Business coaches for finance and profit
Compare 236 business coaches who focus on finance and profit. Besides finance and profit, the most common focus areas are scaling and growth, operations and systems, leadership and team building and startups and founders. They most often work with founders and business owners, executives and professionals. Most charge $150 to $375 per hour or session.
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Jim Tormey
Jim Tormey is a search fund and Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition (ETA) advisor who guides people through buying and running a business. He spent 7 years leading companies for a San Francisco private equity firm and was CEO of two private equity backed companies. He then ran his own self-funded search, submitted an LOI six months in, and closed two months later. He has run that business since June 2024. He also speaks at SMBootCamp.
Aaron Gabriel
Aaron Gabriel is a business and accountability coach who works with investors, entrepreneurs, and tech professionals. He is a 7-figure entrepreneur and investor with an MBA in accounting and 13 years of program management experience. His core skills are real estate investing, small business acquisitions, program management, and financial planning. He coaches through a 90-day process built on weekly check-ins and habit building.
Alex Freytag
Alex Freytag is an Expert EOS Implementer in Columbus, Ohio. He helps business owners and leadership teams gain clarity, accountability, and traction. He has led more than 1200 full day sessions and worked with more than 100 leadership teams over 12 years. He created ProfitWorks and wrote three books. He also co-founded the EOS Conference and speaks at events as a keynote speaker.
Andrew Lamppa
Andrew Lamppa is a business and leadership coach in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He helps small business owners with employee performance, pricing, and getting out of day-to-day work. He spent 14 years owning a seven-figure business with 25 employees before it was acquired. He built systems and a team that ran the company without him. He works on people, profit, and purpose, and also speaks on leadership.
Angela Adams
Angela Adams is a consultant who helps independent insurance agency owners run and grow their agencies. She started in agency accounting in 1985 and later worked as an agency owner and chief financial officer. She founded her firm in 2001 and now leads a team of 100+ people. The firm covers accounting, operations, HR, marketing, system training, and coaching for producers and life insurance sales.
Atticus
Atticus is a law firm coaching company that helps attorneys grow their practices and protect their personal time. The team is made up of attorneys who know the daily work of running a firm. They have worked with over 20,000 attorneys, from solo lawyers to large practices. Coaching covers client development, cash flow, staffing, time management, and using AI. Atticus also runs a membership program with a hotline and peer groups.
Bola Audena
Bola Audena is a business coach and advisor who helps founders and CEOs grow their companies. She is the CEO and Managing Partner of MBA Growth Partners in Maryland. She has more than 20 years of experience in growth, transformation and organizational development. She has guided hundreds of entrepreneurs, especially women and minority-owned businesses. She also supports clients through mergers, acquisitions and business exits.
Brandon Dawson and Grant Cardone
Brandon Dawson and Grant Cardone lead Cardone Ventures, a business consulting and training company for independent business owners. Dawson is the CEO and sold his last company for $151 million. Cardone founded the 10X Movement and wrote seven business books. The company runs live workshops, a 12-month implementation system, and a leadership program. It works with businesses in many industries, including home services, and is based in Scottsdale, Arizona.
Brett Stewart
Brett Stewart is an Expert EOS Implementer who coaches business owners and their leadership teams. He is a former CFO of a large insurance company and worked in consulting before he became an entrepreneur. He bought a struggling healthcare company and took it from a $400k loss to a profit of over $1 million in four years. He then ran EOS in that business. He has led nearly a thousand full-day EOS sessions.
Brooke Lively
Brooke Lively is a Certified EOS Implementer who helps law firm leaders grow their practices with less stress and more control. She has more than 20 years in the legal industry and has worked with hundreds of law firms across the country. She holds an MBA and the CFA designation. She founded two law-firm focused companies, Cathcap and Scaling Law, and has published seven books, four of them for law firms.
