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...

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...

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...

Kristin Griffith

eBay, Director, Product Marketing

I focus on helping people identify their professional dreams and formulating an action plan to achieve them. I specialize in coaching women, members of the LGBTQ+ community, Marketing in the Tech industry.

My Background: I've worked in the Tech industry in Product Marketing for almost 20 years at companies including Meta, Intuit, Adobe, Netflix, eBay, and PayPal. MBA in Marketing, UCLA.

Certifications: Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC) - Co-Active Training Institute.

Kena Jones

HIRE Coaching, Career Coach

HIRE Coaching is your personal compass in the vast sea of career possibilities. The unique approach, rooted in Honesty, Integrity, Resilience, and Empathy, features 1:1 tailored sessions to guide professionals through life's career twists and turns, whether it's recovering from a setback, navigating team dynamics, or stepping into a new role.

So, what are you looking for? A renewed sense of purpose? A clear career path? The confidence to seize your next opportunity? HIRE Coaching will help you write the next chapter of your career story. Kena Jones is the...

Kelly Scullin

CiTiZEN+SEEKER Coaching and Consulting, Founder and Coach

Kelly Scullin isn’t here to sugarcoat your journey—she’s here to revolutionize it. As a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC) and SHRM-Senior Certified Professional (SHRM-SCP), Kelly brings 20+ years of experience helping leaders, dreamers, and doers turn self-awareness into meaningful action.

Honesty, curiosity, and accountability thrive here — her coaching is fast-paced, challenging, and transformative. Drawing on her background as a former People and Culture executive, Kelly knows how to get to the root of what’s holding you back—whether it’s fear, perfectionism, or...

Kelly Johnson

LBL | Full Circle Coaching, LLC, Somatic Coach

Kelly Johnson is a certified Somatic Coach and avid leader in the cooperative movement of diversity, equity, inclusion, belonging, and accountability. She is passionate about inspiring and empowering students and young professionals to tap into their intrinsic motivators reflective of their needs and values that lead to the formation of actionable goals. Kelly works with professionals that desire to transition to a different career path or more advanced roles at work. She utilizes compassionate attunement and a somatic approach to guide individuals toward interpersonal growth,...