For the last 12 years, I’ve been working with people as a coach — mostly in fitness, training, and lifestyle. But over time, I noticed something: even when people lost weight or got stronger, a lot of them still weren’t truly happy. They were functioning, but not fulfilled. That really hit me.
Regina Padilla is a psychologist, educator, and certified Designing Your Life coach passionate about guiding people to design lives filled with meaning, purpose, and joy. With over 15 years of experience in psychotherapy, parent education, and youth development, she has worked with adolescents, young adults, and families in both private practice and educational settings.
Swiss-American executive coach with 20+ years of international experience, helping professionals and family leaders navigate life’s biggest transitions since 2016. Creator of The Pressures of Privilege platform—a blog and podcast offering “From Isolation to Impact: A surprisingly unboring guide to wealth, power, and purpose.”
Lisa began questioning her relationship with alcohol in 2018. Struggling with undiagnosed Generalized Anxiety Disorder, she sought freedom from self-medicating with wine, but found traditional recovery programs misaligned with her values. Discovering the Naked Mind approach to alcohol-freedom, Lisa was able to break free from limiting beliefs and reconnect with a sense of purpose and joy.
A Wisconsin native, Nick attended the University of Wisconsin – Stevens Point, as a first-generation college student. During his undergraduate experience, he found a passion for serving and helping others. This passion led Nick to continue his education at Mississippi State University, where he earned a Master of Science in Counselor Education with an emphasis in College Counseling. Nick has spent the last fifteen years of his professional career helping students navigate the landscape of higher education. He has worked for large land grant institutions, small state schools, and private faith-based institutions. His roles have included work in housing, counseling, career services, academic advising, summer bridge programs, first-year experience, orientation, academic support, and student success. As a Gallup-Certified Strengths Coach, he helps individuals activate their natural talents, abilities, and ways of thinking into productive and purposeful ways of living. Nick currently works and lives in Nashville, TN, where he serves graduate students and postdoctoral fellows at Vanderbilt University.
As an OB/GYN physician, Denise Netta has spent years supporting people through some of life’s most meaningful and vulnerable moments. In her coaching work, she offers a place where clients can pause, reflect, and explore what matters most to them.
I’m a triple-certified Mindset and Life Design Coach, and I guide growth-driven professionals to elevate every area of their lives. With a unique work background spanning an 11-year tenure on Wall Street, including 8 years at Goldman Sachs, to the intense world of cooking at Michelin-starred restaurants in NYC, I deeply understand the challenges faced by many high-achievers. Like many, I’ve wrestled with feelings of settling for just being ‘fine’ and mistakenly treating constant busyness as a badge of honor. My journey of transformation has led me to become a Designing Your Life Certified Coach, a National Board Certified Health & Wellness Coach, and a Certified Neuroencoding Specialist. Leveraging the wealth of these certifications and my personal experiences, I empower achievers to break free from limiting beliefs, re-energize their health, and use life design strategies to create an intentional and fulfilling life.
I’m a 12-year accredited Gestalt psychotherapist and EMDR therapist. I’ve worked in private practice, for prestigious private clinics and for residential treatment centres. Most recently I taught on the MA programme at the Gestalt Centre, London. I originaly specialised in trauma. Whilst Design Your Life coaching is not psychotherapy, I’ve the expertise to help you truly eliminate deep-rooted negative beliefs that are sabotaging your fulfillment out of awareness. As a mixed heritage brown woman, it’s important to me to support you in your diversity to craft a fulfilling life. In particular if you have picked up unhelpful negative beliefs due to your identity process being marginalised.
Melissa Soza Fees, Ph. D, is a clinical psychologist who combines the best of positive psychology with two powerful and proven frameworks that enable human flourishing including Design Your Life (DYL) & Gallup Strengths. It starts within each of our relationships such as family and friendships and within our organizations as managers and colleagues. StrengthsLearning provides a proven and flexible model that is customized to work with organizations of all types. Dr. Fees brings deep expertise and practical insights that enable individuals and organizations to benefit from both strengths-based and design first mindsets.
As a first-generation college student and daughter of immigrants, I learned to navigate the hidden curriculum of higher education by aligning my choices with my core values and sense of self. During my doctoral journey, I began to question the narrow narrative that defined success solely as a tenured professorship. Intuitively, I leaned into the Designing Your Life (DYL) framework—reflecting on what energized or drained me, exploring multiple career paths, clarifying my values, and connecting with professionals who had forged diverse paths with similar training.
