Business coaches for startups and founders
Compare 1,187 business coaches who focus on startups and founders. Besides startups and founders, the most common focus areas are scaling and growth, leadership and team building, operations and systems and marketing. They most often work with founders and business owners, executives and professionals. Most charge $112 to $252 per hour or session.
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Brian Gladden
Brian Gladden is an EOS Implementer who coaches small and mid-sized business owners on building and running a stronger company. He worked 27 years in sales before he moved into strategy and innovation. He founded the Strategy & Innovation Institute and teaches entrepreneurship at Sac State. He has mentored over 100 startup founders and coached more than 50 small business teams. He also runs CEO and CFO peer groups. He serves clients in Sacramento, Fresno and Reno.
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.
Jim Tormey
Jim Tormey is a search fund and Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition (ETA) advisor who guides people through buying and running a business. He spent 7 years leading companies for a San Francisco private equity firm and was CEO of two private equity backed companies. He then ran his own self-funded search, submitted an LOI six months in, and closed two months later. He has run that business since June 2024. He also speaks at SMBootCamp.
Lisa Robbin Young
Lisa Robbin Young is a business and accountability coach who helps creative entrepreneurs, founders and leaders. She has coached for over 20 years and worked in the performing arts for over 30 years. She founded Ark Entertainment Media, a business growth consultancy for creatives. She also works with leaders and teams on high-stakes decisions when the path is unclear. She is an award-winning speaker, best-selling author and musician, and hosts Creative Freedom.
Mark C. Winters
Mark C. Winters is an Expert EOS Implementer who coaches entrepreneurs and their leadership teams. He has led over 1,000 sessions across many industries. He co-wrote Rocket Fuel with Gino Wickman and wrote Visionary. He also hosts the Rocket Fuel Podcast and founded Rocket Fuel University. His work centers on the partnership between the Visionary and the Integrator. He is based in Irving, Texas.
Ted Bradshaw
Ted Bradshaw is an Expert EOS Implementer in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. He helps business leaders build aligned teams and stay focused on clear goals. Ted started his career at Xerox and IBM, then bought a struggling company and made it profitable. He has started and led five companies. He also serves as Community Leader for EOS Worldwide, where he trains new EOS Implementers.
Aaron Gabriel
Aaron Gabriel is a business and accountability coach who works with investors, entrepreneurs, and tech professionals. He is a 7-figure entrepreneur and investor with an MBA in accounting and 13 years of program management experience. His core skills are real estate investing, small business acquisitions, program management, and financial planning. He coaches through a 90-day process built on weekly check-ins and habit building.
Adam Dexter
Adam Dexter is an executive coach and advisor for startup founders, CEOs, CxOs, and executive teams. He has coached more than 100 founders from pre-seed through Series C. He cofounded Omni, a VC-backed storage and logistics company, and sold it to Coinbase in 2019. He goes deep on cofounder relationships and trust repair. He also mentors with Techstars and StartOut.
Adam Kaplan
Adam Kaplan is a Certified EOS Implementer in Royal Oak, Michigan. He helps business owners and leadership teams build a clear system to run their companies and grow. He has used EOS since 2014. He was COO and Integrator at a dental services firm that sold at a 10x multiple. He also started his own executive search firm. He works with clients in healthcare and professional services.
Adrian Dayton
Adrian Dayton is a business coach and certified EOS Implementer who helps entrepreneurs grow their companies and turn employees into leaders. He founded and sold two companies, including the software company Clearview Social. He chairs the EO Accelerator for the State of Utah, where he coaches young companies toward $1MM in annual revenue. He also helps larger companies set a clear vision, use EOS tools, and get ready to sell. He is based in Cottonwood Heights, Utah.
Alex Zah
Alex Zah is a business and executive coach in Spain who works with entrepreneurs, solopreneurs, business owners and creators. He spent 12 years building his own businesses and made a 7-figure exit before moving into coaching. He uses brain-based techniques, executive ontological coaching and the Lefkoe method. His focus is inner blocks that hold back business results, such as procrastination, poor time management and burnout.
