Best business coaches
The 25 best business coaches, ranked by client ratings, credentials, experience and specialization. Most charge $95 to $225 an hour.
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- 25 business coaches ranked.
- Ranked by client ratings, credentials, experience and specialization.
- Most business coaches charge $95 to $225 an hour.
The 25 best business coaches
- John Koelliker, Startup founder advisor and career and MBA coach in Lehi. He is the co-founder and CEO of the coaching platform Leland and a Stanford MBA graduate with product experience at Uber and LinkedIn.
- Patrick Weeks, Startup founders advisor and executive coach with Marine Corps background. He is a Marine Corps veteran who has scaled operations at startups and holds a current operations executive role.
- Mirza Iqbal, AI automation and outbound systems coach in Frankfurt, Germany. He is a Certified n8n Expert Partner with code merged into n8n core, and he is also an Official Clay Creator.
- Giselle Teixeira, Business operations and strategy coach with a product and Google Cloud background. Giselle combines a Google Cloud and startup product career with Somatic Experiencing training and a personal history of burnout recovery.
- Steven Deepee, Business operations and strategy coach for MBA and career goals. He has worked in operations at Instacart and sat on the Chicago Booth Admissions Committee, so he knows both the business and MBA sides.
- Haris Khurshid, Venture capital coach for founders raising capital. Has evaluated thousands of investment opportunities as the person making the decision, and now coaches founders on raising capital.
- D'Aaron Gonzalez, AI adoption coach for founders and professionals. He is a Pluralsight author who also teaches AI courses and coaches aspiring authors.
- Anshul Chetal, AI strategy and transformation coach with 22 years in consulting. He pairs 22 years of enterprise consulting with the IBM Certified Mentor for WatsonX designation in AI coaching.
- Cristian Livadaru, AI and automation coach for small businesses and startups. An n8n Ambassador and Certified Expert Partner who builds the automations he coaches on, drawing on over two decades of running technology businesses.
- Lisa Tsou, Startup founder advisor and college admissions coach. She ran the coaching program at Women Founders Network for seven years, and its alumnae have raised over $100 million since 2013.
- Peter Birkeland, Book publishing and writing coach for authors and executives.
- Andrew O'Donnell, AI adoption coach for business and technology leaders. He leads AI transformation at Verisk and built two AI-based companies, so he coaches from hands-on experience.
- Bryce Meredig, Coach for technical and deeptech startup founders. He is a former founding CEO and CSO of a venture-backed AI startup who also holds a PhD and a Stanford MBA.
- Nasiim Sabur-Cunningham, Marketing and operations coach for executives scaling their business. Nasiim led a global agency program that drove $1.1B in incremental revenue and reached 45K+ partners in 57 countries.
- John Linford, AI product and startup coach for founders and students. John pairs hands-on AI product leadership with experience coaching student founders to win grant funding.
- Solomon Christ, AI and automation trainer for small businesses. Solomon is a former Unity Live Help Expert who closed over 1,000 tickets and now teaches AI and automation to small businesses.
- Dowan Kim, Startup founder advisor for corporate professionals moving into entrepreneurship. He built an 8-figure FMCG business while still working a full-time corporate job, and now coaches others through the same move.
- Vijay Rajendran, Startup founder advisor and executive coach in Silicon Valley. He led portfolio value at a venture firm with $2.7 billion under management before becoming a coach for founders.
- Wiley Welch, Build with AI coach for startup founders and engineers. He built an AI coding tutor that guides students to answers without giving them away, and he coaches clients with the same approach.
- Andrea Davis, EOS Implementer for entrepreneurial leadership teams in Southern California. She is an EOS Implementer who co-founded a firm that made the Inc. 5000 list twice.
- Bill Gerard, Certified EOS Implementer coaching business owners and leadership teams. A Certified EOS Implementer who spent two decades coaching sales and leadership at Merrill Lynch and Citibank.
- Nancy Inman, EOS Implementer for leadership teams and entrepreneurs in Central Virginia. She combines 28 years of coaching leaders at a Fortune 90 financial services company with EOS implementation and a direct but kind style.
- Arjun Srihari, Startup advisor for founders on fundraising, hiring and growth. He is an active founder in the circular economy and sustainability space who also teaches startups and executives at a university.
- Jesse Lusa, AI product development coach for PMs, founders, and builders. He ships AI features at work and builds his own products solo with coding agents, then teaches that same workflow.
- Belinda Lau, Startup founder advisor with Medtronic and bootstrapped company experience. She has built products with Fortune 500 resources at Medtronic and also grown a bootstrapped company with almost none.
Compare them
John Koelliker
John Koelliker is an advisor for startup founders and a coach for people building careers in tech and applying to top MBA programs. He is the CEO and co-founder of Leland, a coaching platform. Before that he worked in product at Uber, LinkedIn, and Curated. He earned his MBA at Stanford GSB. He also works with people who want to join startups or apply for product roles.