Emily Cornell helps Millennial and Gen X women tap into their courage, strength, and creativity through transitions and transformations.
Katie is a leadership coach, facilitator, and tenured professor. Using a combination of courageous leadership and design thinking, she works collaboratively with leaders to create high performing, human centered workplaces. As a leadership coach and performance consultant, she has worked with individuals and organizations to build sustainable cultures of excellence and wellbeing. Katie believes that anything is possible. She has witnessed this while working alongside people of multiple cultures, abilities and ways of being throughout her life. She is an experiential learner with an adventurous spirit, driven by curiosity and innovation. Katie recently co-founded WholeHealth Sport whose mission is to train and support coaches in creating cultures of mental wellbeing in sport. She is an experiential learner with an adventurous spirit, driven by curiosity and innovation. She is an active volunteer, energized by creating and supporting community-based programs utilizing sport and the arts for social change. Katie holds a doctoral degree in Counseling and Developmental Studies with a specialty in Performance and Sport Psychology from Boston University; Masters in Arts and Learning and Masters in Sport Psychology. She is also credentialed as a Dare to Lead™ Facilitator and in Positive Intelligence Coaching. Katie lives on the NorthShore of Boston, MA.
Gaby is a social innovator interested in human development and education. She is the founder of The Life Experiment where she designs experiences for organizations to increase the well-being of their employees. She also helps individuals connect with themselves, their purpose, and design a life and business they love through coaching sessions, transformational online programs and personalized workshops.
Mandy helps ambitious professionals discover that their most powerful resource isn’t another strategy or framework—it’s the untapped wisdom of their own experience.
Stefania Brucini is the first and only Productivity Coach in Italy who helps entrepreneurs, solopreneurs and freelancers to give more value to their time, to be more productive applying their strengths and leveraging on their happiness, creating time and energy in every life domain. Her philosophy about productivity is from the perspective of value, strengths and happiness. She operates in Italy and online giving workshops, coaching and speeches. The main goal of her work is to help clients in creating value for a meaningful life. Stefania works also in the corporate world, helping managers and entrepreneurs to identify their strengths, to be more happy and therefore more productive. She is the podcast author and host of “Valorizza il tuo tempo” (it means: “value your time”): a podcast listened to by over 140,000 people. She has been included by Spotify Italy in the list of the most interesting female podcasters of the moment. She is the founder of Simple Tiny Shifts®: a new planning method that helps stop procrastinating what really matters in life.
I am a passionate Certified Career & Wellness Coach, dedicated to serving Professional Women in the field of Humanitarian Aid & International Development. My mission is to help them discover, design and grow careers they love, while avoiding burnout and prioritizing what truly matters to them. Many of my clients often stand at career crossroads, searching for increased flow, balance, and fulfillment. With over 23 years of experience in this field, including 7 years with international NGOs and 16 years at the UN, I understand the rewards and challenges of this profession. I also understand what it means to be at a crossroads and have personally experienced the process of re-designing work and life for greater alignment and fulfillment. These experiences uniquely position me to support my clients in thriving both at work and in their personal lives. Today I firmly believe that everyone deserves a fulfilling career without compromising their well-being or life’s priorities. I am also committed to the idea that every child and family we serve in this field deserves a healthy and vibrant workforce. My professional background in Public Health, combined with certifications in Wellness Coaching, Co-Active Coaching (CPCC), and Design Your Life Coaching, equips me with a diverse set of tools and expertise to support and empower my clients to (re)connect with themselves, (re)ignite their inner potential, explore new opportunities, make resonant choices, and walk their path with confidence and care. I maintain the highest standards of professionalism and ethical conduct and am accredited by the International Federation of Coaches (ACC).
Carol is an award – winning entrepreneur, career coach, writer and Stanford MedX speaker. She is a coach for several international entrepreneurship/leadership programmes and designed a coaching/mentoring approach based on her research with innovators. Carol works with clients who want to design a portfolio career, start up business or build a new creative life for health & wellbeing. Passionate about helping individuals explore innovative and creative pathways to success she has incorporated the Design Your life and Strengthscope methodology in her 3 step coaching framework.
Having worked with Olympic and Paralympic athletes for the last twenty five years, I bring a blend of academic research and practical experience to my role as a Life Design Coach, currently pursuing a PhD in Career assistance programmes for athletes and exploring the role of identity. My coaching approach focuses on holistic development, supporting individuals through education, career transitions, and personal growth, helping them to thrive.