Alexander Celie
Alexander Celie is an EOS Implementer and coach in the Netherlands. He helps entrepreneurs and their leadership teams grow and scale their businesses. He comes from business and technology, where he led teams of 30 to 180 people in a company with $20M in revenue. In the past 11 years his clients have ranged from small firms with 10 employees to billion dollar international organizations. He uses EOS as the base system for his work.
Alice Wu
Alice Wu is a creative business coach who works with artists, designers and creative entrepreneurs on their careers and businesses. She is also a working artist, designer, arts administrator and independent curator. From 2002 to 2015 she ran an experimental fashion project in New York City. She has taught and lectured in Denmark, Qatar and Azerbaijan. She holds an ACC credential from the ICF and lives and works in Oakland, California.
Allen Cobb
Allen Cobb is an EOS Implementer who helps business leadership teams align priorities, run with discipline, and get better results. He has co-founded four companies and spent over ten years as an Integrator before becoming an implementer. He has run on EOS since 2011. He has led more than 700 sessions with over 50 companies. He serves clients in Raleigh, Greensboro, and Wilmington, North Carolina.
Amanda Baudier
Amanda Baudier is a burnout coach and business coach who helps founders, C-suite executives, new entrepreneurs and creatives. She has worked as a startup executive three times and teaches mindfulness. Her coaching helps clients build businesses, lead teams and keep a joyful life. She holds an executive coaching certification from NYU and training in nutrition, meditation, yoga therapy and somatic healing. She records meditation and breathwork audio for clients to use between sessions.
Amy Buechler
Amy Buechler is a founder coach who helps venture-backed founders build emotional, management, and leadership skills. She founded Scale Yourself, a content and coaching platform. She spent nearly five years at Y Combinator as its first Batch Director and later as its in-house founder coach. She is also a licensed psychotherapist who trained for nine years to earn her clinical license. Her work draws on a decade of coaching YC founders.
Andrea Young
Andrea Young is a Certified EOS Implementer who coaches entrepreneurs and leadership teams in Decatur, Georgia. She is a former Coca-Cola VP and co-founder of a family business. She has launched two $1B brands and has led or launched more than 30 global brands. She has also built two businesses to sale. She has coached entrepreneurs for over 10 years and helps teams grow with clear structure and strong people.
Andrew Clemence
Andrew Clemence is a London business, leadership and career coach. He works with founders, business leaders and mid-career professionals on clarity, confidence and performance. He is a former business owner, entrepreneur and corporate executive. He has led start-ups and supported companies through international growth from £7M to £4B. He also helped SME owners scale, internationalize and float their companies. He coaches clients across the UK, Europe and the Middle East.
Andrew Clemence
Andrew Clemence is a London business, leadership and career coach. He works with founders, business leaders and mid-career professionals on clarity, confidence and performance. He has been a business owner, an entrepreneur and a corporate executive. He supported businesses through international growth from £7M to £4B and helped SME owners scale, internationalize and float their companies. He coaches people across the UK, Europe and the Middle East.
Andrew O'Donnell
Andrew O'Donnell is an AI services coach who helps leaders and businesses plan, scope and deploy AI systems. He is VP of AI Transformation at Verisk and founded the AI product consultancy Core Wrk. Earlier at Verisk, he ran research operations for a 150-person team and led a 2.5 PB AWS cloud migration that cut costs by more than $1M a year. He also founded ClaimCode, a healthcare software company.
Ange Ingabire
Ange Ingabire is an AI strategy and productization consultant who also coaches business owners and career changers. She helps non-technical founders find AI opportunities and turn them into income. She runs the AI Productization Lab and builds AI tools, voice agents and micro-SaaS products. She has an MBA in Project Management and 18+ years of project experience. She also coaches e-commerce owners on brand identity, market research and selling online.
