Associate Director of Strategic Partnerships

Wendy Green

Wendy leverages her natural instincts for empathy, listening, and connection to support others in looking beyond the surface, embracing their priorities, stepping into the light, and finding where they fit in the world. She came to coaching after a series of difficult life events left her feeling disconnected, unfulfilled, and overwhelmed. Her coaching practice focuses on people seeking what she found – purpose, fulfillment, and joy. She coaches lawyers and any other professional looking for harmony and balance in their life, as well as leaders looking to level up their communication skills.

She has been an attorney in the Sacramento area for more than 25 years. She is also a Certified Performance Coach and has her ACC credential from ICF. She has a decade of previous board experience in education development and fundraising in the legal community. She also served on the Grants Advisory Commission for the City of Roseville.

Wendy’s interest in the ICF Sacramento Board of Directors comes from two of her core values – community and connection. As the Director of Strategic Partnerships, she plans to maintain and further develop the relationships created by others who came before her and to build new relationships with other sectors that may not know what coaching is or how we can support each other. She has relationships with other ICF coaches and chapters, which will support her efforts to expand ICF Sacramento’s reach and opportunities for collaboration and sponsorship.

In her free time, Wendy enjoys exploring California counties in her campervan (named Betty White). She looks for good food, good beer, and good vibrations. At home she loves all forms of entertainment – TV, movies, books, and music. On Wednesdays you can find her trying to win trivia with a team of misfits she has known for years.

Associate Director of Program Development

Carmen Perry

Carmen Perry, CPC ACC is an executive coach with over 20 years of leadership experience in healthcare administration and supply chain management. She is a recognized leader in Procurement Program and Project Management.

Carmen is an alumnus of San Jose State, where she received a BA degree in Communications. She holds an Executive Certification in Sustainability Management from San Francisco Presidio Graduate School and a Certification in Coaching for Work and Life from UC Davis.

Carmen has spoken on leadership, sustainability, and coaching at UC Davis, SJSU GoAL, and the WEN (Women Empowerment Network). Today, she continues guiding others to seek authenticity in work and life. Carmen is also a member of the International Coaching Federation (ICF) and a lifetime member of Women in Technology International (WITI), Life Coach, and is currently working on youth initiatives and coaching individuals and groups on transformation.

Associate Director of Administration

Laurie Rich

After struggling greatly to find purpose, meaning, and self identity after the sudden death of my husband in 2019, my path forward became clear: I wanted to work with widows and help guide them from merely surviving to thriving.

As a Certified Grief Coach and Certified Integrative Somatic Practitioner, I work with women and those identifying as women who have been widowed from their spouse, partner, or companion. Since 2020 I’ve worked with widows around the globe as a coach, advocate, mentor, grief companion, and support group facilitator. 

I work with widows of all ages, partnership statuses, loss circumstances, and faiths/belief systems. I journey beside them as they commit to a healthy grief process and the renegotiation of the manifestation of grief, loss, and trauma in their body, choosing to walk directly into (and ultimately through) their pain and grief, then committing to giving themselves a future of purpose, meaning, and joy.

Associate Director of Membership

Lois Payne

Lois Payne, PCC, NBC-HWC, RTT, FMCHC, and HEARTMATH PRACTITIONER offers a powerful partnership of conscious and subconscious work that gets to the root cause of why you may be stuck, can't move forward, and are sabotaging your dreams. RTT works powerfully and quickly jump starts results! Coaching supports the changes. Special packages available.

Lois earned her PCC Credential from the International Coaching Federation and her Professional Coaching for Life and Work Certificate through UC Davis Extension in 2014. She followed that with becoming a certified Rapid Transformational hypnotherapist (RTT). She continued on with becoming a Functional Medicine Certified Health Coach (FMCHC) and a Board Certified Health and Wellness Coach (NBC-HWC). Her mantras are: LIVE LIFE ON PURPOSE! And BE YOURSELF AND DO IT ON PURPOSE!