Karesha McGee is an award-winning global communications leader, with more than 20 years experience in the high-tech industry. She has advised C-level and senior executives at large multinationals, high-growth start-ups and venture capital firms including: Slack (NYSE: WORK; now Salesforce: NYSE: CRM); Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO); Oracle (NYSE: ORCL); Uber (NYSE: UBER); Hello Tractor; BEA Systems (now Oracle) and VestedWorld.

Karesha currently serves as VP, Communications at Slack, overseeing Corporate, Executive & Internal Communications. She joined the company to build the first Global Corporate Communications function, recruiting and managing a team responsible for financial, crisis and executive communications, as well as PR and media activities in support of policy, security, diversity and corporate social responsibility. She helped lead communications for multiple funding rounds, board appointments, executive hires, the company’s direct listing on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: WORK), a debt raise and the acquisition of Slack by Salesforce (NYSE: CRM).

Prior to Slack, Karesha was a Partner at the Pramana Collective where she developed PR, executive and crisis communications strategies for clients including Cisco, Pivotal, and Management Leadership for Tomorrow (MLT). Previously, she led Executive Communications at Uber focused on building thought-leadership programs for several members of the executive team. Prior to that, Karesha spent six and a half years as a member of the Executive Communications team for John Chambers, former Chairman & CEO of Cisco. Part chief-of-staff, part speechwriter, she supported Mr. Chambers in numerous high-profile business opportunities including the World Economic Forum (WEF/Davos) and the Clinton Global Initiative, as well as engagements with global heads of state.

In addition to her professional pursuits, Karesha is an Associate Board Member of MindsMatter SF , an education non-profit serving low income high school students of color in the Bay Area. She is also a member of The Links, Inc . , an African-American women’s service organization, an alumna of the Rotary International Group Study Program in Brazil and a sought-after public speaker. Karesha graduated cum laude from Cornell University with a B.A. in Anthropology, and received an executive MBA from the joint UC Berkeley Haas School of Business and Columbia Graduate School of Business program. She has traveled extensively to countries throughout Europe, Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Latin America. She speaks Spanish, has a working knowledge of Portuguese, and enjoys Cuban salsa dancing in the rueda style.

Hey there! I’m Kwaii Bell, a multidisciplinary coach drawing on my experience working across industries, coaching across career levels, and mediating difficult conversations with people from all walks of life. I've graduated from Dartmouth College and recently completed the BECI program to further build my coaching ability.

I’ve had the pleasure and luck to build my early career across a number of disciplines as I’ve worked to pursue my passions. I started in non profits, then started doing design & consulting contracts while I tried to get my footing in NYC. After a few more lessons I moved to MI and worked in Higher ED with University of MI as a coach and educator to mid-BA students. In my work transforming the program, I fell into a job at X the moonshot factory - Google’s innovation lab. I spent a lot of my time there designing experiences to help people build past limiting beliefs, designing strategies and programs for Equity, Inclusion, & Diversity, and coaching.

At my core, I’m an intersectional creative, a culture worker, and equity developer. I believe my purpose is to help folks to navigate difficult conversations, create opportunities for learning that inspire transformation and shifts in perspective, and for that work to be accessible to as many people as possible. My hope is that through coaching, being authentic, listening for what's most meaningful, and supporting others in my life I’ll be able to help folks transform in the ways they aspire.

Kelly Brown is an Executive and Well-being Coach and the founder of two coaching practices: Kelly Brown Coaching, LLC, and Real Food House. Kelly believes career, life, and well-being are integrated and works with entrepreneurs, parents, and executives to create a life full of purpose and joy.

Kelly brings firsthand corporate experience to her practice working previously as an Account Executive at Google and as an Executive Education Program Manager at Duke Corporate Education.

Kelly holds coaching certifications from the Institute for Integrative Nutrition and from the Berkeley Executive Coaching Institute. She is also a certified Be Body Positive Facilitator and is dedicated to providing a safe coaching space to all.

Kelly’s also a graduate of Duke University with degrees in Psychology, Business, and Spanish and although she’s a Chicago native (who will forever prefer Chicago pizza), she currently lives in San Rafael, California with her husband, their three children, and their dog.

Kelly considers her top values to be learning, authenticity, and creativity, and enjoys reading, cooking without recipes, and going on camping adventures with her family in their Airstream travel trailer.

Vish Chatterji is an accomplished executive-turned-coach with a spiritual twist, and author of The Business Casual Yogi.

In parallel to his twenty-year leadership career spanning the automotive, technology and startup industries, he has studied and practiced yoga, meditation, and Ayurveda (mind-body medicine). He coaches and advises corporate leaders, blending Western management thinking with Eastern wisdom traditions and speaks on a variety of topics at the intersection of business and personal development.

Vish holds a BS in mechanical engineering from Northwestern University, an MBA from University of Michigan and is certified as an Executive Coach through UC Berkeley. He is author of “The Business Casual Yogi: Take Charge of Your Body, Mind & Career”, and has held public office as an elected Board Director of the Beach Cities District in Southern California. A married father of three, he loves to garden, bicycle, and fix things around the house.

Her clients call her the “Corporate Mystic”.

