2024 NOW Conference Coaches

Rainbow Brockenborough (she/her)

An accomplished CEO with over 25 years in healthcare and entrepreneurship, Rainbow leverages her extensive experience in financial and operational experience in leading private and government sectors earning her and the individuals she works with success and accolades. Trained at UC Davis and certified by the International Coaching Federation (ICF) as an Associate Certified Coach (ACC), she partners with clients to overcome limiting mindsets to achieve the life they have always wanted and worked for. Rainbow is the Co-founder of Atlas Coaching & Consulting Group, a firm dedicated...

Paul Briley (he/him)

Paul leverages his 25+ years of experience in learning, leadership, consulting, and coaching to help you bring your vision to life. His career was built on consultative thought leadership focused on creating an impact on people, culture, and results.

Throughout his career, Paul has helped people get moving. He’s known for helping people assess their current state, define goals and outcomes, then build plans and move to action. His consultative approach helps build custom solutions based on your unique needs and experiences.

Paul has worked for large, multi-unit...

Rachel Ostroy (she/her)

Rachel Ostroy has an M.S.Ed. in Psychology and is a certified professional coach (CPCC, ACC, and CPQC). She is trained and certified in multiple modalities including Co-Active Training and Positive Intelligence. Rachel creates a safe, non-judgmental space to help her clients navigate life’s transitions and stressors and live as the best versions of themselves. She believes that we need to work through our shame, fear, anxiety, and guilt to overcome it. Through building mental fitness, her clients are able to see their obstacles and break old patterns. She comfortably blends the...

Fiona Bhattacharya (she/her)

Having been in a corporate job for over 25 years, I am now enjoying the path of following my passion to Coach people to explore their full potential. As a credentialed ICF PCC, ICF ACTC coach, and EMCC Senior Practitioner, I feel empowered by my corporate experience and coach training to bring my unique authentic coach self to each conversation to make a difference in the lives of my clients and help leaders to find their path and purpose in life. As a Systemic team coach, am able to drive teams to greater heights and holistic sustainable outcomes for the organization.

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Carole Berkson-Ross (she/her)

Think of me as your partner who “turns on the light” at your core and illuminates the drivers toward and away from your goals. Remarkable results come from cultivating intuition, seeing patterns, and experimenting with new actions!

For 30 years, I have coached coaches and leaders in corporations, small business, government, non-profits, technologists, scientists, consultants, artists, and health professionals...with inspiring results. My 40 years of introducing new technologies, project management, training, and employee development have centered around the magic of...

Sara Benson (she/her)

As an ICF-certified coach, I work with individuals, groups, and teams to align personal values with professional goals. Starting from a place of curiosity, I surface a client's desires for the future, co-creating a vision to guide their path.

Leveraging deep listening skills, combined with visualizations, metaphors, and movement, I support clients as they develop an increased awareness and understanding of their longing for fulfillment.

My clients range in age from 25-70 and span the globe in their physical locations. I am excited to bring coaching to a broader and more...

Shelly Bennett (she/her)

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...

Alani Bankhead (she/her)

Alani is a terrorist/spy/human trafficking career supervisory special agent and former senior Pentagon bodyguard to a top DoD official. All while 5’3”, a female, Latina, and young-looking. Imposter syndrome galore. Now she coaches around the topic to help aspiring world changers shed fear and achieve their highest potential. TEDx speaker. Author. ICF certified 2018. PCC.

Sibel Babacan (she/her)

Sibel is a Master Certified Coach (MCC) through the International Coaching Federation (ICF).
She brings over 25 years of experience and a wealth of resources from her extensive training and education to each client. Her travels around the globe, genuine curiosity, and love of diversity enable her to connect with people from all walks of life.

Sibel’s magic touch is her calm, deep listening. When she listens, you get a wonderful sense of being heard and seen. Her non-judgmental style and compassion allow Sibel to look at things right in the eye and ask powerful questions....

Anne Amis (she/her)

Anne Amis (ACC, Founder of Wild Visions Coaching) is a seasoned leadership and life coach with over 20 years of experience as a nonprofit executive. After decades of feeling stuck herself, Anne’s passion is supporting clients to get "unstuck" - to see beyond their limiting beliefs and to name and claim their "wild visions" so that they can live with greater purpose, joy, and creativity.

Anne works with clients from diverse backgrounds and industries who are in transition, struggling with motivation, and/or experiencing burnout. Her coaching sessions address the whole person...