Hello! I work with individuals seeking more balance, curiosity, kindness, and ease in their daily lives. I help clients to: – Manage stress and enhance well-being (physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually) – Make practical shifts (at work and in life) for greater alignment with what matters most to you – Address burnout and caregiving fatigue – Expand upon and customize self-care and stress relief strategies – Learn and apply tools from Life Design, self-compassion, mindfulness, and yoga – Set and meet goals for greater satisfaction and flourishing I bring an embodied and integrative approach to coaching, drawing from my experience as a certified Designing Your Life Coach and Facilitator, Certified Mindful Self-Compassion Teacher, Wellness and Health Coach, Yoga and Mindfulness teacher, and my Master’s in Clinical Mental Health Counseling. Working together, we will find a path that is authentic and organic, centered on you, your values, and your goals. Prior to becoming a coach and facilitator I served as a staff therapist for college students at Vassar College and in leadership roles in development and fundraising. To learn more, please visit heathershaughnessy.com.
I’m Fabio Seixas, a Brazilian entrepreneur, creative director, and content producer with 20+ years building brands, platforms, and experiences across culture, innovation, and wellbeing. I’ve led strategy and production for global companies (including Coca-Cola, Google, Volvo, Heineken, Mastercard, Unilever), founded Festival Path (often compared to SXSW in Brazil), and helped launch and grow purpose-driven initiatives that connect business results with community impact.
Julie is a dedicated coach who is passionate about supporting clients in empowering themselves to feel strong and powerful in both their minds and bodies. With a unique approach that combines personal growth and wellness coaching, goal setting, and habit building.
With a background as a license psychologist with 25+ years of experience and a CBT expert, I bring a unique depth of understanding to my work as a life coach. I partner with clients to radically collaborate on exploring organic, solution-oriented frameworks that facilitate insight and lead to long-lasting effective changes sought.
Hey there, I’m an Integrative Health Coach with a style that is collaborative, compassionate, and grounded in curiosity and possibility. I help clients design systems that support happy, healthy, and authentic ways of being. With further emphasis on mindset, stress management, and behavior change, my goal is to support transformation from the ground up.
Helen Kwok, a registered social worker, wellness coach and a seasoned trainer with a rich background in personal growth workshop curation for 10+ years, a sound healing and mindfulness coach for 7 years. Alongside her years of counselling and coaching practice with working adults and their families, her expertise also includes delivering trainings on workplace topics, sound healing and mindfulness experiential workshops, retreats and team building for government agencies, educational institutes and MNCs.
Sheri Davis, MSW, LICSW
Permsit Lamprasitipon, Ph.D. is a Human-Centered Design evangelist, and also a counseling psychologist. He is an instructor/facilitator for Designing Your Life for both private and government sectors, based in Bangkok, Thailand. His specialties included the application of Designing Your Life in corporates setting, for instance, how to create engaging work culture, how to coach team with DYWL, how to enhance well-being of individual and team via DYL. During the past 4 years, he has served more than 50+ organizations in Thailand, with more than 3,000+ participants. In addition, he is also a certified Employee Stress Management program from Stanford University. So if If you are looking for practical ideas and tools in building a more engaging working culture via Designing Your Life in Thailand and Southeast Asia, whether it is for preparing a changing workforce landscape or strengthening your core working culture, please feel free to contact him.
Theresa Bodnar is a Retired Colonel (US Army), a Positive Psychology Practitioner, an Eating Psychology and Stress Mastery Educator, a John Maxwell Team Member and an Instructor for the Leader Transition Institute.
Katy Kelly is the Associate Director of Career Management with EPICS at the School of Communication at Northwestern University. She holds a BA in International Relations and French from DePaul University and a Master’s degree in Public Diplomacy from the University of Southern California. Prior to becoming a Wildcat, she spent nearly a decade supporting career services and international programs at the University of Southern California. She also has experience working with non-profits and NGOs. She is passionate about helping students connect the dots between their academic interests, career goals, and ongoing professional development. In her free time, she loves to travel, read, and practice yoga.
