Business coaches for engineers
Compare 88 business coaches. Besides their main focus, the most common focus areas are startups and founders, leadership and team building, operations and systems and scaling and growth. They most often work with engineers, founders and business owners and professionals. Most charge $95 to $225 per hour or session.
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Bryce Meredig
Bryce Meredig coaches scientists and engineers who found startups. Bryce helps technical founders make the move from the lab to the boardroom. Bryce 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. Bryce holds a Northwestern PhD and a Stanford MBA, and has worked with more than 10 startup founders.
Chris Cameron
Chris Cameron is a business operations and strategy coach who helps STEM talent move into strategy, operations and AI roles. He is a former McKinsey consultant and a current Strategy and Operations leader at Scale AI, where he manages one of the company's largest GenAI client relationships. At Google X's carbon capture moonshot, he helped close over $50M in commercial deals. He holds a PhD in Mechanical Engineering and has coached more than 100 clients.
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.
Dan Corin
Dan Corin is a software engineer who coaches professionals and teams to build software with AI. He runs wvlen. Before that he built and shipped production systems at Square, Uber, and Chime. At Square he turned LLM workflows into production tools and taught non-technical staff to build software with AI. He has worked with designers, operations professionals, CTOs, doctors, financial traders, and PhD researchers. He teaches how tokens, context, and agents work, whatever tool is used.
Neela Deshpande
Neela Deshpande is a business operations and strategy coach. She helps founders, operators, and emerging leaders turn unclear goals into practical operating plans. She has 12+ years of experience scaling high-growth technology companies and served as Chief of AI R&D at Boomi. She also has more than 10 years of Dale Carnegie coaching. She works with C-suite leaders at Series A+ SaaS start-ups on planning, OKRs, and AI-driven roadmap execution.
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.
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.
Marcus Blankenship
Marcus Blankenship is a leadership coach for founders and small business owners. He helps growing companies build leadership systems and people skills. He has worked with startup founders and owners for over 15 years. His focus is the stage between 10 and 50 employees, when informal habits stop working. He uses practical tools like the Satir Weather Report, decision frameworks and feedback systems. He also serves software managers and engineering leaders.
Jennifer Kent
Jennifer Kent is a business and career coach for women in STEM. She helps female engineers start their own service-based businesses. She also helps them build careers that fit their values. Jennifer worked in Corporate America for over 15 years before she quit to build work she enjoys. She was born in Venezuela. She holds a Certificate in Women in Entrepreneurship from eCornell.
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.
Jeff Schuster
Jeff Schuster is a business growth coach in Fort Collins, Colorado. He helps small business owners and entrepreneurs, with a focus on technical owners such as engineers and experts. He works on the mechanical and mindset blocks that hold a business back. His process has three steps: A free discovery session, a business clarity audit, and ongoing coaching. Each session takes one priority issue and works it through until the next step is clear.
Ali A.
Ali A. coaches product managers and tech leaders on resumes, interviews, and career moves. He is a former Chief Product Officer who also worked at Intuit, Salesforce, and Atlassian. He has led teams of over 50 people, managed budgets over $50M, and interviewed more than 100 product managers. He also hired as a manager at top tech companies.
Priyanka
Priyanka is a career coach for product managers, aspiring PMs, software engineers, and founders. She is a product leader and AI startup founder with more than 10 years at Amazon, eBay, Walmart, and Quicken. She has run over 100 interviews and mentored more than 45 people. She also screened over 1000 resumes. She moved from engineering into product management herself, so she coaches others making that same switch.
Vasu R.
Vasu R. is a career, business, and executive coach for tech professionals. Clients include product managers, engineering managers, consultants, account executives, and founders. Vasu spent 25 years in software, including a role as Global Head of Product Development for Workforce Intelligence at Amazon and 14 years at Oracle in product strategy. Vasu is also a three-time entrepreneur and an enterprise AI consultant. Vasu has run hiring interviews for senior roles at top companies.
Alex H.
Alex H. coaches software engineers, engineering managers and tech founders who want to pass hard technical interviews and land better roles. Alex is a former Google Senior Engineering Manager who worked on exabyte-scale distributed file systems. Alex is now CTO and co-founder of Grow with AI. Alex has run more than 100 onsite interviews and is calibrated for Google behavioral and system design interviews at levels L5 to L7. Alex works from Poland.