Carlie Lockey
Carlie Lockey is a Certified EOS Implementer who coaches entrepreneurs and their leadership teams. She helps them get clear on priorities, solve stubborn issues, and run a better business. Before EOS, she spent 10 years at Chick-fil-A and became Director of Operations for a franchise. She then founded Remarkable People Solutions and coached over 100 entrepreneurs and leadership teams for 7 years. She serves clients from Morehead City, Greenville, and Rocky Mount in North Carolina.
Charlotte Smith
Charlotte Smith is a farm marketing and mindset coach who helps small and mid-size farmers build profitable direct-to-consumer farm businesses. She is a fifth-generation farmer who also worked in marketing at a Fortune 500 company. She ran her own dairy farm and sold out her product before her first cow came home. She hosts the Profitable Mindset Podcast and wrote Farm Marketing from the Heart. She works with farmers across the United States.
Colin Leader
Colin Leader is a finance and AI coach who helps professionals and builders automate financial work and ship real products. He is a CFA charterholder and founded Leader's Advantage. He built the AI Valuation Assistant, a platform that automates DCF modeling and SEC filing intake. Before that, he was a Senior Finance & Strategy Analyst at Mint Mobile during its 5x growth and $1.35B sale to T-Mobile. He also oversaw $500M+ in assets.
Crystal Faulkner
Crystal Faulkner is a certified EOS Implementer who works with business owners and leadership teams. She helps them grow the value of their companies. She is a CPA and founded a boutique accounting and advisory firm. She has over 35 years of business leadership behind her. She ran EOS in her own company before guiding others, and she has led more than 300 EOS sessions. She is based in Naples, Florida.
Cynthia Meyer
Cynthia Meyer is a financial mentor and real estate business coach. She helps real estate investors, and people who want to become investors, with financial planning and business coaching. She also trains the financial planners who serve those investors. Cynthia is a real estate investor herself. She founded Real Life Planning and co-founded the Real Estate Financial Coach Course, Real Estate For Generations, and the You Unlimited coaching program. She is based in New Jersey.
David Barlow
David Barlow coaches attorneys who want to launch or grow their own law firms. He is a Honolulu personal injury lawyer who started his firm in 2009. He has run every side of the business, from marketing and client acquisition to staff, operations and referral networks. He also brings courtroom experience with car, motorcycle and pedestrian injury cases on Oahu. He shares what he learned over 18 years so newer lawyers can avoid early mistakes.
Davis & Cole, L.L.P.
Davis & Cole, L.L.P. is a CPA firm that offers business coaching and consulting to dental practice owners. The two partners, Michael Lance Davis and Thomas Michael Cole, combine accounting with practice management. The team has almost fifty years of dental industry experience. They work with general dentists and specialists at any stage, from opening a practice to selling it. They serve dozens of dental offices around the country.
Ed Poll
Ed Poll is a coach and consultant for lawyers and law firms. He helps sole practitioners, managing partners, executive directors and financial directors grow revenue and cut stress. Ed practiced law for 25 years and served as Chief Operating Officer of a mid-size firm before he became a consultant. He created The Business of Law® and wrote The Profitable Law Office Handbook. He also helps lawyers buy, sell or move a practice.
Evan Goodman
Evan Goodman is a business coach and mentor in Sydney. He helps owners of small and medium businesses, family businesses, and their leaders. He started four businesses over 30 years and sold them all. His last one grew into a national company and sold in 2009. Since then he has coached hundreds of owners, leaders and teams. He holds a Masters in Business Coaching. He meets clients in Sydney or on Zoom.
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.
Heather Hammell
Heather Hammell is a business coach for hands-on therapists. She began in myofascial release (MFR) and now also works with occupational therapists, physical therapists, massage therapists and speech-language pathologists. She helps them fill their schedules and raise their income. She runs a 6-month group mastermind and a 12-month business program. She also hosts The Fully Booked Therapist Podcast and is an author.
