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Compare 115 business coaches. Besides their main focus, the most common focus areas are startups and founders, leadership and team building, marketing and sales. They most often work with students, professionals and founders and business owners. Most charge $95 to $225 per hour or session.
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Chris Jacob
Chris Jacob is a product marketing coach and mentor who helps startup founders build and grow their businesses. He has been a founder and global executive at tech and SaaS companies including Salesforce, Adobe, Jive and Gravity, with 2 exits. He now runs Data+AI and mentors at Score. He also teaches financial literacy in New York City public high schools and mentors 80 startups at a time.
Kenya Hoover
Kenya Hoover is a business and executive coach who helps leaders and entrepreneurs grow their companies. She is CEO and co-founder of We Power Executives. She has over 20 years of experience in sales, business development, operations leadership and team building. She works with creative entrepreneurs and Fortune 500 leaders. She holds a Lean Six Sigma Green Belt in Diversity and Inclusion and builds teams around lean methods.
Lisa Tsou
Lisa Tsou is an advisor and coach for startup founders and students. She came to coaching after a long finance career on Wall Street. She mentored startups with Techstars, CTIP and the Greif Center at USC. She ran the coaching program at Women Founders Network for seven years. Since 2013, alumnae of that accelerator have raised over $100 million in funding. She also helps students build strong college applications using story and strategy.
Alaina Hartley
Alaina Hartley is a venture capital coach who helps startup founders, people breaking into venture capital and management consulting, and college applicants. She worked as a Principal at Greycroft, where she led pre-seed and seed consumer products investments from October 2022 to June 2025. Before that she worked as an investor and consultant. She also held roles at Disney, Snapchat and Wells Fargo Securities. She has guided several students through college applications.
Loren Stoddard
Loren Stoddard is an AI automation expert who teaches business students how to build automation workflows with Claude Code. He also runs private coaching for students on their internships and work opportunities. He builds the automations approach at Leland, where he automates work in sales, growth and data. He designed the training program for BYU's boot camp. It serves students with technical and non-technical backgrounds.
Parina Daswaney
Parina Daswaney is a business operations and strategy coach who also mentors students and early career professionals, especially international students. She worked in strategy and operations at Wayfair and DoorDash, and she consults for venture capital firms in the beauty and consumer sector. She runs Blog Beauty Boss, where she interviews beauty founders such as Kate Somerville and Ron Robinson. She studied business at Babson College.
John Linford
John Linford coaches startup founders and college students on building with AI and developing products. He is Head of Product at a company building a hybrid AI mental wellness platform. He also co-founded Deckability, which designs pitch decks for CEOs. At The Social Venture Academy, he mentored student founders on ideas, validation and go-to-market plans. He coached dozens of them to win tens of thousands in grant funding from BYU's Ballard Center for Social Impact.
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.
AJ Hicks
AJ Hicks is a business and life coach in Missouri. He works with entrepreneurs, executives, coaches and people looking for purpose, and he also coaches on marriage and family. He grew up on the Westside of St. Louis and started his first business at age 13. He has sold in retail, business to business and telesales, and has managed stores for three national brands. He is also an ordained pastor and consecrated bishop.
Cyndy McDonald
Cyndy McDonald is a college admissions counselor in Visalia, California. She helps students and parents plan and prepare for college. She is a credentialed school counselor who has worked at the high school and middle school levels. She holds leadership roles in WACAC and founded HECA. She also runs The College Counselor's Coach, where she helps other college counselors grow their practices. She hosts a free Zoom series called Friday Forums.
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.
Abhilasha Jha
Abhilasha Jha is a business and career coach in India who works with professionals who feel stuck and want to move forward. She spent over 21 years as an HR leader and was Vice President of HR at Accenture. She has coached for over 850 hours and holds the ICF Professional Certified Coach credential. Her clients include mid and senior level leaders, academics and students across many industries.
Al Robinette
Al Robinette is a career and leadership coach who helps professionals, managers and executives plan their next career step. He also consults for businesses. He is the founder of Career Path Consulting & Development and has more than 20 years of experience. He moved from an hourly front-line job to an executive role in corporate business. He is an Industrial and Organizational Psychology practitioner and uses behavioral assessments in his coaching.