Alisha O.
Alisha O. coaches product managers, engineers, and executives who want to become stronger product and technology leaders. She is a former executive at Meta, Reuters, iHeartMedia, and TuneCore, and worked at a computer vision AI startup that Apple acquired. She teaches Emerging Tech Leadership at Brown University and Entrepreneurship at CUNY. She also helps with interviews, resumes, salary negotiation, and advises founders on building and scaling products.
Amrita R.
Amrita R. coaches data science, machine learning and data engineering professionals on interviews, leadership and career growth. She is Head of Data at DevRev in Palo Alto. She has worked at Microsoft, Chan Zuckerberg Technology, Skype, Stanford and UC Berkeley. As a hiring manager she has interviewed over 100 candidates and hired over 30 people, from L3 to L8 levels. She has also screened over 500 resumes for data roles.
Brandon Benson
Brandon Benson is a PhD admissions consultant and mentor for graduate students and future tech leaders. He holds a PhD in Applied Physics from Stanford, with a focus on neuroscience and machine learning. He is also co-founder and CTO of an AI marketing company. His research has been published in Science and Nature. He helps clients with PhD applications, research development, and moving research into a venture.
Diana Lee
Diana Lee coaches product managers, managers of PMs, and founders. She has 20 years of product experience, mostly building and scaling fintech products at startups and established companies. She has held senior roles at SigFig and Magnifi by TIFIN and now serves as CPO of a new venture. She works with PMs on 0 to 1 builds, scaling products and teams, PM job interviews, resumes, and moves into senior and leadership roles.
Frances Coronel
Frances Coronel is a software engineering coach who helps engineers and technical founders with interviews, promotions and leadership skills. She is a Senior Software Engineer at Slack, on the Sidebar Systems team. She has worked as an engineering manager, tech lead and product engineer at startups and large companies, including Salesforce and Accenture. Since 2015 she has mentored for more than 200 hours through bootcamps, nonprofits and Formation.
Geoff M.
Geoff M. is a career, interview and leadership coach for software engineers and engineering managers. He is a former Senior Release Engineer and manager at Google and a former Director of Software Engineering at Pandora. He has worked in infrastructure since 1995. He ran 200 interviews at Google for senior and staff roles, and 100 at Pandora. He is retired and coaches full focus on interviews, leadership and careers. He holds an ICF PCC accreditation.
Gordon C.
Gordon C. coaches engineering managers and founders. He is a former Senior Director of Engineering at Google in the SF Bay Area. He also served as SVP of Engineering at Riverbed Technology and Entrepreneur in Residence at Lightspeed Venture Partners. He conducted over 150 interviews at Google, for levels from L6 through vice president. His background covers security, privacy, networking, and multimedia. He has coached over 100 people.
Irene Wang
Irene Wang is a product management and life coach who helps engineers and product managers with career moves and life transitions. She spent 6 years as a software engineer, then more than 4 years as a senior product manager. She has worked at Google, Microsoft and Tencent. Irene holds an ICF ACC credential and has interviewed over 100 candidates. She is also building a startup in AI and gaming.
James Silva
James Silva is a product management coach. He helps students and working professionals prepare for product management job searches, including resumes and interviews. He spent over 20 years in software engineering and product management at eBay, Expedia and Adobe. He also runs his own startup, ConciergeBot. He focuses on candidates with technical backgrounds who want PM roles at FAANG and similar companies. He has coached for over 5 years.
Jay S.
Jay S. coaches product managers, engineering managers, software engineers and managers of PMs. He helps them get jobs at top companies and grow in their roles. He is a former CTO of Amazon Canada, where he led the product and engineering teams that built the Amazon Canada marketplace. He has also held senior product roles at Indeed and Agoda. He has interviewed more than 500 candidates and helped promote dozens of people into senior roles.
Justin C.
Justin C. coaches software engineers, engineering managers, and data analysts on interviews and career growth. He is an engineering leader with a 10-year career at early-stage startups and Airbnb, where he was a Senior Software Engineer and Technical Lead. He has interviewed thousands of candidates from L3 to L6 levels. Today he is Head of Engineering at Udio and Lead Engineering Advisor at Stashrun. He also mentors on startup advice.