Jamila Payne
Jamila Payne is a business coach who helps established service business owners stop being the bottleneck and run their company like a CEO. She founded Daily Success Routine and built the CEO Operating System. She once directed a continent-wide entrepreneurship center in South Africa. She also advises owners through the Goldman Sachs One Million Black Women Initiative and the Intuit IDEAS Program. She hosts the Productive & Paid podcast.
Jared Zemp
Jared Zemp is an advisor who helps entrepreneurs raise a search fund and buy small businesses. He has coached more than 100 search fund and ETA clients. His own search fund bought or launched 25 companies over 8 years. He started with a college algebra bootcamp that grew to three locations, then used the profits and bundled student loans to buy over a dozen companies. He also taught college entrepreneurship for 10 years and is a partner at Bearspaw.
Jeff Samford
Jeff Samford is a business coach who helps small business owners, entrepreneurs and executives get better results. He runs Ascend Business Coaching in Richmond, Virginia, and works with clients in all 50 states. He has coached since 1990 and held leadership roles at Fortune 500 companies. He also serves as a fractional COO or CEO. Three of his clients sold their businesses in the past 4 years.
Jeff Schuster
Jeff Schuster is a business coach for engineers and technical business owners. He helps them build companies that grow without needing the owner for every decision. Jeff started an engineering and construction company from a home office. He grew it to more than 30 employees and $10 million in annual revenue, then sold it to a public company. He has coached owners for more than 12 years and works from Fort Collins, Colorado.
Jennifer Forte
Jennifer Forte is an EOS Implementer who helps entrepreneurs get clarity and cut chaos in their businesses. She ran a family dental business for 20 years and grew it from one small practice into a multi-location group with $17M in revenue. She used EOS to grow revenue 65% and profit 200%, then led the company to an acquisition. She serves clients in Cherry Hill, Philadelphia and Princeton, and has a Master's in Social Work.
Jim Jelinek
Jim Jelinek is a certified EOS Implementer who helps business owners and their leadership teams run their companies in a more organized way. He has led EOS work for over 30 businesses. Before coaching, he was CEO of a family-owned manufacturing company. He grew its revenue from $3 million to $12 million and then sold it for over $30 million. He works from Dalton, Ohio.
Josh Fellman
Josh Fellman is a business coach who helps owners of small and mid-sized managed services providers (MSPs) earn more and work less. He runs da Vinci MSP Coaching with co-founder Jerome Garrett. Together they built the largest MSP in their local market and reached a 39% net profit margin. In 2017 they stepped back from running their companies to coach full time. Josh is based in Oklahoma.
LCP Coaching
LCP Coaching is a coaching and consulting practice for pediatric dentists and their teams. It helps practice owners run stronger businesses and lead their staff. The team works on collections, production, front office systems and patient experience. Its leadership coaches were mentored by Dr. John Maxwell. They have set up leadership programs in hundreds of pediatric dental practices across the country. Coaching is offered on site and by video, and a coaching app gives teams training resources.
Lauren Carter
Lauren Carter is a business and executive consultant who finds the structural problems that hold organizations back. She works with founders, executives, and senior operators. Before consulting, she spent more than 20 years on Wall Street and led $100M+ initiatives in premium finance. She has completed more than 50 advisory and operating engagements. She also runs the Executive Briefing newsletter and the ORBIT diagnostic, a free first read of how work moves through an organization.
Leah Ward
Leah Ward is a business and accountability coach who helps individuals, entrepreneurs and teams build self awareness and reach their goals. She spent over 15 years in the corporate and financial industry before moving into coaching. She has also run her own business for over 6 years. She mixes coaching, mentoring and workshop training. She holds DISC+ Values and Positive Intelligence training and trained in Authentic Leadership Development Coaching.
Luba Ilyasova
Luba Ilyasova is an Amazon and ecommerce operator who coaches brand owners on growth. She has spent 15+ years building Amazon businesses and the teams behind them. She grew a home improvement brand from zero to more than $20M in annual revenue and scaled a beauty brand to $17M. She co-founded Enspescio, a software company, and works from Hoboken with clients around the world.
