Career coaches for LGBTQ+
Compare 31 career coaches. Besides their main focus, the most common focus areas are career change, career clarity and purpose, job search and interview coaching. They most often work with LGBTQ+, professionals and students. Most charge $85 to $180 per hour or session.
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David Riche
David Riche is a product management coach who helps people break into PM roles, get promoted, and build their craft. He is a former Director of Product Management at Block, where he led a 70-person org. He is also a founder building products in health tech and consumer apps. He has helped 20+ first-time PMs land jobs at companies like Meta, Amazon, and Intuit. He also interviews candidates for Kellogg admissions.
James Bryant
James Bryant is a high performance career and wellbeing coach who works with overworked, burnt out corporate professionals. He runs a practice called The Mindful Gent. Before coaching, he spent 10 years as a Chartered Surveyor in property. He uses mindfulness in his sessions. He also helps small and mid-sized businesses make their workplaces more inclusive. He is a member of the LGBTQ+ community and lives with chronic illness.
Kyle Inselman
Kyle Inselman is a career coach who helps job seekers, career changers and college students. He focuses on undergraduate students and the LGBTQ+ community. He worked 11 years in college career services and was a director and adjunct faculty member at the University of Denver. He founded Pride in Your Path, LLC in 2021. He also served as 2021-2022 President of the Collegiate Career Services Association of Colorado & Wyoming.
Prerika Agarwal
Prerika Agarwal is a career and personal brand coach who helps mid-career professionals gain confidence, recover from burnout, and change careers. She is the CEO of Inspiration Careers. She spent 18 years in Fortune 500 leadership before she became a coach and speaker in 2022. She has worked with over 50 organizational clients. She also hosts the Career by Design podcast and coaches entrepreneurs who build service businesses.
Tara James
Tara James is a career and life coach who helps accomplished professionals plan their next chapter. She founded MacGuffin House, a coaching and strategic communications practice. Before coaching, she worked as a private investigator and then spent over twenty years in child and youth policy. She holds a master's degree in human development and psychology from Harvard. Her work starts with what a client wants from life, then builds the career and communications plan to match.
Clarissa "Clo" Fuselier
Clarissa "Clo" Fuselier is a career and life purpose coach. She helps creatives, entrepreneurs, and other professionals find work that fits them. Clo became a certified life coach in 2019. She is a creative and serial entrepreneur who has lived with ADHD and depression. She also offers anti-racism and activism coaching, and all her coaching is online.
Duc Nguyen
Duc Nguyen is a management consulting career coach. Duc helps candidates land offers at top consulting firms, including people from non-target schools and people switching industries. Duc is a Consultant at EY-Parthenon and works on corporate and growth strategy. Duc started there as an Associate Consultant in 2023. Before that, Duc did strategic finance at Uber. Duc has coached 10+ management consulting clients on case prep, networking, and behavioral stories.
Chelsea Gerdes
Chelsea Gerdes is a career coach and resume writer who helps job seekers land new roles. She is a former recruiter with more than six years of industry experience. She uses what she learned on the hiring side to help clients plan their search and present themselves well. She works with career changers, mid-career professionals, tech and IT workers, and people moving into leadership.
Gina Robinson
Gina Robinson is a career and life coach in Barre, Vermont. She helps people who want a new job or feel unhappy in their current career. She works with BIPOC, LGBTQ+ and neurodivergent clients, and with anyone who feels they don't fit in. She is a Certified Professional Resume Writer. She coaches through guiding questions and reflective listening. She also helps clients spot limiting beliefs, emotions and fears that get in the way of career choices.
Dee White
Dee White is a career coach and couples coach in Maine. Dee works one on one, with couples, and with larger groups. Dee also works in IT, where the job is to architect large data systems and balance people, budgets and deadlines. Dee studies mental wellness, self love and leadership. Clients include IT professionals, remote workers, white-collar professionals, LGBTQIA+ people and transgender people. Dee acts as a mirror, thought partner and sometimes mentor.
Athena Reich
Athena Reich is a career and performance coach in Toronto, Ontario. She also works as a family coach. She has worked as an arts therapist and performance coach for over 10 years. Her listed focus areas are infertility, LGBT clients, career and performance. She looks for clients who want inspiration, need hope, or want help getting organized. Few coaches list infertility as a focus, and she does.
Claire Baker
Claire Baker is a life and career coach who helps lesbians and LGBTQ+ allies build fuller lives and stronger relationships. She runs Practical Change Coaching and has coached since 2012. Before that, she spent more than 30 years leading and managing nonprofits, so she knows cause-based career issues well. She also leads weekly healthy living and weight management workshops. Clients can work with a coach who understands lesbian relationships and does not need a coming out conversation.
Faith Heinaman
Faith Heinaman is a master's programs admissions consultant who helps applicants with personal statements, interview prep, and overall application strategy. She holds a Master of Public Health in Health Policy from Harvard. She worked as a Managing Consultant at ADVI Health and as a Policy Coordinator at Community Catalyst. She also interned in the office of Senator Cory Booker. Her own applications earned acceptances from Harvard and Johns Hopkins. She has coached several other applicants.
