2025 NOW Conference Coaches

Michele Smith

Better Possibilities LLC, CEO

Michele Smith is a skilled Executive and Leadership Coach with extensive experience coaching individuals at all organizational levels. With a background as a leader and change management consultant, she excels in team building, leadership development, and guiding leaders to align organizational strategies and goals. Michele’s expertise includes performance improvement, facilitation, and in-depth knowledge of healthcare, finance, and lean methodologies.

An International Coaching Federation Professional Certified Coach (PCC), certified Maxwell Leadership Team member...

Mike Lorenzen

UC Davis, Student Development & Leadership Program Manager

Mike Lorenzen, EdD, MA, PCC, has nearly four decades of consulting, leading, and teaching experience ranging from Fortune 500 companies to Olympic team athletes and coaches to the highest levels of coaching and administration in the NCAA. In addition to providing leadership coaching, teaching about performance optimizing, and actively coaching in high stakes athletics environments, he provides career and transition coaching to military veterans and professional and amateur athletes.

Ming Chen

Nebula Coaching LLC, Executive & Career Coach

Ming is an Executive & Career Coach partnering with women of color executives who are looking to level up their leadership or leave the corporate world and gain agency and independence to be their own boss. She works with those at the intersection of race, gender, tech, and leadership.

She is a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC) and an accredited ICF coach (ACC), as well as a Women-in-Management Facilitator at the Stanford GSB (Graduate School of Business). Before becoming a CEO & Coach, she spent 20+ years in tech working in leadership roles in...

Molly Heekin

Leadership mentor

Molly Heekin is an accomplished leadership advisor and development expert, committed to fostering growth and driving meaningful change for individuals and organizations alike.

As a board member for the Desert Foothills Leadership Academy and Friends of Pinnacle Peak Park, Molly contributes to leadership development, environmental education, and community advancement. She has extensive experience in leadership coaching, mentoring nonprofit executives through the Gratitude Network, high-performing women in global corporations through Women Unlimited, and emerging...

Monica Murarka

Amplify Yourself, Somatic Coach, Leadership Facilitator and Leadership Development Expert

Monica Murarka is an executive coach, transformational facilitator, and embodiment teacher for leaders. Monica spent 25 years of experience advising leaders across numerous industries on strategy, operations, talent, leadership, and organizational challenges. Her most recent corporate role was Head of the McKinsey Talent Network where she led a division of recruiters, career advisors, and coaches working with executives in career transitions. She currently runs a boutique coaching firm, Amplify Yourself, providing executive coaching to leaders in career transitions as well as...

Natasha Marshall

Agile Coaching Solutions, Leadership Coach

Natasha Marshall is an accomplished coach and leader with a multifaceted career spanning coaching, diplomacy, and community service. She currently serves as an Adjunct Coach for the U.S. Department of State, an Assistant Coach for the Co-Active Training Institute, the Director for Partnerships at International Coaching Federation – Georgia, and the Founder and Managing Director of Agile Coaching Solutions. Natasha’s coaching approach is agile, collaborative, and client-centered, empowering individuals to harness their full potential in leadership, career, and life.

Through her...

Nene Burns

Nene Burns LLC, Executive Coach, Founder/ Owner

As an Integrative Leadership Specialist & Executive Coach, I have been supporting myriad leaders and organizations across diverse industries for 25+ years. I use multidimensional, evidence-based methods to build leadership capacity, improve team cohesion, and clarify professional vision. I am driven by my passion to develop high-performance individuals and organizational cultures that foster inclusion of different ways of thinking, innovation, collaboration, and resilience.

I am an Accredited Enneagram Practitioner (self-awareness tool), a Professional...

Nilesh Rowan

Impact for Leaders LLC, Executive leadership Coach

As a Certified ACC Leadership Coach, I bring 30+ years of business leadership experience in global companies. Over the past 10+ years, I have coached leaders across multiple industries, developing a dynamic and practical approach that directly addresses real-world challenges. I challenge my clients to unlock solutions that help them reach their full potential, always emphasizing application and accountability. My goal is for every leader to leave with a sense of "I can do this," knowing they have my full support.

Before transitioning to coaching, I held C-level...

Nilushka Melnick

Stanford Health Care, Leadership Development Principal

My name is Nilushka Melnick, I am a passionate leader and coach in healthcare. I enjoy working with leaders, who want to expand their awareness and ability to make significant changes, move forward in new areas, and have more of what they want in life through setting realistic goals and implementing a sustainable plan that promotes professional fulfillment. Topics I have coached on include executive readiness and leadership, setting healthy boundaries/self-advocacy, imposter phenomenon, navigating work and home demands, getting unstuck, enhancing professional fulfillment, discerning...

Nitin Garg

Sunkulp, Integral Leadership & Career Coach

Nitin leads an Integral leadership coaching practice anchored around an individual's determination to realize their full potential. He loves to have deeply authentic conversations with people that wake them up to their mission in life. He helps people live in alignment with their values. He helps them break past inhibitions and fears so they can truly bring into the World that which only they can.

He combines the best of east and west in his approach as a coach - spiritual yet pragmatic. His extensive background in the software technology space is deeply...