Mark Fleming
Mark Fleming is a search fund and ETA advisor who coaches people buying small businesses. He has over 20 years in finance and investing and holds the CFA and FRM. He has taken part in more than 40 small business acquisitions and owns stakes in 20+ businesses. He bought a residential cleaning company a decade ago and later exited it. He has coached over 100 aspiring buyers on valuation, deal structure, SBA financing and due diligence.
Melisa Liberman
Melisa Liberman is a business coach for independent consultants. She helps them build a consulting business that earns more, brings steady work and lasts. She has more than ten years of experience as an independent consultant and coach. She began consulting after leaving a SaaS startup where she worked. She wrote The Grow Your Consulting Business Book and hosts a podcast. She offers private 1:1 coaching and a Lead Generation Sprint.
Miriam Ortiz y Pino
Miriam Ortiz y Pino is a business coach and certified professional organizer in New Mexico. She helps entrepreneurs and creative people build simple systems for their time, space and money. She started her organizing business over twenty years ago and earned her CPO designation in 2007, one of the first in the world. She has worked with artists, politicians, business owners and multi-millionaires across the United States. Her coaching adds money and mindset work to organizing.
Niki Pezeshki
Niki Pezeshki is an advisor who works with venture-backed startup founders, mainly on fundraising and capital strategy. Niki spent more than a decade at Felicis Ventures and became a General Partner there. In that time Niki invested more than $400 million across 40+ companies and sat on 20+ boards. Niki also worked on more than 100 financings. Today Niki takes on a small number of founders and acts as a strategic thought partner.
Parag Prasad
Parag Prasad is a business coach in London who helps ambitious entrepreneurs with established businesses grow and scale. He runs The Business Growth Agency, which offers one-to-one and group coaching. He works on cash flow, systems, hiring and marketing. Clients have been with him since 2011, and the average coaching stint lasts 17 months. He also gives speaking talks, trains industry bodies and prepares businesses for sale.
Paul Orlando
Paul Orlando advises startup founders on growth, unit economics and market timing. He directs a startup accelerator at the University of Southern California and teaches classes there. He founded the program in 2014 and selected 250+ companies for it. Founders he guided raised $350M+. He also founded AcceleratorHK, Hong Kong's first funded startup accelerator, and served as Interim Head of Growth for a Series A company.
Pedro Guerrero
Pedro Guerrero advises early-stage startup founders, with a focus on B2B companies. He is the founder and CEO of Aloi Tech, a Mexico-based AI company that automates tax compliance for large enterprises. Aloi has raised more than US$4.3 million before its Series A. Pedro also worked in private equity at Advent International and Nexxus Capital. He holds a Stanford MBA and helps founders find product-market fit and plan their path to top MBA programs like Stanford GSB.
Peter Kruse
Peter Kruse is an EOS Implementer who helps leadership teams run their businesses with the EOS process and tools. He began in finance, then ran or helped run 4 organizations. He led a forklift manufacturer after the 2008 financial crisis and doubled its revenue. He later used EOS to lead a family-owned business for more than 3 years. Since 2017 he has worked with more than 60 companies, mostly within 2 to 3 hours of Jacksonville, Florida.
Peter Leckemby
Peter Leckemby is a business coach who helps home service owners in HVAC, plumbing, roofing, landscaping and remodeling. He founded Home Service Coaching Pros. Before that, he was Head of Talent Management at DISH Network, where he coached C-suite executives. He also spent over 16 years in home improvement retail. He works with owners on pricing, hiring, sales, operations and cash flow. His coach training came from the Conscious Coaching Academy.
Piper Watson
Piper Watson is a business and life coach who helps creative entrepreneurs make more money and build a life they enjoy. Piper is a former photographer and nonprofit founder who has worked with National Geographic Photo Camp, VisionWorkshops and NeighborWorks America. Piper built multiple six-figure creative businesses without an MBA. Clients include actors, artists, filmmakers, writers and health and wellness professionals. Piper works from Maryland and coaches clients around the world.
