Come find out if these are your people. The Nova Experience, live and free, July 23.
The Nova Experience is a live, virtual hour with founder Melissa Bauknight and two current members who will tell you, in their own words, whDescription:You were never too much. You have just been in rooms too small to hold you.You have been in a lot of rooms by now. Professional networks, masterminds, the women's circles […]
Shazia Imam
Shazia Imam is an award-winning speaker, ICF-certified Professional Coach (PCC), and host of the Feminine & Fulfilled podcast. With over 20 years of leadership experience as a Project Management Professional at Fortune 500 companies including Disney, PwC, Accenture, and Booz Allen Hamilton, she brings both strategic clarity and deep presence to her work. Shazia is known for helping women reconnect with their authentic selves, release inherited expectations, and lead lives rooted in purpose, integrity, and fulfillment — making her a powerful guide for the inner and outer work of leadership inside The Orbit.
Gena Chieco
With a prior legal career spanning the White House, federal agencies, and the startup C-suite, Gena knows what it means to lead at the highest levels. But it wasn’t until she walked away from it all—no plan, no title, just a backpack and a one-way ticket to Europe—that she found her true path: helping others lead from wholeness, not hustle.
Gena is a Life & Executive Coach who guides high-performing women and non-binary leaders through identity shifts, transitions, and bold, soul-aligned evolution.
She has been a trusted advisor to The Nova for the past year and now brings her magic to The Orbit as the first Stellar facilitator.
