2025 NOW Conference Coaches

Lorraine Beaman

ICF Sacramento, Career Transition Specialist

Lorraine Beaman is an accomplished career coach with more than 25 years’ experience helping individuals define their career goals and develop a strategy for achieving them. Lorraine has worked with college students, young professionals, and seasoned executives. Her pro-bono work includes assisting foster youth aging out of the system and women escaping domestic violence transition into the workforce. Her areas of expertise include interview and salary negotiation coaching.

She has earned an ACC from the International Coaching Federation and Negotiation and...

Lisha Davidovits

Coach Lisha LLC, Success Coach

As a Success Coach, Lisha works with high-achieving millennials who have a history of success and have recently been promoted into a more senior role or are seeking to make that happen. Working together, she helps them navigate those transitions with less stress and more joy, in ways that are dynamic, interactive, and supportive. As a result, they gain confidence, courage, and clarity that furthers their success and wellbeing.

Lisha’s impact, knowledge, and experience are enhanced by:
• 23 years in coaching, consulting, and client relations roles
• Extensive mental...

Lisa Erck

Elevate U. Coaching & Consulting, Executive Leadership Development and Core Energy Coach

As an iPEC-trained, ICF-accredited Certified Professional Coach (CPC), I coach clients online and in person. I help them navigate life’s challenges, build leadership skills, and enhance their energetic presence. My approach fosters clarity, self-motivation, and emotional resilience, creating a safe, nonjudgmental space to face challenges and increase life satisfaction.

Specializing in energy and leadership coaching, I help leaders and professionals identify stressors, triggers, and barriers to their goals. Utilizing core energy coaching principles and techniques...

Lisa Harris

Palo Alto University, lisaharriscoaching.com, International & Veteran Student Specialist

Lisa Harris has over 20+ years experience advising international students and 5+ years experience advising military/veteran/dependent students. Lisa currently works at Palo Alto University, a school of psychology and counseling for mostly graduate students. Previous to PAU she worked as an international student advisor at large public schools including UC Hastings College of Law, San Jose State University, as well as smaller private schools including the University of San Francisco. She has also held multiple regional and national level volunteer positions with NAFSA: Association of...

Ling Ling Phung

Two Lings, Transformational Coach

Ling Ling Phung’s coaching philosophy is rooted in the belief that every individual possesses innate wisdom. Through a blend of somatic practices, mindfulness, and mental fitness training, she guides clients to transform limiting beliefs, foster compassionate self-dialogue, and cultivate deep self-awareness. Her approach empowers clients to live more authentically and purposefully. Her work is shaped by her personal experience as a refugee from the Vietnam War, offering a trauma-sensitive, empathetic perspective to her coaching.

Before becoming a coach, Ling Ling...

Linda Rhoads

UCSC (Retired)/The Soul Spot, Executive Coach, PCC

Linda Rhoads, PCC, is an experienced Executive Coach with a 30-year career within the University of California system, where she served as an executive advisor and Chief of Staff, supporting growth and career development across a wide range of leadership roles. Work she has carried forward into her coaching practice. Since transitioning to full-time coaching in 2021, Linda has worked with individuals from various backgrounds, helping them explore their next career move with clarity and purpose.

Linda’s coaching approach fosters a trusting, confidential space that allows for...

Laura Woody

Connections Coaching and Consulting LLC, Coach (ACC, CPCC)

Laura Woody, ACC, CPCC, LCSW, is a coach, consultant, and the founder of Connections Coaching and Consulting LLC. Leaning on her 20 years of experience as a social worker, supervisor, and leader in the non-profit realm, Laura approaches coaching with empathy, authenticity, and humor, keeping a non-judgmental and supportive stance. Laura is passionate about supporting her clients in gaining insight and taking action even amongst the “brutiful” realities of life. Trained and Certified by the Co-Active Training Institute, Laura...

Laura Paradise

Paradise Coaching, Career Coach

Laura Paradise is a certified life coach with a career niche. She helps people navigate job changes, whether charting a new path, landing a position or working on a promotion. A former nonprofit fundraiser, Laura is skilled at getting in front of people and getting support for worthy causes. She wants the same for her clients: to help them get in the door, make a great impression and leave with an offer. Laura helps in all aspects of career support. Her specialty is interview skills and public speaking. She offers workshops and individual coaching. Laura lives in Oakland near Redwood...

Laura Reid

Resonant Living Coaching, Founder and CEO

I approach professional development holistically, exploring how careers, relationships, health/wellness and personal passions fit together. I’m fascinated by stories: not just our history or our aspirations, but the stories we tell ourselves every day (consciously or unconsciously), and how they can influence professional advancement.

As an International Coaching Federation ACC and Certified MentorCoach®, my approach synthesizes strengths-based coaching with positive psychology, and cultivates awareness around where people might be getting stuck. I partner with...

LaToia Burkley

Your Big Debut, LLC, CEO / Executive Coach

LaToia Burkley specializes in activating, educating, and elevating the voices of professionals so that they can serve at their highest sense of self while gaining clarity along their career journey; boldly crafting a framework for success on their own terms. LaToia is a goal-oriented, certified executive and career coach, as well as a highly skilled, innovative, and energetic business professional. In her work with clients, she draws on her background in identifying, prioritizing, maximizing opportunities, and orchestrating solutions in the Human Resources and Business Operations...