2024 NOW Conference Coaches

Estée Kim (she/her)

Estée is a holistic talent strategist and a management and leadership coach who is able to inspire and engage people by providing the right mix of support and challenge to facilitate their best thinking. Her relatable, intuitive, and refreshingly unpretentious style allows for earnest yet boldly open conversations that lead to generative motion.

With over ten years of global human resources experience across and within industries of pharmaceuticals, art auction and sales, philanthropy, fashion, and public health systems, Estée has spent much of her career developing and...

Farhana Currimbhoy

Currimbhoy Coaching & Consulting, Executive Coach

Hi, I’m Farhana, and I would be thrilled to be your coach! My purpose comes to life when I support clients like you — whether it’s for professional or personal development, setting meaningful goals, gaining clarity or addressing the challenges that stand in the way of your full potential.

My coaching style blends 25+ years of executive experience—coaching leaders and building diverse, collaborative teams in both corporate and nonprofit settings—with a deep understanding of neuroscience and human behavior. Witnessing how people can feel genuinely excited to come to work deepens...

Faye Harris (she/her)

Faye Harris, a Cal alumna, and Incentive Awards Scholar is a Leadership and Well-being Coach dedicated to helping individuals, teams, and organizations navigate times of uncertainty, break through barriers, and create a future of meaning, significance, and true abundance.

Faye has served an international client base across industries in academia and nonprofits, including as an internal coach at Google. Her whole-person coaching approach is warm, insightful, creative, and individualized. A proponent of inclusion and belonging, Faye partners with leaders and organizations to...

Fiona Bhattacharya

FGB Consulting, Executive Coach

Fiona Gomes Bhattacharya, PCC — Executive Coach, Mentor Coach, Certified in Hogan Assessments, DISC, and Gallup Strengths

Fiona Gomes Bhattacharya is a seasoned Executive and Leadership Coach, credentialed by the International Coach Federation as a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) and Advanced Team Coach since 2023. With over 25 years of corporate experience in Talent & HR and more than 8 years of coaching, leadership development, and facilitation, Fiona brings practical, real-world insights to her practice.

Having lived and...

Foteini Kyziridi

Skepsis Coaching, Executive and Career Coach

As a certified ICF and Co-Active coach my role is to create a safe space where my clients can express their needs and aspirations, reflect, set goals for themselves and find solutions.

With a MSc on Leadership and Change Management, experience working in F500 companies and having lived, worked and studied in five countries, I have learned that change is the only constant - and navigating it is a muscle we can train.

Gavan Ambrosini (she/her)

An International Coaching Federation (ICF) - certified professional coach, Gavan has more than 15+ years of experience coaching senior level executives and emerging leaders across all sectors on developing leadership and career management strategies for success. She helps you connect to your unique strengths and to strengthen your relationships with others to increase your leadership effectiveness. She will partner with you to gain personal mastery in reaching your professional potential or to reach a clearly defined goal. Her clients learn how to define and develop their authentic...

Geoff Mendal

Geoff Mendal Consulting, Leadership and Career Coach

Geoff is an ICF-accredited leadership coach and former software engineering manager with over 35 years of experience in the tech industry. His extensive career includes roles at companies like Microsoft and Google, as well as co-founding two successful Silicon Valley startups. Geoff's expertise spans backend engineering, infrastructure, and leadership development. Geoff's coaching focuses on helping individual contributors and managers reach their full potential.

Geoff was a researcher in Stanford University Computer Engineering. At Microsoft and Google, he helped solve some...

Inga Bielinska (she/her)

Inga Bielinska is MCC ICF, EIA Senior Practitioner, team coach (ICF ACTC and EMCC ITCA), business trainer, mentor coach and ESIA coach supervisor.
She works globally with clients who undergo change, both organizational and individual, struggle with managing remote and culturally diverse teams, or find communication challenging. Some of them experience issues and conflicts or just try to move up from managing to executive position.
During her career, she gained experience as a managing partner, business owner, consultant, and Board member in non-profit organizations, which...

Isabelle Finger (she/her)

I'm a Leadership and Career Strategy Coach (ICF-ACC) and I help people to have a more fulfilling career. This can take the form of becoming more happy at work or of a change of job/career. I believe that when people feel stuck in their job, a purely reflective approach is not likely to bring the answers needed to move forward. I rather believe that people find more insights when they start experimenting with some ideas and see how they really react and feel about the new activity. That is why one of my favorite books is "Working Identity" by Herminia Ibarra (Prof. at LBS and...

Janell Johnson (she/her)

Who is Janell Essence, WPCC?
A Certified International Whole Person Professional Coach. Certified under Master Coach Feroshia Knight's Whole Person Coaching program, accredited by the International Coaching Federation (ICF).

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