Best career coaches
The 25 best career coaches, ranked by client ratings, credentials, experience and specialization. Most charge $85 to $180 an hour.
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- 25 career coaches ranked.
- Ranked by client ratings, credentials, experience and specialization.
- Most career coaches charge $85 to $180 an hour.
The 25 best career coaches
- Geoff M., Career and interview coach for software engineers and engineering managers.
- Alexander Nowak, Career coach for students and early to mid-career professionals. Combines 10 years of career advising with 10 years of marketing and sales leadership, so he coaches personal branding and self-selling.
- Amy Chou, Career and leadership coach with a tech marketing background. Amy is a former senior tech marketing leader who uses marketing skills to help clients shape and share their career story.
- Ash Cross, Career coach and master's programs admissions consultant. Ash coached 300+ students in Carnegie Mellon's MSCF finance program, with 100% internship placement.
- Rebeca, Interview coach for management consulting and strategy roles. She is a working strategy director who has interviewed candidates for McKinsey and screened hundreds of consulting resumes.
- Jason Gallaher, Career and life transitions coach with corporate R&D leadership background. A certified Co-Active coach who is also a working R&D leader in a large corporate organization.
- Hagen Finn H., Management consulting interview coach and former Bain consultant. He has interviewed over 1,200 consulting candidates and builds practice cases from his own real Bain projects.
- Nik D, Career and executive coach for lawyers and bankers. Nik combines 20 years of coaching with 12 years as a top-tier corporate lawyer and investment banker.
- Ming Gosier, Career and executive coach for senior professionals and leaders. Ming is a former Amazon Senior Manager of Product who pairs career coaching with help building personal AI systems.
- Asha T, Private equity and investment banking recruiting and MBA admissions coach. Asha has sat on the hiring side at a large private equity fund and a bank, and is a Harvard Business School graduate who coaches Harvard applicants.
- Parul Sahai, Career and executive coach, former investment professional. She is a former investment professional who now coaches career changers and leaders through reinvention and high-stakes decisions.
- David Hollestelle, Executive and career coach for tech, VC and PE professionals. A former a16z recruiting leader who coaches tech, VC and PE professionals on how hiring really works.
- Alex Shushunov, Management consulting and MBA admissions coach for veterans and others. A veteran and former McKinsey interviewer and recruiting lead who coaches military candidates into top MBA programs and consulting firms.
- Ashwin Shetty, Management consulting interview coach for aspiring MBB consultants. He is a former Bain Senior Manager who has coached more than 200 people to offers at top consulting firms.
- Jeremy Scharf, Management consulting interview coach and former Bain interviewer.
- Ryan Tan, Investment banking recruiting coach for undergrad and MBA students. He is a former Wells Fargo banker who trained 3 classes of analysts and now teaches new bankers at Training the Street.
- Breanne White, AI coach helping professionals use AI to work faster and grow careers. She teaches AI as a career skill, including how to show AI impact in resumes, reviews, and promotion talks.
- Christina Puder, Product management career and MBA admissions coach. She has led a product with $150M+ in ARR and also sat on the admissions committee at Michigan Ross.
- James Walker, Private equity and law school coach for finance and legal careers. James coaches private equity recruiting as a former Kirkland & Ellis M&A associate who is now at Wharton.
- James Ferry, Product management career coach for aspiring and experienced PMs. James is a working AI product leader at Adobe who is also a former startup founder with an acquired company.
- Alejandro Alvarez, Investment banking interview coach for students and career changers. He ran over 150 investment banking interviews at Goldman Sachs, so he knows what interviewers look for from the hiring side.
- Alison L., Career coach for consultants and talent professionals, former McKinsey recruiting leader. A former global recruiting leader at McKinsey who has spent 15 years preparing McKinsey and Bain candidates for interviews.
- Alan K., Interview coach for product managers and PM leaders. He interviewed candidates as an Amazon Bar Raiser in over 800 interviews, and still works as a product leader.
- Amaka U., Interview coach and former McKinsey analyst for consultants and founders. She interviewed candidates at McKinsey and now runs her own consumer AI startup in beauty.
- Hamza M., Interview coach for product managers and management consultants. Hamza has passed product management interviews at Meta, Google and AWS and consulting interviews at Big Four firms and McKinsey.
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Geoff M.
Geoff M. is a career, interview and leadership coach for software engineers and engineering managers. He is a former Senior Release Engineer and manager at Google and a former Director of Software Engineering at Pandora. He has worked in infrastructure since 1995. He ran 200 interviews at Google for senior and staff roles, and 100 at Pandora. He is retired and coaches full focus on interviews, leadership and careers. He holds an ICF PCC accreditation.