Albert Choi
Albert Choi is an admissions consultant who helps students and professionals apply to MBA programs, colleges and other graduate schools. He has coached for nearly two decades, starting with tutoring at age 15. He holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and worked in strategy consulting at Deloitte. His clients have been admitted to schools such as Harvard, Stanford GSB, Yale Law and Princeton. He keeps his client roster small.
Alessandro Voltolini
Alessandro Voltolini is a management consulting coach who helps people prepare for MBB interviews and wider career moves. He is a former McKinsey Senior Engagement Manager who assessed hundreds of candidates and led interviewer training and calibration. He also received offers from all three MBB firms as a candidate. He has held leadership roles at HappyFresh and Grab. He coaches through realistic interview simulations with direct feedback.
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.
Allyson Dhindsa
Allyson Dhindsa is a career coach who helps students and professionals work out what they want and how to get there. She has spent about a decade supporting students in engineering, public policy and business. She worked at NYU Stern as a career coach and later as Senior Associate Director. She also founded worklifecircle, which runs Circle, a group coaching platform that mixes personal growth with career strategy.
Andrea L.
Andrea L. coaches people who want to break into investment banking and finance, and people who want to do well once they are in the job. Andrea worked as an investment banking associate at Evercore for 3 years and co-founded FeGi M&A Services in Milan. Andrea has screened 100+ resumes and helped 50+ people join the investment banking industry. Andrea also ran mock interview sessions with ESCP Business School students.
Andrew Glaze
Andrew Glaze is a private equity and finance coach who works with students, professionals, founders and finance candidates. He coaches private equity, investment banking, asset management, CFA preparation, AI for sales and marketing, and career development. He is a West Point graduate, a former Army officer, and a CFA charterholder with a Columbia MBA. He is also Chief Investment Officer at Equitable Capital, a media-focused private equity firm.
Aneri Shah
Aneri Shah is a product marketing coach who helps people build careers in product management, marketing and customer success. She leads the B2B Marketing team at Ethos, a Series D fintech startup. Before that she spent 12 years in product marketing leadership at Meta, Microsoft, Glassdoor and Clever. She has coached for 10 years and helped 50+ clients land jobs and grow in their roles. She also coaches international students and people with visa sponsorship questions.
Anish Rudra
Anish Rudra coaches people who want to break into quantitative finance. He helps students, career changers, and people moving up from mid-tier firms. He works as an Analyst at D.E. Shaw and has worked at Balyasny Asset Management, NVIDIA, and EY-Parthenon. He also leads strategic projects at Specific Labs. His clients have landed roles at firms like Citadel, Two Sigma, and Jane Street. He coaches from recent recruiting experience.
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.
Candace B.
Candace B. is an executive career coach and certified resume writer in Birmingham. She helps leaders with resumes, interviews, career changes, salary talks and leadership moves. She has worked one-on-one with over 1000 leaders and has more than 30 years in C-suite and board-level recruiting. Her clients have landed roles at Apple, Amazon, Deloitte, McKinsey and PayPal. She is one of 10 resume writers recommended by Heller Search Associates.
Charlie Paradis
Charlie Paradis is a coach for people who want to break into growth equity, venture capital, private equity, and related investing roles. He spent 3 years at Summit Partners as a technology investor and was promoted early. He also spent a year at Griffin Gaming Partners, where he looked at early-stage gaming deals. He taught a semester-long venture capital course to over 100 undergraduates at Harvard. He coaches on investor interviews, investment memos, and case studies.
Chris Cooper
Chris Cooper is an Atlanta coach who works with executives and high-potential leaders on executive presence, leadership and cross-cultural communication. He also coaches in life and business. He founded Execute Your Passion, LLC and wrote two books, Achieve Your Dreams and Get Sh*t Done. He has led over 15,000 coaching sessions and given over 5,000 presentations. His clients live on 5 continents. He also trains other coaches, speakers and authors.
