The Women Leaders Association, the largest publisher and events organization for women professionals with 43,000 members and more than 130 regional chapters, today announced Reina as the first official Coaching Partner of its Sacramento chapter, SacramentoWomenLeaders.org. The appointment launches the association's new Coaching Partners program in the Sacramento metro area, giving members direct access to coaches who have been carefully screened for credentials, track record, and client results.
The Coaching Partners program was created to solve a problem the association's members raise constantly: coaching is one of the highest-impact investments a professional woman can make in her career — and one of the hardest to shop for. Coaching titles are unregulated, quality varies enormously, and a leader evaluating coaches on her own has little way to verify who is genuinely proven. Under the new program, the Women Leaders Association does much of that screening on the member's behalf. Every Coaching Partner is vetted for recognized certifications, verifiable experience, and excellent client reviews before being presented to members, so each chapter's professionals can book a consultation with confidence, have a great experience, and keep rising in their careers.
Reina brings something rare to life coaching: a CFO's grounding. Before earning her International Coaching Federation credential, she spent three decades in financial operations and leadership across Sacramento-area companies — including co-owning a local business where she partnered with a struggling sole proprietor and grew it from $100,000 to $2 million in annual revenue, expanding from a two-person partnership into a thriving twelve-employee company with a financially stable banking portfolio and an excellent credit rating. Her career spans CFO roles, cloud ERP selection and multi-site implementations, and financial onboarding for startups, along with master's degrees in both accounting and education. As a Certified Life Coach at LeoRising since 2023, she uses ICF-accredited coaching techniques to foster accountability and self-discovery in a safe, supportive, and trusting environment — empowering clients to overcome challenges, embrace entrepreneurship, and develop a positive money mindset, with actionable plans that inspire meaningful change.
"Everyone has innate potential waiting to be unlocked — what most of us need is accountability, self-discovery, and a plan we'll actually follow," said Reina. "I've spent my career in the numbers, so I know the fears and the possibilities they hold, especially for women building businesses and careers. My coaching creates a safe, trusting space to work through the challenges, embrace entrepreneurship, and build a positive money mindset — a real pathway to success and fulfillment. I'm honored to partner with the Women Leaders Association and to help Sacramento's women professionals keep rising."
Sacramento-area members can now view Reina's full profile, including her focus areas and credentials, connect with her directly through the page, or send her a private note through the site, at:
https://SacramentoWomenLeaders.org/coaching.html?coach=Reina
"Our vetting looks for credentials, experience, and results that take the guesswork out of choosing a coach — and Reina's results are unusually concrete," said Lydia Price, 2026 Volunteer Chair of the Women Leaders Association. "You can read them on a financial statement: a local business grown twentyfold under her financial leadership. Pairing that operator's discipline with an ICF coaching credential is exactly the combination this program was built to bring our Sacramento members."
The Sacramento launch is part of a national rollout, with the association planning to extend the Coaching Partners program across its network of more than 130 chapters, pairing each city's members with coaches selected for that market.
The Coaching Partners program extends the association's broader mission of giving professional women both the structural transparency and the individual support they need to advance. Research from Pew and others estimates that women still earn roughly 15 percent less than men on average, and most women have little visibility into which employers actually advance women fairly. The Women Leaders Association has invested heavily in closing that information gap: its Glass Ceiling Score project, uses big data to score most major U.S. employers on how fairly they promote women into management and executive roles, and its chapters publish Best Women Employers rankings, compensation studies, and annual Top 50 Women Leaders awards. Coaching Partners adds the complementary, personal dimension: once a member can see the landscape clearly, a proven coach helps her move through it.
About Reina
Reina, ACC, is an ICF Accredited Life Coach and a Certified Life Coach at LeoRising. An ICF Associate Certified Coach and a Certified Professional Coach through McLaren Coaching's Transformative Coaching Essentials program, she brings more than 25 years of experience in financial operations, leadership, and business development, including co-owning and serving as CFO of a Sacramento business she helped grow from $100,000 to $2 million in annual revenue. She holds an M.S. in Accounting from National University, and an M.A. in Education, Curriculum and Instruction, and a B.S. in Business Administration (Accounting Information Systems) from California State University, Sacramento. Sacramento members can connect with her through her profile above.
About the Women Leaders Association
The Women Leaders Association is a non-profit committed to the development and advancement of women in the corporate arena. With 43,000 members and more than 130 chapters in major cities, it is the largest publisher and events organization serving women professionals, producing conferences, leadership programs, original research, and daily publications for its members. We also celebrate the top 50 business women in each city, publish a Glass Ceiling Score ranking how well most employers advance women, and then recognize the best women's employers in each city from these rankings.
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