2026 NOW Conference Coaches

Tamara Shih

Tamara Shih Coaching and Consulting LLC, Wholistic Leadership & Health and Wellness Coach

Tamara is a DICA-certified health and wellness coach with over 20 years of experience as a physical therapist, supporting individuals from diverse backgrounds through life, job, and role transitions. She integrates neuroscience-based strategies to help clients build sustainable habits, shift limiting beliefs, and create lives grounded in joy, meaning, and balance.

Tamara’s coaching is compassionate, evidence-based, and deeply empowering, offering a safe space for clients to harness their strengths and move forward one realistic step at a time. With advanced training in Leadership,...

Alla Shashkina

EvolveX, Executive Coach

Alla Shashkina is an Executive and Leadership Coach who partners with senior leaders and professionals in complex, mission-driven organizations, including technology and public institutions, to navigate ambiguity, build clarity, and sustain high performance. She works one-on-one with executives, directors, and cross-functional leaders operating within layered, stakeholder-rich environments.

Alla’s coaching integrates emotional and somatic intelligence, adult development, and embodied awareness to help leaders uncover hidden blockers, improve decision-making, and lead with presence...

Elijah Seay

Clear Seven Coaching, Leadership Coach

Elijah Seay is a leadership coach who empowers next-gen leaders to cultivate self-awareness, self-regulation, and self-compassion. Drawing on a decade of experience as an HR Manager, facilitator, DiSC expert, and ICF-PCC coach, Elijah believes great leadership starts with the Self.

Having partnered with leaders across dozens of industries and diverse cultural identities/intersectionalities, Elijah is committed to meeting clients exactly where they are. He leans on his strength of connectedness to build rapport quickly and create a psychologically safe environment primed for growth....

Iris Savage Dargan

DMP Coaching, LLC, Executive Coach, ACC

Iris Savage Dargan is a certified Personal & Executive Coach with eight years of experience empowering individuals and organizations to achieve success. Iris holds her ACC credential through ICF. As the founder of Discovering the Missing Pieces (DMP) Coaching, LLC, she specializes in leadership development, career and succession planning, goal setting, change navigation, and culture building. Iris creates a safe, confidential space for self-reflection and growth, and uses Positive Psychology strategies for meaningful, lasting...

Karina Saravia-Butler

KXS Digital LLC, Career Health Coach and Leadership Coach

As a Career Health Coach with expertise in neuroscience, nutrition, and communications, I bring a unique approach to career development. I understand how lifestyle impacts work and am committed to helping people grow personally and professionally.

Over the past 16 years, I have worked across complex technical and creative environments, ranging from neuroscience research to digital marketing and communications, with a focus on people management and professional development. I am dedicated to applying my diverse skills to different challenges.

Through...

Amila de Saram-Larssen

ICF-Certified ADHD & Executive Function Coach; CALC-Trained ADHD Life Coach; Disability Inclusion Specialist; Co-Founder of CoachBridge

Amila de Saram-Larssen is an ICF-certified ADHD and executive function coach, holding Associate Certified Coach (ACC) credentials along with additional certifications as a Certified ADHD Life Coach (iACT Center) and Certified Executive Function Coach (EFCA). She brings over 20 years of experience in international disability inclusion and public policy, working across governments, global institutions, and education systems to advance equity and participation for people with disabilities.

Amila holds degrees from Mount Holyoke College, Middlebury College, and The Ohio State University...

Becky Sanchez

Goal Forward Coaching, Career & Leadership Coach

Becky brings a practical approach to coaching, helping clients focus in on the area that will have the greatest impact on their professional life. She supports them as they set goals, identify opportunities, develop action plans, and strategies to overcome obstacles.

Becky has spent her career in higher education, in various positions over 27 years, with 12 years in leadership positions, currently holding the role of Assistant Dean of Student Success where she has been coaching new managers and student support staff since 2021. She has experience supporting multiple teams of...

Nile Rowan

Impact for Leaders, LLC, Partner/Executive Leaership Coach

As a Certified ACC Leadership Coach, I brings over 30 years of business leadership experience in global companies. With an approach that is dynamic and always relatable to the real challenges of business, I want to enable my leadership clients to quickly get to the solutions that unleashes their potential.

In my work I am highly focused not just on the discussion, but helping clients find solutions that they can turn into action, application and accountability. Each leader I coach, should leave with a sense of “I can do this”, knowing they have my support as they go on their journey...

Julia Rosof

UC Berkeley, Career and Leadership Coach

My first experience with receiving career guidance was a career assessment at age 12 that told me I should work in forestry and sanitation. I realized early on that there are no simple hacks to figuring out your career and translating what you love and what you’re good at into a job you’re excited about. Since then, I’ve made several career switches, each with the goal of helping people work on what matters to them — from fundraising for a film festival to, more recently, working with Haas students in several different roles in both the full-time and working professional MBA programs....

Toni Rodolfo-Benson

SOLACE AND SAGE LLC

Toni is a motivational speaker, workshop facilitator, life, work and grief coach with training in somatic and trauma-informed healing. Toni is ICF ACC Certified and has a master’s degree in nursing with focus on leadership. She worked in major hospitals and biotech companies.

Being a leader, mentor and coach, she has a deep, practical understanding of work-life challenges. She is very passionate in helping individuals achieve their goals and live their fullest potential.

On a personal level, she has faced grief, trauma, and many life challenges, and has devoted years to...