Chris Esposo
Chris Esposo coaches people who want to break into data science and AI, prepare for graduate school, or turn a nontraditional background into a clear story. He is a Principal level data scientist and applied AI researcher with 13 years of industry experience. He has worked on national political campaigns and at IBM and Nielsen. He also co-authored an ICML paper on LLM reasoning. He has mentored and taught at bootcamps for years.
Connor Owens
Connor Owens is a product management coach who helps people with tech careers, MBA plans and master's program applications. He worked five years in tech at Google, Nest, YouTube, Facebook and Tesla before earning his MBA at Stanford GSB. He has been a product manager at YouTube and Tesla. He also held roles in venture investing, consulting and policy. He now runs his own startup.
Dan Silver
Dan Silver is a leadership and career coach who works with college students, small business leaders and people in large companies. He spent over 30 years in business, including time as a division president at Panasonic. He earned his coaching certification in 2016. He also leads a student cohort at Rutgers University and trains new coaches to run cohorts. He has special skills coaching expat managers working in the USA.
David Beecher
David Beecher is an independent education consultant in Madison, Connecticut. He advises families on prep and boarding school placement, college admissions, athletic recruiting, and students with learning differences. He co-founded Sound Consulting with Chrissie Pape. He is a former college athlete, a former NCAA Division 1 coach and athletic administrator, and spent 9 years as a Director of Admission. He also leads Prep Hockey Advisors, a division of the firm.
Deepak Gupta
Deepak Gupta is a startup careers coach who helps MBA students, founders and professionals. He has spent more than 15 years as a venture capitalist and worked as a four-time startup operator through two IPOs. He also serves as a fractional CFO. His investments include OpenAI, Ayar Labs, Coreshell, Trulia, Ancestry and Box. He has advised hundreds of clients over the past 11 years on pay, startup roles, company building and venture capital careers.
Dessy K.
Dessy K. is a career coach for people who want to break into or move up in product management. She also works with management consultants and managers of product managers. Dessy is a Senior Product Leader at TikTok and worked at Amazon and Bukalapak. She has coached more than 100 professionals and students, and past mentees have received offers from TikTok, Meta, Google and Amazon. She has reviewed over 2,000 resumes.
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.
Gena Lester
Dr. Gena Lester is an independent educational consultant in Livingston, Texas. She helps teens and parents through the college admissions process. She has guided hundreds of students. Her students get into top universities and earn scholarships. She wrote a Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestseller about admissions. She also runs Edprenuer, a hub that helps education consultants build online businesses. She combines an education and psychology background in her work.
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.
Jonathan Chizick
Jonathan Chizick is an MBA career coach and job search strategist who helps professionals with career pivots. He spent 20 years in tech as a founder and first business hire at multiple startups. He scaled enterprise customers 10X and built Marketing and GTM teams that doubled revenue in under a year. He now coaches MBA students at Texas McCombs School of Business. He also writes a weekly newsletter for people changing careers.
Joseph Kemp
Joseph Kemp is an admissions consultant who helps people apply to law school, MBA programs and master's programs. He also advises founders. He has worked on admissions at the University of Michigan and Carnegie Mellon University. He holds a JD and MBA from Michigan and a master's in education from Penn. He co-founded JMK & Co., a firm for unconventional students.
Kanishka Elupula
Kanishka Elupula is a PhD admissions consultant and life coach. Kanishka helps people apply to graduate programs and work through career and life decisions. Kanishka holds a PhD in Anthropology from Harvard and spent nearly a decade on its campus. Past work includes energy research, entrepreneurship and academia. Kanishka also performs stand-up comedy and uses storytelling to help clients shape their personal narratives.
Kathy Lai
Kathy Lai is an investment banking coach who helps students prepare for banking interviews. She spent over ten years in banking at JPMorgan, Blackstone and Lincoln International, working on mergers and acquisitions, capital raises and restructuring. She later co-founded two companies and raised $40m in VC funding. She now works as a fractional CFO for start-ups. Her students have landed offers at Goldman Sachs, Jefferies and Morgan Stanley.
