Business coaches for creatives
Compare 133 business coaches. Besides their main focus, the most common focus areas are startups and founders, coaches and consultants, marketing and scaling and growth. They most often work with creatives, founders and business owners and professionals. Most charge $95 to $225 per hour or session.
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Alex Zah
Alex Zah is a business and executive coach in Spain who works with entrepreneurs, solopreneurs, business owners and creators. Alex spent 12 years building Alex's own businesses and made a 7-figure exit before moving into coaching. Alex uses brain-based techniques, executive ontological coaching and the Lefkoe method. Alex's focus is inner blocks that hold back business results, such as procrastination, poor time management and burnout.
Vaishnavi More
Vaishnavi More is a startup advisor who helps founders, especially those building in architecture, design, AI and the built environment. Vaishnavi is an architect who became a two-time founder. Vaishnavi is the Founder and CEO of Zenoya, an AI platform backed by Forum Ventures. Vaishnavi has raised venture funding, pitched investors and hired teams. Vaishnavi now helps technical professionals move from idea to first product and fundraising.
Desi Creswell
Desi Creswell is a business and life coach for established interior designers in Minneapolis. She helps them grow profitable businesses that also support their personal lives. Desi is an award winning interior designer herself. She started at world-renowned design and architecture firms, then built her own residential design business. Her coaching blends mindset work, body based practices, and strategies made for the design industry. She uses her own method, called Designed to Thrive.
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.
Linsi Brownson
Linsi Brownson is a business coach who helps founders of creative service businesses build the systems and team structure they need to scale. She works with design studios, branding agencies and content firms. She has 14 years of experience building and running creative businesses from the inside. She scaled a media company from $250K to $3M+ and served as in-house COO and CFO at a custom millwork company that grew from 3 people to 20+.
Robin van Veen
Robin van Veen is an AI automation coach who helps founders, solopreneurs and creators build AI agents for their businesses. Robin is a Partner at ExpandCrew, a firm that builds and deploys AI agents. Before that, Robin spent ten years as Managing Partner of Strictly Digital, an online media agency. Robin has coached more than 200 people and teaches clients to map their business and design automations that save time.
Alice Wu
Alice Wu is a creative business coach who works with artists, designers and creative entrepreneurs. She offers both coaching and consulting to support professional growth and business growth. She still works as an artist, designer, arts administrator and independent curator. Her career crosses the art world and fashion design, so she knows both fields. Her coaching centers on values, including sustainable and socially responsible creative work.
John Lepp
John Lepp is a business coach who works with charities, fundraisers, graphic designers and marketing directors. He is an expert in direct response, marketing and graphic design. He has 25 years of experience working with charities around the world. He helps them tell better stories and inspire donors to give, both online and offline. He wrote the book Creative Deviations and speaks to audiences internationally.
Kendra Carpenter
Kendra Carpenter is a business consultant and visibility coach for creative business owners. She founded The Creative Business CLUB, a mix of coaching, education and community. She built her own business past one million dollars in sales as a highly sensitive entrepreneur. She holds the title Master Coach Instructor. She also shares weekly podcast episodes that pull together the best of the CLUB. Some clients have worked with her for 15 years.
Laura Swartzbaugh
Laura Swartzbaugh is a business coach for life coaches and creatives with progressive values. She teaches short, brain-based practices for the moments when clients decide and act. Her work targets the mindset habits that hold coaches back, like waiting to earn a set amount before feeling legit. She helps clients grow their client base, raise prices, and build income they can use to support causes they care about.
Amanda Baudier
Amanda Baudier is a burnout coach and business coach who helps founders, C-suite executives, new entrepreneurs and creatives. She has worked as a startup executive three times and teaches mindfulness. Her coaching helps clients build businesses, lead teams and keep a joyful life. She holds an executive coaching certification from NYU and training in nutrition, meditation, yoga therapy and somatic healing. She records meditation and breathwork audio for clients to use between sessions.