Nicole is a licensed psychologist and executive coach who has been practicing for nearly 25 years. She has a background in health and sport psychology and is passionate about working with leaders, teams, and organizations who are called to create and design flourishing communities and cultures. She enjoys rumbling with challenging situations, identifying opportunities for resilience during periods of adversity, and finding joy and zest in unexpected places and people. In addition to being a psychologist, Nicole served as a senior administrative leader in higher education for 15 years, overseeing health, mental health, fitness/recreation, and wellness operations. She has experience in leadership development, operations, strategy, finance, personnel management, and crisis management. Her current practice is focused on working with high-performing leaders and teams who are motivated to take an honest and deep look at themselves and their strengths, challenges, and areas for growth, knowing that who we are is fundamental to how we lead. To learn more about Nicole, visit: https://sewaneepsych.com/
“Living life powerfully and Living a life you love” – that’s the promise Archit stands for.
As a psychologist, cognitive psychotherapist and relationship therapist, I am devoted to working alongside adults, couples and teens to navigate the full array of life’s challenges and opportunities. Following a number of years in a successful private psychotherapy practice I took on a new role as psychotherapist onsite to staff at Google’s EMEA office. I am a founder member of the Irish Positive Psychology Association, dedicated to advancing practice of the psychology of human strengths and well-being. I bring this orientation to my work conscious of the potential of strengths and virtues to transform difficulties and unlock opportunities.
With over 20 years of Yoga teaching, leadership, and facilitation experience, Courtney helps her clients approach work, life, and well-being from an embodied perspective. She offers three coaching options: Yoga Lifestyle Coaching applies Yoga principles and practices to your day-to-day life. Courtney completed Akhanda Yoga Life Coaching Training in 2018 with somatic psychotherapist, Yoga Life Coach and senior Yoga Teacher Trainer Robin Campbell. Designing your Life Coaching applies a human-centred, design thinking approach to designing a life and a work life you love. Courtney became a “Designing your Life” certified coach in 2021. Holistic Wellbeing Coaching offers a tailored approach to overall wellbeing in mind and body, so you can focus your energy more effectively and achieve your goals. Courtney became a certified Holobody coach in 2023, as well as a certified Integral Associate Coach in 2024. In line with Mahaa’s mission of inclusive and barrier free access to wellbeing, we offer sliding scale pricing coaching services. If you are interested, please contact Courtney at info@mahaayoga.com for a free, 15-min introductory session.
Sylvie is a Service Designer and Life Design Coach with a knack for behavior change and systems thinking. As a designer, Sylvie uses creativity and curiosity to center real human needs in the design of public health and social services. She enjoys creating experiences that foster habit, prevention, and connection as foundations of wellness. Some of her current and previous work has focused on mental health crisis responses and housing stability.
A Samurai Sword Black Belt holder who represented Thailand in 2006 World Championship in Japan, Nash Siamwalla is Thailand’s forefront mindfulness specialist who has been to eighty-one, week-long meditation retreats. An author of 6 bestsellers in Thai and 1 in English, Nash is also a neuroscience enthusiast who has translated 4 neuroscience books from English and 1 from Japanese, including international bestseller, “Buddha’s Brain.” At present, when not working on his next book, modeling or giving keynotes, Nash is a guest lecturer and trainer on mindful leadership, the happiness mindset, successful aging and wellness. At 56, Nash is training to swim for the Thai national team for the upcoming Gay Games in Spain and serving as volunteer for motivational speaking events.
Esha Modi is a Master’s student in Behavioural and Economic Science at the University of Warwick, specializing in the intersection of economics, psychology, and business. She serves as President of the Warwick Behavioural Insights Team, where she leads student consulting and research initiatives on real-world behaviour-change challenges, and focuses on how beliefs, narratives, and cognitive biases shape behavioral decisions and change, with a particular focus on happiness, well-being, and life satisfaction.
Dr. Mariyam Ahmed is a registered clinical psychologist. She believes in providing a genuine, empathic and non- judgmental space for her clients to identify and follow their life and career goals. She aims to provide a collaborative environment to develop strategies to meet each individual’s unique goals. Dr. Ahmed supports clients in developing and working on their clearly defined goals and facilitates building of skills that can be applied long term. Dr. Ahmed has a practice in downtown Toronto and believes in providing a highly personalized approach, tailored to each of her client’s individual needs, and to help attain the goals they’re striving for. If you’re looking for extra support and guidance or you are just ready to move in a new direction in your life, Dr. Ahmed looks forward to working with you.
Viki is a Canadian-American citizen based in Chicagoland.