Katie J. Adriano
Katie J. Adriano is an executive and team coach in the Philippines. She helps leadership teams find what gets in the way of good decisions and strong teamwork. She founded KJA Gaiety Solutions and has more than 20 years in leadership, HR and operations. She created the Team Impact Index, a report that measures how a leadership team works together. She also coaches individuals, from college students to executive leaders, with a focus on diversity and inclusion.
Katya Evchenko
Katya Evchenko is a venture capital coach who helps people break into VC. She is a VC investor at BGV, an early-stage fund focused on Enterprise AI. She holds a Stanford MBA and worked at McKinsey before moving into venture. She helps clients with resumes, interviews, and deciding on the right route into the field. She has worked with more than 10 venture capital clients, including international students and people before or after an MBA.
Kelly LaBuff
Kelly LaBuff is an MBA and college admissions consultant who also coaches on career moves. Kelly works as a Principal at Antler, a global pre-seed VC firm, and led 8 investments in 2024. Kelly holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a mechanical engineering degree from Stanford. Kelly has coached for 1,620 minutes on that platform.
Kris Nagdev
Kris Nagdev coaches people who want to break into management consulting and private equity or venture capital roles. He is an Associate Consultant at Bain & Company in San Francisco, in the Private Equity Group. He has worked on 20+ due diligence projects for investors. He got offers from all three MBB firms after two months of prep.
Laurie Greenberg
Laurie Greenberg is an accountability and burnout coach in Michigan. She works with individuals, entrepreneurs, managers and college students. Before coaching, she spent 20 years as a clinical pharmacist, and she brings a science-based view to her work. Her clients include the franchise 1-800-GOT-JUNK and the national insurer Cincinnati Financial Insurance Company, along with smaller regional businesses. She trained at the IPEC school of coaching.
Mack Meyer
Mack Meyer is a venture capital coach who helps people break into VC and helps founders raise money. He played two seasons in the San Francisco Giants organization before moving into tech after his baseball career ended. He is an angel investor in startups across Latin America and an LP in a pre-seed fund that invests in the region. He also runs a content business for founders, startups and investors. He coaches career changers and current or former athletes.
Margaret Rothe
Margaret Rothe is an independent college counselor in Redwood City, California. She helps students and parents plan for college applications, from 9th grade through college. She spent over 20 years working on college campuses, mostly in student affairs and university housing. She taught First Year Experience to college freshmen. She also built CounselMore, a software platform for college counselors, and mentors other independent counselors on running their practices.
Mariana Ocano
Mariana Ocano coaches MBA applicants and people trying to break into consulting. She is a Consultant at Boston Consulting Group and works on marketing, pricing, revenue management and growth strategy for travel and hospitality companies. She spent 2.5 years at Deloitte before that. She earned admission to five M7 business schools and will start at Stanford GSB in the Class of 2028. At BCG she serves in recruiting leadership roles and has interviewed candidates at several levels.
Mat Winterholler
Mat Winterholler coaches people who want to break into corporate development. Mat helps clients understand the recruiting landscape, build job skills, and land roles at target companies. Mat helps lead corporate development at a PE-backed GovTech software business. Mat built an M&A function from scratch at a SaaS company and closed three acquisitions that helped triple its growth in two years. Mat has coached 20+ corporate development clients.
Michelle Schwartzman
Michelle Schwartzman coaches people who want to break into venture capital, get into business school, or move into tech. She is a product manager at Google and a former investor at three VC firms. She moved from finance, consulting and business development into tech herself. Her clients have landed PM internships at Big Tech and startups, and analyst roles at leading VC funds, including some from non-target schools.
Natalie Lundsteen
Natalie Lundsteen is an educational consultant who helps people with graduate, professional and medical school admissions. She also advises PhD students and postdoctoral researchers on their careers. She has worked in higher education for over 20 years and holds a DPhil in Education from Oxford University. Her doctoral research followed students through summer internships in investment banking. She also advises businesses and organizations on graduate recruitment and internship programs.