Ankoor Naik
Ankoor Naik is a business coach who works one on one with founders, leaders and self-made professionals in Mumbai and Bengaluru. He has run over 10,000 coaching sessions and worked with more than 2000 entrepreneurs, leaders and professionals. He helps clients scale without burnout, make sharper decisions and build a clear direction. Some clients have stayed with him for 7 years, and he also works with their leadership teams.
Anne Miles
Anne Miles is a business, life and spiritual coach who also works as an executive coach. She helps small business owners, creative freelancers and others who want a life designed around their own goals. Before coaching, she ran TV departments turning over $20m pa from age 21 and later owned a film company. She is an ICF Accredited Coach, an NLP and EFT practitioner and an Oracle Medium. She hosts Suits&Sneakers TV.
Chris Do
Chris Do coaches creative business owners and designers on running and growing their businesses. He is the founder and CEO of The Futur, an online education platform for creative thinkers. In 1995 he started a motion design company called Blind in Los Angeles. Blind earned over $80 million in creative services and worked with Nike, Sony, Google, Microsoft and Xbox. He offers one-on-one coaching and a Pro group membership.
David Andriate
David Andriate coaches creators and businesses on making AI video, ad copy and marketing content. He has produced video for more than 10 years and runs an AI video production company. His AI videos earned over 20 million organic Instagram views, and he has earned over $100,000 from AI video work. His clients include Visa, Dataiku, Zapier and Amazon MGM. He also works as a Senior Manager of Product Marketing at Manychat.
Daymond E. Lavine
Daymond E. Lavine is an entrepreneurship, business and life coach in Dallas, Texas. He helps entrepreneurs, professionals, creatives and leaders line up their lives, brands and businesses. He is the founder of Plurapreneur, a coaching and strategic development platform. He comes from systems engineering, real estate, branding and technology. He has written two books, The Brawn of Your Brand and A SIMPLE Systems Engineering Guide for Success.
Jessica Perez-Beebe
Jessica Perez-Beebe is a business and accountability coach who helps coaches and service-based entrepreneurs. She founded The Confident Sales academy, which teaches coaches who dislike selling how to enroll ideal clients. Before starting her online company in 2018, she was a success coach at a Fortune 500 company. She has coached for seventeen years and is a professional IFBB physique athlete. Many peers call her the "Coaches' coach."
Nina Eggens
Nina Eggens is a business and marketing coach for creative freelancers, online coaches and small business owners. She works from Spain and helps clients worldwide. Nina has over 20 years of experience in marketing and audience development in the creative industries. She has started and run several businesses, online and in person. She is also a painter and musician, and she writes sales copy. Her coaching covers mindset, messaging and marketing.
Nina Lacher
Nina Lacher is a business and confidence coach who helps coaches and creatives build personal brands. She founded the sustainable yoga label OGNX and spent 20 years in fashion and e-commerce. She now uses her brand-building and marketing skills to help clients position themselves and grow with a true voice. She lives in Mallorca, Spain, and coaches in German and English. She also helps new coaches get established in the industry.
Sagan Morrow
Sagan Morrow is a personal fulfillment coach and success coach for solopreneurs. She helps small business owners, solo entrepreneurs, and creatives get clear on goals, manage time, and build a business that fits their life. She also helps people who are stuck in negative self-talk. She has coached entrepreneurs since 2016 and is a practitioner of Emotional Freedom Techniques. Her aim is to save clients 10 hours a week without burnout.
Sonia Simone
Sonia Simone is a business and marketing coach for small-scale founders, freelancers and solopreneurs. She co-founded Copyblogger Media, where she wrote 1.3 million words of content and sold many millions of dollars in digital products and services. Her Coursera content marketing course, taught with UC Davis, has reached more than 300,000 students. She sold her share of Copyblogger in 2019. Now she works with a small number of clients on strategy, mindset and steady execution.