Lukas
Lukas coaches software engineers, engineering managers, AI engineers and founders. He helps them prepare for technical interviews, improve resumes and move into fields like crypto and LLMs. He is a CTO and co-founder at Compass Labs, where he leads engineering teams. He raised $2M in venture funding from investors including a16z. Before that he worked as a Software Engineer at Google and a Deep Learning Engineer at Volkswagen. He has interviewed over 100 software engineers.
Mathew D.
Mathew D. coaches software engineers and engineering managers who want promotions and bigger technical or leadership roles. He has 25+ years in tech and 12+ years in leadership. He led EC2 teams at Amazon Web Services and evaluated more than 100 engineering candidates there. He works from South Africa and also directs Afkari Software. His sessions cover system design, technical leadership, interview prep and career moves.
Melanie Harris
Melanie Harris is a leadership and executive coach who helps technically focused clients. She comes from engineering, program management and executive leadership. She focuses on change management and strategic planning. She works as a Senior Director of Engineering and Program Management at Aerin Medical, where she was promoted to lead strategic planning within her first year. She also coaches careers on the Join A Crew platform and has lived through the ups and downs of startup leadership.
Omi I.
Omi is a career coach for product managers, program managers, engineering managers and other tech leaders. He is a former Product Manager and Technical Program Manager at Google, and he was Lead Product Manager at Google DeepMind. He now works as Chief Product and Technology Officer for a financial service company. He has conducted over 1000 interviews and coached more than 100 people. His work centers on interview preparation for tech roles.
Prashanth
Prashanth is a career coach for product managers, strategy and operations managers, consultants and software engineers. He also coaches founders building AI products. He has led product, strategy and consulting work at Meta, DoorDash and PwC. He was a calibrated interviewer at Meta and has interviewed more than 100 candidates. He is now building an AI startup and invests in early-stage startups.
Sajjad A.
Sajjad is a career and interview coach for people in AI, data and cloud roles. He mentors PMs, architects, AI engineers, data scientists, senior engineers and founders. He is an AI and data architect with more than 18 years of experience. His work includes AI platform architecture in financial services, a principal-level Data and AI role at Microsoft, and data platforms in telecom and the public sector. He has interviewed over 20 candidates himself.
Shambhavi P.
Shambhavi P. coaches product managers, software engineers, founders, and product marketing managers who want to land a new role. She has 10 years in product management and has coached 500+ aspiring and current product managers. She screened 700+ resumes as a hiring manager and interview panelist at Amazon, Home Depot, and Groupon. She also led product work on Alexa AI and founded Mentor Me Good.
Subham Kedia
Subham Kedia is an MBA admissions consultant who helps applicants build their positioning, essays and interview skills. He is a venture investor at Hilti Venture and holds an MBA from Wharton. He also worked at McKinsey and Thoma Bravo. He works best with engineers, STEM graduates and people from VC, PE, consulting or deep tech, especially international applicants who need to explain strong profiles to US admissions committees.
Tiago O.
Tiago O. is a career coach and former BCG Senior Consultant based in Portugal. He helps management consultants, business analysts, chiefs of staff, founders and mechanical engineers. He has over five years of strategy consulting experience across more than 20 projects. At BCG Lisbon he led over 150 interviews and headed engineering recruiting. He also screened more than 500 resumes and decided who moved on to the online test.
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.
Vidit Aggarwal
Vidit Aggarwal is a software engineering and AI coach. Vidit helps software engineers with system design, interview prep, and growth to senior and staff levels. Vidit also teaches builders how to use AI tools and helps business owners find AI use cases that work. Vidit is a Staff Software Engineer at LinkedIn and holds multiple patents in AI and machine learning. Vidit also founded Dwello, an AI-native real estate startup.
Bala M.
Bala M. is an interview and leadership coach for software engineers, engineering managers, and founders. Bala is a Director of Engineering at Lyft and worked at SAP for 8 years before that. Bala has interviewed hundreds of engineering managers, senior managers, and staff engineers, so coaching comes from sitting on both sides of the hiring table. Sessions cover technical interviews, career transitions, promotions, and building strong teams.
Gaurav C.
