Jenn Sebastian

Chief Operations Officer

As our Chief Operations Officer, Jenn has spent the past decade translating Sage’s vision into strategic blueprints that pave our path to success. Guided by her extensive tech and management experience, she is the mastermind behind our multi-million dollar launches and industry-leading sales funnels.

Jenn’s leadership is present everywhere in our business, as she is responsible for overseeing all day-to-day operations in our finance, legal, programs, and marketing departments. She navigates our way from new ideas to successfully completed projects, optimizing our processes with data-driven tools along the way.

She is our problem solver, tech genius, and launch expert – and there’s no way we’d be where we are without her exceptional innovation and dedication.

When she’s not at work, you can likely find Jenn spending time with her loving family or enjoying scenic adventures in her Jeep.

Lore Ross

Executive Assistant to CEO & COO

As our executive assistant, Lore empowers Sage and our leadership team to manage the company with efficiency. She handles anything and everything in our daily business operations, supporting Sage, managing resources, and collaborating with the team on tasks and projects.

Lore’s incredible eye for detail and natural love of supporting people make her a perfect match for her role. Lore is passionate about empowering women to not only succeed in business, but also to find alignment and confidence within themselves during the process. Her favorite Women Rocking Business core value is “collaboration over competition.”

Lore lives with her teenage son and Angel Wings, the cat. Outside of work, Lore serves as a channel, helping people to find their voices and healing their deep-rooted connection with their ancestral lineage.

Linda Walkowich

Marketing and Brand Manager

Linda Walkowich serves as the Marketing and Brand Manager at Women Rocking Business. She is responsible for overseeing all marketing initiatives, creating an impactful and purpose-based brand, capturing Sage’s vision in our promotions and communications, and expertly managing projects from inception to completion.

Drawing from a strong background in content marketing and experience as a digital marketing entrepreneur, she specializes in crafting messages that resonate with women entrepreneurs and inspires them to pursue their dreams.

Passionate about Sage’s mission to uplift women and create positive change, Linda finds fulfillment in being part of a dedicated team with a shared goal. Linda is committed to championing the potential of women entrepreneurs and growing our global community and impact.

Sarah Taylor

Finance Manager

Sarah is the mastermind behind all the number crunching. She brings enthusiasm and passion to an otherwise dull and sometimes boring side of the business. If you don’t like looking at numbers you will soon be interested when you see how Sarah approaches this vital ingredient of any successful business. She is responsible for providing financial guidance and support for Team Sage and our clients.

In her spare time you can often find her reading and sharing the love of her Christian faith with her friends and family. She spends her weekends relaxing in the outdoors at her weekend home on Lake Nacimiento.

Leah Pow

Program Manager

Leah is our client’s guide to program success! She is responsible for overseeing program development and fulfillment at Women Rocking Business. Building upon her rockstar experience in client care, Leah holds our clients through every step of the journey as they build their dream businesses.

Our clients are Leah’s greatest inspiration in building life-changing business training programs for women entrepreneurs. She infuses our programs with our mission, core values, and vision (as well has a lot of fun and love) so our clients can truly shine their brightest.

Leah loves to be part of a committed team that feels like family and shares a common goal of supporting women to rock their businesses. Her favorite part of her role is watching our clients’ journeys from the very beginning all the way to long-lasting success as they renew each year.

Leah’s family includes her husband, two sons, and fur baby Alita. When her family isn’t traveling the world, they are fortunate to call two places home: Massachusetts, USA and Nicaragua.

Meghan Neeley

Head of Coaching

As head of coaching, Meghan Neeley is the dedicated leader responsible for growing our coaching team through mentorship, training, and recruiting. She optimizes our world-renowned coaching to best support our clients’ results and long-term success, leveraging wisdom from her career experience as a…

* Multi 6-figure business owner Manager
* Women’s business coach of 10+ years
* Yoga instructor of 20+ years
* International speaker and retreat leader

Meghan is also the lead coach and trainer for our Lotus program, where she works intimately with our 6- and 7-figure clients to create scalable business strategies.

Meghan loves empowering women to grow their impact, earn incredible income, and know their worth. As a mother, Meghan believes in women having freedom to make their own schedules and decide how much they’re getting paid for their time so that they can create lives in alignment with their values.

She is committed to holding her clients accountable for their entrepreneurial dreams and visions. Her clients describe her style as laser-focused, lovingly direct, and impact-oriented.

Meghan lives with her wife, son and their Cavalier King Charles Spaniel in a northern California cabin. You can often find her paddleboarding on the lake, walking in the forest, or journaling in her garden with a cup of cacao.

Naomi Shtaiwi

Head of Sales

As our Head of Sales, Naomi empowers our confident sales team with proven strategies, motivational coaching, and mindset training. She is a strategic and collaborative leader who uplifts our business, clients, and community through rocking our sales – the woman’s way.

