custom  ·  10+ seats
Turn good intentions into a team-wide leadership habit — with onboarding playbooks, org-wide analytics, and the admin controls L&D needs.

  • Everything in Performance Pro — for every leader
  • New-leader onboarding program playbook
  • Org-wide adoption & engagement reporting
  • Custom coaching scenarios for your org
  • Admin dashboard & seat management
  • SSO (Google / Okta / Azure)
  • Annual billing & invoicing (PO accepted)
  • 🎭 Photoreal avatar — a lifelike face on live voice practice, available in enterprise pilots
  • Dedicated onboarding & success support
Security & Privacy

Your conversations are sensitive. We treat them that way.

The hardest conversations you practice are exactly the ones that must stay private. Here's what's built in.

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Sensitive data never leaves your browser
Social-insurance, card, and health-card numbers are detected and blocked client-side — before a transcript is ever sent.
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Encrypted in transit and at rest
Every session travels over TLS and is stored with AES-256 encryption.
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Isolated per organization
Row-level security keeps each org's data separate. Leaders see team analytics — never a colleague's raw transcript.
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Never used to train AI
Your conversations are yours. We don't use them to train AI models — full stop.
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Delete it and it's gone
Close your account and your data is erased through cascading deletes, within 30 days.
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Card numbers never touch our servers
Billing is handled entirely by Stripe. We never see or store your card details.

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