Alexander Nowak
Alexander Nowak is a career coach who helps students and early to mid-career professionals define their career path and land new roles. He has 10 years of coaching and career advising for Bachelors, MBA, Masters and PhD students. He also spent 10 years leading teams and shaping strategy in marketing and sales. He has worked with more than 100 career coaching clients and uses the GROW coaching model.
Amy Chou
Amy Chou is a career and leadership coach. She helps clients find their strengths and explain their value clearly. Before coaching, she was a senior marketing leader at big tech companies, including TikTok, Google, Cisco and Intel. She moved up from individual contributor to first line manager to senior leader. Today she runs Dream Plan Do Live Coaching & Consulting. She uses her marketing skills to help clients tell their story for promotions, leadership branding and new roles.
Ash Cross
Ash Cross is a career coach and master's programs admissions consultant. Ash helps grad students, career changers, and senior professionals with resumes, mock interviews, and job searches. Ash spent time at Carnegie Mellon University, where they worked with the MSCF finance program and 16 Master's Engineering programs. There, Ash coached 300+ MSCF students, and all of them landed internships. Ash went full-time with their practice this year and booked 20 clients in the first month.
Rebeca
Rebeca is a career coach who helps people get into management consulting and strategy roles. She is a management consultant with more than 13 years of experience at McKinsey, Mastercard Advisors and the United Nations. She has interviewed over 70 candidates and screened hundreds of resumes as a hiring manager. She has coached people across 7 countries for over 10 years on getting into McKinsey, BCG and Bain.
Jason Gallaher
Jason Gallaher is a career and life transitions coach who also works on leadership presence. He trained through the Co-Active Training Institute and holds the CPCC credential. He has more than twenty years of experience coaching people and cross-functional teams in large global organizations. He is also an Associate Director of R&D at Leprino Nutrition. That mix of science and corporate leadership shapes how he coaches professionals through career moves and life changes.
Hagen Finn H.
Hagen Finn H. is a management consulting coach who helps people prepare for strategy consulting interviews and recruiting. He is a former Bain & Company consultant with over 9 years of experience in consulting and recruiting. He has interviewed over 1,200 candidates and has coached more than 100 consulting clients. He is based in Germany and coaches across all time zones, on weekdays and weekends.
Nik D
Nik D is a career, executive and leadership coach for people in elite professions. Nik has 20 years of coaching experience and is ICF certified. Before that, Nik spent 12 years as a corporate lawyer and investment banker, working as an M&A lawyer and banker in London and Tokyo. Nik has coached hundreds of clients across legal, finance, professional services, corporate, tech and consulting roles, and has helped clients reach Director and Partner level.
Ming Gosier
Ming Gosier is a career and executive coach who helps senior professionals and leaders. Ming spent 20 years at Amazon, IBM, and Ogilvy, and was most recently a Senior Manager of Product at Amazon. Clients work on executive presence, promotions, senior transitions, and post-layoff resets. Ming also helps clients build personal AI systems for their work without coding. Ming holds ICF PCC and CPCC credentials.
Asha T
Asha T is a career and admissions coach who helps people get into private equity, investment banking, venture capital and Harvard Business School. Asha was a Senior Associate at Apax Partners and spent 5 years at J.P. Morgan and Deutsche Bank. Asha has interviewed analyst and associate candidates on both the fund and bank side. Over 10 years of coaching, Asha has worked with more than 100 candidates. Asha has worked in both New York and London.
Parul Sahai
Parul Sahai is a career and executive coach who helps professionals at every stage, from graduate students to senior leaders. She is a former investment professional with over two decades of experience across global finance, startups, fintech, tech and higher education. She works with clients on job searches, career pivots, résumés, LinkedIn profiles, networking and interview preparation. She also coaches leaders on presence and new roles, and she holds a CTI coaching certification.
David Hollestelle
David Hollestelle is a career and executive coach for people in tech, venture capital and private equity. He has over 15 years of experience recruiting and leading teams at companies like a16z, Meta, Intuit and Zoom. He knows how hiring works from the inside. He left the military earlier in his career and now coaches others through career moves. He is finishing a coaching master's degree that is accredited by the ICF.
Alex Shushunov
Alex Shushunov coaches people who want to get into top MBA programs and management consulting firms. He is a former U.S. Army officer who worked at Accenture and McKinsey & Company. At McKinsey he was a trained interviewer and recruiting lead. He has coached since 2018 and has helped hundreds of candidates, both veterans and non-veterans, prepare for MBA programs and firms like McKinsey, Bain, and BCG.