Tim Thompson
Tim Thompson is a business consultant who helps owners of creative studios and production companies run stronger businesses. He founded RevThink after working at Imaginary Forces, where he helped with projects like the SE7EN title sequence. He built his own methods for creative firms in 2006. His work covers sales, finance, production, marketing and operations. He also leads RevCommunity, an owner-only group of over 700 leaders in 60 countries.
Erin Cantwell
Erin Cantwell is a business and accountability coach for creative entrepreneurs. She works with designers, makers, artists, freelancers and studio owners. Erin trained as a graphic designer at RISD, then moved into the business side of branding work in NYC. She has held COO and Director roles at branding and marketing agencies in NYC and Philadelphia. She also works as an outsourced COO for creative business owners.
Stu McLaren
Stu McLaren is a membership expert who teaches authors, speakers, coaches, consultants, creators and business owners how to turn what they know into recurring revenue. Before that, he co-founded WishList Member, a membership platform for WordPress. He has worked with tens of thousands of clients since 2008 and wrote the book Predictable Profits. He also hosts the Marketing Your Business podcast.
Leah Kent
Leah Kent is a creativity and book coach in Massachusetts. She helps entrepreneurs, experts and creatives write and self-publish nonfiction books. She is also a writer and book designer. Dozens of her clients work in fields like psychology, somatic healing, mental health, spirituality and creativity. One of her specialties is finding the book a client has already written by reviewing their articles, blog posts, courses, emails and podcasts.
Mario McCoy
Mario McCoy is a Houston business coach who helps founders, CEOs and creative entrepreneurs fix their brand positioning, pricing and conversion. He has more than 15 years of experience as an advisor. He built an award-winning quiet luxury company and has been featured in GQ, Vogue, Essence and Forbes. He runs a program called STRUCTR Reset. It is aimed at experienced operators whose messaging, structure or pricing no longer matches their level.
Pamela Lewerenz
Pamela Lewerenz is an accountability coach and creativity coach who helps entrepreneurs get unstuck in their business. She has worked in business for over three decades and has run her own company for 8 years. Clients know her as "The Brick Wall Coach." She focuses on business operations and helps clients move past indecision and overwhelm. She is based in South Carolina.
Lisa Zaro
Lisa Zaro is a business coach for wedding and event professionals. She helps creative entrepreneurs reach their business goals and keep a life outside of work. Lisa worked in the wedding and event industry herself, so she knows the field firsthand. She leads the Build Your Event Business program. She works with planners, DJs, photographers, venue owners, caterers and many other event trades.
Shervon Laurice
Shervon Laurice is an entrepreneurship, leadership and spirituality coach in Laurel, Maryland. Shervon helps conscious leaders, entrepreneurs and solopreneurs who feel stuck, burned out or out of touch with who they are. The work uses a method called the Alignment Triangle, which joins mind, body and spirit. Shervon has more than two decades of experience guiding entrepreneurs, leaders and creatives, and holds MS, LCPC and RYT credentials.
Lisa Robbin Young
Lisa Robbin Young is an accountability coach and life coach who helps creative entrepreneurs build a business on their own terms. She has coached in business for more than 20 years and worked in the performing arts for more than 30. She is an award-winning speaker, best-selling author and musician with multiple albums. She founded Ark Entertainment Media, a business growth consultancy for creatives. She also hosts Creative Freedom, which is a show, book, podcast and live event series.
Eric Lee
Eric Lee is a business and accountability coach who works with creative people who run companies. He is a self-taught designer who drew up his first home at age 18. He is the CEO and Design Director of the VictorEric Group and has founded 8 other companies. He grew his main company from one employee to a team of 55. He also coaches on mindset and limiting beliefs, using 20 years of study in personal-effectiveness methods.
Gogo Erekosima
Gogo Erekosima is a positioning, marketing and sales coach for online creators and career switchers. Gogo has worked in newspaper ad sales, field and inside sales, telecom, property management and real estate investing. Gogo co-founded an international venture capital platform and has consulted with small business owners for 14 years. Gogo built campaigns using postcards, TV, SEO, email series and high ticket offers. Gogo works from Maryland.
