We're on a Mission to Put the Human at the Heart of Tech

Kate Broeking

Neurodiversity Consultant and Disability Expert

 Experience Includes: 

• Over 10 years of experience building high-impact disability inclusion and mental health initiatives to help Fortune 100 companies attract, retain, and develop neurodiverse talent. 
• Pioneered innovative disability inclusion programs.
• Leverages her experience in social work and corporate HR and DEIA strategy.
• Workplace accommodations and support for employees who think and learn differently

Elisabeth Cardiello

Communications Expert 

 Experience Includes: 

• Communications and culture transformation expert
• Creator of the B.R.A.V.E. Framework®: a system, rooted in the science of psychological safety, to create the kind of culture where nothing stands in the way of people doing their best work.
• Brain science, positive psychology and building community expert.
• Inspiring and engaging audiences as a sought out keynote speaker and two time TEDx speaker.
• Master facilitator creating deeper listening, safer spaces and hence, greater access to our own creativity, productivity, connection and fulfillment. 

Gabriella (Gabes) Coplan

Strategic Advisor

 Experience Includes: 

• 20+ years of global tech leadership experience managing high performing cross functional teams & businesses
• Sales, Marketing, Talent Development and Customer Enablement Expert
• Executive Coach and Consultant
• Organizational Design and Process Improvement Advisor
• Burnout Prevention Sensation-based Motivation and Mindset Coach

Alicia Couri

Kolbe Certified Coach

Experience Includes:

• 20 years leveraging the power of brain science and data to understand strengths, talents, and the best pathway to achieve your organizational goals.
• Right Fit Hiring and Leadership Pipeline Development
• Assimilation and Onboarding Leaders and Teams
• Team Synergy, Collaboration, and Effectiveness
• Ineffective Leader Transformation | Imposter Syndrome Eradicator
• High-Potential Leader Empowerment

Kathleen Fanning

Leadership & Wellbeing Coach

Experience Includes:

• 20+ years of experience in Education, Training & Coaching. 
• Experience working with diverse groups in Europe and the US
• Helping female leaders to find their own voice, own their leadership styles and create balance in their lives through 1-1 and group coaching.
• Supporting teams and organizations with a range of training topics including resilience, communication, leadership and team building.
• Certified in use of Certified in the use of: Myers-Briggs Type Inventory, TA, NLP, Belbin Team Roles.
• ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC)
• Positive Intelligence® (PQ) Certified Coach
• Author of Fill Your Well: 30 Days of Resilience

Marcia Haber

Gallup-Certified Clifton Strengths Coach 

Experience Includes:

• 25 years of expertise as an attorney, mediator, educator, and coach
• Conflict Dynamics Expertise
• CliftonStrengths Expertise
• Helping leaders play to their strengths to enhance effective communications, innovative problem-solving and a sense of fulfillment in the VUCA and BANI world.
• Coaching leaders and individuals to strengthening their own natural talents to bring out the best in themselves and others. 

Cheri Honeycutt

Self-Leadership Coach & XCHANGE Facilitator

Experience Includes:

• 30 years experience as a trainer, speaker, coach and facilitator
• Organizational alignment expert
• Growth mindset for individuals and teams
• Learning community development and fostering inclusion and belonging
• Capturing institutional knowledge and collective wisdom of team and organizations.
• Strategic consulting to establish and embody purpose, vision and values across organizations.            

Taryn Laakso

Positive Intelligence & Leadership Coach

Experience Includes:

• 20+ years of progressive experience in HR Technology guiding HR teams to find the right fit technology to solve business processes
• Mind, Body & Spirit alignment to create empowered leadership presence
• (CTI) Co-Active Coaching  & Leadership framework
• Positive Intelligence™ Certified Coach
• Integration of Brene Brown's Dare To Lead Way leadership philosophy
• Dismantling the Hustle energy of leaders so Ease & Flow guides the way
• Curating leadership retreats to recharge and restore with communities of high vibe leaders          

Natasha Lindor

Energy Leadership Expert

Experience Includes:

• More than 8 years of experience serving as an executive life and leadership coach, and 23 years of corporate experience.
• Helping leaders and employees navigate disruption as smoothly as possible.
• Energizing leaders to make quantum leaps in the areas they’re feeling overwhelmed while amplifying their unique strengths, talents, and gifts as they take their next right-sized action step.
• Master Practitioner of the Energy Leadership Index, and certified in the Core Energy CoachingTM methodology.

Cynthia Gene Maloney

Mental Fitness & Natural Health Coach

Experience Includes:

• 20+ years experience in small business sales & marketing, operations, development & coaching, consulting, leadership training and strategic planning.
• Passionate about integrative performance modalities
• Certificates in Mental Fitness Coaching, Energy Healing, and Aromatherapy. 
• Burnout Prevention and Wellbeing Focused Approach
• Active and Intuitive Listener & Observer to identify root causes of organizational  and personal roadblocks, stress & overwhelm, burnout, or overall well-being.
• Experienced in working with a wide range of cultures and age groups
• Award winning entrepreneur, event planner, coordinator & speaker for 100s of events           

Karen Matsueda

Leadership & Professional Development Coach for the “Neglected Middle”

Experience Includes:

• 30+ years HR experience in global high-tech Silicon Valley firms.
• Partnering with people at all levels and functions: internal incubators, suddenly reabsorbed spin-offs, high-stakes pioneering teams and established functions. 
• Coaching new and middle managers - the “neglected middle”- who form the backbone and future of an organization while navigating pressures from all sides.
• Applying research-based coaching methods that fit the person’s current needs as a human being and a businessperson, helping uncover the ecosystem they work and live in and the part they play in it, identifying and understanding the complexities, and determining the most powerful path forward.
• Transforming traditional HR practices into a vibrant, human-centric talent ecosystem.
• Creating systemic team infrastructure for high-stakes project teams. 
• Building high-performing HR teams.
• Driving new org design, creation, and stabilization for evolving organizations.

