2025 NOW Conference Coaches

Claudia Gey

UC Berkeley, Manager, Events & Member Engagement

I am a certified Co-Active (CTI) coach with over 15 years of experience coaching youth and adults from diverse backgrounds, including 8+ years specializing in career development. As the director of a career pathway program, I have designed and implemented strategies to support clients facing significant barriers to employment, particularly those from marginalized communities. My volunteer work has included providing career coaching to immigrants, refugees, and members of the LGBTQ+ community, further deepening my commitment to equity and empowerment.

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Chanda Dharap

Möbius Catalysts / Dharap Coaching and Consulting, Principal & CEO/Coach

Chanda Dharap is a certified coach (CPCC, ACC) who partners with professionals navigating career transitions, leadership challenges, and the search for purpose and clarity. With 25 years leading teams through hypergrowth, pivots, and organizational change, Chanda brings a systems lens and deep understanding of what it takes to lead through ambiguity, build trust across boundaries, and create sustainable momentum.

While her background is in technology, Chanda works with clients across all industries and roles. Throughout her career, she...

Farhana Currimbhoy

Currimbhoy Coaching & Consulting, Leadership and Career Coach

Hi, I’m Farhana, and I would be thrilled to be your coach!

My purpose comes to life when I support clients like you — whether it’s for professional or personal development, setting meaningful goals, gaining clarity or addressing the challenges that stand in the way of your full potential.

My coaching style blends 25+ years of executive experience—coaching leaders and building diverse, collaborative teams in both corporate and nonprofit settings. Witnessing how people can feel genuinely excited to come to work...

Christie Cotcher

Christie Cotcher Coaching, ICF-Certified Self-Care Coach for Burnt Out Professionals

As an ICF Professional Certified Coach and LMFT with 15 years of mental health experience, I’m passionate about helping you gain clarity and strategies to manage your stress and burnout and create a work-life integration where you feel in control of your time and energy. After experiencing burnout during my career as a therapist, I dove headfirst into self-care and stress management training and never looked back!

I'll be your collaborative thought-partner in your discovery process, honoring your strengths and focusing on what is within your control, and what you...

Diny Chen

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...

LaToia Burkley

Your Big Debut, LLC, CEO / Executive Coach

LaToia Burkley specializes in activating, educating, and elevating the voices of high-achieving professionals so they can serve at their highest sense of self while gaining clarity and confidence along their career journey. A goal-oriented, certified Executive and Career Coach, LaToia is deeply passionate about pouring into her community through coaching and holding space for career pathing for individuals of all identities, backgrounds, and socioeconomic statuses.

Drawing on her expertise in Human Resources and Business Operations, LaToia helps clients identify and...

LaKedra Brown

DBL Connections Inc., Counselor/Therapist/Life Coach

Dr. LaKedra L. Brown is the CEO and Founder of DBL Connections and the visionary behind Epiphany516, a platform dedicated to holistic personal and professional growth. A highly sought-after life coach, business consultant, and forensic expert, Dr. Brown brings a dynamic, strengths-based approach to coaching that integrates clarity, purpose, and practical strategy.

She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology, a Master’s degree in Rehabilitation Counseling, and a Doctorate in Family...

Emily Bennington

Incredibly Emily Coaching, Owner/Coach

Emily is a certified career empowerment and leadership coach, as well as a human resource professional of over 13 years.

Emily’s purpose is to have fun, connect deeply, and empower others to take a stand for themselves. As a Career Empowerment Coach, she works with individuals to help them break through limiting beliefs, expand their perspectives, and create a career and life that aligns with their core values. Whether someone’s ready to create an impact in their role, discover their purpose and values and align those in their career, negotiate...

Shelly Bennett

Leadership Coach, Consultant and Facilitator

Sit in a collaborative space with a Leadership Coach that brings decades of experience in professional development and operations management across diverse industries, such as live events, video production, and non-profit consulting. My experience is in developing and delivering programs prioritizing diversity, equity, inclusion, social justice, and leadership development. Now and in the future. Working for an Organizational Development consulting firm, I've coordinated initiatives focusing on cultural and leadership capacities within non-profit organizations. My coaching...

Lorraine Armijos

LAR Insights, Executive Coach

Lorraine Armijos helps leaders stop firefighting and start leading. A U.S. Air Force veteran, her coaching journey began in the military, where she discovered a principle that still guides her work today: real growth happens when leaders feel both supported and challenged.

With 20 years of experience leading operations and developing leaders in complex organizations - including Fortune 500 healthcare systems - Lorraine transforms reactive operations into high-performing organizations by strengthening management infrastructure and growing the leaders who run it. She has coached and...