Melissa Hessney Masters
Melissa Hessney Masters is an accountability and burnout coach in Vermont. She helps creative, mission-driven entrepreneurs reach goals in life and business. Before coaching, she ran a sustainable flower farm and floral design studio that she started in 2014. She launched the first community supported agriculture floral program in Vermont. She holds certifications in life and success coaching, hypnosis, NLP, EFT and TIME Techniques.
Miriam Ortiz y Pino
Miriam Ortiz y Pino is a business coach and professional organizer in New Mexico. She helps entrepreneurs and creative people remove the clutter that blocks their goals. She started her organizing business over twenty years ago. She earned her CPO designation in 2007, making her one of the first Certified Professional Organizers in the world. She now also coaches on money, mindset and marketing, and builds simple systems for a home or a business.
Piper Watson
Piper Watson is a business and life coach in Maryland who helps creative people make money and build a life they enjoy. Piper works mostly with female and non-binary leaders, creatives and disruptors. Before coaching, Piper was a photographer and a nonprofit founder and director. Piper has also worked with National Geographic Photo Camp, VisionWorkshops and NeighborWorks America. Piper holds a PCC credential from the ICF and is a registered yoga and meditation teacher.
Teresa Miller
Teresa Miller is a business and creativity coach in Arkansas. She helps creative entrepreneurs build their own style of success. She is a Certified Quantum Human Design™ Specialist and a Freestyle Creativity Coach™. She also holds a mental toughness instructor certification. Teresa builds each program around how the client creates, not a one-size-fits-all plan. She calls herself an Idea Catalyst and likes brainstorming outside the box.
Abbey Woodcock
Abbey Woodcock is a business and creativity coach who helps copywriters, freelancers and other creative professionals run their work as real businesses. She has written direct response copy since 7th grade, including sales pages and emails for some of the biggest names online. She founded The Freelance Co-op, a group that shares legal, bookkeeping, marketing and client resources with creative freelancers. She works from Upstate NY.
Brian Witkowski
Brian Witkowski is an entrepreneurship, business and money coach in Los Angeles, California. He works with current and aspiring leaders and business owners in the arts and related professions. His focus is money mindset and business skills. He holds a PhD and completed Thinking Into Results training through the Proctor Gallagher Institute. He is also a Money Breakthrough Business Coach. He writes on how to set fees and how to keep growing as an entrepreneur.
Katie Wood
Katie Wood is an accountability coach and business coach for leaders and creatives. She helps people who want more impact from their work but feel alone in the process. Her clients have big plans for a business, project, organization or mission, but get stuck overthinking their next moves. Katie helps them clarify their vision and message, face their fears, and build a plan. She is trained in Co-Active Coaching and has worked as an instructor at the National Outdoor Leadership School.
Laurel Alper
Laurel Alper is a business and communication coach who helps small businesses with marketing, networking and social media. She runs 6 Facebook business networking groups with over 40K members. She helps clients build their own Facebook group communities and teaches them how to network well. She also makes social media content, including Canva graphics, and builds Facebook ad campaigns. She has over 9 years of experience with Facebook groups and pages.
Lila Harding
Lila Harding is a business and confidence coach in Oregon who works with creatives, entrepreneurs and start-up owners. She has coached for over 25 years and is a lifelong entrepreneur herself. Her work covers building confidence, planning the next big move and putting ideas into action. She uses brain science, practical processes and humor to make change feel like a game. She holds several coaching certifications, including Master Results Coach and Neurolinguistic Programming.
Lisa J. MacDonald
Lisa J. MacDonald is a business coach in Tucson, Arizona. She helps creative entrepreneurs, speakers, coaches, healers and other experts grow their businesses. She has coached for 20 years and has written 30 books, including Step It Up or Get Out of the Way. Her work centers on productivity, creativity and mindset. She also runs programs for finishing projects and building purpose driven businesses.