Ankoor Naik
Ankoor Naik is a business coach who works one on one with founders, leaders and self-made professionals in Mumbai and Bengaluru. He has run over 10,000 coaching sessions and worked with more than 2000 entrepreneurs, leaders and professionals. He helps clients scale without burnout, make sharper decisions and build a clear direction. Some clients have stayed with him for 7 years, and he also works with their leadership teams.
Anna Addoms
Anna Addoms is a business and startup coach who helps small business owners use automation and technology without feeling overwhelmed. She works with service-based business owners who want steady growth. She has fifteen years of start-up operations, technology and marketing experience. She was a Director of Marketing and Partner Relations and managed a client portfolio with an average $20M per year budget.
Anne Schoolcraft
Anne Schoolcraft is a Certified EOS Implementer who helps entrepreneurs and their leadership teams run a better business. She works from Fridley, Minnesota, and Eau Claire, Wisconsin. Before coaching, she became President of her family's IT managed service provider and ran it on EOS. She had worked in medical software and holds a master's degree in computer science. She has sat in the operations, administration and sales seats herself. She leads meetings that turn messy talks into clear priorities.
Ari Laksmana
Ari Laksmana is a business and agile leadership habit coach in Indonesia. He helps entrepreneurs and start-ups grow their businesses. He has more than 15 years in management, HR and people development across technology, education, financial services and insurance. He leads his own coaching and consulting companies as CEO and Director. He has worked with more than 100 clients and organizations. Today he coaches start-ups across Southeast Asia.
Arjun Srihari
Arjun Srihari is a startup advisor and mentor who helps founders build, fund and grow early-stage companies. He is co-founder and CCO of S2S Dynamics, a circular economy startup that tackles e-waste. Before that, he co-founded a renewable energy company and scaled it to million-dollar revenues. He teaches as an adjunct professor at IE University, mentoring startups and executives. He has worked with more than 60 startup founder clients.
Ashod Donikian
Ashod Donikian is a startup advisor who helps early-stage founders with fundraising, hiring, product strategy, and selling their company. He is a 3x founder and has served as CEO and technical founder. His first company grew out of his robotics PhD. He raised $3.7M for it, secured patents, and led acquisition talks. He also co-founded a Web3 ad startup that raised $4M. His focus is deep-tech founders.
Audrey Christensen
Audrey Christensen is a creative coach in Utah who helps artists, makers, writers and small business owners. She is a trained life coach who specializes in art wellness. She is also a textile artist, poet and two-time poetry slam winner. She started The yART Sale, a community art market that began in her backyard and grew into art events across Utah. She has taught at the University of Utah and Weber State University.
Austin Eginong
Dr. Austin Eginong is a business and leadership consultant in Nigeria. He helps business owners and leaders grow their companies, build their teams and sharpen their strategy. He has 25 years of experience in FMCG, telecoms, healthcare and education. He founded Brand Matrix Consulting, which focuses on sales, marketing and brand strategy. He holds a DBA in Global Business and Leadership and an EMBA in Strategic Marketing and Strategy.
Barry Barrett
Barry Barrett is an EOS Implementer who helps leadership teams fix root problems, lead better, and run their business on a simple operating system. He left the Marine Corps in 1999 and built a sales career. In 2010 he helped grow a family auto repair shop to $1 million in yearly sales within four years. He also started a sales training company. He works from Lexington, Kentucky, and also lists Cincinnati and Nashville.
Bart Lorang
Bart Lorang is a Certified EOS Implementer who helps high tech entrepreneurs and their leadership teams scale. He works through Meritage. Bart has founded five companies, with four exits and one still active. He has been an early investor in hundreds of startups and has taken part in 20 M&A transactions. He was named Colorado Technology Entrepreneur of the Year in 2012. He works with founders from startup stage to IPO.
Becky Venuti
Becky Venuti is a professional EOS Implementer who helps entrepreneurs and their leadership teams get clear and get results. She has 25+ years in leadership and team development, including 8 years as an EOS Integrator. She led a real estate team that grew revenue and profit 300% after it adopted EOS in 2016. She works from Bedford, Massachusetts, and is known for handling hard conflict conversations.