Michelle Mendoza

Strategic HR Advisor & Executive Coach

Experience Includes:

• 25 years HR consulting and executive coaching 
• Career planning & role progression
• Executive onboarding and coaching including 360 degree feedback and development plans
• Workforce planning, Talent & Development, Recruiting & Hiring
• Employee Relations, Terminations & Outplacement Support
• HR Compliance
• Bilingual (English and Spanish) 

Amy Morin

Kolbe Certified Coach & EOS Implementer

Experience Includes:

• Over 20 years leading companies and teams.
• Co-founded her first business at the age of 21 and grew that company to $40M in revenue with multiple offices in multiple states.
• Purchased another company in need of a turnaround. After a successful turnaround, that included a 200% increase in revenue in the 1st 3 years, she successfully sold the company
• A passion for empowering people to lean into growth & change while creating a better life for themselves around them.
• Helps leaders harness human energy and point it in the right direction to help a business break through ceilings, grow, and thrive. 
• Works with individual contributors and leadership teams to develop thriving ecosystems that drive profit and bring balance to organizations.

Susan Nelson

Human Resources Expert & Integrative Leadership Coach 

Experience Includes:

• Silicon Valley HR Leader with 20+ years in Tech.
• Executive & leadership coaching.
• Work/Life integration &  burnout prevention.
• Influence & Negotiation Skills Development.
• Team & group facilitation.
• Employee experience and engagement.
• Change management.
• Values/Culture alignment.

Rachelle Niemann

Self-Discovery & Well-being Expert

Experience Includes:

• 10+ years experience in cybersecurity and risk assessment.
• XChange facilitator
• Self-discovery and well-being advocate, coach, and guide.
• Dedicated to helping others create environments that allow for self-discovery, self-care, and self-love.
• Author of "Breaking Free From the Hustle for Worthiness".
• Creator of 40 Self-Care Practices card deck.

Rachelle Niemann

Strategic HR Advisor & Executive Coach

Experience Includes:

• High-tech HR Strategic Partner with 30 years experience in building and leading core HR functions in talent acquisition, L&D, and HR business partner.
• Passionate about finding the right balance between results and compassion by fostering an environment of listening and continuous incremental improvement. 
• Coaching & advising individual contributors, management, HR, and executives.
• Developing custom playbooks for M&A, restructuring and organizational design.
• Partnering with board members to navigate decisions in company culture and productivity.
• Advising & implementing people strategies with clients in high-technology companies in semiconductor, networking, and cloud technology industries.

Svetlana Parilova

Leadership & Wellbeing Coach

Experience Includes:

• 20 years of experience as a rising executive in banking and finance as an immigrant woman. 
• Helping female leaders and high performers to increase their impact and their wellbeing.
• Supporting team and organization executive leaders in building resilient, inclusive, winning teams operating in a high-pace, high-stress environment.
• iPEC Certified Professional Coach (CPC)
• Energy Leadership Master Practitioner (ELI-MP)
• Certified Positive Intelligence (PQ) Coach

Linda A. Thompson

Gallup-Certified CliftonStrengths® Coach 

Experience Includes:

• 30 years progressive experience in operations, management, and leadership in health and human services, nonprofit and philanthropic industries.
• Integration and maintenance of Strengths-based approach in organizational culture.
• Development and management of high-performing teams.
• Manager-to-coach transitions and ongoing support.
• Individual orientation to Clifton Strengths profile.
• Team orientation to, and application of, Clifton Strengths team grids.

Sue Trace

Resilience & ADHD Leadership Expert

Experience Includes:

• ADHD Life Strategies & Leadership Skills.
• Burnout prevention, stress management.
• Personal & Professional Resilience & Well-being.
• Leadership Coaching to sustain high performance.
• Positive/collaborative workplace culture transformation.
• Mental fitness assessment and analysis.
• Growth mindset acceleration.

Neftalí (Nef) Vélez

HSP (Highly Sensitive People) Burnout Prevention & Leadership Expert

Experience Includes:

• Leverages his engineering, sales, and coaching background to help sensitive professionals get out of overwhelm to design their dream lives
• Double B.S. in Civil Engineering and Land Surveying
• Bilingual (English & Spanish)
• Certified ThetaHealer Practitioner
• Trained Crisis Counselor
• Graduate of The Coaches Institute (CTI)

Alenka Žnidaršič

People, Processes and Systems Consultant 

Experience Includes:

• 20+ years of experience in project management, leadership, research and marketing in medium sized solution/service-oriented companies
• Helping break engineering culture stereotypes to see engineers as human, in front of technology.
• Helping tech organizations develop, advance, retain and attract high-performing talent that increases a business’ agility and competitive advantage.
• iPEC Certified Professional Coach (CPC)
• Energy Leadership Index Master Practitioner (ELI-MP)
• Certified XCHANGE Guide