Patrick Weeks
Patrick Weeks is a startup founders advisor and executive coach. He helps entrepreneurs and leaders who are scaling themselves and their teams. He is a Marine Corps veteran with 15+ years in leadership, operations, recruiting and communications. At Sonder he built a team of 30+ direct reports and grew the market to an 8-figure P&L. He now serves as a Vice President of Operations. He also chairs the board of DonorSee.
Mirza Iqbal
Mirza Iqbal is an AI and automation coach based in Frankfurt, Germany. He helps founders and go-to-market teams build AI systems and outbound sales engines. He has written software full time since 2011 and has delivered enterprise projects in Germany and the UK since 2018. He is a Certified n8n Expert Partner, and his code is merged into n8n core. He is also an Official Clay Creator and hosts the Clay Club in Frankfurt.
Giselle Teixeira
Giselle Teixeira is a business operations and strategy coach who also does career and life coaching. She spent 4 years at Google Cloud in sales operations, product launch and M&A. She later led product as Head of Product at the fintech startup Zippi. She holds an MBA from INSEAD and is training in Somatic Experiencing. She has burned out twice and rebuilt, and she uses that experience to help clients build lives and careers that fit them.
Steven Deepee
Steven Deepee is a business operations and strategy coach who also helps with MBA admissions and career moves into tech and consulting. He is currently Head of Operations at a company where he leads general managers who grow a national P&L. Before that he spent years at Instacart, where he led market entry into Quebec and built growth plans for Canada. He also worked at Scale AI and IBM. He sat on the Chicago Booth Admissions Committee.
Haris Khurshid
Haris Khurshid is a venture capital coach who helps founders raise money and build investor relationships. He has worked as a founder, startup CFO, venture investor and fund manager. He has helped raise capital from Pre-Seed through Series A+ and has backed 50+ companies with multiple exits. He is also Chief Investment Officer at a Chicago-based investment firm. He coaches part time alongside that role and takes on a small number of clients.
D'Aaron Gonzalez
D'Aaron Gonzalez coaches founders and professionals on how to use AI tools in their work. He has built Ed-tech startups and run educational programs at technical training companies. He is an Author at Pluralsight, where he writes courses on AI for Design and Software Development. He also teaches the AI Builder Program Levels 1 to 3 at Leland and runs 3 workshops a week at Stack. He has taught thousands of people to bring AI into their organizations.
Anshul Chetal
Anshul Chetal is an AI strategy and transformation coach who helps professionals, leaders and organizations. He has 22 years in management consulting, with a focus on large-scale enterprise transformation. He founded a Design Thinking Chapter in the US and helped 200+ people get certified. He also coaches university professors on bringing AI into their courses. He has worked with more than 100 AI services clients.
Cristian Livadaru
Cristian Livadaru is an AI and automation expert who coaches small business owners and startups on cutting admin work. He runs Cloudvox, a company he started in 2009. He is an n8n Ambassador and Certified Expert Partner. He designs workflows for invoice processing, email triage and accounting preparation. His clients often find 80% of their monthly tasks already done. He also speaks on AI security and business automation.
Lisa Tsou
Lisa Tsou is an advisor and coach for startup founders and students. She came to coaching after a long finance career on Wall Street. She mentored startups with Techstars, CTIP and the Greif Center at USC. She ran the coaching program at Women Founders Network for seven years. Since 2013, alumnae of that accelerator have raised over $100 million in funding. She also helps students build strong college applications using story and strategy.
Peter Birkeland
Peter Birkeland is a publishing and writing coach who helps authors turn their ideas into books. He has a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Chicago. Two of them are Do More Faster and Startup CXO. He has also worked at Techstars. He guides authors through academic, traditional and self-publishing.
Andrew O'Donnell
Andrew O'Donnell is an AI services coach who helps leaders and businesses plan, scope and deploy AI systems. He is VP of AI Transformation at Verisk and founded the AI product consultancy Core Wrk. Earlier at Verisk, he ran research operations for a 150-person team and led a 2.5 PB AWS cloud migration that cut costs by more than $1M a year. He also founded ClaimCode, a healthcare software company.
Bryce Meredig
Bryce Meredig coaches scientists and engineers who found startups. He helps technical founders make the move from the lab to the boardroom. He works with deeptech founders in fields like AI, materials and biotech. Bryce was the founding CEO and later Chief Science Officer of Citrine Informatics, a venture-backed Silicon Valley AI startup. He holds a Northwestern PhD and a Stanford MBA, and has worked with more than 10 startup founders.