Nathan Ricks
Nathan Ricks coaches students and bankers who want to work in venture capital or on the buyside. He started in investment banking at Goldman Sachs, then worked as a venture capitalist at G2 Venture Partners, a spinout fund of Kleiner Perkins. He later moved into startup operations, leading monetization strategy and operations at Via, a marketing software company. He also co-founded DIY Solar and serves as its CEO.
Peter Harris
Peter Harris is a venture capital coach who helps people break into VC, raise money, and sharpen their investor skills. He is a founding partner at University Growth Fund, where he leads sourcing, diligence, and portfolio work. He has made over 100 investments as a VC and angel, including Airbnb, Spotify, Lyft, and OpenAI. He has recruited and mentored over 500 students through the fund's program.
Robert Tignor
Robert Tignor is a career coach in Richmond, Virginia. He runs People First Coach, LLC. He helps college students, recent graduates and early career professionals with resumes and job searches. He also coaches new leaders and small business owners on managing people. He holds an MBA and a psychology degree, and he is ICF certified. He wrote the book From Uncertainty to Impact and offers a free app called LevelUP.
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.
Shane Duquette
Shane Duquette is a muscle-building coach who helps skinny men, hardgainers and skinny-fat guys gain weight, get stronger and build muscle. He co-founded Bony to Beastly, Bony to Bombshell and Outlift. He gained 55 pounds in a little over two years himself. His teams have helped over 13,000 skinny people build muscle. Clients range from college students to senior citizens, and from office workers to Olympic athletes.
Varun Desai
Varun Desai is a management consulting coach who helps students and working professionals break into top consulting firms. He is a former strategy consultant at Oliver Wyman and now works in strategy and ops at LinkedIn. He has coached dozens of people from non-target schools who landed roles at McKinsey, Bain, BCG and Oliver Wyman. He is a first-generation immigrant who broke into consulting through networking and interviews.
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.
Zack Doherty
Zack Doherty is an admissions consultant and career coach. He helps clients with MBA applications, college applications and career pivots. He turns each client's experiences into a clear story. Zack is a Marine Corps officer with a Stanford MBA and a philosophy degree from Dartmouth. He captained the Dartmouth swimming and diving team and later served as Chief Revenue Officer at a startup. He focuses on people with nontraditional paths.
Amy Boyd
Amy Boyd is a coach who helps doctoral and master's students finish their dissertations and theses. She also trains new coaches. She is a former K-12 educational leader. Since 2018 she has helped over 17,000 students make progress on their writing. She works from Maryland and runs three brands, including a podcast for high performing women.
Becky Song
Becky Song is an MBA admissions consultant and career coach. She helps applicants get into MBA, master's and college programs, and helps professionals land consulting, strategy and business roles. She holds a Wharton MBA and was a Wharton admissions fellow. She has coached more than 500 candidates through career moves, resumes, interviews and consulting recruiting. Her own path includes work as an actuary, nonprofit leader and strategy consultant.
Constantine Alexander S
Constantine Alexander S is a life and confidence coach who works online with clients around the world. He focuses on introverts, from young adults to people in midlife. He coaches on life purpose, confidence and relationships. He holds a BA and an MSc and is currently doing PhD studies. His methods draw on CBT, ACT and positive psychology. He is based in Greece and holds several coaching certifications, including forgiveness, mindset and NLP.
David Ajoku
David Ajoku is a career coach who helps immigrants and international students break into top tech companies in the United States. He built his own career at Apple, NVIDIA, and Tesla after arriving on an F-1 visa. He also earned an EB-2 National Interest Waiver green card. His coaching covers career positioning, professional narrative, and how career choices affect long-term immigration. He founded Demystifyd, a platform for international professionals.
Deborah Jordan
Deborah Jordan is a performance, career and business coach in Johannesburg, South Africa. She helps people who want a change, a new direction and a stronger sense of purpose. She is a former senior executive and a Gallup Certified Strengths Coach. Her sessions use the online Gallup assessment and report. She works with graduates, female entrepreneurs and new managers, and she coaches remotely on Teams and Zoom.
