2025 NOW Conference Coaches

Venus Tayco

PeoplePros Coaching & HR Solutions, Leadership Coach & Strategic HR Consultant

With over 25 years of experience in corporate, startup, and non-profit sectors, Venus is a Certified Leadership and Life Coach dedicated to empowering her clients to reach their full potential. She specializes in career transitions, emotional intelligence, and organizational effectiveness, focusing on communication, decision-making, relationship-building, stress management, and self-confidence.

She promotes inclusive, effective leadership and has extensive experience with diverse backgrounds. She fosters coaching cultures that inspire growth and collaboration, offering her...

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...

Tracy Wilk

Leadership Coach

UC Berkeley undergraduate (economics) and graduate (MBA) student. Trained with the Hudson Institute, the Team Coaching Institute and Coaches Rising. Have coached hundreds of clients as well as several teams. Clients are generally mid-level and mid-career although I have numerous clients at either end of the spectrum (e.g., I'm currently coaching the CEO of the venture arm of a Japanese motor company). Clients are more commonly from tech given my own background (many years in Fintech including 13+ at Google) but also have clients from health care, oil and gas, consumer products, etc....

Terrell Sledge

TD Sledge Empowerment Coaching, Founder, ICF Certified Coach

Terrell believes in the multi-disciplined pursuit of responsible art and expression that re-imagine the limits to more fulfilled lives. Terrell harnesses the positive impact of empathy, understanding and social integrity through performance, literature, graphic design and multi-sensory immersive art experiences. He draws on experience in expressive arts, non-profit community development, leadership coaching, writing and education. Terrell has been a professional performer, director and writer for nearly 20 years. He is an ICF certified leadership and performance coach employing...

Terra Phair

TAP Career Solutions Inc., Owner/Founder - Career Coach/Business Consultant

With over 18 years of experience in Corporate Facility Management, Building Operations, and Hospitality, Terra has worked with some of the top organizations in their industry, including McDonald’s Corporation, JLL, Omnicom and Harpo Studios. Throughout her career, she discovered her passion for leadership, talent development, and mentorship—ultimately realizing that her true calling lies in helping others unlock their full potential.

Terra has worked with talent at various levels and stages of their careers, from emerging professionals to seasoned executives, across diverse...

Susie Fraga

Fraga Leadership Consulting LLC, Founder and CEO

Susie Fraga is an Associate Certified Coach and a member of the International Coaching Federation. She also holds certifications in several personality assessments, including DISC, Insights Discovery, Hogan Personality Inventory, Workplace Big5, Emotional Intelligence, FIRO-B, and various 360 assessments.

A graduate of the University of California, San Diego, Susie holds a bachelor’s degree in Communications with a minor in Spanish Literature and a master’s degree in Industrial-Organizational Psychology from the California School of Professional Psychology....

Susan Call

Susan Call Coaching, Coach and Facilitator

I’ve had a rich career, first as a classroom teacher, then as a human resources director, now as a coach with certification from the Co-active Training Institute and the International Coaching Federation.

As a co-active coach, my role isn’t to be the expert, but rather a co-creator. Together, we dig into what’s important to you, what gets in your way, what other perspectives and possibilities are available, and how you can choose new actions based on what you've learned. Our goal is for you to have an expanded ability to live the fulfilling life you want....

Steev Hodgson

DamnHealthyDose, Principal Coach

My name is Steev Hodgson. I am a Certified Life Coach, an ADHD Coach and an ICF Member Coach. I am a returning Coach from the NOW 2024 Conference and treasured all of my experience working with UC Employees. Especially those that struggle to manage ADHD in their daily lives and discussing their Neurodiversity at work. I have been coaching since 2023 with a specialty in helping people like myself who came to an ADHD diagnosis later on in Life providing them with tools needed to succeed. I take a Cognitive Behavior therapy approach and modality to help my clients think intentionally...

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...

Shivangi Agarwal

London Stock Exchange Group, Manager, Talent Management

Unlocking Potential Through Coaching

As a psychologist with over seven years of experience in psychometric assessments and people development, I am deeply committed to helping individuals thrive. In my current role as an HR professional, I actively support a coaching culture by understanding employees' unique needs and facilitating their development journeys in collaboration with their coaches. This work reinforces my belief in coaching as a transformative process that helps people realize their potential and achieve meaningful growth.

Currently pursuing my ICF coaching...