In her past 14+ years of sales experience, she has held virtually every sales-related role and built an extensive knowledge base around evergreen funnels, team building, sales philosophies, and more.

She believes in nurturing a team that is as resilient as it is result-oriented. Her visionary leadership, motivational guidance, and adaptability in shaping strategic sales plans have proven instrumental in the sustainable growth of our business. She and her team foster invaluable relationships with our clients and contribute meaningfully to our community.

Naomi wakes up every day excited to make a difference in the lives of women all over the world. She loves giving women the courage to share their visions and get the tools they need to create lasting success. She finds great reward in following each client on her journey of generating 6- and 7-figure income, and creating a bigger income on the planet.

Her approach to sales involves understanding where each individual woman is on her journey and meeting her there – connecting her with the programs, training, and tools that best align with her dreams.

Naomi enjoys outdoor adventures and an active lifestyle, bringing the same energy to her personal life as she does to her role as Head of Sales.

Steph Leis

Event Manager

In a nutshell, Steph is a details queen, taskmaster, and traffic controller. As our contracted Event Manager, her genius is taking complex strategies and breaking them up into bite-size pieces for the team and implementing systems and processes for optimal efficiency at our events.

Steph joined the Women Rocking Business team in November 2021. She has 5+ years of industry experience managing large-scale conferences and events. Her passion for personal development, philanthropy, and women embracing their stories & sharing their unique abilities with the world adds to the heart of our team.

Steph’s remote office changes frequently as she travels the world with her 3 dogs from her home base in western Canada. In her spare time, she can be found outdoors hiking, paddle boarding, snowboarding, beach hopping, chasing sunsets, and volunteering at wildlife rehabilitation centers.

Kat Kim

Graphic Designer

Kat is the sorceress behind many of the graphics Sage Lavine and Women Rocking Business related. In addition to creating compelling online designs, website banners, color palettes and inspirational imagery for us, she also provides graphical support for our clients. Kat has used her fierce feminine determination to launch other businesses as well, including her own design business, creating apps for iPad, and her latest partnership in a cold-brew coffee company.

When Kat’s not designing or brainstorming new project ideas, she can be found zooming around town in her mini-cooper on her way to yoga and dance classes, surfing, or running down by the ocean.

Yvette Kyle

Client Care Coordinator

Yvette Kyle is a rockstar member of our client care team! She combines her 8+ years of administrative experience with 2+ years of working with women business coaches to deliver excellent care to our clients and community.

Yvette lives in Orlando, Florida with her husband and 3 kids. When she is not supporting our global Women Rocking Business Sisterhood, she enjoys spending time outdoors, visiting the beach, and browsing farmer’s markets. She is also passionate about criminal justice and cyber security.

Shannon Fisher

Coach and Core Faculty

Shannon Fisher rocked dozens of leadership roles throughout the workshop and self growth industry for more than a decade. Shannon is an excellent coach and mentor to our clients, lovingly holding up a mirror where they can clearly see their blind spots and close their gaps to achieve authentic, feminine success.  Shannon mentors our clients who are growing businesses in the year long program.

Shannon is the magnetic, warm heart of our team AND her family, finding ways to do it all WHILE holding down her role as a carpooling Mompreneur!

Debra Artura

Coach & Core Faculty

Debra Artura is a coaches coach – she’s been supporting influencers for over a decade and continues to be dedicated to supporting & empowering women to bring all of themselves to the world wholeheartedly. As a business coach she serves women who are ready to leverage their business’s, learn how to rock internet marketing, increase their income & live balanced juicy lives on purpose.

Debra’s passion for conscious healthy relationships & doing her part to create peace on earth inspired co-founding with her incredible husband, Steven Cervine the Institute for Happy Healthy Couples. As love & intimacy coaches & mentors for couples they bring their care & skillfulness in relational mastery to support the transformation of painful dynamics into deep nourishing connections. It is her greatest hearts desire that all children are raised in homes where they feel safe, are well cared for and have access to clean food & water.

Erika Neeley

Coach & Core Faculty

Erika Neeley is a paradigm shifter, visionary leader, and your personal cheerleading coach. She has over fifteen years of experience in personal development, embodiment and healing practices, leadership development, and supporting women to live into their dreams. She has hosted sold out retreats, has her own Podcast, and created her own successful business using the same strategies she teaches our clients in the Entrepreneurial Leadership Academy.

Her passion for conscious leadership and supporting the LGBTQ+ community to step into their purpose and remember who they were before the world told them to be led her to co-create her business Queer Empowerment alongside her wife Meghan Neeley.