Gaurav C. coaches product managers, software engineers and founders on their careers and interview preparation. Gaurav was a Group Product Manager at PayPal and a Product Lead at Grab, where Gaurav built payment products for consumers. Earlier, Gaurav helped scale Spotify to new markets across Europe. Gaurav has worked in Sweden, the US and Singapore. Gaurav helps engineers, designers and product marketers move into product management roles.
Gelila Asnake
Gelila Asnake is a career coach who helps people grow their careers in tech and startups. Gelila has more than ten years of talent acquisition experience. Gelila launched the University Recruiting Program at Coursera and led early career recruiting at Quora. At Human Capital Gelila worked with founders to build engineering teams for companies like Anduril, Observe, and Kojo. Gelila has coached over 100 clients and founded Emerging Talent Agency.
Luis
Luis is a Senior iOS Engineer at Google and founder of an AI health-tech startup with earlier time at Microsoft. He has negotiated pay packages at Google, Microsoft, and Apple and coaches engineers on interviews and offers.
Malay K.
Malay K. is a career coach in Vancouver, Canada. Malay helps tech professionals move into leadership or senior engineering roles. Malay is a Global Talent Partner who has hired for Emirates Airlines, Telus, Amazon and Microsoft. Malay has conducted and reviewed over 2,000 interviews and looked over 5,000+ resumes. Malay also helped hire 500+ candidates and started out in aviation psychology before moving into HR leadership.
Oussama C.
Oussama C. is a career and interview coach for cloud engineers, machine learning engineers, solutions architects and founders. He is a former Microsoft and AWS architect who now runs his own company, Oratio. He has interviewed hundreds of candidates for software, cloud and AI roles. He also helps with resumes, salary talks, career moves into cloud and AI, and leadership skills for tech managers.
Suiyao Chen
Suiyao Chen is an AI and machine learning career coach. Suiyao helps data scientists and machine learning engineers with Generative AI, system design interviews, and the move from research to production engineering. Suiyao is an Applied Scientist with 7 years in tech. Suiyao leads a team that built a RAG-based brand detection system. Suiyao also created TalentMe, an AI-based coaching tool that turns mock interviews into measurable progress.
Addison Howard
Addison Howard coaches people who want to break into data engineering or grow their careers in it. Addison also advises on using AI and automation in data work. Addison was the first data hire at a company with $400M+ in revenue and built its data function from the ground up. That included hiring and managing a team of junior data engineers and analysts. Today Addison works as a Staff Data Engineer at a high-growth tech company.
Harsh Sundani
Harsh Sundani coaches data and analytics professionals who want to move into leadership. Harsh is a Director of Analytics at LinkedIn, where Harsh built a team of 24+ data scientists and analytics engineers from the ground up. Before that Harsh led analytics and business intelligence at Eaton and grew that team from 5 to 12 people. Harsh has hired and promoted many data professionals. Harsh has coached for 1,510 minutes on the Leland platform.
Joseph Fuller
Joseph Fuller is a leadership coach who helps professionals grow their skills, clarify goals, and build confidence. He is an engineering supervisor with an MBA and works from a background in aerospace and aviation. He leads a team of 10 engineers and has over seven years of leadership experience. He has coached five people in leadership development. He also mentors junior engineers and has led process improvements.
Leonardo Fiocchi
Leonardo Fiocchi is a management consulting coach who helps people get through consulting applications and MBA applications. He has coached 20 people through case interviews and resume work. He worked in Search Fund operations and strategy, including deal scouting and due diligence at Nostos Capital. He also worked as a process engineer at Procter & Gamble. He pays special attention to engineers and people with non-traditional backgrounds.
Nazerke K.
Nazerke K. is a coach for software engineers, product managers, founders, and operations and program managers. Nazerke is a former Google software engineer who worked in the Paris office, mostly on Chrome. Nazerke has also been a CTO and a founder and CEO. In one stretch of 3 to 4 months, 4 coaching clients received job offers from Google. Nazerke is based in Europe.
Venkat Narayan
Venkat Narayan is a product management coach. He helps people prepare for product management interviews and grow in product careers. He has worked in product management for over 13 years and moved into it from core engineering. He is a Principal Product Manager at GoDaddy, where he builds platform, pricing and personalization products. He holds an MS in Electrical Engineering and an MBA from Haas School of Business.
