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Compare 133 business coaches. Besides their main focus, the most common focus areas are startups and founders, leadership and team building, marketing and women entrepreneurs. 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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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Anthony Aramini
Anthony Aramini is a Bayonne, New Jersey coach who works with 18 to 36 year old college students and entrepreneurs on building an online business.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Mat Winterholler
Mat Winterholler coaches people who want to break into corporate development. He 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. He built an M&A function from scratch at a SaaS company and closed three acquisitions that helped triple its growth in two years. He 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Keith Gelhorn
The team works one on one and in groups with neurodivergent youth and adults who struggle with executive functioning. Keith won the 2013 EDN Entrepreneur of the Year award and trained at ADD Coach Academy. Sessions run by phone or video across North America. Every coach on the team is also neurodivergent.
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.
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.
Enzo Battaglia
Enzo Battaglia is a law school admissions consultant who also coaches on college applications and new ventures. He is a law student at Columbia. He studied government and sociology at Hamilton College and was admitted to law school after three years of undergrad. He helped revive a 50-year partnership between Hamilton and Columbia Law School. He also took part in startup programs at MIT.
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.
Jason Chen
Jason Chen is a venture capital coach who helps people break into venture and build startups. He was a partner at Contrary, an investment firm, from 2019 to 2025. He led deals in Orchard Robotics, Nomic and Endeavor AI. He is now a board partner and advisor and keeps angel investing in companies like Ramp and Clara. He also started two companies of his own, Vesper and PareUp.
Josh Angle
Josh Angle is a management consulting coach who helps people with career moves and college admissions. He worked at Bain & Company for 9 years and led case teams there from 2012 to 2021. He later moved from consulting into marketing. He also worked as a tutor and college advisor for at-risk high school students.
Margaret Rothe
Margaret Rothe is an independent college admissions counselor in Redwood City, California. She helps students and parents prepare college applications. She spent over 20 years working on college campuses in student affairs and lived in university housing for most of her career. She taught First Year Experience to freshmen and weighed admissions against enrollment goals. She also built CounselMore, a software platform for college counselors.
Nathan Leary
Nathan Leary is an ACT and SAT tutor who helps high school students prepare for standardized admissions tests. He teaches algebra and SAT prep at a school with many low-income and immigrant students. He scored a 33 and a 35 on the ACT himself. He has worked with teenagers for ten years, starting with piano lessons at age 13. He is also an MBA applicant studying for the GMAT.
Audrey Tao
Audrey Tao is a career coach who helps people prepare for recruiting at top consulting, tech and finance companies. She is a former management consultant and worked in business operations and strategy at DoorDash. She is now a full-time MBA student at Columbia Business School. She has coached 15+ candidates who landed roles at top firms. Her coaching covers case interviews, SQL and technical screens, and resume screening.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Katelyn Klapper
Katelyn Klapper is an independent educational consultant who helps students and parents with college admissions. She leads College Options, a team practice based in Fort Collins, Colorado, that serves families nationwide. The team has a combined 70+ years in education and admissions work. It has used a team approach for more than 15 years. Katelyn also runs a business coaching service for other independent educational consultants.
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.
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.
Michele Zanirato
Michele Zanirato is a GMAT and SAT tutor who also coaches students on investment banking recruiting. Michele scored 755 on the GMAT and 1570 on the SAT. Michele has held investment banking summer analyst roles at BNP Paribas and Bank of America in London, and has an incoming role at Goldman Sachs. Michele co-founded an edtech startup and a clothing brand, and studies at HEC Paris.
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.
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. She is a lawyer turned coach and the founder of Career Unicorns. She was a big law attorney, then Director of Employer Outreach at Berkeley Law. She has coached more than 1,000 lawyers, tech workers, and leaders. Her 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.
Shayna Bergman
Shayna Bergman is a leadership and burnout coach who works with parents in executive and leadership roles. She spent years in HR before coaching full-time, including a role as HR Business Partner at a global professional services firm. She also helped build the HR department at a legal start-up. She taught executive coaching and public speaking as an adjunct professor at NYU and George Washington University. Her clients range from C-suite leaders to students.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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| Coach | Focus | Hourly rate range |
|---|---|---|
| Alaina Hartley | 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 |
| Chris Jacob | Scaling and growth and Sales | $85 to $160 an hour |
| Anne Miles | Startups and founders and Marketing | $80 to $175 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 |
| AJ Hicks | Startups and founders and Sales | $190 to $275 an hour |
| Loren Stoddard | Operations and systems and Startups and founders | $80 to $160 an hour |
| Anthony Aramini | Startups and founders and Ecommerce | $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 |
| 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 |
| Alisha O. | Startups and founders and Scaling and growth | $90 to $175 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, marketing and women entrepreneurs.
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