Emily Maguire
Emily Maguire is a career coach and business consultant for people in TV, film, media and the creative industries. She helps students, graduates and professionals find work, change careers and grow small businesses. She has over 20 years of mentoring experience and has delivered over 1,000 hours of coaching worldwide. Her past work spans retail, banking, healthcare and education. She also offers a mentoring program built for actors.
Gaurav C.
Gaurav C. coaches product managers, software engineers and founders on their careers and interview preparation. He was a Group Product Manager at PayPal and a Product Lead at Grab, where he built payment products for consumers. Earlier, he helped scale Spotify to new markets across Europe. He has worked in Sweden, the US and Singapore. He helps engineers, designers and product marketers move into product management roles.
Julianne Kuhlmann
Julianne Kuhlmann is an Australian executive and leadership coach who helps senior managers, executives and emerging leaders. She has spent 20+ years coaching individuals, teams, artists and entrepreneurs. Her focus is transition management and business capacity building. She also has over 15 years of experience across non-profit and corporate sectors. She runs JK Leaders, which offers one-on-one coaching, group programs and career coaching.
Keith Gelhorn
Keith Gelhorn is an ADHD and executive function coach who helps neurodivergent youth and adults. He founded ADDvocacy in 2012 after a late diagnosis of ADHD, anxiety and learning disabilities at age 34. He still coaches while running the business, and he has coached hundreds of people. His team works with students from high school through PhD, apprentices, entrepreneurs and adults in career change. Every coach on the team is neurodivergent.
Larry G. Maguire
Larry G. Maguire is a work and organisational psychologist in Dublin, Ireland. He coaches senior leaders, business executives, business owners and career people who want clarity and direction in their work. He runs the Human Performance practice, which teaches mental skills like composure under pressure, decision-making and resilience. He also hosts a podcast and writes articles on the psychology of performance. His coaching focuses on the person, not the business functions.
Pujan Joshi
Pujan Joshi is an MBA admissions consultant and startup recruiting coach. He helps prospective students target M7 business schools. He also helps MBAs, consultants, and operators move into BizOps and Chief of Staff roles at startups. He is Chief of Staff at Arch, a Series B company. He earned his MBA at Kellogg, where he was an Admissions Liaison, and he worked at Deloitte Consulting before that.
Rhonda Daley
Rhonda Daley is a life, entrepreneurship and career coach in Walnut Creek, California. She helps people who feel stuck, are in a transition, or are starting a business. She has over 10 years of coaching experience and 20-plus years in business and startup settings. She holds an MBA and an MA in psychology. All of her sessions are held online, and her clients come from all over the world.
Victor Cheng
Victor Cheng is a case interview coach who helps students and professionals get consulting job offers. He is a former McKinsey consultant, resume screener and case interviewer. He passed 60 of 61 case interviews and landed 7 offers. He also wrote a book on getting multiple consulting offers that has sold over 77,000 copies.
Wilbanks Consulting Group
Wilbanks Consulting Group is a career and leadership coaching firm for professionals and executives. The team helps clients change careers, move up, and run a job search. The firm is woman-owned and has worked with mid to executive level leaders for over 10 years. Its team includes certified HR professionals, career and leadership coaches, and writers. It also serves companies, colleges, professional associations, and nonprofits across the country.
Yash Singri
Yash Singri is a management consulting coach. He helps undergraduates, recent graduates and graduate students break into McKinsey, Bain, BCG and other consulting firms. He worked at Bain for 4 years on M&A and growth strategy. He also sat on Bain's admissions team, where he read 400+ applications and had a direct role in hiring decisions. He started as a peak performance coach for entrepreneurs and athletes. He also runs a leadership coaching practice for founders and teams.
Abu Rogers
Abu Rogers is an advisor who helps people apply for prestigious scholarships and fellowships, MBA programs, and medical school. He came to the U.S. from Sierra Leone as a first-generation college student on an F-1 visa. He handled the medical school process as a non-citizen. He is earning his MD and has served on Stanford Medicine admissions. He also worked as a teaching assistant for a Lean Launchpad course with Steve Blank.