Vladimir Baranov
Vladimir Baranov is an executive and leadership coach for tech leaders and founders. He runs Human Interfaces LLC and has coached since August 2023. Before that, he spent over 20 years in start-ups and technology, across fin-tech, wealth-tech and space-tech, in founder and executive roles. He has advised 150+ individuals and 30+ companies. He also works as a fractional CTO for DeepTech, Robotics and SaaS companies, and he is a regular mentor at Techstars.
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.
Atique Ahmed
Atique Ahmed is an AI and ML engineering mentor who coaches developers and advises startup founders. Atique is a Principal AI/ML Architect with 12+ years in platform engineering and distributed systems. Atique worked on AI platform initiatives at Zoom. Atique has mentored 20+ developers into top companies. Atique also holds a Guinness World Record for programming excellence. Atique's focus is enterprise AI systems that are governed, observable and cost-controlled.
Aviv Ben-Yosef
Aviv Ben-Yosef is an advisor to CTOs, VPs of Engineering and other tech executives. He helps them build engineering orgs that are worth more than they cost. He works inside the tech org, with Product, and at the executive table. His client list includes Tabnine, Armis and Gloat. He wrote two books, The Tech Executive Operating System and Capitalizing Your Technology. He is based in Rome, Italy.
Bikram Gupta Sarma
Bikram Gupta Sarma is an executive and emotional intelligence coach who works with technology leaders, technology startups and companies looking for growth. He has three and a half decades in technology. He was a Vice President at Oracle for multiple products and led global operations teams in 6 countries. He has also founded multiple companies and managed teams of 3000 people. He holds an ICF ACC credential.
Brad Schwartz
Brad Schwartz is a leadership coach who helps tech managers, directors, and executives grow as leaders. He founded Leaders In Tech and has coached over 200 tech leaders one on one and in teams. He also works as a Leadership Coach at Intel, where he is a Director of Software Engineering. He draws on 25 years in tech. He created the Tech Leadership Accelerator Program, a cohort-based program for technical leaders.
Bryce Englin
Bryce Englin is a leadership and executive coach in Troy, Ohio. Bryce helps mid-to-senior leaders remove career derailers, handle transitions, and build high-trust teams. Bryce uses Hogan personality assessments and systems thinking based on Deming and Covey. Bryce has over 30 years in institutional leadership and defense acquisition. Bryce is also a PhD student in Organization and Management with a focus on executive coaching.
Colin Baird
Colin Baird is a career coach who helps people in tech with career moves, technical interviews and pay. He joined Poolside as its first Solutions Architect and built that team from 0 to 7 people. He then led a sovereign AI product line that reached ~$3M ARR and 40+ deployments. Before that he worked at MongoDB and AWS. He has changed roles several times himself, from IT consulting to product.
Diane Nelson
Diane Nelson is a leadership coach in Toronto who helps aspiring, new and developing leaders in manufacturing, technology and engineering. She also offers ADHD coaching. Before coaching, she served as CEO of three organizations across 25 years, and she has 30 years of management experience. She has coached mid-level leaders for 10 years. Her MINDSET + SKILLSET + MATCHSET© program focuses on priorities, delegation and team accountability.
Don Neufeld
Don Neufeld is an executive coach for CTOs, VPs of Engineering and other engineering leaders. He spent more than twenty years running engineering teams before he started coaching. He was the Founding CTO of Medium and a VP of Engineering at ClassPass and Chartboost. He built and led teams of up to 125 engineers spread around the world. He gives direct advice based on his own operating experience, not only questions.
Edward Taylor
Edward Taylor is a CTO coach and mentor for early-stage engineering leaders. He helps Series A and B tech teams grow from one team to many while building strong leaders. He is an exited founder who has held Director, VP, interim CTO and fractional roles. He has grown teams from 8 to 40 and mentored dozens of engineering leaders. His clients are mostly in the UK and US.
Emma Brillhart
Emma Brillhart is a leadership coach for engineering managers and senior individual contributors. She is a Senior Engineering Manager at Honeycomb, where she leads the App Observability team. Over the past decade she has built and led engineering teams at companies from pre-seed to Series D, including Zapier, MainStreet and Endgame. She has managed through reorgs, layoffs and rapid scaling. She also builds AI tools for her own management work and coaches others on using them.