Belinda Lau
Belinda Lau is a startup founder advisor who helps founders and professionals apply the right business lessons to their own situation. She has a 22-year career that includes leading product development at Medtronic. She also co-founded ELIMS Oral Care, a bootstrapped oral care company. She has worked inside a Fortune 500 company and packed orders herself. Her focus areas include startups, small business, product management, product marketing, and biotech and medical device companies.
Bill Brennan
Bill Brennan is a Professional EOS Implementer in Chattanooga, Tennessee. He helps founders and entrepreneurial companies strengthen their leadership teams and simplify how they run. Bill is a five-time entrepreneur. He used EOS in his own company, and revenue and profit both grew 10x over 4 years. A strategic buyer then purchased the business. Now he guides other owners through the same system.
Billy Lewis
Billy Lewis is a Professional EOS Implementer in Erie, Pennsylvania. He helps business owners and leadership teams get aligned, stay accountable, and gain traction. He founded North Coast Processing at 24 and grew it to $50 million in revenue. He sold it to TreeHouse Foods at 39, then ran a $500 million business unit there. He later built a restaurant group and bought a commercial kitchen company.
Birgit Schnelle
Birgit Schnelle is an EOS Implementer who helps leadership teams in Australia fix people issues, free up time and scale. She used EOS in her own business in 2019 with 100 staff. Revenue grew from $18.7M to $30.1M, and the company later drew a buyer. She now works full time as an implementer. She holds an MBA and has formal training in behaviour change. She also speaks to business owner groups.
Bola Audena
Bola Audena is a business coach and advisor who helps founders and CEOs grow their companies. She is the CEO and Managing Partner of MBA Growth Partners in Maryland. She has more than 20 years of experience in growth, transformation and organizational development. She has guided hundreds of entrepreneurs, especially women and minority-owned businesses. She also supports clients through mergers, acquisitions and business exits.
Brad Wegner
Brad Wegner is a business and mindset coach who works with business owners and professionals in the USA and Australia. He built multiple businesses from the ground up, with income above $130,000,000. He mixes business coaching with mind work and hypnotherapy. He also wrote a comic book on mindset called Life Changing One Letter at a Time. His clients work on emotions, habits, focus and purpose.
Brian Robinson
Brian Robinson is a business and leadership coach in Madison, Alabama. He coaches entrepreneurs and growth-minded professionals who feel stuck, overwhelmed, or burned out. Before coaching, he led 8-figure corporate accounts, held leadership roles in government, and built five startups. He holds an MBA and a Master's in Christian Leadership. He created a model called DRIVEN OWNER, which ties mindset, habits, and leadership to the structure a business needs to grow.
Brian Sulka
Brian Sulka is a Certified EOS Implementer in Atlanta who coaches founder-led leadership teams. He helps owners build strong leadership teams and follow through on their plans. He has worked at five software startups, holds an MBA, and closed one company of his own. That failure shapes how he coaches. He has implemented EOS in Atlanta since 2021 and runs full-day sessions with leadership teams.
Bryce Meredig
Bryce Meredig coaches scientists and engineers who found startups. He helps technical founders make the move from the lab to the boardroom. He 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. He holds a Northwestern PhD and a Stanford MBA, and has worked with more than 10 startup founders.
Caleb Anderson
Caleb Anderson is a Certified EOS Implementer in Scottsdale, Arizona. He helps founders, CEOs and leadership teams put the Entrepreneurial Operating System into practice. He has facilitated 200 EOS session days and has more than 20 years of experience developing leaders. He has given over 1,000 keynote presentations. He works mostly with founder-led companies in the $5M to $50M range that are scaling, integrating acquisitions or preparing for a transaction.
Carlo Buenaflor
Carlo Buenaflor is an EOS Implementer who helps founder-led and family-owned businesses build strong leadership teams. He is also President and CEO of Biggs, one of the largest regional restaurant brands in the Philippines. He has led and grown that business for more than two decades. His own leadership team began using EOS in 2022. Today he runs Biggs from Spain, and he helps other owners reach the same freedom.
