OUR EXPERTS
Our experts are professionals from diverse backgrounds specialized in issues related to race, ethnicity, disability, age, gender, and gender expression.
Our curated network of well-being experts are licensed therapists, sleep doctors, corporate coaches, mindfulness coaches, yoga instructors, nutrition counselors, and academics.
Cristina is a passionate educator and advocate who empowers others with the tools and skills to succeed personally and professionally. She currently serves as the Head Career Coach at Outco, a San Francisco based startup that provides skill sharpening services for job seeking engineers. She also leads a non-profit organization called Parachute Bridge where she builds curriculum for career and professional development courses for first-gen college students. Cristina is also a business owner of Cristina Costa Coaching where she offers career and life coaching for women of color and diversity and inclusion training to tech startups and companies.
Mary Abbajay, author of the best-selling Managing Up: How to Move Up, Win at Work, and Succeed with Any Type of Boss is the president of Careerstone Group, LLC, a full service organizational and leadership development consultancy that delivers leading-edge talent and organizational development solutions to business and government.
As a sought-after author, speaker, consultant, and trainer, Mary helps clients develop the strategies, skills and sensibilities needed for success in the 21st century. Her expertise lies in helping clients create dynamic and productive workplaces that foster professional and personal excellence and growth.
Marina Kirik is a certified yoga & meditation teacher, wellness & mindset coach, holistic health coach, personal trainer, and NLP practitioner. She left the corporate world after a successful career in HR technology and program management to start her wellness coaching business - Sum of all Positive. Her passion is in helping others let go of the damaging effects of chronic stress to breathe easier, be more productive, and enjoy more of life!
Rick Clerici is a therapist, educator, and activist whose background in therapy, change strategies, and sleep medicine makes him uniquely prepared to raise the public understanding of sleep. As the director at Clear Mind Systems since 1987, he has helped thousands of clients with anxiety, panic, and insomnia. Serving as a corporate sleep consultant, he works with four national employee assistance programs and 45 corporations, universities, and hospitals helping employees to improve their sleep.
At Sleep Health Centers, Rick spent two years studying sleep in the laboratory and attended more than 500 overnight and daytime sleep studies. Rick is also a certified hypnotherapist, behavioral sleep therapist, and meditation teacher. He holds a B.S. in Education and Psychology from the University of Massachusetts.
Dr. Michael Marquez is a licensed psychologist and co-owner of Bmore Liberated, a group practice of queer-identified therapists whose passion lies in providing affirming care for marginalized communities. Michael has experience providing outreach and consultation with several organizations and clinics, with a focus on optimizing relationships and happiness during the pandemic and organizational policies to be more inclusive.