Meg
Meg runs Your Coach Meg and coaches owners of creative businesses, including freelancers and consultants. She brings over 25 years of business experience across many industries and niches. She built her Business as Unusual offerings after working one-on-one with hundreds of clients, guiding small groups and leading workshops. Her coaching gives clear, strategic guidance and keeps clients accountable to their goals. She also offers a six-month marketing program called the Magnetic Marketing Lab.
Nikisha King
Nikisha King is a business growth strategist and consultant who works with ambitious women entrepreneurs and creative solopreneurs. Through NK Level Up Partners, she focuses on three areas: Visibility, sales, and systems. She steps in as a strategic partner inside the business. She also runs a boutique marketing agency and hosts a podcast. One client project involved automating inquiries into leads and tracking conversions across a three year collaboration.
Peg Wedig
Peg Wedig is a life and business mindset coach for food bloggers who want to grow their blogs. She does not teach blogging or technical skills. She works on the beliefs and stories that hold a blogger back. Her method is a framework called Recipe for Success, and she tailors it to each client and their blog. She also runs a blog called The CEO Spoon.
Rionach Aiken
Rionach Aiken is a communication and energy coach who helps business owners and creatives become more visible. She is based in the Netherlands. She overcame decades of shyness to become a poet, speaker and transformation leader. She holds three certifications in transformation and retreat leadership. Her work combines visibility mentoring with energy reading, and she clears blocks at personal, collective, ancestral and soul levels.
Shelly Waldman
Shelly Waldman is a business coach for creative business owners, with a focus on food photographers, food stylists and photographers. She started her own photography business and later analyzed budgets for one of the largest financial institutions in the country. She studied economics at UC Santa Barbara and apprenticed under Tara Gentile. She breaks complex business ideas into simple tasks that clients can check off a to-do list.
Teemaree
Teemaree is a business and financial coach in Michigan. Teemaree helps artists, creatives and small business owners decide what comes next, take bigger actions and recover what they have lost. Teemaree holds certifications in health coaching, nutrition coaching, spiritual coaching and yoga teaching. Teemaree is also an ordained and licensed minister and a Reiki Level 2 practitioner. Clients can reach Teemaree from wherever they are.
Audrey Christensen
Audrey Christensen is an accountability and burnout coach in Utah who teaches creatives how to run a small business. She is an artist herself. She helps clients find their creative voice, build a brand, market themselves online and grow an audience on social media. She also offers one-on-one guidance for people who want to find their creativity again. Her clients include artists, neurodivergent people, queer people and single mothers.
Cara Zuraski
Cara Zuraski is a mindset and momentum coach in New Jersey who helps new coaches, artists and other creatives earn money from their work. She runs Press Play Coaching. Her work focuses on money discomfort, including money trauma, and on the hesitation many clients feel about calling themselves a coach, entrepreneur, CEO or artist. She also helps new coaches book their first paying clients and helps creatives build routine into their days.
Lisa Zaro
Lisa Zaro is a coach in Monroe, New York. She helps creative entrepreneurs reach their business goals and find balance between work and life. She also lists career, life and relationship coaching. She is a Certified Professional Coach and a Certified Prepare/Enrich Facilitator, a training used in relationship work. She trained at the World Coaching Institute. Her focus is on creative people who run their own businesses.
Maria Fontana
Maria Fontana is a life, entrepreneurship and spirituality coach in Avon-by-the-Sea, New Jersey. Her goal for clients is to live on purpose, share their gifts, skills and talents, and earn money while making an impact. She is also an integrative healing arts practitioner, which shapes her spiritual side of coaching.
Melanie D'Arcy
Melanie D'Arcy is a burnout and business coach who helps visionary entrepreneurs reach and keep a state of wellness and success. She works with founders, business owners and artists. She is an American living in Serbia and is used to working with clients in different time zones. She builds a plan with each client and acts as their accountability partner while they work together.