Carlos Garcín
Carlos Garcín is an EOS Implementer who helps business owners and their leadership teams scale with focus, alignment and discipline. He has more than 20 years leading operations and digital transformation in Latin America. As a COO, he scaled a technology consultancy with operations in five countries. He has run EOS for more than 3 years. His work covers Chile, Peru and Ecuador. His style is direct and practical.
Carlton Nettleton
Carlton Nettleton is an EOS Implementer who helps leadership teams at growth-oriented tech companies work toward the same goals and hit their numbers. He is a former SVP of Product with over 20 years in software development. He started his first business in 2009 and has worked with well-known Silicon Valley companies. He moved from the United States to Portugal in 2017 and coaches in English, Spanish and Portuguese.
Carson Drake
Carson Drake is a business operations and strategy coach who helps people build and scale startups, especially marketplaces. He has 13 years of experience in operations, strategy and growth. He started at Uber in 2014, then helped launch UberEats in the US and India and oversaw a $100M P&L. He has launched marketplaces in over 100 cities and advised 20+ marketplace startups. He is also working on his MBA at Kellogg.
Caryn Gillen
Caryn Gillen is a business coach who helps coaches, founders and leaders. She has coached coaches and founders for more than 15 years and brings over 30 years of business-building experience. She works inside each client's business to see what needs to happen, and she does not push her own business model. She also hosts the Coach Business podcast, which includes live coaching sessions with real clients.
Cathy Smith
Cathy Smith is a business coach in Perth, Western Australia. She helps new and established coaches get clear on their message, build confidence and attract steady clients. She brings over 30 years of marketing and business strategy experience and has run a marketing agency since 2001. She wrote The Coaches Marketing Roadmap and hosts the podcast Small Business Talk for Coaches. She is an ICF ACC coach and a Certified Practising Marketer.
Cesar Quintero
Cesar Quintero is an EOS Implementer who helps business owners and leadership teams build clear structure and get results. He has run more than 700 sessions with over 120 companies. He founded four companies himself and used EOS in each one. He also founded The Profit Recipe, an EOS firm. He works from South Florida and coaches in English and Spanish.
Chad Baucom
Chad Baucom is a product management coach. He helps people build products that work for the user and for the bottom line. He is a 3x founder and former CPO with more than 10 years of experience. He has worked at PwC, Verizon and Gabb Wireless. He sold a services business and a retail brand, and co-founded a hardware startup while earning his MBA. His current focus is AI-first product development.
Charles Gaudet
Charles Gaudet runs Predictable Profits, a growth coaching practice for founder-led companies and agencies. He helps owners build a repeatable system to generate and close qualified leads, so sales no longer depend on them. His clients run companies from $250K to $20M+ in revenue. He has coached more than 1,000 founders, and client revenue tops $1B. His method is the Predictable Profits Operating System, built from nine components in three pillars.
Cheri Kuhn
Cheri Kuhn is a Certified EOS Implementer who works with business owners and their leadership teams. She helps Visionaries clarify their vision, gain traction and build healthier teams. She has led over 400 EOS sessions since her training. Before coaching, she taught school, worked in commercial real estate and spent 15 years in small and mid-size businesses. She also created the Perfect Planner. She serves clients from Bellevue, Seattle and Mukilteo in Washington.
Chivonne Hitchens
Chivonne Hitchens is an accountability and burnout coach in New Jersey. She helps people move from a 9-to-5 job to working full time for themselves. She is a serial entrepreneur, mentor and speaker. She has built life and business plans for clients for over a decade. She went through professional burnout twice, and that shapes how she coaches stress, time and priorities. She also volunteers as a mentor for community groups.
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.
