2025 ASSOCIATE DIRECTORS
Julia Zaw
AD, Programming
Julia Zaw is an accomplished professional with over a decade of international experience in corporate leadership, media operations, content and channel management, programming, and project management. She is skilled in NLP-based personal and professional development coaching, life coaching, group coaching, and career coaching, as well as leadership training. She is helping clients to achieve personal and professional goals, improve communication, change behavior, overcome limiting beliefs, manage stress and anxiety, and implement strategic growth and development.
Kerri Pang
AD, Communications
From journalism to brand creative marketing to impact filmmaking, Kerri Pang leads with strategic, empathy-driven storytelling to support justice movements. She’s a director, producer, director of photography, and editor. Kerri’s approach to everything she does is through a lens of equity. Where she thrives is that sweet spot between strategic ideation and creative exploration. When she’s not at her desk or on a production set, you can probably find Kerri with a lot of good food and/or dogs. kerripang.com
Paul Sanbar, MCC, ESIA
AD, Programming (Coaching Cafes)
An Ingenuity + Executive Coach, coach supervisor, and hands-on visual thinking facilitator, Paul Sanbar’s life and career have been dedicated to the field of self-development and to effecting positive change through purposeful play, storytelling, and powerful conversations. A certified LEGO® Serious Play® methods coach/trainer and member of the MURAL Consultant Network, Paul coaches and supports individuals, groups, and teams to think and reflect not only with words but also with their eyes and hands, putting their imagination to work in both tactile and technological ways.
Miguel Alfaro
AD, Communications
Miguel Alfaro is an Executive and Personal Coach certified by the International Coaching Federation (ICF). He is dedicated to guiding clients through a creative journey that fosters both personal and professional growth. With a supportive and insightful approach, Miguel helps individuals uncover their strengths, address areas for improvement, and step confidently into leadership roles. Miguel’s coaching philosophy centers on creating a space where clients feel heard, inspired, and empowered to achieve meaningful success.
Heather Boatman
AD, Programming (Webinars)
Heather Boatman served as the Senior VP of Organizational and Learning Development for Burlington Stores, Inc., where she was responsible for many areas of human resources. Prior to this position, Ms. Boatman served as a Director of Human Resources for Best Buy Co., Inc. She formed a women in leadership program to support inclusion in the workplace and implemented a peer review employee program. Ms. Boatman attended California State University Long Beach, where she received a Bachelor’s and Master of Business Administration degree.
Nina Rubin
AD, Helping Hands Committee
Nina Rubin is a CTI/ICF-certified coach who has been coaching for eight years, with a prior therapy career spanning seven. For her, coaching is more of a holistic lifestyle, with the favorite part being the intimacy built with clients. Nina has served on the Gestalt Therapy Institute of Los Angeles (GTILA) Board of Directors as Secretary for a few years and is looking forward to helping promote excellent coaching in the world. Nina is also the Chapter representative to the ICF Converge Planning Committee.
Matthew Zomorodi
AD, IT
Matthew started his journey as a coach in January of 2022, enrolling in the graduate program in Professional and Executive Coaching at the University of Texas at Dallas. He enjoys working with individuals to realize their dreams and achieve their goals. "The value I bring is bringing out the value in others!" As Associate Director of IT for the Los Angeles ICF, he is able to keep one toe in the technology that has brought him to this point - his undergraduate degree in Software Engineering gave him the opportunity to serve teams as their scrum master.
Graciela G. Meibar, PCC
AD, DEI
After emigrating from Cuba at the age of twelve, Graciela Meibar moved to Los Angeles. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree in international relations from the University of Southern California in 1980 and an M.B.A. from Pepperdine University in 1983. Graciela is bilingual and bicultural. She is a certified coach from The Hudson Institute of Coaching in Santa Barbara and a member of the International Coaching Federation (ICF).
Maria Busch, PCC
AD, Programming (Webinars)
We lost Maria Busch, MSW, PCC, in October 2024 to pancreatic cancer while we were completing the year and planning for 2025. After serving as Chapter President for ICF Phoenix President, where she helped with Memberships and Programs, she returned to LA and continued to live a life of service by stepping in to help take over the planning of Webinars. Maria represented the best of ICFLA, and continues to be in our hearts. If you are so moved, you are invited to donate to Project Purple in her name. She is missed.