Michael Hanegan
Michael Hanegan is an innovation coach in Oklahoma who works as an Intellectual Property Architect. He helps leaders, thinkers and experts turn their hard-earned knowledge and experience into wider reach and impact. He is most interested in people with big ideas who want to move from idea to action. He works across many fields with people at the top of their game. He is also a Senior Fellow at The Dietrich Bonhoeffer Institute.
Samantha Gwynn
Samantha Gwynn is a coach who helps Canadian nonprofits, registered charities, artists, writers, and individuals with grant funding. She covers funder research, grant writing and proposals, written application feedback, and post-grant reporting. She also coaches on foundation donor stewardship. She holds to an ethics policy and turns away clients in certain charitable industries and geographies because of conflict of interest.
Shannon Borg
Shannon Borg is a business coach for artists and creative entrepreneurs. Shannon works one-on-one with artists on their creative process, on talking about their work, and on marketing and selling it. Shannon also helps with email marketing. Shannon hosts the Metaphor Mindset Podcast and writes a newsletter called The CRUX, which mixes coaching ideas with art and art history. Shannon made a 10-section checklist for artists who plan a solo or group show.
Stacey Hagen
Stacey Hagen is a business and marketing coach for female entrepreneurs. Stacey works with coaches, creatives and healers who want to be more visible in their work. Stacey holds an MBA and a trauma informed certification. Stacey helps clients work through imposter syndrome and perfectionism. Together they build a personal marketing strategy based on the client's strengths. Stacey is an introvert and highly sensitive person, and Stacey uses that view to coach clients who find visibility hard.
Kelly Thomas
Kelly Thomas is a business coach who helps crocheters turn their craft into an income. Kelly runs Crochet Business School. Kelly has run Kelly's own crochet business since 2015. In that time Kelly has tried most of the ways to make money from crochet. Kelly teaches crochet sellers how to build a business that fits around their lifestyle and brings in the income they want.
Liubov Kaskova
Liubov Kaskova is a business and communication coach in Ukraine. She helps experts turn clarity into action. She also works with creators, entrepreneurs, employees, HR staff and people in IT. She brings system thinking from her IT background and combines it with deep listening. She looks at each client's context and patterns, and at what sits under their decisions. She holds ASPICE, CAPM and SAFe credentials.
Natasha Mitchell
Natasha Mitchell is a business coach who helps creative business owners simplify their work and grow. She is based in New South Wales, Australia, and runs Inspire & Drive. She built the S.I.M.P.L.E Business Blueprint, a plan made for creatives. Her focus is on operations and scaling. She has worked with clients around the world to cut business complexity, so they can earn more and work less.
Sydney Young
Sydney Young is a business coach and marketing coach for creative entrepreneurs. Sydney helps owners grow their revenue and build a stronger mindset while they scale. Sydney also works as a systems strategist. The client focus includes photographers and wedding professionals. The aim is to pair practical growth strategies with mindset tools, because strong businesses need both.
Tricia Ballad
Tricia Ballad is a business coach in Illinois who helps creative, spiritual and visionary women plan and grow their businesses. She has run her own business since 2004 and earns a comfortable living from it. She teaches the planning process she uses herself. Her method skips spreadsheets. She is a Certified Intentional Creativity Teacher and works with artists, healers, lightworkers and visionaries.
Erick Holliday
Erick Holliday is a success identity coach who works with CEOs, coaches and content creators. He helps clients build a success identity so that growth in life and business comes naturally. He also works with authors, solopreneurs, subject matter experts and executive managers. His focus is turning roadblocks, challenges and frustrations into stepping stones.
Margaret Bourne
Margaret Bourne is a business and marketing coach who helps bloggers, creators and solopreneurs. She works with people who are starting a blog, growing a blog into a business, or using a blog to support an online business. Her coaching covers blog strategy, content creation, SEO and AEO, audience growth, email marketing and monetization. She also teaches how to build a brand and online presence in the age of AI search.