Chris Corgnati
Chris Corgnati is a Professional EOS Implementer who helps small business owners and their leadership teams build focused, aligned companies. He is a retired Navy Captain with 25 years of service. He later worked as a COO, a CEO and a Board Director at three growth companies. He led three startups from 10 to 100 employees. He works with clients in West Chester, Pennsylvania and Wilmington, Delaware.
Chris Davies
Chris Davies is a Certified EOS Implementer who helps business owners and leadership teams in Geelong, Victoria. He works with CEOs who want more control, faster growth and better profit. Chris led a professional services firm of 40+ people for over 20 years. He co-founded it, went through a partnership buy-out and a turn-around, and then sold it. He ran EOS in his own company for almost a decade before he began guiding others.
Chris Jackson
Chris Jackson is a Professional EOS Implementer who helps mid-market founders and business leaders build the discipline to compete as AI reshapes their markets. He is a retired Deloitte Managing Director with 30 years of C-suite leadership. He created The BrownstoneMETHOD, an AI disruption diagnostic for mid-market and minority-owned businesses. He is based in St. Louis, Missouri, and also lists Menlo Park, California.
Christian Manlapaz
Christian Manlapaz is a Certified EOS Implementer who coaches entrepreneurs and leadership teams in the Philippines. He has 30 years of experience as a serial entrepreneur. He built businesses in cold chain, food distribution, big data, AI, solar energy and digital platforms. He found EOS in 2013 through EO Philippines and now uses it with startups, small and mid-size companies and large companies. He has also coached managers who went on to become CFOs and CEOs.
Christine McDougall
Christine McDougall is a business and innovation coach who works with founders, CEOs and boards. She helps them build enterprises where trust is designed in from the start. She is the founder of Syntropic World, an education platform and enterprise incubator with graduates in 25 countries. She has studied the work of R. Buckminster Fuller for 35 years. In 2015 and 2016 she created Big Blue Sky, a community event for the Gold Coast funded by three levels of government.
Ciara Ungar
Ciara Ungar is a New York City business and executive coach who works with startup founders and business leaders. She has 17 years of experience with Fortune 500 companies, high potential startups, global agencies and angel and VC investors. She mentors and advises founders at three top accelerators and sits on the Forbes Coaches Council. She is also an author on leadership and the interim president of the TechShift Alliance Board of Directors.
Clay Harris
Clay Harris is a Certified EOS Implementer who helps entrepreneurs and their leadership teams align, stay accountable, and execute. He works in Chapel Hill, Durham, and Greensboro, North Carolina. Before coaching, he ran an IT services company for 20 years. He used EOS for more than 10 of those years and grew the business to $20M+ in annual revenue. He also led 8 acquisitions, and he knows recurring revenue models well.
Codie Sanchez
Codie Sanchez runs Contrarian Thinking, a community and advisory firm that helps people buy and grow small businesses. He started with one small business and built a portfolio with 9 figures in revenue and dozens of companies. Now he leads small cohorts of business buyers, operators and builders. Each group meets weekly to work on real deals. Members are vetted, and only a fraction get into a circle. The firm is based in Austin, Texas.
Colin Leader
Colin Leader is a finance and AI coach who helps professionals and builders automate financial work and ship real products. He is a CFA charterholder and founded Leader's Advantage. He built the AI Valuation Assistant, a platform that automates DCF modeling and SEC filing intake. Before that, he was a Senior Finance & Strategy Analyst at Mint Mobile during its 5x growth and $1.35B sale to T-Mobile. He also oversaw $500M+ in assets.
Craig Ceccanti
Craig Ceccanti is an EOS Implementer who helps founder-led leadership teams get past the ceiling that slows their growth. He built one Houston studio into more than 150 locations across North America, then exited. He has run EOS inside five companies and served as President and COO of a global consulting firm. He has worked as both the Visionary and the Integrator. He is also a Certified Exit Planning Advisor and is based in Sugar Land, Texas.
Cristian Livadaru
Cristian Livadaru is an AI and automation expert who coaches small business owners and startups on cutting admin work. He runs Cloudvox, a company he started in 2009. He is an n8n Ambassador and Certified Expert Partner. He designs workflows for invoice processing, email triage and accounting preparation. His clients often find 80% of their monthly tasks already done. He also speaks on AI security and business automation.
