The Embrace Change Coaching Team

We’re proud to be an all-BIPOC team of expert coaches with different specialities to best meet each client’s needs.

Core Coaches

  • Payal Shah, PCC, ELI-MP

    Payal is an iPEC and ICF-certified Career & Personal Empowerment Coach for mid-career professionals looking to get ‘unstuck’ about what’s next and create more purposeful, fulfilling lives. Read more →

  • Brandon Johnson, M.Ed., CPCC

    Brandon Johnson is a job and career transition coach who is passionate about helping BIPOC people achieve more alignment, control, and satisfaction in their career. Brandon uses a variety of techniques (i.e. rapport building, powerful questioning, creating awareness, etc.) to help people develop confidence around their ability to overcome barriers to their career objectives. Read more →

  • Stephanie Heath

    Stephanie Heath is a job search and offer negotiation expert who helps people of color, immigrants, and soft-spoken men and women land their dream career. Her global online business has transformed the lives of thousands of underpaid and unappreciated corporate workers by teaching them how to tap into their corporateWORTH, interview effectively, and negotiate high six-figure salaries to transition their job and begin their career. Read more →

Additional Coaches

  • Steve Branch, MPAc

    Steven Namar Branch is a career development professional dedicated to creating fruitful pathways for other BIPOC professionals across gender. Steve coaches both women of color and men of color, and is passionate about creating relationships and networks for the benefit of Diverse, Equitable, and Inclusive workspaces.

  • Leah Davis, FFC

    Leah Davis is a dedicated wealth and wellness coach for women of color and she is committed to helping her clients achieve economic stability. Leah has a profound awareness of the unique challenges women of color experience as they transform their wealth legacy.

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Operations

  • Sheba Remy Kharbanda

    Chief Operations Officer
    Sheba Remy Kharbanda (most familiarly known as SRK or Remy) is a storytelling, production/project managing, metaphysics-practicing Witch-Artist and principle of Silver Mirror Productions, a boutique video + audio storytelling, production/project management concern where the focus is on blending creativity with leadership and he/art.

  • Katherine Josephs

    Chief Marketing Officer
    As a Fractional Chief Marketing Officer, Katherine ingeniously crafts and turbocharges clients’ marketing strategies, propelling their brands to global recognition. With her steady guidance, she drives purpose-driven initiatives and fosters exceptional product innovation. Her illustrious career path includes pivotal roles at eminent organizations including Latina Magazine, Time, Money Magazine.

  • Payal Shah, PCC, ELI-MP

    Director of Coach Education
    Payal Shah is an iPEC and ICF PCC accredited coach who is passionate about empowering others to create more purposeful, fulfilling lives. In her role as the Director of Coach Education at Embrace Change, she seeks to help facilitate a 'ripple effect' of impact by enabling POC coaches to make a difference in the lives of others through upleveling their skills and capabilities as coaches.

  • Tristan Evans Richardson

    Facilitation Support
    Tristan Evans Richardson is the Owner & Operator of Mama Knows where they provide opportunities for educators and families to learn more about new people, places, and perspectives through workshops, community building, and consultation. Tristan has spent time as a classroom educator, trainer with Children's Defense Fund Freedom Schools, and program manager within the nonprofit sector.