Amy Lynn Durham is the Founder of Create Magic At Work®, where she uses her knowledge as an Executive Coach and Certified Spiritual Intelligence Coach (SQ21, a faith-neutral system) to uniquely blend spirituality and business to assist clients in their personal, professional, and spiritual development. Amy is the host of the Create Magic At Work® podcast, and the author of the book by the same name. She is an Executive Contributor for Brainz Magazine and has been a guest on over 60 podcasts sharing her insights on how leaders in the workplace can become empowered and embrace their full potential.

Amy draws on her past experiences as a successful Corporate Executive and shares win-win ways people can get results by connecting authentically and seeing the humanity in each other.

Through her unique ability to help you ignite your own magical gifts, you will get immediate results in your business and life.

Degrees, Certifications & Credentials:

• U.C. Berkeley Certified Executive Coach

• Certified Spiritual Intelligence Coach utilizing the SQ21

• Certified Emotional Intelligence Practitioner

• Former Corporate Executive & Recovering Workaholic

Casey Field is a professional coach, entrepreneur, educator, and speaker who challenges people to change their story to change their life. For the past six years, he has been partnering with entrepreneurs, coaches, executives, and teams to uncover strategies for them to thrive in life and business. Since 2015, he has been travelling the globe inspiring professionals, and collaborating with organizations whose core business is to have a massive positive impact on our global community.

He holds multiple coaching designations including: Certified Executive Coach from Berkeley ECI, Certified Work and Life Coach from UC Davis, Professional Certified Coach from International Coaching Federation (ICF) and is a certified NLP practitioner.

After graduating from business school, Casey felt the pull to do something that would have exponential positive impact in the world. So, he founded Trident Coaching Group, a coaching practice that helps people find purpose and meaning at work and in their life. He strongly believes that purpose is the key ingredient that transforms professionals who are surviving to change makers who are thriving. Additionally, he is an ICF certified mentor coach that helps coaches develop greater coaching skills so they can serve clients more powerfully.

Currently, Casey is helping solve social challenges at a global scale as a creative consultant with DSIL Global, sits on the Board of Directors for the Sacramento Chapter of the International Coaching Federation, co-facilitates MBA level courses for UC Davis and UC Berkeley, and co-creates exponential results with his clients at Trident Coaching Group.

Michelle Florendo is a decision engineer and executive coach for Type-A professionals. Over the past decade Michelle has helped hundreds of professionals make decisions with intention, from the small consistent microdecisions over time that govern how you show up as a leader, to the big macrodecisions you make about what direction to take next in business or life.

Michelle teaches decision-making for Stanford Continuing Studies and redesigned the decision-making curriculum for Stanford's famous Designing Your Life course. She served on the inaugural coaching team for Seth Godin's altMBA, was a founding member of the Forbes Coaches Council, spent years a Senior Coach for Management Leadership for Tomorrow, coaches for Startup Parent, and is an adjunct faculty member at New Ventures West.

Michelle is based in Oakland, CA, with her partner and two young children. She enjoys hip-hop dance, growing food with her kids, making costumes, and eating delicious food.

Anja is a Data Technology Product Manager and a Leadership Coach for Women in Technology. She has over 20 years building data software and teams, with titles that span from product manager, engineering manager, and program manager. Anja is an active member of the Tortora Brayda Institute, a non-profit org, focusing on topics of AI in Innovation and AI for Democracy. She also spends her evenings teaching Data Visualization and Machine Learning at Stanford University and runs Coach Support and Development meetups. Anja’s secret (but not so secret) hope is that she can get Reed Hoffman to agree to be her mentor or a coachee.

Craig is a Talent Strategy Coach with Wiseman Strategies, a small consulting firm based in Salt Lake City, UT. He leverages his experience in Learning & Development, along with his certification through BECI to help small to medium businesses achieve their long term strategies through optimizing their talent.

What do you do when you’ve achieved your goals yet you still don’t feel happy?

Well, even though Rebecca Morrison was a happily married mom and lawyer with a two-decade career in BigLaw and Finance, she felt something was missing. That feeling led her on a quest to figure out whether it was possible to be both successful and happy. Now a Happiness Coach and Author of The Happiness Recipe: A Powerful Guide to Living What matters, Rebecca helps successful but unsatisfied high achievers find their happiness recipe so they can live happier, lead happier and build happy businesses.

Rebecca is a graduate of Wellesley College and Georgetown Law. She is also a UC Berkeley Executive Coaching Institute Certified Executive Coach.

With more than 30 years of leadership experience, Phyllis Sarkaria is a master certified executive coach, facilitator, and trusted adviser. She has held corporate executive roles in government affairs and human resources and has had responsibility for functions as diverse as strategic planning, merger integration, and team effectiveness. Six years ago, Phyllis started a management consulting practice. As clients began to request coaching services as well, she decided additional tools would be useful and was fortunate to be part of BECI’s amazing October 2018 cohort in Berkeley. Through her coaching work since then, Phyllis has recognized consistent themes around self-awareness (or lack thereof), the desire for tools to improve dialogue and collaboration, and issues arising from common workplace challenges. This led to development of a leadership GPS model and publication earlier this year of Courageous Clarity: Navigating the Way Forward on Your Leadership Journey. In addition to adventures with the grandkids and travel with her husband, Phyllis currently divides her time between coaching individual leaders and teams and delivering workshops and keynote addresses. She enjoys the robust discussions and sharing of ideas that emerge from these sessions.