2025 NOW Conference Coaches

Raj Sidana

Coaching Sprints, Life Coach

You cannot manage others until you can manage yourself. And for that you need to know yourself. I enable leaders at all career stages to dig deep to unravel their own strengths and development. Sometimes it takes an outside perspective and a few authentic conversations to move the needle. I would love to partner with you for these.

I trained as a coach at the University of California, Davis. This provided me with a toolbox of approaches, mental models, and techniques to unearth roadblocks and limiting beliefs, moving you to clarity and action.

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Priyal Thakur

Priyal Thakur Coaching, Leadership and Emotional Intelligence Coach

Priyal is a skilled Scientist with hands-on laboratory and leadership experience in the biopharmaceutical industry for 8+ years. She is now following her life-long passion of becoming an emotional intelligence and resilience coach. She has been an avid advocate of emotional intelligence within her family, friends and colleagues for as long as she can remember. She looks forward to helping more individuals, mid career professionals and entrepreneurs practice emotional intelligence skills and make an impact in the global community by offering authentic safe spaces for everyone.

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Preeti Khare

Enableance, Founder, Leadership Coach

An ICF-PCC, on my journey towards MCC, a Leadership Coach. I have coached over 1500 leaders in reputed Banks, PSUs, Corporate houses and Educational Institutions. Have done CEO, CXO mentoring for their professional development and development of their teams.

Over 30 plus years of experience across HR, Entrepreneurship and Academia.

I am an MBA( HR) MSA( CMU) USA and have experience working with different nationalities and cultures.

I enable my coachees think beyond and stretch...

Peter Dudley

Gray Bear Coaching LLC, Leadership, Writing, and Life Coach

I’m a positive, creative, and insightful PCC certified coach, author, and empty nester with over 30 years’ experience in startups, nonprofits, and corporate leadership at all levels, from front line to C-Suite. I’m passionate about helping people live their most authentic life by knowing their core values and strengths, in order to achieve their most important goals. I have a wide variety of life experience—father of both an Eagle Scout and a transgender woman, six major career changes, divorced after a 30-year marriage (still good friends!), traveled all over the world, published...

Oscar Lara

UC Office of the President, Senior Learning & Organizational Development Specialist

My coaching practice focuses on uncovering and uplifting individual strengths to identify what fuels you and develop concrete next steps. This is not a one-size fits all approach, and I utilize my background in EDI and experience with students and professional staff to create a safe space where you are comfortable exploring yourself and your goals. As a CliftonStrengths coach, I center on your natural talents and bring my UC and professional development knowledge to inspire your next course of action.

Nitin Garg

Sunkulp, Integral Leadership & Career Coach

Nitin leads an Integral leadership coaching practice anchored around an individual's determination to realize their full potential. He loves to have deeply authentic conversations with people that wake them up to their mission in life. He helps people live in alignment with their values. He helps them break past inhibitions and fears so they can truly bring into the World that which only they can.

He combines the best of east and west in his approach as a coach - spiritual yet pragmatic. His extensive background in the software technology space is deeply...

Nilushka Melnick

Stanford Health Care, Leadership Development Principal

My name is Nilushka Melnick, I am a passionate leader and coach in healthcare. I enjoy working with leaders, who want to expand their awareness and ability to make significant changes, move forward in new areas, and have more of what they want in life through setting realistic goals and implementing a sustainable plan that promotes professional fulfillment. Topics I have coached on include executive readiness and leadership, setting healthy boundaries/self-advocacy, imposter phenomenon, navigating work and home demands, getting unstuck, enhancing professional fulfillment, discerning...

Nilesh Rowan

Impact for Leaders LLC, Executive leadership Coach

As a Certified ACC Leadership Coach, I bring 30+ years of business leadership experience in global companies. Over the past 10+ years, I have coached leaders across multiple industries, developing a dynamic and practical approach that directly addresses real-world challenges. I challenge my clients to unlock solutions that help them reach their full potential, always emphasizing application and accountability. My goal is for every leader to leave with a sense of "I can do this," knowing they have my full support.

Before transitioning to coaching, I held C-level...

Nene Burns

Nene Burns LLC, Executive Coach, Founder/ Owner

As an Integrative Leadership Specialist & Executive Coach, I have been supporting myriad leaders and organizations across diverse industries for 25+ years. I use multidimensional, evidence-based methods to build leadership capacity, improve team cohesion, and clarify professional vision. I am driven by my passion to develop high-performance individuals and organizational cultures that foster inclusion of different ways of thinking, innovation, collaboration, and resilience.

I am an Accredited Enneagram Practitioner (self-awareness tool), a Professional...

Molly Heekin

Leadership mentor

Molly Heekin is an accomplished leadership advisor and development expert, committed to fostering growth and driving meaningful change for individuals and organizations alike.

As a board member for the Desert Foothills Leadership Academy and Friends of Pinnacle Peak Park, Molly contributes to leadership development, environmental education, and community advancement. She has extensive experience in leadership coaching, mentoring nonprofit executives through the Gratitude Network, high-performing women in global corporations through Women Unlimited, and emerging...