2023 NOW Conference Coaches

Renee Patton (she/her)

I combine my 25 years of business and executive leadership experience in sales, marketing, and business development with my professional coaching capabilities to help individuals realize their personal and professional goals. I received my professional coaching certification in 2021 and am an ICF certified coach. Prior to launching my coaching business full-time, I led the Education and Healthcare Strategies for a Fortune 100 company.

Ravneet Kaur (she/her)

I am an ICF-PCC as well as CTI (Co-Active Training Institute) Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC) and an ORSCC (Organization Relationship Systems Certified Coach) from CRR Global.

It has always been fascinating for me to explore how the human mind works and how its vastness and depth lead to the birth of new possibilities.

Whether I’m working with individuals, partnerships or couples, leaders or teams, I’m always focused on awareness, growth, and development. I love to explore their unique strengths and challenges and work with them...

Rachel Lipton (she/her)

With a decade of experience as a consultant elevating organizational strategies and leadership development programs, Rachel partners with mission-driven leaders and teams to lead effectively from a place of confidence and strength for greater results. She helps teams see what is happening at the systems level (including staff, board, beneficiaries, donors/investors, and the larger community) and how they can address challenges collectively. Many of her clients are women of color leaders in the social impact sector.

A certified yoga teacher, Rachel is a Certified...

Rachel Light (she/her)

I have completed CTI training and am working on hours for the official certification. I work full-time for a software company where I'm responsible for training and coaching people leaders to make them successful in their roles. I have also served as a business partner to our global sales team helping them to achieve greatness. Prior to joining Cornerstone, I ran a recruiting company where I interviewed, coached, and placed applicants into roles that best matched their skills and desires.

Matt Wong

I graduated from New Ventures West Professional Coaching Certification. I have a background in program management at tech companies, focusing on creative production, and I currently coach part-time.

I focus on clients that are lost and looking for guidance on how to notice their depth of character and inner spark. Whether it's a career transition or an opportunity to grow within, I can help you notice what it is that makes you energized and engaged with the world around you. My approach is to focus on self-awareness first. Which means recognizing the pattern,...

Julie Staggs (she/her)

Julie is a skilled facilitator, speaker, and coach whose specialties include: individual and team leadership assessment and development, organizational change and culture, strategic planning, competency modeling, meeting facilitation, diversity/equity/inclusion, executive communications, and executive assessment and coaching.

Julie focuses on working with high potentials striving for greater impact and expanding their ability to influence the success of their organization. Her approach to development and coaching is practical, collaborative, and action-oriented,...

Chris Pollino (he/him)

Chris is an accomplished leader and coach with extensive business, management, and consulting experience who brings a unique background in business and psychology to his coaching and consulting clients. He has held leadership positions in Operations, Finance, Human Resources, and R&D. His experience spans numerous industries including pharmaceutical, biotech, consulting, consumer products, aerospace, telecommunications, and defense. Chris is recognized for his expertise in executive assessment and development, team assessment and development, leadership development, and talent...

Rosanne Lurie (she/her)

Rosanne Lurie, MS, currently works at the University of California Berkeley (UCB) as the Director of Graduate and Postdoc Career Development for QB3-Berkeley. Prior to that, she was part of the management group at the Cal Career Center, co-leading a team of 13 counselors. She received the BSA Excellence in Management award in 2018, and has been nominated multiple times for UCB's Excellence in Advising award. Rosanne has worked over 20 years in higher education, and enjoys helping individuals learn about career options, find roles and contexts which align with their values, identities, and...

Yazil Navarro (she/her/ella)

Yazi is a people development coach with a passion for delivering effective learning solutions with a spirited energy. In her current position as Learning and Talent Development Programs Manager, she is a thought leader in employee engagement and learning. Drawing on her unique background in leadership, development and analysis of financial industries and organizations, career coaching, education, and personality and human-centered assessments, she has a profound understanding of how to unlock the best in people, helping organizations to elevate their potential. Yazil is a seasoned...

Lynn Winterboer (she/her)

I love coaching! It’s incredibly rewarding to help others leverage their thoughts, intuitions, and capabilities to achieve their goals. While the coaching mindset comes fairly naturally to me, my coaching skills have been hard-earned. I have been learning about and practicing professional coaching for 10 years.

In 2022, I earned my International Coaching Foundation (ICF) Associate Certified Coach (ACC) and am a graduate of the multi-year International Coach Academy’s Advanced Certified Coach Program, with over 165 hours of coach-specific education and 150 hours of client coaching. I...