Ashwin Shetty
Ashwin Shetty is a management consulting coach who helps professionals win offers at top consulting firms. He has run more than 1000 coaching sessions and guided more than 200 people to offers at McKinsey, Bain, BCG and other firms. He has over 12 years in strategy consulting, including roles at Bain, Deloitte and Goldman Sachs. He holds an MBA from INSEAD and has worked across Dubai, New York and India.
Jeremy Scharf
Jeremy Scharf is a career coach who helps people get consulting jobs, with a focus on case interviews and resumes for McKinsey, Bain and BCG. He worked at Bain for 4 years and interviewed over 100 candidates on its campus team. He has coached over 1,600 hours. In the summer and fall 2025 hiring cycle, his candidates landed 10 Bain offers, 7 McKinsey offers and 4 BCG offers.
Ryan Tan
Ryan Tan is an investment banking coach who helps undergraduate and MBA students break into the industry. He spent 5 years as a healthcare investment banker at Wells Fargo Securities, where he was a staffer, recruiting team captain and manager. He has executed over $10.0Bn in deals across 90+ transactions. Today he trains new investment banking hires at Training the Street.
Breanne White
Breanne White is an AI coach who helps professionals use AI in their daily work. She teaches people to automate repetitive tasks, improve communication and reporting, and build smarter workflows. Before coaching, she spent more than a decade in consulting, government, and international development, and she holds an MBA from Wharton. She did not come from a technical background. She learned AI by trying things in real jobs. Clients leave sessions with systems they can use right away.
Christina Puder
Christina Puder is a product management coach who helps people land tech roles and get into MBA programs. She was a Lead Product Manager at Deel, where she built and led a core product with $150M+ in ARR and managed people and hiring. She has also worked at Amazon and SimpliSafe. Her clients have landed roles at Google, LinkedIn, Nike and many startups.
James Walker
James Walker is a private equity coach who also helps clients with investment banking, law school admissions and AI for finance. He worked as a private equity M&A associate at Kirkland & Ellis from 2021 to 2024. He also worked at GenNx360 Capital Partners and Guggenheim Partners. He holds a law degree and is earning an MBA at Wharton.
James Ferry
James Ferry is a product management coach who helps aspiring and experienced product managers get interviews and offers. He works at Adobe on Generative AI products across Firefly and GenStudio. He also built products at Microsoft and co-founded a startup that was acquired. He has helped hundreds of clients land roles at companies like Microsoft, Meta, NVIDIA, OpenAI, Google, Amazon, Apple and Netflix.
Alejandro Alvarez
Alejandro Alvarez is an investment banking coach who helps students and young professionals prepare for finance interviews. He spent 10 years in investment banking and private equity, including a role as an associate at Goldman Sachs. At Goldman he ran over 150 interviews for analyst and associate roles. He has coached over 200 students, and many now work at firms like Goldman, Evercore, JPMorgan, and Morgan Stanley.
Alison L.
Alison L. is a career coach for people in professional services and the talent and people function. She is a former global recruiting leader at a top consulting firm and a strategy consultant. She has 25 years of professional development experience. She has spent 15 years preparing McKinsey and Bain candidates for expert and experienced professional interviews. She also coaches on job search, career pivots, and growth in a current role.
Alan K.
Alan K. is an interview coach for product managers and managers of product managers. He was an Amazon Bar Raiser and took part in over 800 interviews for roles in product, program management, design, data analysis, legal and more. He also ran 500+ other interviews in his career. He now works as a Senior Director of Product Management at a top US automaker.
Amaka U.
Amaka U. coaches management consultants, managers of product managers, and founders. She is a former Senior Business Analyst at McKinsey in New York City. She ran 30+ interviews there and worked on diversity recruitment. She has served clients in the social sector and consumer beauty. Today she is the founder and CEO of UCHE Beauty, a consumer AI startup. She has coached 80+ people and has 218 clients on her coaching platform.
Hamza M.
Hamza M. is a career coach who helps product managers, managers of PMs and management consultants get job offers. He has over a decade of experience in product management at Meta and AWS and in consulting at PwC and Strategy&. He has conducted over 200 interviews and reviewed over 1,000 resumes. He has coached and helped place 100+ people in their target roles.
Common questions
Who are the best career coaches?
The top career coaches are Geoff M., Alexander Nowak and Amy Chou, ranked by client ratings, credentials, experience and specialization.
How much do the best career coaches charge?
Most career coaches charge $85 to $180 an hour.
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Last updated September 2026.