Projected Growth Consulting
Projected Growth Consulting is a consulting firm for med spa and aesthetic practice owners. It helps them raise profit, tighten operations, market their services and grow. The team has over 20 years of experience with medical aesthetic practices. Last year its clients sold more than $18 million in services. It also runs sales events, offers online courses on consultations and closing, and gives owners free tools like a KPI tracker.
Roberto Candelaria
Roberto Candelaria is a business coach and profit strategist who helps online business owners and service providers grow. He focuses on raising profit through partnerships, collaborations and sponsorships. He has worked with thousands of business owners and has consulted for brands like American Airlines, BMW, Disney and Zappos. He wrote two books, Relationships Raise Money and Sponsorship for Influencers. He also co-founded Profitable Community Academy and speaks and trains on stage.
Ryan Henry
Ryan Henry is a Certified EOS Implementer in Lansing, Michigan. He helps entrepreneurs and leadership teams run better businesses using the EOS tools. He grew up in a family of businesses that included shoe stores, lumber yards, real estate and life insurance. He also served in the United States Marine Corps and ran construction crews. He has clients across the country and knows construction, contracting and real estate development.
Sam Gersten
Sam Gersten is a business operations and strategy coach who helps startup founders and professionals with growth strategy, operations, and moving into corporate strategy roles. He is a Senior Manager in Corporate Strategy at Cisco, where he leads teams on growth work in AI, cloud data centers, and supply chain. He started his career in consulting at Strategy& and holds a Kellogg MBA.
Sarah Ghattas
Sarah Ghattas is a finance advisor who helps small and mid-sized businesses with financial reporting, forecasting, and part-time finance leadership. She focuses on women-led organizations. Before starting Lumina Financial Advisory, she was Vice President of Finance at 20th Century Fox, where she ran planning and reporting for a film studio of $4bn+. She also led a team of 11 through the Disney merger.
Seth Shaner
Seth Shaner is a search fund and ETA advisor who helps aspiring entrepreneurs find, fund and run a business they buy. He is the CEO of CRU, a franchised nightlife chain with 15 locations in 5 states. He was a Vice President at GE Capital and President of Sunrise Restaurants. He has worked in venture capital, private equity and strategy consulting. He has coached 18 people, including more than 10 search fund and ETA clients.
Shaun Scott
Shaun Scott is a Certified EOS Implementer who helps entrepreneurs build more valuable businesses and lead with more balance. He has more than 25 years of experience. He led multi-unit sales and business development teams in two industries for two Fortune 500 companies. He works with independent wealth management advisory teams that want to grow from a practice into a business. He is based in Dripping Springs, Texas.
Shelly Waldman
Shelly Waldman is a business coach for photographers and other creative business owners, including food photographers and food stylists. She spent a decade as a financial analyst at Citibank, then started her own photography business in 2009. She still works as a commercial photographer. She turns complex business topics into simple task lists. Her coaching covers pitching, pricing, systems and growing into bigger clients.
Shu Eliovson
Shu Eliovson is an advisor who helps startup founders get ready to raise money. Shu built the Startup Alchemy method over a 30-year career. Clients of Shu have raised over $600M, and several of their companies are now unicorns. Shu co-led five companies that reached IPOs and exits, and built the Strategic Storytelling & Investor Readiness practice at Deloitte. Shu splits time between New York and Tel Aviv and works directly with founders.
Simon Adcock
Simon Adcock is a Professional EOS Implementer who helps owner-led businesses in the West Midlands and Shropshire. He guides leadership teams through the Entrepreneurial Operating System to make more profit, grow, and gain consistency. He took over a family business at 19 and built it into a CCTV company that won Security Installer of the Year 7 times. He runs sessions from his own session room in Wolverhampton.
