2026 NOW Conference Coaches

Grace Brelje

Salesforce, Director of ESBP Development & Enablement

Grace Brelje is the former head of Global Leadership Coaching Center of Excellence at Salesforce, focusing on enhancing organizational capabilities, empathetic leadership, communication, and emotional intelligence. With experience in Sales, Service, Recruiting, and HR across various industries, her background as a coach, facilitator, manager, yoga teacher, and parent shapes her approach.

She is a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC), Action Learning Coach, Professional Certified Coach (PCC), and member of the Asian Women Coaching Collective (AWCC).

Neta Borshansky

UC Berkeley / Fitler Consulting LLC, Career Coach

Neta is an attorney and ICF-certified coach with over a decade of coaching experience helping lawyers, non-profit professionals, leaders of higher education, and students navigate career decisions and transitions, develop confidence, and achieve professional growth and fulfillment.

Her coaching training, which she completed through Brown University's School of Professional Studies, has a leadership and performance focus, and her coaching style is strategic, creative, practical, and action-oriented.

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...

Inez Bailey

Bloom Executive Coaching, Certified Coach

I’m Inez Bailey, an Executive Coach and founder of Bloom Executive Coaching. I’ve been coaching since 2014 and have spent more than 25 years working in higher education, where my work has focused on education strategy, organizational development, and supporting leaders in complex institutions.

I’m especially drawn to working with professionals who are in transition or navigating uncertainty, highlighting those moments when you’re stepping into something new, questioning direction, or trying to lead through change. I’ve partnered with individuals across a wide...

Anna Aslanova

Founder, Leadership Coach, Learning and Development Expert

Anna Aslanova is a leadership and team coach based in Germany, Europe, with over 15 years of experience in Human Resources, talent management, and organizational development. She supports leaders and professionals in 1:1 and team coaching settings, helping them navigate career transitions, clarify goals, and build confidence and effectiveness in their work.

Anna holds a CPCC credential from the Co-Active Training Institute, a PCC credential from the International Coaching Federation, and is...

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...

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....

Dawn Andrews

Access Leadership Coaching, Founder and Empowerment Coach

After 25 years of legal practice, Dawn Andrews transitioned to a second career as an empowerment coach, founding Access Leadership Coaching.

A proven transformational coach, facilitator, and trainer, certified in Results Coaching™ by the NeuroLeadership Institute, Dawn is experienced in helping professionals, leaders, and teams break through boundaries to access their full personal and professional potential through individual and group coaching, training and development.

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....