She believes that women are the gatekeepers for the new paradigm of business, and is so passionate in supporting them to create the business of their dreams while having abundant success!

Nicole Kirksey

Coach & Core Faculty

The name ‘Nicole’ means “victory of the people,” and Nicole Kirksey strives to live into that in business, ministry, and life! Since she was nineteen years old, Nicole’s life’s work has centered on the empowerment of women: personally, politically, and globally.

A former not-for-profit CEO and veteran podcaster, Nicole is a twice-certified spiritual leadership coach who has been an online entrepreneur and mentor since 2009.

Nicole loves the outdoors and the sunshine and looks forward to traveling more of the globe with her husband very soon. As a businesswoman, Nicole’s greatest accomplishment has been to raise a member of the next generation of powerful women entrepreneurs. Her daughter is currently in business for herself as an educator, sound engineer, and musician.

Jill Stein

Coach & Core Faculty

Jill is a business coach and author that has spent years perfecting the art of being an entrepreneur. She has grown multiple companies, always being ready to pivot when the time was right to move onto her next calling. She is currently a coach for our Leadership program and loves connecting with each and every woman while helping them find clarity and the tools they need to grow their businesses.

Jill was a native Californian and has now relocated to Texas, embracing a new adventure for her family. She is a private pilot and the freedom of flying herself through the sky along with the freedom she has created in her career nourishes her soul.

Theresa Kepple

Coach & Core Faculty

Theresa brings her background of 15+ years of business and leadership experience to assist her as she helps women entrepreneurs build heart-centered businesses that nurture their souls. As a Leadership Coach, she guides women to remove mindset barriers that are holding them back, believe in themselves, and identify the next steps to their success. She feels the path of an entrepreneur is also a spiritual path, and coaching others is a form of service.

Theresa calls Santa Cruz home, and loves outdoor activities such as walking along the ocean with her favorite pup, camping, and anything where she can feel the sunshine! She has a regular yoga practice and supports many people through her Conscious Living community.

Sarah Coolidge

Coach & Core Faculty

Sarah Coolidge is a strategic leadership coach and author who accesses her deep understanding of the importance of our everyday language to support others to create connected and effective relationships of all kinds. As the daughter of a parent with a speech disorder, she learned the power of intentional listening and speaking at an early age and has turned that knowledge into her leadership super-power. She has eagle-eyes (and ears!) for details and loves to assist others in drilling down to their critical next steps and then planning processes for achieving them.

Sarah is an expert in enhancing integrity and accountability to build effective and productive personal and business teams, and is proud to use these leadership skills in her second term of office as a publicly-elected official in her Lake Tahoe community.  When she isn’t working to support and grow leaders, she spends her time hanging out with her children, working in the garden, hiking in the Sierras and skiing as fast as she dares

Renee Zukin

Coach & Core Faculty

Kusum Basavaraju

Coach and Core Faculty

Kusum is a visionary guide for women entrepreneurs embarking on a heartfelt journey leading to their most extraordinary potential, impact, and income. She supports her clients to leverage life’s unexpected twists and turns as fuel to build businesses that change lives and make the world a better place for generations to come.

Kusum’s coaching style combines her diverse learnings and experiences as a heart-centered woman entrepreneur, including:

• Connecting with women all over the world as an adventurer and traveler
• Cultivating her personal passion for growth and entrepreneurship 
• Attracting a global audience as a digital content creator
• Collaborating with purpose-based brands
• Earning advanced degrees in higher education
• Navigating the tech world of Wall Street

She holds her clients’ big dreams in her heart – encouraging them to nurture their curiosity, connect with their greater sense of responsibility and empathy, and stay accountable for their choices.

Kusum lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband and two children, and her family enjoys thrilling adventures and expansive travel.

Sirena Andrea

Guest Teacher & Faculty

Sirena Andrea is a Master Storyteller and Story Marketing Consultant, specializing in coaching entrepreneurs, authors, speakers and artists to write and deliver powerful true life stories for greater impact. She supports thousands of Women every year to create profitable businesses.

Sirena is also the Director and Creator of a wildly successful Storytelling Performance Program, the YoniVerse Monologues that reaches hundreds of people throughout the Bay Area every year through sold out performances featuring true life stories told by the courageous women who have lived them.

Reverend Deborah Johnson

Guest Teacher & Faculty

Rev. Deborah L. Johnson is a teacher, advocate and guide supporting leaders in the area of wealth mindset, cultural diversity & spiritual alignment. She’s the founding minister and president of Inner Light Ministries and President of The Motivational Institute, an organizational development consulting firm specializing in cultural diversity serving the public, private, and non-profit sectors. Her clients range from Fortune 500 companies to community-based organizations. She is a dynamic public speaker, known for her ability to bring clarity to complex and emotionally charged issues.