D'Aaron Gonzalez
D'Aaron Gonzalez coaches founders and professionals on how to use AI tools in their work. He has built Ed-tech startups and run educational programs at technical training companies. He is an Author at Pluralsight, where he writes courses on AI for Design and Software Development. He also teaches the AI Builder Program Levels 1 to 3 at Leland and runs 3 workshops a week at Stack. He has taught thousands of people to bring AI into their organizations.
Dan Williams
Dan Williams is an Expert EOS Implementer in Melbourne, Australia. He helps leadership teams get clear on their vision, stay accountable, and work well together. He is a five-time startup founder and the former CEO of Powernet, an Australian MSP that he grew into a certified Great Place to Work. He has run hundreds of sessions for more than 75 companies. He also led the Asia Pacific EOS implementer community.
Dana Abraham
Dana Abraham is a Certified EOS Implementer who works with entrepreneurs and their leadership teams in the Kansas City area. Dana helps leaders clarify their vision, build accountability, and get results using the EOS operating system. Dana has more than 25 years of leadership experience and has led teams from small start-ups to organizations of over 1,200 people. Dana also has a finance and investment management background and serves as an angel investor and start-up board member.
Danny Ballard
Danny Ballard is a business coach in Denver, Colorado who works with entrepreneurs and small business owners. He has been an entrepreneur for more than 25 years and has built multiple businesses. He founded Worldwide Coaching Group, which trains new business coaches. He leads peer advisory boards, courses, coaching and strategy intensives himself. His Pinnacle Success System is a four step process for earning more while working less.
Darin Williamson
Darin Williamson is a Professional EOS Implementer in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Darin helps entrepreneurs and leadership teams fix root problems in their companies using the Entrepreneurial Operating System. Darin founded and ran several start-up companies and took them to successful sales and exits. Darin used EOS in Darin's own businesses before Darin became an implementer. Darin's coaching puts a strong focus on building company culture.
Dave Borland
Dave Borland is an EOS Implementer who coaches business owners and their leadership teams. He helps teams get clear on their vision, hold each other accountable, and get results. Before coaching, he built four companies from scratch. Three ranked in the top five of their industries. He sold his last company in 2014 and has since worked with 90+ companies across the U.S.
David Barlow
David Barlow coaches attorneys who want to launch or grow their own law firms. He is a Honolulu personal injury lawyer who started his firm in 2009. He has run every side of the business, from marketing and client acquisition to staff, operations and referral networks. He also brings courtroom experience with car, motorcycle and pedestrian injury cases on Oahu. He shares what he learned over 18 years so newer lawyers can avoid early mistakes.
Daymond E. Lavine
Daymond E. Lavine is an entrepreneurship, business and life coach in Dallas, Texas. He helps entrepreneurs, professionals, creatives and leaders line up their lives, brands and businesses. He is the founder of Plurapreneur, a coaching and strategic development platform. He comes from systems engineering, real estate, branding and technology. He has written two books, The Brawn of Your Brand and A SIMPLE Systems Engineering Guide for Success.
Derrick Smith
Derrick Smith is a Certified EOS Implementer who coaches business owners and leadership teams. He has founded 5 companies and acquired 15 family owned businesses. He has run his own companies on EOS since 2015. At his first acquisition, he helped build a cohesive leadership team, double sales and profit, and exit the business. He focuses on family owned businesses and companies with multiple divisions or locations. His style is direct and encouraging.
Don Markland
Don Markland is a business coach in Jacksonville, Florida. He helps coaches, entrepreneurs and small business owners fix low leads, weak sales and slow growth. He is Co-CEO of Noomii and leads Accountability Now. He owns three other companies in digital marketing, fintech and personal growth.