Raphael Taurel
Raphael Taurel is a business coach who works with established entrepreneurs. He is ICF certified and based in New York. His work starts from identity, not strategy. He helps owners who already know how to sell and deliver, but feel stuck, overworked or out of line with the business they built. He offers one-on-one coaching, a private bootcamp and an immersion. His site and messaging are in French.
Alice Hahn
Alice Hahn is a product design coach who helps designers with portfolios, interviews, career moves, and using AI in their work. She has spent over 10 years as a product designer. She was a Principal Product Designer at Microsoft (Fabric) and a Lead Designer and Manager at Silo. She now runs Hahn Collective, a design consultancy that works with early-stage startups on user research, design operations, and design systems.
Harrison Wheeler
Harrison Wheeler is a design mentor and leadership coach who helps designers grow into leaders and move up in their careers. He has more than 15 years in design across startups and large companies. He spent seven years at LinkedIn leading design for Marketing Solutions and grew the team from 6 to 26. He also hosts the Technically Speaking podcast and speaks at Figma Config, SmashingConf, and ConveyUX.
Jim Jackson
Jim Jackson is a design mentor who coaches creative professionals, design leaders, marketers and founders. He is a creative director and brand strategist with more than 25 years of experience. He has led teams across branding, retail, packaging and digital work for brands like Target, T-Mobile and General Mills. He also founded his own consumer brand and taught design as an adjunct professor. He has worked with 60+ design clients.
Vanessa Kafka
Vanessa Kafka is a product management coach who helps PMs and product leaders grow their scope and lead at the executive level. She has 15+ years in consumer marketplaces. She was VP of Product at Eventbrite and SVP of Product Management at KAYAK, where she led 40 PMs and designers. She also coaches engineers, designers, researchers and operators who want to think like product leaders.
Laura Buckles
Laura Buckles is a life and business coach who helps creatives, entrepreneurs, small business owners and professionals handle pressure. She spent more than 25 years as a professional actor, producer and writer. She also ran digital media for the mobile app Twrrl. Her coaching uses neuroscience and nervous system regulation to build focus and steady decision making. She also offers on-camera coaching for interviews, speaking events and live performances.
Renda Morton
Renda Morton is a leadership and career coach who works with creative leaders. Before coaching, Renda was Director of Product Design at Dropbox and Product Design VP at The New York Times. Renda also co-founded the design studio Rumors, with clients such as Forbes and The New York Times Magazine. Renda trained at the Co-Active Training Institute and started coaching in February 2023.
Sissi
Sissi is a career and executive coach who works with people in creative fields, luxury and fashion, film and television, and startups. She teaches a Luxury Brand Management MBA curriculum at HEC Paris and Yale School of Management. She is a Trustee at The Hip Hop Museum in New York. Airbnb, Disney and LVMH have sought her advice on consumer behavior and culture. She also led the Berlin Fashion Film Festival as President.
Polly Lal
Polly Lal is a design mentor who helps designers grow their skills and find their strengths. She is a product designer and former software engineer with a computer science and engineering background from MIT. She has led UX at Basil Tech and designed mobile features at Shopmonkey for an app serving 3,000+ auto shops. She has worked with 60+ design clients and consults for startups, nonprofits, and small businesses.
Sue Campbell
Sue Campbell is a mindset and marketing coach for authors. She is the marketing expert in the Happily Ever Author Club, an online membership led by developmental editing and book marketing professionals. Sue leads weekly group calls that help members build momentum and grow their audience. Her work sits beside editors Rachelle Ramirez and Anne Hawley, who help members with story blocks. The club also runs the Write Anyway podcast on author mindset and self-sabotage.