Tina Marie St. Cyr
Tina Marie St. Cyr is a business, career and executive coach in Houston. She founded Bonfire Coaching in 2017 after ten years in private practice. She helps founders scale their companies, helps professionals land new roles, and helps senior leaders move up. She has coached leaders inside Fortune 100 and energy-sector companies. She also trains other coaches in her methods and leads a team of ten coaches.
Todd Weeks
Todd Weeks is an Expert EOS Implementer who helps business owners build focused, accountable leadership teams. He works with privately held companies in the Atlanta Metro area, Gwinnett County and across Georgia. Before coaching, he was a CPA at Deloitte, a CFO, and a company president. He has led more than 75 leadership teams through over 800 full day sessions. His own company saw net profit grow sixfold after using EOS.
Vic Dorsen
Vic Dorsen is a business advisor and coach who works with owners of mid-sized manufacturing and trading companies in Australia. He leads The Collaborative Group. His work covers growth, profit, and getting a business ready for sale. He brings over 45 years of international experience. He was Vice President Asia Pacific at Esselte, with $600 million in regional sales. He also founded ADEPT, which became Europe's largest packaging consultancy.
Vic Dorsen
Vic Dorsen is a manufacturing business coach and advisor in Sydney. He works with owners of mid-sized manufacturing and trading companies. His career spans more than 45 years. He was Vice President Asia Pacific at Esselte, where he oversaw 11 countries and 7 factories. He also founded ADEPT and sold it after it grew into Europe's largest packaging consultancy. Today he helps owners grow, raise profit, and prepare to sell.
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.
Zac Barber
Zac Barber is a commercial real estate financing coach who helps developers and property investors structure their loans. He is an Executive Director at Bonneville Real Estate Capital and has 20 years in commercial real estate finance. He started as a runner and moved through servicing, underwriting and production roles. He has placed billions of dollars in loans across the United States and has worked with more than 100 real estate clients.
Alex Hormozi
The firm partners with founders whose companies earn $1M to $10M in EBITDA. The firm has advised 10,000 businesses. Alex also puts out mostly free courses, books and videos, and runs in-person scaling workshops at her office in Las Vegas.
Andrea Russell
Andrea Russell is a Profit First coach who helps interior designers keep more of the money they make. She is a certified Profit First Professional and an experienced bookkeeper. She also holds an Advanced QuickBooks ProAdvisor certification. Her P.R.O.F.I.T Accelerator Program teaches designers to manage their finances with confidence. She also works with home decorators and home stagers. She runs a Facebook community that shares weekly money strategies.
Ann Konkoly
Ann Konkoly is a business coach who helps nurse practitioners build profitable private practices. She is a Women's Health NP and MSCP. She runs her own private practice that offers HRT and medical weight loss for women in perimenopause and menopause. Her programs, coaching and community have been used by over 35,000 nurse practitioners. Her stated mission is to help nurse practitioners earn $10,000,000 in private practice.
Anna Angelova
Anna Angelova is a business coach who helps founders and business owners build profitable companies. She co-founded Leficomp with Jores Minasvand. Her work covers leadership, business strategy, systems design and technology. She works with professionals who want to turn their skills into a business, and with owners who struggle with marketing, sales and admin. She is based in Richmond Hill, Ontario. Her Launch360 program runs 12 months and takes clients from idea to steady revenue.
Billy Polson
Billy Polson is the founder of The Business Movement. He coaches gym owners, studio owners and personal trainers on running their fitness businesses. He has 28+ years of experience as a trainer, group exercise coach and studio owner, and he still runs a personal training studio in San Francisco. He takes fewer than 10 private clients at a time. Each client gets a custom curriculum built for their own business.
Carson Coaching
Carson Coaching is the coaching arm of Carson Group in Omaha, Nebraska. It coaches financial advisors who want to grow their firms. The program began in 1993, and more than 12,000 advisors have gone through it. Its coaches have decades of experience in financial services. Advisors work on growth plans, accountability, and running the firm as a CEO. Options include one-on-one executive business coaching and an online on-demand education library.