Jean Hsu
Jean Hsu is a startup engineering leader who coaches engineering leaders and tech professionals one on one. Jean also works as a fractional VP of Engineering for early-stage startups. Jean began Jean's career at Google and then spent 15 years at startups, including Pulse and Medium. Jean later served as VP of Engineering at Range and Productable. Jean co-founded Noodle Labs, which gives startups embedded leadership support.
Mridhula Srinivasan
Mridhula Srinivasan is a technical program management coach who helps people move into and grow in TPM roles. Mridhula has led AI projects at Deloitte, Google Cloud Marketing and Abbott Labs. Mridhula has coached 18 people into technical program management jobs. Mridhula also taught data science at Purdue University and IDtech. Mridhula's focus areas include Agile, Scrum, stakeholder management and interview prep.
Robin Parker
Robin Parker is a leadership coach who works with emerging and experienced leaders, with a focus on engineers and technical professionals. Robin coaches and teaches leadership at Cornell Engineering and co-founded NeuroLead, which builds neuroscience-informed leadership and team development methods. Robin has logged more than 2,500 hours coaching engineering leaders. Clients work on leadership transitions, hard decisions, difficult relationships, and career changes.
Samorn Selim
Samorn Selim is a career, executive, and leadership coach who helps BIPOC, women, and first-generation professionals build careers they enjoy. Samorn is a lawyer turned coach and the founder of Career Unicorns. Samorn was a big law attorney, then Director of Employer Outreach at Berkeley Law. Samorn has coached more than 1,000 lawyers, tech workers, and leaders. Samorn's programs aim to get clients to their goals in 3 months.
Sasha Ashpis
Sasha Ashpis is an engineering leadership coach who works with founders, engineering managers and individual contributors. Sasha has 20+ years of Silicon Valley experience, including 13+ years as an individual contributor and 7+ years as a people leader. Career stops include being the first hire at a seed funded startup and being part of an acquisition by Salesforce. Most of the work has been with Series A and B companies. Sasha also serves as a fractional engineering leader for startups.
Stephan Schmidt
Stephan Schmidt is a CTO coach who helps CTOs, VPs of Engineering and engineering managers with hard leadership problems. He has 25 years of experience as an engineering manager. He has run 1200+ sparring and coaching sessions with 100+ CTOs. He is a 3x founder with an exit, and he worked at eBay and ImmobilienScout24. He coaches in English and German.
Timothy Thomas
Timothy Thomas is a technology career coach and leadership consultant who helps tech professionals land new roles or get promoted. He is a former hiring manager at Wizards of the Coast and an ICF Professional Certified Coach. He has coached 600+ clients since 2017, including software engineers, product managers and engineering leaders. His clients have gone on to Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Meta. He coaches remotely across the United States.
William Widjaja
William Widjaja is a software engineering coach who helps people break into tech and grow their careers. He works with students and with adults from fields like the military, nursing and real estate. He has built products in law, tax, finance and biotech, and launched his own startup while in college. He interviews for real jobs himself and records those sessions so clients can learn from them. His clients have gone on to offers at Wells Fargo and IBM.
David Mahler
David Mahler is a career and life coach in San Diego who works with IT professionals. He helps them gain clarity in their career, health and relationships. He built a process called CLARITY for IT Professionals. His own work history runs from restaurant server to IT Director, across education, health care, finance and technology. He holds a BA in Psychology and certifications in coaching, NLP, hypnosis and Reiki.
David Mahler
David Mahler, who goes by Coach Dave, is a career and life coach in San Diego, California. He helps IT professionals with their careers, health and relationships. He built a process called CLARITY for IT Professionals. His own work history runs from restaurant server to IT Director, across education, health care, finance and technology. He holds a BA in Psychology and training in NLP, hypnosis and Reiki.
Ivy Naistadt
Ivy Naistadt is an executive speaking coach and public speaking coach in New York. She helps executives, founders, sales teams and tech leaders present with confidence. She has coached for over 25 years and has worked with Fortune 500 companies such as Comcast, IBM, The New York Times and Pitney Bowes. She also works with universities including Princeton and NYU. She wrote the book Speak Without Fear and teaches a system built on that idea.
