2024 NOW Conference Coaches

Meredith Benedict

Sonder Coaching, Executive Coach
I am an ICF-certified (PCC) Executive Coach with nearly 20 years of experience in the corporate world, most recently leading marketing teams at Meta/Facebook. As an Executive Coach, I help rising and established leaders explore and define what’s next - what their ideal career looks like moving forward, how to tackle change and who they want to be in difficult moments. I have extensive training in interpersonal dynamics, parts work and group theory and help clients functionally with building influence and conflict management. I am trained in the Co-Active coaching model and have an MBA from UC...

Amy Shuman

UC Davis, Executive Director

Amy Shuman serves as the Executive Director of Staff Coaching and Professional Development for the Division of Student Affairs at UC Davis. She has a master's degree in leadership from University of the Pacific, is a Gallup advanced certified Strengths coach, and a professional certified coach with the International Coach Federation. Amy is particularly passionate about leadership and empowering people to create a positive workplace culture by maximizing their strengths.

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Shelly Bennett

UC Berkeley, Leadership Coach

As a Professional Development Coach, I bring decades of experience in operations management and leadership across diverse industries, such as live events, video production, and non-profit consulting. My expertise is developing and delivering programs prioritizing diversity, equity, inclusion, social justice, and leadership development.

Working for an Organizational Development consulting firm, I've coordinated initiatives focusing on cultural and leadership capacities within non-profit organizations. My coaching approach involves collaborative program design, individual-based...

Valerie Ehrlich (she/her)

Mission Bloom LLC, Leadership Coach and Consultant

After 11 years in higher education, I spent nearly 8 years at the Center for Creative Leadership, immersed in the world of leadership development and coaching. In addition to my training with CCL, I completed the 104 hour coach training with the CoActive Training Institute and am a board certified coach (BCC).

In my professional experience, I have worked with students, colleagues, coachees, and mentors of diverse social identities. Much of my work has centered on social sector work and equity, diversity, and inclusion.

I approach coaching as a partnership where we learn...

Shweta Shukla

Mastercard, Director People Business Partner

Shweta Shukla is an Executive Coach, Philanthropist, and currently works as Director, People Business Partner, and Location Lead with Mastercard based at their San Francisco, United States, Office. Shweta holds post-graduate degree in Gender Studies along with Human Resources. In the last two decades, she has held various roles within Human Resources ranging from generalist, to specialist, and consulting with organizations like General Electric, Hewitt, Mercer, WNS, and Vodafone. Before moving to the United States with Mastercard, she was double hatting Diversity, Equity, and...

Sheri Holt

TIBCO, Product Marketing

I'm Sheri Holt, currently serving as a Product Marketing Manager at TIBCO. I hold an undergraduate degree in Psychology from Georgetown University and an MBA from NYU Stern. I am a CPCC coach, certified through the Co-Active Training Institute, and am currently pursuing my ACC through the ICF (expected certification February 2025). My diverse professional journey includes experiences in hospitality as well as roles at Citigroup in Human Resources.

Richa Chadha

Coachampion, Founder & CEO

Richa Chadha is an ICF-accredited Professional Certified Coach (PCC), Advanced Certified Team Coach (ACTC), published author, and speaker with over a decade of experience empowering leaders, teams, and individuals to unlock their full potential. She specializes in working with diverse professionals, including startup founders, executives, and global teams, fostering growth, resilience, and collaboration.

Richa’s coaching approach is holistic and grounded in evidence-based practices, blending organizational psychology with a compassionate, strengths-based...

Reshmma Gulati

ICF PCC Executive, Leadership & Life Coach

Reshmma Gulati is an accomplished coach with over two decades of professional experience spanning Operations, Sales & Marketing, and Customer Service. She is globally recognized for her contributions as a Coach, Thought Leader, and Advocate for Positive Change, having received the prestigious REX Karmaveer Global Fellowship and Karmaveer Chakra Award (Bronze) in 2024. She has also been awarded as one of the 101 Best Coaches in India by the World HRD Forum in 2020.

Accreditations include MBA, over 2,600+ coaching hours, and certifications in NLP, EFT, MBSR, and Tibetan...

Preeti Khare

Enableance, Founder, Leadership Coach

An ICF-PCC, on my journey towards MCC, a Leadership Coach. I have coached over 1500 leaders in reputed Banks, PSUs, Corporate houses and Educational Institutions. Have done CEO, CXO mentoring for their professional development and development of their teams.

Over 30 plus years of experience across HR, Entrepreneurship and Academia.

I am an MBA( HR) MSA( CMU) USA and have experience working with different nationalities and cultures.

I enable my coachees think beyond and stretch...

Peter Dudley

Gray Bear Coaching LLC, Leadership, Writing, and Life Coach

I’m a positive, creative, and insightful PCC certified coach, author, and empty nester with over 30 years’ experience in startups, nonprofits, and corporate leadership at all levels, from front line to C-Suite. I’m passionate about helping people live their most authentic life by knowing their core values and strengths, in order to achieve their most important goals. I have a wide variety of life experience—father of both an Eagle Scout and a transgender woman, six major career changes, divorced after a 30-year marriage (still good friends!), traveled all over the world, published...