Chris Lawson
Chris Lawson is a business coach who helps independent automotive and diesel repair shop owners build their own hiring system. The goal is a steady flow of good applications for any open job. Chris is a digital marketing strategist and a Certified Profit First Professional. He also runs Profit First workshops for repair shops and has given over 100 talks on recruiting technicians.
Dan Murray
Dan Murray is a business coach, advisor and mentor for service business owners, with a focus on disaster restoration companies. He helps owners raise profits and build companies that can be sold or handed down. He finds the cash flow and operations problems that hold growth back. He also works on business valuation, buying and selling companies, and ownership transitions. He holds the Certified Restorer and Certified Value Builder titles.
David Scott Peters
David Scott Peters is a restaurant coach who helps independent restaurant owners build systems, control costs, and run a business that needs them less. He has coached owners since 2003. His work starts with finding the one decision an owner has been avoiding. Then he builds a system around it and makes sure the team follows it. He also looks for money leaking from the P&L.
Debbie King
Debbie King is a business coach who helps founders fix their relationship with their company. She built a data analytics services company over 18 years, then sold it in a smooth exit. Her Loving Your Business approach treats the company as an asset and a partner, not an enemy. She works with founders who feel stuck, tired, or ready to walk away, even when the numbers look good.
Elias Machingambi
Elias Machingambi is a business advisor and venture architect in Harare, Zimbabwe. He helps entrepreneurs, business owners and professionals make hard decisions with clear thinking. He has built ventures in trade, transport, farming and services. He holds the FMVA credential in financial modeling and valuation. He also works with diaspora clients on cross-border decisions, re-entry and capital deployment. He coaches in English and French.
Ellie Marshall
Ellie Marshall is a business and executive coach who helps established HVAC, plumbing and electrical business owners grow profitably. She has coached for more than 25 years and came to coaching from a corporate career. She holds an MBA in Finance from Columbia. Her 1:1 Intensive includes weekly private sessions built around each owner's business. She works on profit, cash flow, leadership and building a team that runs without the owner in every task.
Frank Deno
Frank Deno is an executive and business coach in Albany, New York. He helps independent financial advisors and RIA owners cut chaos, lead better, and build stronger firms. He is an RIA owner himself, so he knows the gap between building a book of business and running a high-value firm. He is a former MIT product manager and a Villanova Six Sigma Black Belt. His work centers on moving owners into the CEO seat.
Grant Hicks
Grant Hicks is a practice management coach and consultant for financial advisors in Canada. He runs Advisor Practice Management, an independent firm based in Alberta. He helps advisors grow revenue, win ideal clients and build better systems. He wrote a book on practice management for advisors and co-wrote Guerilla Marketing for Financial Advisors. His advisor clients manage over 5 billion in assets combined and earn over 50 million dollars combined.
Greg Tilley
Greg Tilley is a business and executive coach in Newport News, Virginia. He helps small business owners, founders and executives reach their business and professional goals. Greg ran a $100M business unit as CEO and has been an entrepreneur. He has 40+ years of executive and consulting experience and has mentored for SCORE for 9 years. He also facilitates CEO peer groups.
Jessica Dance
Jessica Dance is a business coach and creative mentor who helps artists and creatives build profitable businesses. She works on offers, pricing, mindset and income so clients can grow without burning out. Before coaching, she worked with big brands and hit burnout herself. She now mixes business strategy, somatics and energy work. She offers one-on-one coaching, a 12-week group program called The Thriving Creatives Club, and an on-demand course called Money Mastery for Creatives.
Johanna Nauraine
Johanna Nauraine is a business, career and relationship coach in Illinois. She helps couples, small business owners and ambitious professionals. She has worked with white collar professionals for 33 years. Before coaching full time, she ran a psychotherapy practice in downtown Chicago for 27 years. She also ran a business consulting practice and taught at two universities. She holds a Master's in Clinical Social Work from the University of Chicago.