Andrea Millinder
Andrea Millinder is an accountability and leadership coach who works with team leaders, founders and people building personal projects. She spent 20 years in leadership, operations and project management in the SaaS and technology industry. That time was spent helping start-ups and small businesses grow and scale. She earned her ICF Associate Certified Coach credential in July 2025 and holds an MBA with a focus on entrepreneurship.
Caitlin Bauer
Caitlin Bauer is an ADHD and AuDHD coach who helps neurodivergent adults with ADHD, autism, or both. She also offers business and executive coaching. She works with women in tech, entrepreneurs, new moms, and creatives. Before coaching, she ran a digital marketing and web design agency for over a decade. She has coached professionals at Disney, Google, Meta, Uber, and Salesforce. She is based in the San Francisco Bay Area and works with clients beyond it.
Djelani Hamm
Djelani Hamm is a life and career coach who helps creative people and career changers reach personal and professional goals. Djelani has coached for seven years and worked as a credentialed educator for more than 30 years. Djelani holds a PhD in Culture and Performance from UCLA and an MFA in Film Producing. Djelani also consults with creative organizations on diversity, cultural analysis, and change. Djelani's clients include artists, writers, academics, educators, and people in the film industry.
Jalita de Waal
Jalita de Waal is a mindset and spiritual coach who works with creatives and visionary leaders facing a big change in life direction. Jalita adds energy healing sessions to Jalita's one-on-one coaching. Before coaching, Jalita spent 10 years in the creative industry, working in design, digital marketing and growth consulting. Jalita's past clients include Harley Davidson and Jamie Oliver. Jalita lives on the Garden Route in South Africa.
Jeff Tomczek
Jeff Tomczek is a certified life coach who helps young professionals, rising leaders, entrepreneurs and creatives design lives that mix purpose with career success. He runs Calibreal Co. in Louisville, Kentucky. Jeff has 18 years of experience as an entrepreneur, brand strategist and marketing leader, including Fortune 100 global leadership roles. He is also studying clinical counseling, which shapes how he looks at habits and behavior.
Jessica Serrante
Jessica Serrante is a leadership coach and trainer for climate justice leaders. She works with executive directors, founders, nonprofit leaders, artists and healers. She has been a climate activist since 2007 and has organized on staff with Greenpeace and Rainforest Action Network. She has studied with teacher Joanna Macy since 2014. Jessica coaches individuals, leads coaching groups and supports teams through team coaching and facilitation.
Side by side
| Coach | Focus | Hourly rate range |
|---|---|---|
| Alex Zah | Startups and founders and Marketing | $80 to $175 an hour |
| Vaishnavi More | Startups and founders and Scaling and growth | $80 to $160 an hour |
| Desi Creswell | Scaling and growth and Operations and systems | $160 to $290 an hour |
| Jessica Dance | Scaling and growth and Finance and profit | $85 to $160 an hour |
| Linsi Brownson | Scaling and growth and Operations and systems | $85 to $160 an hour |
| Robin van Veen | Operations and systems and Startups and founders | $80 to $160 an hour |
| Alice Wu | Startups and founders and Coaches and consultants | $80 to $175 an hour |
| John Lepp | Marketing | $75 to $160 an hour |
| Kendra Carpenter | Scaling and growth and Operations and systems | $85 to $160 an hour |
| Laura Swartzbaugh | Coaches and consultants and Scaling and growth | $100 to $190 an hour |
| Amanda Baudier | Startups and founders and Leadership and team building | $80 to $175 an hour |
| Ankoor Naik | Scaling and growth and Leadership and team building | $85 to $160 an hour |
| Anne Miles | Startups and founders and Marketing | $80 to $175 an hour |
| Chris Do | Scaling and growth and Sales | $125 to $300 an hour |
| David Andriate | Marketing | $75 to $160 an hour |
Common questions
How much does a business coach cost?
Most business coaches charge $95 to $225 per hour or session.
What else do these business coaches help with?
Common focus areas include startups and founders, coaches and consultants, marketing and scaling and growth.
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?
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Last updated September 2026.