Jill Wetzler
Jill Wetzler is a team and leadership coach who helps managers and leaders build strong, high-performing teams. She has 20 years of experience in high-growth Silicon Valley tech companies. She works as a facilitator, advisor and executive coach. She offers one-on-one and group coaching, fractional work and workshops. She works online and in person with clients worldwide, often in San Francisco, New York City and London.
Leigh Newsome
Leigh Newsome is a CTO coach and mentor who works with CTOs, VPs of Engineering, and technical founders. Leigh has 25 years of experience and has coached more than 200 engineering leaders. The career spans both New York City and Silicon Valley. Work centers on scaling teams, adopting AI, handling technical debt, and moving from builder to executive. Clients are mostly at small and mid-sized companies.
Ravi Raman
Ravi Raman is an executive and personal coach for leaders and founders in technology. He works one-on-one with clients in Seattle. Before coaching, he spent fourteen years at Microsoft, then took his first real break. He writes essays on doing your best work, naturally. His clients include a VP of Engineering, a start-up CEO and a VP of Marketing. He also draws on philosophy and spirituality to help clients handle life as well as work.
Refactor Coaching
Refactor Coaching is a small team of coaches who work only with software engineers and engineering managers. They coach on career direction, job changes, promotions, engineering management and technical skills. Clients can work one-on-one, join a project-based cohort, or use a Slack community. One cohort teaches Python developers to build a production Rust library in 6 weeks, with pull request reviews and a peer group.
Srinath Ramakrishnan
Srinath Ramakrishnan is a leadership coach in Chennai, India. Srinath helps engineering and technology leaders, senior managers, and emerging executives handle the people side of leadership. Srinath also coaches small business owners and entrepreneurs. Srinath brings over three decades of senior leadership experience to Srinath's work. Srinath uses Srinath's own 3S Coaching Model, which has three steps: Seeing, Sensing, and Shaping. Srinath offers individual, group, team, and mentor coaching.
Vashisht Madhavan
Vashisht Madhavan coaches people who want to build with AI. Vashisht works with founders, engineers and non-technical builders. Vashisht is a Senior Applied Scientist at Amazon, where Vashisht helped post-train the Nova 2 Pro model. Vashisht also co-founded Humanlike (YC S23), built AI voice agents that automated business phone calls, and led post-training work at Pika behind features like Pikaffects. Vashisht teaches from the model up, so skills last as tools change.
Emese Pogácsás
Emese Pogácsás is a leadership coach and advisor for tech founders and executives. She founded Namaste & Cabernet in Hungary. She works with leaders in high-growth companies whose roles have grown faster than their skills. Her clients include CTOs, founders, project leaders and first-time executives. She focuses on how leaders make decisions, delegate, hold boundaries and act under pressure. She offers one-to-one coaching, advisory work and team workshops.
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| Coach | Focus | Hourly rate range |
|---|---|---|
| Bryce Meredig | Startups and founders and Scaling and growth | $90 to $175 an hour |
| Chris Cameron | Scaling and growth and Operations and systems | $100 to $250 an hour |
| Mirza Iqbal | Operations and systems and Startups and founders | $80 to $175 an hour |
| Dan Corin | Coach helping professionals and teams build software with AI | $85 to $175 an hour |
| Neela Deshpande | Scaling and growth and Operations and systems | $85 to $160 an hour |
| Vaishnavi More | Startups and founders and Scaling and growth | $80 to $160 an hour |
| Wiley Welch | Startups and founders | $80 to $160 an hour |
| Marcus Blankenship | Scaling and growth and Leadership and team building | $125 to $300 an hour |
| Jennifer Kent | Startups and founders and Women entrepreneurs | $80 to $160 an hour |
| Liubov Kaskova | Coaches and consultants | $100 to $190 an hour |
| Jeff Schuster | Scaling and growth and Leadership and team building | $125 to $300 an hour |
| Ali A. | Startups and founders | $90 to $175 an hour |
| Priyanka | Startups and founders | $90 to $175 an hour |
| Vasu R. | Startups and founders | $100 to $175 an hour |
| Alex H. | Startups and founders | $75 to $150 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, leadership and team building, operations and systems 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.