2022 NOW Conference Presenters

Julie Staggs (she/her)

Julie is a skilled facilitator, speaker, and coach whose specialties include individual and team leadership assessment and development, organizational change and culture, strategic planning, competency modeling, meeting facilitation, diversity/equity/inclusion, executive communications, and executive assessment and coaching.

Julie focuses on working with high-potential executives striving for greater impact and expanding their ability to influence the success of their organization. Her approach to development and coaching is practical,...

Kelly Crabtree (she/her)

Kelly Crabtree, SPHR, SHRM-SCP, is the training director for UC Davis Learning and Development, the employee learning and development unit for the UC Davis. With over twenty-five years in UC Davis Human Resources, Kelly has observed and experienced the many facets of employee development.Her primary areas of interest include bringing development opportunities to employees at all levels of the organization, developing supervisors to support their employees, and supporting a culture of continuous learning, development and engagement....

Kevin M Reyes (he/him)

Kevin M. Reyes returned to UC as Merced’s Talent Development Manager in 2019 where he focuses on strengths-based, self-reflective, and competency-based employee/leadership development. Before returning, Kevin provided leadership development, safety leadership, and workforce development as PG&E’s Energy Training Center supervisor and Expert instructional designer. Prior to utility work, his interdisciplinary background led to adjunct appointments shepherding WAC/WID implementations and teaching at Saint Mary’s College, Long Island University, and SFSU; with roles of...

Kristian Dawson (She/Her)

Kristian Dawson (She/Her) is a motivator, teacher, and advocate for healthy and meaningful communities in higher education. She is dedicated to advancing the fields of higher education admissions & advising within a DEIBJ framework, and advocates for workplace cultures that build a sense of pride, trust, and community for all groups within their organization.

Kristian is currently the Assistant Director for Outreach & Culture for the College of Environmental Design, and has been a staff member on the Berkeley campus since 2015. Kristian...

Larissa Charnsangavej (she/her)

In my role as the Director of Student Life, my mission is to identify and implement systems of support for the 11,000+ graduate and professional students at UC Berkeley. I collaborate with other staff to design and develop programs and workshops that teach students skills they need to thrive in and beyond academia, consult on ways to streamline processes and break down silos between different arms of campus, and coach students and student leaders to advocate for themselves and for the issues they care about.

I previously worked at Caltech as a...

Luke Wiesner (he/him)

Luke has been a Conflict Resolution Specialist since 2014, providing mediation, coaching, training and facilitation to workplaces, families, neighbors, community organizations and individuals. He has worked internally with non-profit organizations and higher education institutions to create and design conflict management systems and programs. Working as an external consultant, Luke has worked with local government agencies, higher education institutions, assisted living communities, hospitality businesses, non-profits, boards of directors and many other complex teams to...

Maria Malik (she/her)

Prior to starting her own online coaching business, Maria Malik worked at Stanford University as a Research Administrator. As someone who was petrified of Public speaking, Maria realized how important speaking skills are for professional and personal success. That is why she went all in on excelling at Public Speaking. Now, she teaches other people to do the same.

Maria is on a mission to help people find and use their voice! She helps corporate professionals overcome their fear of public speaking, give memorable presentations and excel at...

Merideth Wakeman (she/her)

Merideth Wakeman is an inspirational talent development professional who has deep, corporate level experience as a senior internal consultant and executive coach. She is as comfortable working with individual contributors and managers as she is coaching C-Suite executives and their direct reports. She is able to quickly build rapport with her clients and her goal as a coach is to guide individuals in finding the intersection of their talents and passions to enable them to do their best work every day.

Merideth started her career as a leadership...

Michelle Logarta (she/her)

Michelle Logarta (she/her) is a L&S College Adviser with the passion and drive to serve students’ needs. In her role she advises undergraduate students in L&S. She is committed to advising underrepresented students as a member of L&S Sophomore Success Committee, the L&S Academic Difficulty Committee, and as a satellite adviser for the Asian Pacific American Student Development Office. As a natural-born collaborator, she seeks to support students through creative and meaningful ways by matching services to needs with her direct advising, facilitation of...

Mira Roseman (she/her)

Mira Roseman joined the Technology Program Office in June 2021 as a Sr IT Project Manager with two decades of project management experience in the healthcare and retail industries. She has worked with established organizations as well as startups, managing both local and global teams. She is passionate about the end user experience and believes that technology should make life easier for end users.

Prior to joining UC Berkeley, Mira worked at Peet’s Coffee and Tea, running projects that supported employees in the Home Office and Retail Stores....