2025 NOW Conference Coaches

Caroline Anzur

Caroline Anzur Coaching, Principal

Caroline Anzur, CPCC, ACC

Caroline is a certified transitions coach specializing in midlife career transitions and life's second phase. She is a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC), an Associate Certified Coach (ACC) with the International Coach Federation, and a certified Navigating Transitions TQ Coach.

With a background helping Fortune 500 companies, startups, nonprofits, and individuals achieve personal and professional goals, Caroline now focuses on reimagining how we engage and contribute as we move through significant life transitions....

Katherine Abad (she/her)

UC Santa Barbara, Talent Acquisition Supervisor

Katherine has 15 years of experience at UC Santa Barbara and is a UCSB Communication alumna with a background in Human Resources and talent acquisition. As Talent Acquisition Supervisor, she coaches staff, student employees, and applicants on career development, application materials, and interview readiness, often through short, focused coaching conversations.

Her coaching approach is strengths-based and collaborative: she listens for goals and values, asks reflective questions, and works with coachees to identify concrete next steps they can take right away....

Meredith Benedict

Sonder Coaching, Executive Coach
I am an ICF-certified (PCC) Executive Coach with nearly 20 years of experience in the corporate world, most recently leading marketing teams at Meta/Facebook. As an Executive Coach, I help rising and established leaders explore and define what’s next - what their ideal career looks like moving forward, how to tackle change and who they want to be in difficult moments. I have extensive training in interpersonal dynamics, parts work and group theory and help clients functionally with building influence and conflict management. I am trained in the Co-Active coaching model and have an MBA from UC...

Meet the 2025 Coaches

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Kimmie Opoku

Dynamic Coaching, Executive Career Coach

Kimmie Opoku is a Professional Certified Coach (PCC), executive career coach, leadership consultant, and Civil Rights Manager for the State of California, with over 20 years of experience spanning both the private and public sectors. Passionate about guiding professionals—especially women and individuals from diverse backgrounds—Kimmie helps her clients step into their power as confident, purpose-driven leaders.

As the founder of Dynamic Coaching, Kimmie empowers individuals to navigate career transitions, sharpen...

Yashi Srivastava

YS Coaching & Consulting, Self-awareness and Positive Psychology Coach

Yashi Srivastava is a Positive Psychology coach helping people evolve into calmer, braver, truer versions of themselves using self-awareness, self-compassion, and self-acceptance.

Yashi’s unique approach combines the extensive study of the science of happiness, a spiritual lens, and exceptional coaching skills. After working with Yashi, her clients report experiencing greater self-awareness, confidence, resilience, and courage to be their authentic selves.

Yashi’s formal qualifications include a Master of Applied Positive Psychology, an MBA in Human Resource Management...

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...