2025 NOW Conference Coaches

Estrella Dawson

Estrella Dawson Coaching, Executive and Leadership Coach

Estrella is a transformational executive coach committed to supporting women leaders of color to embody their power and reach their highest potential through emotionally intelligent leadership. She guides clients through transforming limiting beliefs, thoughts, and emotional patterns while building resilience. Estrella applies an emotional intelligence lens to open up new possibilities for change in people and the systems they work within, guiding leaders in decolonizing mindsets and doing the inner work of equity, justice, and liberation.

Her signature coaching framework– R.I...

Erin Ewart

Careers for Social Impact, Career and Leadership Coach

Erin Ewart is a career and leadership coach and the founder of Careers for Social Impact, where she helps purpose-driven professionals design and build fulfilling, high-impact careers. With over a decade of coaching experience, Erin specializes in supporting mid-career and senior leaders to navigate career transitions, build their leadership skills, and align their work with their values and personal growth goals.

Before launching her coaching practice, Erin held talent leadership roles across the public, private, and nonprofit sectors, including at Google, the U.S. State...

Erika Powell

The Powell Consulting Group, CEO / President

Dr. Erika Powell is a dynamic executive coach, facilitator, and consultant with over 20 years of experience helping leaders and teams grow, connect, and create lasting change. Specializing in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), Organizational Culture, and Leadership Development, she leverages coaching to empower individuals and organizations to thrive. Through her coaching practice, she supports leaders in navigating complex challenges, fostering emotional intelligence, and enhancing collaboration across differences.

Known for her innovative work, Dr. Powell launched the...

Emma Pineda Fortin

Guerrera de la Luz Coaching, Somatic Leadership Coach

Emma is a somatic coach, specializing in working with multicultural leaders and entrepreneurs so that they can lead with confidence and ease. She holds a PhD in Biomedical Engineering from Tulane University. Her experience ranges from software consultant to COO of a mission-driven e-commerce startup. She is certified by the International Coaching Federation as an Associate Certified Coach, trained at InviteChange and the Somatic Wilderness Institute. Her coaching specializes in working with multicultural leaders in both group and 1:1 coaching settings. As a somatic leadership coach,...

Emily Bennington

Incredibly Emily Coaching, Career Empowerment Coach

Emily has been an HR professional for 12 years, working in a diverse array of industries, including software, healthcare, retail, accounting, higher education, and insurance. She has a passion for working with people and creating positive experiences for others, which drew her to a career in HR. Throughout Emily’s career, she has not only been an advocate for her own career, but for others as well.

As a Career Empowerment Coach, Emily gets to work with individuals, empowering them to see possibilities outside of their current line of sight. She thoroughly enjoys witnessing her...

Donna Vivar

UC Berkeley, Senior Advisor on Equity and Belonging

I currently serve as the Senior Advisor on Equity and Belonging in the Division of Student Affairs at UC Berkeley. With 20+ years in higher education, I am a dedicated professional who leads by serving students, staff, and faculty from an equity, inclusion, and belonging lens.

In my coaching practice, I consider the whole person, who holds various identities within larger societal contexts and structures. In partnership with each coachee, a space is created for reflection using a blend of asset framing, micro affirmations, motivational interviewing, sharing of lived...

Diny Chen

Diny Chen coaching

Diny Chen is a certified coach who brings curiosity, energy, commitment, and thoughtfulness. She is deeply invested in partnering with clients from diverse backgrounds to unlock their full potential and find fulfillment in their careers and life. Her professional and leadership experiences span across the design, technology, and nonprofit industries. She is a certified coach through the Co-Active Training Institute, an ICF-accredited program, and also holds a Bachelor’s from the University of California, Berkeley in Political Economy. Besides having a private coaching practice, she...

Dinorah Meyer

UC Berkeley, Assistant Director/Career Counselor

Currently Berkeley Career Engagement’s Assistant Director for Environmental Design, Dinorah Meyer, MS, NCC, RYT 500, C-IAYT, has 25 years’ experience as a career counselor/coach, including 20+ years working with UC Berkeley’s diverse students and alumni, five years with partners of visiting scholars and postdocs, and 24 years in private practice.

She enjoys integrating yoga concepts and practices with Western career counseling approaches to engage clients holistically in exploration and problem-solving, helping them gain self-awareness and...

Dina Venezky

Sparkling Leaders LLC, Founder

Dina Venezky is a leadership coach who helps curious people visualize their preferred selves and make intentional changes to maximize their potential and well-being. As a mom, scientist, and founder, she partners with clients to reflect on how their strengths can lead to greater fulfillment in all areas of their lives.

Dina’s work benefits from her diverse background encompassing senior communications roles at Smith College, Stanford GSB Executive Education, the USGS Volcano Hazards Program, and several startups. Dina's PhD is in volcanology from Brown University. She is also...

Diane Lang

UC Berkeley, Department Manager

Diane G. Lang is an experienced, ICF certified, healing centered, executive coach. Having coached educational leaders in higher education and K-12 settings. As a DEI strategists, she is experienced with coaching for equity and antiracist liberation, including goal setting, cycles of inquiry and identifying and establishing action plans related to individual and collective problems of practice.

Her coaching stance includes listening centered practices as she concentrates on patterns and trends to help coaching clients work towards solutions. As a UC Berkeley...