Alan Young
Alan Young is a management consulting coach who also helps prospective medical students and startup founders. He holds an MD and an MBA. He worked as a surgical physician at Kaiser Permanente and built a consulting career at Deloitte, Accenture, Slalom, McKinsey & Company and Point B. He taught MCAT and GMAT prep for Kaplan. He now mentors UCLA undergraduates and advises founders in healthcare technology, artificial intelligence and data analytics.
Annette Nguyen
Annette Nguyen is a career coach who helps students, early career and experienced professionals land interviews and job offers. She also works full time in business development and partnerships. She builds strategic partnerships at Walmart in retail media. Before that she worked at Viant Technology and Disney Advertising. Her clients have landed roles at JP Morgan, Robinhood, Disney, Amazon, Google, Netflix and Microsoft.
Bella Vandenberg
Bella Vandenberg is a management consulting coach who helps students and young professionals with college admissions and career goals. She is a Bain consultant and a Cornell graduate. At Cornell she advised undergraduates through Career Services on resumes, cover letters and mock interviews. She also has deep experience tutoring for the ACT and SAT. She has coached clients into their dream schools and top internships, including a client admitted to Brown University.
Ben Hokenson
Ben Hokenson is a career, college admissions and entrepreneurship coach. Since 2020, he has worked with 100+ one-on-one clients from 20+ countries and six corporate clients in four countries. He spent 466 hours as an advisor at Crimson Education with 60+ clients. He is a venture fellow and serial founder. He has consulted for Goldman Sachs and Molson Coors, and he has helped clients win pitch competitions and get into schools like Harvard, Stanford, Brown and MIT.
Derek Ewald
Derek Ewald is a management consulting coach who helps people prepare for consulting recruiting and build strategy skills. He worked as a management consultant at Bain & Company and helped with its recruiting. He reviewed resumes and ran interviews there. He now serves as Chief of Staff to the CEO and VP of Strategy & Corporate Development at BioLite, an energy social enterprise.
Endeavor Executive
Endeavor Executive is the executive job search arm of Endeavor Agency. The team coaches executives, VPs and senior managers through job searches and industry pivots. Services cover resume updates, online profiles, interview practice and contract negotiation. The agency has worked with job seekers for more than 15 years. It also runs separate tracks for managers, new graduates and outplacement, plus business consulting and executive coaching for leaders who feel stuck.
James Monaco
James Monaco is an executive and career coach who works with startup founders and MBA candidates. He is also a senior finance and strategy leader. He is a Vice President at Triumvirate Environmental, where he leads strategy, M&A, corporate development, finance, and growth. Before that he led finance and M&A at Farmers Business Network. He founded and sold a fintech company, Harvest Global, and raised capital from Silicon Valley investors.
Side by side
| Coach | Focus | Hourly rate range |
|---|---|---|
| Chris Jacob | Scaling and growth and Sales | $85 to $160 an hour |
| Kenya Hoover | Scaling and growth and Sales | $115 to $175 an hour |
| Lisa Tsou | Startups and founders and Women entrepreneurs | $90 to $175 an hour |
| Alaina Hartley | Startups and founders | $80 to $160 an hour |
| Loren Stoddard | Operations and systems and Startups and founders | $80 to $160 an hour |
| Parina Daswaney | Operations and systems and Startups and founders | $80 to $160 an hour |
| John Linford | Startups and founders | $80 to $160 an hour |
| Anne Miles | Startups and founders and Marketing | $80 to $175 an hour |
| AJ Hicks | Startups and founders and Sales | $190 to $275 an hour |
| Cyndy McDonald | Coaches and consultants | $150 to $225 an hour |
| Vasu R. | Startups and founders | $100 to $175 an hour |
| Abhilasha Jha | Leadership and team building and Startups and founders | $125 to $230 an hour |
| Al Robinette | Leadership and team building | $100 to $175 an hour |
| Albert Choi | Startups and founders and Operations and systems | $70 to $130 an hour |
| Alessandro Voltolini | Management consulting interview coach and former McKinsey interviewer | $90 to $175 an hour |
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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, marketing and sales.
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.