Duncan Manley
Duncan Manley is a Certified EOS Implementer in Birmingham, Alabama. He helps founders and leadership teams put the Entrepreneurial Operating System in place. He spent 30 years as an operations executive. He also spent seven years in process and strategy consulting, then joined a client's leadership team. He integrated 15 companies and led 85 to 130 people. He has worked with over 60 leadership teams across the Southeast.
Eddie Russ
Eddie Russ is a Certified EOS Implementer in Austin, Texas. He helps entrepreneurs and leadership teams get clear on their vision, hold each other accountable, and communicate better. Eddie ran the Soccer Shots franchises in Austin and San Antonio for 18 years and exited in 2025. Under him, the Austin territory became one of the top-grossing in the country. Before that, he spent thirteen years in education as a teacher, coach and athletic director.
Edward Rocha
Edward Rocha is a business, executive and career coach in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He works with entrepreneurs at every stage, from start-up to growth. He focuses on accountability, productivity and goal setting. Edward studied Government at Harvard and earned a Master's in Management at Boston University. He owns and operates 3 businesses and has worked in finance, education, construction and wellness. He has coached for over 10 years.
Eleanor Beaton
Eleanor Beaton is a leadership and business growth coach for women entrepreneurs. She founded SafiMedia, an education and coaching company that aims to double the number of women who scale past $1M in revenue by 2030. She hosts the Power + Presence + Position podcast. Her team has run 1000+ growth consults, and she has spoken at conferences across North America, Latin America and Europe. She works with startups and businesses earning multiple seven figures.
Eli Moskovitch
Eli Moskovitch is a certified EOS Implementer and leadership coach in Union City, New Jersey. He helps CEOs, organizational leaders, and entrepreneurs run their companies and build strong leadership teams. He spent 18 years growing and running a community school system. He also co-founded two non-profit organizations and guided them from start to full operation. He owns real estate and is a partner in a real estate investment company.
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| Coach | Focus | Hourly rate range |
|---|---|---|
| Brian Gladden | Scaling and growth and Operations and systems | $160 to $290 an hour |
| Chris Jacob | Scaling and growth and Sales | $85 to $160 an hour |
| Jim Tormey | Startups and founders and Finance and profit | $80 to $160 an hour |
| Lisa Robbin Young | Startups and founders and Coaches and consultants | $160 to $290 an hour |
| Mark C. Winters | Scaling and growth and Leadership and team building | $125 to $300 an hour |
| Ted Bradshaw | Scaling and growth and Leadership and team building | $100 to $225 an hour |
| Aaron Gabriel | Scaling and growth and Startups and founders | $100 to $250 an hour |
| Adam Dexter | Startups and founders and Leadership and team building | $80 to $160 an hour |
| Adam Kaplan | Scaling and growth and Operations and systems | $160 to $290 an hour |
| Adrian Dayton | Scaling and growth and Startups and founders | $160 to $290 an hour |
| Alex Zah | Startups and founders and Marketing | $80 to $175 an hour |
| Alexander Celie | Scaling and growth and Leadership and team building | $85 to $160 an hour |
| Alice Wu | Startups and founders and Coaches and consultants | $190 to $275 an hour |
| Allen Cobb | Scaling and growth and Leadership and team building | $125 to $300 an hour |
| Amanda Baudier | Startups and founders and Leadership and team building | $80 to $175 an hour |
Common questions
How much does a business coach for startups and founders cost?
Most business coaches charge $112 to $252 per hour or session.
What else do these business coaches help with?
Common focus areas include scaling and growth, leadership and team building, operations and systems and marketing.
Prices and research
- Are Business Coaches Worth It?
- Business Coach Cost per Hour
- Business Coach vs Consultant vs Mentor
- Coaching Packages and Prices: Hourly vs Monthly
- Coaching Rates Per Hour by Coach Type
- Coaching vs Therapy: Cost and Key Differences
- Do Certified Coaches Charge More?
- Executive Functioning Coach Cost
- How Many Coaches Are There?
- How Many Coaching Sessions Do I Need?
Other focus areas
Last updated September 2026.