Meet our Team…Coaches with Lived Experience
At Momarc, our coaching team is made up of accomplished executive mothers . Each has achieved outstanding success in her field. More than coaches, they are leaders who have walked the path themselves—deeply committed to helping other executive moms rise, thrive, and lead.
Our Founders
Patricia C. Gonzalez
Co-Founder
Patricia is the co-founder of Momarc, a leadership development company empowering executive mothers to live fully and lead boldly. A certified executive coach and Fortune 500 leader, Patricia blends strategic insight with lived experience as a mother of seven and grandmother of three. Trained in neuroscience-based coaching, she helps women rewire limiting beliefs and lead with clarity, resilience, and purpose. Her mission is to redefine success for working moms—proving that ambition and care are not competing forces, but powerful sources of leadership. Patricia is building a movement where executive mothers thrive in both career and family life.
Patti Phillips
Co-Founder
Patti is the co-founder of Momarc, a leadership development company helping executive mothers thrive in leadership and life. A seasoned transformation executive, strategy consultant and executive coach, Patti has guided many Fortune 500 organizations and their leaders through complex change. As a former single mom and now part of a blended family, she deeply understands the challenges of balancing ambition with care. Her lived experience fuels her mission to empower mothers to lead boldly, with clarity and compassion. Patti believes executive moms bring essential perspective to leadership—one that drives impact across business, family, and society.
Our Coaches
Cassie Leonard
Coach
Cassie Leonard is an Executive Coach at Momarc, supporting executive mothers in thriving at work and home. With 18 years in engineering leadership, she’s a two-time bestselling author (STEM Moms, Beyond the Pipeline) and an ICF-certified coach. As a working parent of two, Cassie understands the tension between ambition and care. She helps women lead with clarity, resilience, and purpose—redefining success on their own terms and building lives that honor both career and family.
Farhana Currimbhoy
Coach
Farhana Currimbhoy is an executive coach and former Fortune 50 leader who helps clients find clarity, confidence, and purpose at work and home. As a single mom of two, she understands balancing ambition and care. Certified in organizational and neuroscience-based coaching, Farhana empowers executive mothers to build resilient teams, lead with empathy, and thrive both professionally and personally.
Dr. Esther Ra
Coach
Dr. Esther Ra is the Founder of ERa Coaching & Consulting, specializing in executive and career coaching with a neuroscience focus. She is a Lecturer at The Wharton School and Associate Director at the University of Pennsylvania Career Services. Esther is also a Visiting Professor at Seoul National University, lecturing on global business communication, and also formerly at Korea University. She holds a Doctorate of Education from the University of Pennsylvania, a Master’s from Columbia University, and a Bachelor’s from Barnard College, Columbia University. She is passionate about empowering executive mothers to thrive at work and home.
Jessica Burdett
Coach
Jessica Burdett is an ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC) and Director of Coaching Education at The Academies, where she creates neuroscience-based leadership programs. With a background in psychology and extensive experience coaching global leaders, Jessica is dedicated to supporting women—especially those navigating transitions and chronic illness. As a mom, she understands the challenges of balancing ambition and well-being, and is passionate about helping others grow as authentic, values-driven leaders.
Kimberley Young
Coach
Kimberley Young is a certified executive coach and seasoned federal government leader. Drawing on decades of experience and her journey as a mother, she guides leaders through complex transitions, helping them clarify values, strengthen executive presence, and create lasting impact. Kimberley champions authentic, purposeful leadership, empowering clients to balance career and family with confidence, clarity, and compassion.
Nathalie Trouillot
Coach
Nathalie Trouillot is a trusted advisor for executive mothers, drawing on 25 years in the global C-suite to help leaders in Fortune 500 companies and startups balance high-stakes leadership and life at home. Known for her precision in shaping culture and performance, Nathalie empowers executives to restore balance, rebuild trust, and lead with clarity and humanity—enabling them to thrive in both boardrooms and living rooms.
Alex Walker
Coach
Alex Walker is a Performance Management Consultant and Coach with 30 years of corporate leadership experience. As founder of A Leadership Experience (ALEX), she helps executive women navigate transitions with clarity, courage, and compassion using brain-based, data-driven learning and experiential facilitation. A mom, wife, and business owner, Alex empowers women to lead fulfilling lives without burning out, guided by her mantra: Do the work I love with the people I adore, at a time and pace that works for my family.
Denise Berger, EdD
Coach
Denise Berger, EdD, is a “coachsultant,” author, professor, entrepreneur, international business executive, and former Fortune 500 leader focused on purpose-driven growth. With a doctorate in organizational leadership and a neuroscience-based coaching certification, Denise empowers leaders to build resilience and agility in pursuing their goals. Passionate about social responsibility and cross-cultural collaboration, she helps career women—and their partners—balance ambition, care, and impact. Having launched two adult children, Denise now guides working moms to bridge systems thinking with human-centered leadership to drive lasting change in organizations, families, and communities.
Amy Moser
Coach
Amy Moser is a corporate life coach, single mum to two vibrant teens, and founder of HelpingKids Academy. Originally from Chicago and now based in London, she brings a unique blend of global perspective and corporate experience to her work. Amy coaches leaders, parents and young people with empathy and clarity, specializing in Positive Intelligence and mental fitness for those navigating change, loss or overwhelm. Having rebuilt her life through divorce, bereavement and career transformation, she understands resilience first-hand. Her coaching combines warmth, structure and deep emotional insight…helping clients grow stronger, reconnect with purpose, and turn life’s challenges into lasting confidence and impact.
Amy Miner-Fletcher,
Coach
Amy Miner-Fletcher, LMHC, BCC, ACC, is an executive and leadership coach with more than 25 years of experience in behavioral healthcare, human services, and organizational leadership. As the founder of Amplify Your Journey, LLC, Amy helps leaders integrate professional success with personal wellness through her signature AMPLIFY framework. A mother of two grown sons and a former senior executive, she brings both strategic insight and lived experience to her coaching—empowering executives, particularly those with caregiving responsibilities, to lead with clarity, confidence, and compassion while sustaining meaningful impact across performance, relationships, and well-being.
Why the butterfly?
The story begins with Betty, mother of twelve, and the quiet force behind a bustling household. Among her children was Patricia Gonzalez, our co-founder and the youngest of the dozen.
Betty’s life was a study in contrast: she earned a science degree during the Great Depression and worked in a hospital lab, defying societal norms. But when she married a thoracic surgeon, she stepped away from her career to raise twelve children. Her contributions were immense, yet often seemed invisible at that time.
Still, Betty led. She volunteered, organized, mentored, and inspired. And she left a signature mark on every note to her children: a monarch butterfly. It was her symbol of transformation, endurance, and beauty and achieving amazing outcomes against all odds. That butterfly became more than a signature. It became a legacy.
Our name is both a tribute and a metaphor. It honors Betty’s enduring influence and reflects our belief that mothers are not confined by their roles—they are leaders, changemakers, and architects of the future. Like the monarch butterfly, executive mothers embody resilience, boldness, and the power to transform.
Momarc was co-founded by Patti Phillips and Patricia Gonzalez, two former executives turned coaches who shared a conviction that executive moms needed—and deserved—more support. Together, they combined their perspectives, values, and expertise to build Momarc: a company committed to proving that motherhood fuels leadership, and that the voices of executive moms are essential to shaping the future of business and society.
