2025 NOW Conference Coaches

Anne Amis (she/her)

Wild Visions Coaching, Certified Integral Leadership & Life Coach

Anne Amis (Founder of Wild Visions Coaching) is a certified leadership and life coach with over 20 years’ experience as a nonprofit executive. Anne’s passion is supporting clients in seeing beyond their limiting beliefs, getting unstuck, and naming and claiming their ‘wild visions’ so that they can live with greater purpose, joy and creativity.

Anne brings a big heart to coaching, along with deep knowledge of the body-mind connection. She works with clients from diverse backgrounds and industries who are in...

Anna Rodrigues

UCLA, Organizational Development Specialist

Anna Rodrigues is an accomplished Organizational Development Specialist at UCLA Administration's Organizational Effectiveness and Development (OED). With over 20 years of experience in performance coaching, Anna excels in adult learning, behavior modification, and continuous process improvement. She employs cognitive-based techniques to help high performers achieve greater happiness, health, and effectiveness.


Anna specializes in addressing workplace anxiety, stress, and burnout. She provides educational and solution-oriented tools to navigate a changing work...

Amy Kelly Lauer

Catalyst Collective LLC DBA Catalyst & Co, Leadership Coach and Founder

Leadership Coach and Founder of Catalyst & Co, Amy focuses on amplifying the impact of leaders from Director to c-suite executives and beyond. She supports organizations from Fortune 500 to start-up level. Her approach is goal-focused with a commitment to action and learning through self-reflection. Amy combines her 25+ years of executive experience
with her appreciation for implementing tools, frameworks and skills to support her coachees. A deep, intuitive listener, she challenges individuals in a supportive manner....

Amanda Steidlmayer

UC Davis, Director of DVM Professional Development

Amanda is the Director of Professional Development for Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (DVM) scholars at the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine (SVM).

Amanda provides individual coaching and group training sessions that target the unique needs and characteristics of gifted individuals by focusing on strengths-based coaching, and positive psychology. In 2023, Amanda was a speaker at the UC Academic Advising Conference at UC Irvine, where her topic was Coaching Gifted Students. Amanda is a doctoral student of leadership and innovation in higher education at the...

Alex Wallash

Blue Goldfish, Executive Coach

As a leadership and executive coach, Alex has supported leaders with one-on-one coaching across a wide range of roles and sectors, which include: executives, directors, project managers, academics, school administrators, scientists, teachers, law enforcement, lawyers, sales representatives, and entrepreneurs.

Alex supports many of his clients in achieving their goals through the lenses of emotional intelligence and adult development. From the perspective of emotional intelligence, Alex works with his clients on developing their self-awareness, self-management, social awareness...