2024 NOW Conference Coaches

Kristen Hecht (she/her)

Kristen Hecht has 15+ years of experience in leadership development consulting, coaching, and workshop facilitation. She has provided organizational, team-based, and one-on-one services to non-profit organizations, private foundations, membership associations, and academic institutions.

Kristen’s coaching approach supports coachees to create a more fulfilling and purposeful life, achieve more balance, move from feeling stuck to embracing possibility, work through emotionally charged issues, receive accountability on action commitments, and experience transformative and lasting...

Judy Haworth (she/her)

Judy works with leaders and individuals, guiding them to navigate the challenges of leading with their inner strength and stability when life feels rocky.

In our sessions, we’ll quiet unnecessary noise and hone in on what truly matters as Judy leads you through a transformative process of relating to yourself. This journey opens the door to new perspectives and mindsets, enabling you to build trust in yourself, in your relationships, and in the world. Whether it’s during career or life transitions, we’ll work together so that you can live in alignment with your values.

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Melanie Harris (she/her)

Melanie is a CPCC and ACC certified coach, also trained in ORSC. She has an extensive background in mentoring individuals and leading teams in the medtech and life science spaces. While her specialty is to help moms reconnect with themselves and build lives beyond family care, she is experienced in coaching a multitude of people, including BIPOC, men and women, industry and academics - anyone seeking to feel whole in their lives.

Faye Harris (she/her)

Faye Harris, a Cal alumna, and Incentive Awards Scholar is a Leadership and Well-being Coach dedicated to helping individuals, teams, and organizations navigate times of uncertainty, break through barriers, and create a future of meaning, significance, and true abundance.

Faye has served an international client base across industries in academia and nonprofits, including as an internal coach at Google. Her whole-person coaching approach is warm, insightful, creative, and individualized. A proponent of inclusion and belonging, Faye partners with leaders and organizations to...

Lisa Harris (she/her)

Lisa Harris has 20+ years of experience advising university international students from all over the world. Whether navigating phases of cultural adjustment or complicated immigration application processes, her adroit communication skills as well as her calm, knowledgeable, and light-hearted demeanor provides students comfort.

Lisa currently works at Palo Alto University, a school of psychology and counseling for mostly doctoral students. Previous to PAU, she worked as an international student advisor at large public schools including UC Law, and San Jose State University, as...

Bernadette Han (she/her)

I have extensive experience working with people in career development, transitions, leadership development, culture, personality, team dynamics, and high performance.

My coaching involves deep listening, critical questions, transparency, assessments, and analysis, using a Whole-Person approach.

I work with an equal opportunity, non-discriminatory policy and have coached diverse clientele (age, race, religion, nationality, culture, gender, sexual orientation, stage of life, class, and economic status).

Background: Ph.D. and MA in Organizational Psychology (...

Kimberly Hale (she/her)

Higher education is unlike any other employment setting. I enjoy supporting academics and professionals who navigate the complexities of this setting through a range of question-based tools and resources. I attended a higher education-focused ICF accredited coach training program, and am well on my way to acquiring my ACC certification. I am fluent in American Sign Language as well as English.

Reshmma Gulati

I'm an ICF, PCC leadership development and career coach, a certified master practitioner of NLP, EFT, and have 17 years of experience in mindfulness. I partner with ambitious individuals to co-create roadmaps for their career acceleration and career transition. l enable them to navigate their leadership journey, set clear goals, and be an agile confident leader. I have been awarded as one of the best 101 coaches by World HRD. Over the last 8 years, have coached 2000+ hours in 7 countries including the U.S., UAE, South Africa, Switzerland, Malaysia, Tanzania, and India across...

Kristin Griffith (she/her)

Certifications: Associate Certified Coach (ACC) - International Coaching Federation (ICF), Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC) - Co-Active Training Institute.

I've been coaching individuals since 2020 and focus on helping people identify their professional and personal dreams and formulating a plan to achieve them. I specialize in coaching women and members of the LGBTQ+ community.

My Background: I've worked in the Tech industry for 15+ years at companies including Meta, Intuit, Adobe, Netflix, and PayPal. MBA in Marketing, UCLA.

Caroline Goodwill (she/her)

As a certified health and wellness coach, Caroline has been helping driven working moms break through chronic exhaustion and move toward well-being, no matter their life’s demands. Coaching with Caroline is an opportunity to alter the beliefs that aren’t serving you, grow your unique talents, and actively engage in bringing the change you want into your life.

Caroline has worked with clients in the US and internationally, running individual and group coaching sessions, both in English and French. She holds a computer engineering degree and a Master's in Business Administration...