John Bulman
John Bulman is a business and executive coach in Mission Viejo, California. He helps owners of growing companies get control of their business, fix cash and profit problems, and build a team that performs. John holds an MBA with specializations in finance and marketing. He has 35 years of management and executive experience and has coached business owners for 13 years. He is also the author of "Profitability Thinking."
Kathryn Binkley
Kathryn Binkley is a business coach who helps six- and seven-figure female founders scale without carrying everything themselves. She has more than 20 years of experience scaling and leading businesses. Before coaching, she spent years managing operations and building systems for corporate teams and entrepreneurs. She now blends operational strategy with leadership coaching. Her Unshakable Operating System pairs with one-on-one coaching. She also hosts two podcasts for business owners.
Kumar Dattatreyan
Kumar Dattatreyan is a business coach who helps small business owners grow profits and build stronger teams. He runs Profit Sensei and works with companies that earn $500K to $10M. Before coaching, he led agile transformations at Fortune 500 companies. He now adapts those enterprise methods to smaller firms. He holds the ICF Professional Certified Coach credential and has more than 20 years of experience. He is based in Virginia.
Law Firm Success Group
Law Firm Success Group is a legal consulting and coaching firm for solo attorneys and small law firms in the US. Its Practice Advisors work one-on-one with firm owners on business systems, financial discipline and leadership. The firm has served more than 500 clients. It also offers HR and recruiting help and law firm management services. Its work is built around how legal practices bill, operate and grow, not general business coaching.
Lindsay Troxell
Lindsay Troxell coaches financial advisors, fintech entrepreneurs, life planners and community builders through Our Coaching Initiative. She spent over 20 years at firms including Northwestern Mutual, LPL, TD Ameritrade and Janus Henderson before launching her practice in 2023. She has coached more than 1,500 advisors. Her work starts with the nervous system, then moves to identity and business structure, using a framework she calls the Soul Operating System.
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| Coach | Focus | Hourly rate range |
|---|---|---|
| Jim Tormey | Startups and founders and Finance and profit | $80 to $160 an hour |
| Aaron Gabriel | Scaling and growth and Startups and founders | $100 to $250 an hour |
| Alex Freytag | Scaling and growth and Operations and systems | $125 to $300 an hour |
| Andrew Lamppa | Scaling and growth and Leadership and team building | $160 to $290 an hour |
| Angela Adams | Scaling and growth and Operations and systems | $125 to $300 an hour |
| Atticus | Scaling and growth and Leadership and team building | $125 to $300 an hour |
| Bola Audena | Scaling and growth and Operations and systems | $125 to $300 an hour |
| Brandon Dawson and Grant Cardone | Scaling and growth and Sales | $125 to $300 an hour |
| Brett Stewart | Scaling and growth and Operations and systems | $115 to $175 an hour |
| Brooke Lively | Scaling and growth and Operations and systems | $160 to $290 an hour |
| Carlie Lockey | Scaling and growth and Leadership and team building | $160 to $290 an hour |
| Charlotte Smith | Scaling and growth and Marketing | $125 to $300 an hour |
| Colin Leader | Operations and systems and Finance and profit | $80 to $160 an hour |
| Crystal Faulkner | Scaling and growth and Operations and systems | $160 to $290 an hour |
| Cynthia Meyer | Real estate and Coaches and consultants | $135 to $200 an hour |
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Most business coaches charge $150 to $375 per hour or session.
What else do these business coaches help with?
Common focus areas include scaling and growth, operations and systems, leadership and team building and startups and founders.
Prices and research
- Are Business Coaches Worth It?
- Business Coach Cost per Hour
- Business Coach vs Consultant vs Mentor
- Coaching Packages and Prices: Hourly vs Monthly
- Coaching Rates Per Hour by Coach Type
- Coaching vs Therapy: Cost and Key Differences
- Do Certified Coaches Charge More?
- Executive Functioning Coach Cost
- How Many Coaches Are There?
- How Many Coaching Sessions Do I Need?
Other focus areas
Last updated September 2026.