Nasiim Sabur-Cunningham
Nasiim Sabur-Cunningham is a marketing coach who works with executives and business leaders on scaling their companies. She helps leaders build clear operating systems and adopt AI. She was Head of Global Agency Programs and a Marketing Science Manager from April 2021 to November 2025. In that role she led an initiative that drove $1.1B in incremental revenue and scaled a platform across 57 countries and 45K+ partners.
John Linford
John Linford coaches startup founders and college students on building with AI and developing products. He is Head of Product at a company building a hybrid AI mental wellness platform. He also co-founded Deckability, which designs pitch decks for CEOs. At The Social Venture Academy, he mentored student founders on ideas, validation and go-to-market plans. He coached dozens of them to win tens of thousands in grant funding from BYU's Ballard Center for Social Impact.
Solomon Christ
Solomon Christ is an AI and automation trainer who helps small businesses and business owners use new tools in their work. He teaches through seminars, online trainings, step-by-step guides and tutorials. Before this, he spent over three years on the Unity Live Help team, where he closed more than 1,000 tickets for developers around the world. He has a computer science degree and studies the latest AI tools every day.
Dowan Kim
Dowan Kim is a startup founder advisor who helps corporate professionals build a business and leave their jobs. He spent 13 years at Goldman Sachs, Google, and TikTok before becoming full-time CEO of Kimtan Labs, an 8-figure FMCG business. He built that company while holding a full-time salary. He coaches side hustle growth, the financial metrics needed to quit safely, and the shift from solo founder to multi-brand CEO.
Vijay Rajendran
Vijay Rajendran is an executive coach and startup advisor who works with founders as they grow into CEOs. He is based in Silicon Valley and has 20 years as an entrepreneur, investor, and advisor. At 500 Global, a venture firm with $2.7 billion under management, he led a global team that supported startups in over 80 countries. He has supported hundreds of founders and wrote The Funding Framework, a 2025 book on startup funding.
Wiley Welch
Wiley Welch is a Build with AI coach who helps startup founders and engineers use AI in their work. He has founded companies, scaled startups as an early engineer, and led an open-source AI research team. He was the sole engineer and Chief Technology Officer at Staff Better, where he shipped a product that handled 10,000 WhatsApp messages a day per client. He also taught himself Thai well enough to teach it professionally.
Andrea Davis
Andrea Davis is a Certified EOS Implementer who coaches entrepreneurial leadership teams. She helps teams get aligned, focused, and moving toward their goals. Andrea has 25 years of experience coaching executives and teams. She co-founded a leadership development firm and led it through rapid growth and acquisitions. That firm made the Inc. 5000 list twice. She works from Palm Springs and Riverside, California.
Bill Gerard
Bill Gerard is a Certified EOS Implementer who coaches entrepreneurs, business owners and leadership teams. He teaches them the EOS tools so they can agree on a vision, work with focus and remove chaos from the business. He spent two decades as a sales, business and leadership coach at Merrill Lynch and Citibank. He has 25 years of experience coaching top performers. He is also a certified executive coach and a Strengths Finder facilitator.
Nancy Inman
Nancy Inman is a business and leadership team coach in Charlottesville, Virginia. She is a Certified EOS Implementer who helps leadership teams find the root of their problems and fix them for good. She spent 28 years coaching entrepreneurial leaders at a Fortune 90 financial services company. Today she works with financial services firms, women entrepreneurs, and business leaders across Central Virginia. Clients call her the "Velvet Hammer" because she is direct but kind.
Arjun Srihari
Arjun Srihari is a startup advisor and mentor who helps founders build, fund and grow early-stage companies. He is co-founder and CCO of S2S Dynamics, a circular economy startup that tackles e-waste. Before that, he co-founded a renewable energy company and scaled it to million-dollar revenues. He teaches as an adjunct professor at IE University, mentoring startups and executives. He has worked with more than 60 startup founder clients.
Jesse Lusa
Jesse Lusa coaches product managers, founders, and builders on adding AI to their products. He is a Product Manager on the new products team at GoFundMe, where he builds AI-powered features from start to finish. He was the first product hire at a startup that bp pulse later bought. He started as an engineer at Northrop Grumman. He also holds a Stanford MBA. In coaching, he teaches the same workflow he uses on his own AI products.
Belinda Lau
Belinda Lau is a startup founder advisor who helps founders and professionals apply the right business lessons to their own situation. She has a 22-year career that includes leading product development at Medtronic. She also co-founded ELIMS Oral Care, a bootstrapped oral care company. She has worked inside a Fortune 500 company and packed orders herself. Her focus areas include startups, small business, product management, product marketing, and biotech and medical device companies.
Common questions
Who are the best business coaches?
The top business coaches are John Koelliker, Patrick Weeks and Mirza Iqbal, ranked by client ratings, credentials, experience and specialization.
How much do the best business coaches charge?
Most business coaches charge $95 to $225 an hour.
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Last updated September 2026.