2025 NOW Conference Coaches

Diny Chen

Diny Chen coaching

Diny Chen is a certified coach who brings curiosity, energy, commitment, and thoughtfulness. She is deeply invested in partnering with clients from diverse backgrounds to unlock their full potential and find fulfillment in their careers and life. Her professional and leadership experiences span across the design, technology, and nonprofit industries. She is a certified coach through the Co-Active Training Institute, an ICF-accredited program, and also holds a Bachelor’s from the University of California, Berkeley in Political Economy. Besides having a private coaching practice, she...

Donna Vivar

UC Berkeley, Senior Advisor on Equity and Belonging

I currently serve as the Senior Advisor on Equity and Belonging in the Division of Student Affairs at UC Berkeley. With 20+ years in higher education, I am a dedicated professional who leads by serving students, staff, and faculty from an equity, inclusion, and belonging lens.

In my coaching practice, I consider the whole person, who holds various identities within larger societal contexts and structures. In partnership with each coachee, a space is created for reflection using a blend of asset framing, micro affirmations, motivational interviewing, sharing of lived...

Emily Bennington

Incredibly Emily Coaching, Career Empowerment Coach

Emily has been an HR professional for 12 years, working in a diverse array of industries, including software, healthcare, retail, accounting, higher education, and insurance. She has a passion for working with people and creating positive experiences for others, which drew her to a career in HR. Throughout Emily’s career, she has not only been an advocate for her own career, but for others as well.

As a Career Empowerment Coach, Emily gets to work with individuals, empowering them to see possibilities outside of their current line of sight. She thoroughly enjoys witnessing her...

Emma Pineda Fortin

Guerrera de la Luz Coaching, Somatic Leadership Coach

Emma is a somatic coach, specializing in working with multicultural leaders and entrepreneurs so that they can lead with confidence and ease. She holds a PhD in Biomedical Engineering from Tulane University. Her experience ranges from software consultant to COO of a mission-driven e-commerce startup. She is certified by the International Coaching Federation as an Associate Certified Coach, trained at InviteChange and the Somatic Wilderness Institute. Her coaching specializes in working with multicultural leaders in both group and 1:1 coaching settings. As a somatic leadership coach,...

Erika Powell

The Powell Consulting Group, CEO / President

Dr. Erika Powell is a dynamic executive coach, facilitator, and consultant with over 20 years of experience helping leaders and teams grow, connect, and create lasting change. Specializing in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), Organizational Culture, and Leadership Development, she leverages coaching to empower individuals and organizations to thrive. Through her coaching practice, she supports leaders in navigating complex challenges, fostering emotional intelligence, and enhancing collaboration across differences.

Known for her innovative work, Dr. Powell launched the...

Erika Reynolds

UC Davis, Associate Director

Erika has over 20 years of experience leading, training, and coaching high performing teams and individuals to successfully manage large scale transition and change. Erika has coached a wide range of leaders from high achieving university students to executive directors, and she is passionate about helping teams perform more effectively and efficiently by leveraging each person’s unique talents to maximize the impact of the team and organization.

Erika’s goal is to help individuals and teams reach their goals with more ease and less stress to mitigate burnout and...

Erin Ewart

Careers for Social Impact, Career and Leadership Coach

Erin Ewart is a career and leadership coach and the founder of Careers for Social Impact, where she helps purpose-driven professionals design and build fulfilling, high-impact careers. With over a decade of coaching experience, Erin specializes in supporting mid-career and senior leaders to navigate career transitions, build their leadership skills, and align their work with their values and personal growth goals.

Before launching her coaching practice, Erin held talent leadership roles across the public, private, and nonprofit sectors, including at Google, the U.S. State...

Estrella Dawson

Estrella Dawson Coaching, Executive and Leadership Coach

Estrella is a transformational executive coach committed to supporting women leaders of color to embody their power and reach their highest potential through emotionally intelligent leadership. She guides clients through transforming limiting beliefs, thoughts, and emotional patterns while building resilience. Estrella applies an emotional intelligence lens to open up new possibilities for change in people and the systems they work within, guiding leaders in decolonizing mindsets and doing the inner work of equity, justice, and liberation.

Her signature coaching framework– R.I...

Evelyn Garcia Morales

HumanKind Coaching, CEO

Evelyn Garcia Morales is the founder and CEO of HumanKind Coaching, a boutique coaching practice dedicated to illuminating clients' lives and helping them live to their fullest potential. With over twenty years of experience in leadership roles spanning the nonprofit sector, local government, and business, Evelyn has cultivated a deep commitment to inspiring purpose and supporting people in living brightly.

Evelyn resides in Las Vegas, Nevada, with her husband, Victor, and their two school-aged sons. She embodies Joy, Authenticity, Brilliance, Leadership, and Connection,...

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...