2024 NOW Conference Coaches

Aaron Miller (he/him)

Aaron L. Miller, PhD is the founder and CEO of Amplify Coaching & Consulting, LLC, and has advised technology market leaders and challenger brands in the United States and APAC for over 20 years across more than 50 engagements. He primarily focuses on talent development strategy, cross-cultural communications, and leadership coaching. Aaron is an Oxford-trained anthropologist, a CTI-trained professional coach and a bilingual expert on the cultural business practices in Japan and the United States. He has led numerous strategic projects involving the training of thousands of...

Alani Bankhead (she/her)

Alani is a terrorist/spy/human trafficking career supervisory special agent and former senior Pentagon bodyguard to a top DoD official. All while 5’3”, a female, Latina, and young-looking. Imposter syndrome galore. Now she coaches around the topic to help aspiring world changers shed fear and achieve their highest potential. TEDx speaker. Author. ICF certified 2018. PCC.

Alex Wallash (he/him)

Alex’s purpose is to support leaders in their growth and development through coaching. As a seasoned leader and entrepreneur, Alex understands the complexity of leadership as he draws upon a decade of experience in creating, growing, and leading a multi-million dollar business that he co-founded in Berkeley. As a coach, Alex has supported professors, researchers, teachers, school administrators, entrepreneurs, sales professionals, and creators, with their growth and development.

Alex holds an M.A. in Organization Development and Leadership from Fielding Graduate University, an...

Amanda Swain (she/her)

I help clients find their direction, map their course, and be equipped to have authentic career pathways and an impact on people’s lives. I serve as a thinking partner with you in career planning, project conceptualization and implementation, goal-setting and accountability, and discerning the place of work in your life. I focus on coaching the whole person within a professional context. My particular focus is mid-career professionals. I am trained through Higher Education Coaches and will complete the Associate Coaching Certification with the International Coaching Federation in...

Amy Chou (she/her)

MBA from Berkeley Haas, undergrad Computer Science from UIUC 100+ hours coaching training through CTI(Co-active Training Institute, part of ICF Accredited Coach Training Program), and completing CPCC (Co-Active Professional Coach Certification) in early August 20+ years in high tech industry, and 10+ years as senior manager/exec at Google, TikTok. The most fulfilling part of my role was always when I helped my teammates, peers, leaders, reports, mentees Dream. Plan. Do. Live. (Check out my website www.dreamplando.live to see what...

Amy Kelly Lauer (she/her)

Amy is a certified executive leadership coach whose purpose is to energize transformation. She combines C-level experience and perspective with her values-based coaching approach to guide client growth. Amy blends coaching, mentoring, and consulting to meet client needs and preferences. Amy offers tools she created including self-assessments and goal templates to assist reflection, learning, and accountability.


Amy’s clients are diverse in terms of age, gender, ethnic background, and hail from countries around the globe. Amy’s clients feel “she creates a very...

Amy Shuman (she/her)

Amy Shuman serves as the Workforce Development Director for the Division of Student Affairs at UC Davis where she leads programs and coaches employees to help them maximize their potential. She is particularly passionate about leadership and empowering people to create a positive workplace culture. Amy has over a decade of human resources management experience and works with leadership on people management, communication, employee engagement, and overall workplace climate. Amy believes we are all on a quest to become the best versions of ourselves, and that process takes time,...

Anne Amis (she/her)

Anne Amis (ACC, Founder of Wild Visions Coaching) is a seasoned leadership and life coach with over 20 years of experience as a nonprofit executive. After decades of feeling stuck herself, Anne’s passion is supporting clients to get "unstuck" - to see beyond their limiting beliefs and to name and claim their "wild visions" so that they can live with greater purpose, joy, and creativity.

Anne works with clients from diverse backgrounds and industries who are in transition, struggling with motivation, and/or experiencing burnout. Her coaching sessions address the whole person...

Anshu Todi (she/her)

She’s a Mindset & Limitless Abundance (Manifestation) Coach and also The Host of ‘The Limitless Show’. She’s also a Speaker & a Corporate Trainer/Facilitator. Not only that now she’s ready to don the hat of a yoga teacher as well and help people bring yogic lifestyle into their lives. She has also been awarded as The 99 Women Achievers of India by The Indian Achievers Club, a 57-year-old organization. She empowers mid-career professionals, who are feeling stagnated or stuck in their lives, by helping them break through the limitations of the mind, emotions, beliefs, habits,...

Bernadette Han (she/her)

I have extensive experience working with people in career development, transitions, leadership development, culture, personality, team dynamics, and high performance.

My coaching involves deep listening, critical questions, transparency, assessments, and analysis, using a Whole-Person approach.

I work with an equal opportunity, non-discriminatory policy and have coached diverse clientele (age, race, religion, nationality, culture, gender, sexual orientation, stage of life, class, and economic status).

Background: Ph.D. and MA in Organizational Psychology (...