Jonas
Jonas is a certified life coach in Everett, Washington. He coaches early to mid career transmasculine leaders who want to move up, take on more responsibility and grow their influence. Jonas has worked 15 years at a large Fortune 500 corporation, where he moved from individual contributor to manager. He transitioned while on the job. He also worked 3 years at a San Francisco law firm before entering corporate work. He welcomes clients from the LGBTQ+ community.
Justin Tidmarsh
Justin Tidmarsh is an executive and leadership coach in Oregon who helps high-performing leaders move from burnout to a sustainable balance. He spent 25 years steering growth strategy for Nike, Starbucks and Best Buy. He also owned a boutique gym and is a certified personal trainer and nutrition coach. He brings that body and mind view into his coaching. He works through his practice, WITH/IN.
Kadir Buvan
Kadir Buvan is a coach for artists, writers and creatives, and for people managers. He started his practice, Kolam Creative Collective, in 2021. He first coached tech workers on leadership and career, then moved toward creative coaching, writing and facilitation. Before coaching, he worked as a software engineer and then an engineering manager. He also worked on teams at the Wikimedia Foundation. He trained at the Academy of Creative Coaching.
Shari Piracha
Shari Piracha is a college admissions consultant who helps students and parents with the college search and application process. She runs YouQuest College Advising near Ann Arbor, Michigan, and works with clients in person and online. She has been an educator for over 27 years. She has a master's degree in special education and has guest lectured for the UCLA College Counseling certificate program. She focuses on students who do not fit the usual mold.
Zach Tucker
Zach Tucker is an MBA admissions consultant and career coach. He helps people get into MBA programs and move into finance and corporate roles. He spent four years as a recruiter at Amazon and now supports MBA recruiting at Cigna. His own finance experience covers FP&A, M&A and wealth management. He finished a part-time MBA at Carlson School of Management in 13 months while working full time. He also coaches members of the LGBTQ+ community.
Joseph Ramsawak
Joseph Ramsawak is an integrated coach who works one on one with Black, Indigenous, People of Color, Queer and allied clients. He helps them through transitions, identity shifts and personal reinvention. He focuses on health and wellbeing, relationships, work and personal growth. Joseph has a psychology degree from Dartmouth and a design research master's from the School of Visual Arts. He is finishing a master's in lifestyle medicine and brings over a decade in tech and research.
Kirti Singh
Kirti Singh is a leadership and executive coach in Kitchener, Ontario. She helps leaders and working professionals, especially women of colour and gender-expansive professionals, who feel overextended and self-doubting. She has coached for nine years across Canada, the U.S. and India. She holds an M.Sc. in Applied Psychology and teaches as faculty at the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland. Her work blends Gestalt theory, mindfulness and systems thinking.
Nicki Monahan
Nicki Monahan is a Toronto based Professional Certified Coach who helps people through life transitions. She coaches on work, relationship and health changes, and also works with lesbian, queer and gender-diverse people on dating. She has over 20 years of professional experience and a master's degree in counselling psychology. She also mentors other coaches and designs and leads workshops for organizations.
Tara Montgomery
Tara Montgomery is an executive and leadership coach who works with purpose-driven leaders. Most of her clients are health care executives, medical professionals, medical educators, and public health leaders. She also coaches tech innovators, media leaders, nonprofit leaders, MBA students, and social entrepreneurs around the world. Her practice centers on the human side of leading change. In 2021 she spent six months supporting mentoring and coaching programs at Médecins Sans Frontières. She has also researched trust in the US leadership response to COVID-19.
Allison Hazel
Allison Hazel is a certified professional life coach who works with Black men, Black women, Black children, teens and LGBTQ+ clients, including queer Black men and women. She runs Culturally Competent Coaching. She studied Business Management at a historically Black college. Friends called her "Baby Iyanla" because she listened to their stories and offered solutions. She also offers child life coaching, and she builds her work around cultural understanding.
Nakita Savant
Nakita Savant is an accountability and anxiety coach in Minnesota. She works with adults on stress, life changes, health, career and relationships. She is a Certified Therapeutic Coach and a BioEnergetic Practitioner. She also coaches on baby sleep and eating disorders. Her sessions mix NLP, Jungian psychology and health methods, and she sets the pace to match each client.
Peter Gruzdev
Peter Gruzdev is a life coach in Poland who helps people through career changes, moves abroad and other big life transitions. He spent over 10 years in sales and project management before he became a coach. He holds a Master's in Clinical Psychology and coach training accredited by the International Coaching Federation. He has lived in several countries and run his own business, so he knows what change feels like. He also offers coaching for LGBTQIA+ clients.
Rick Clemons
Rick Clemons is a coach for gay men over 40 who feel stuck in their relationships, careers, or sense of who they are. He hosts the podcast 40+ Gay Men. Gay Talk. and runs a free monthly group chat. Rick is a former corporate executive who walked away from that career. He came out later in life, so he knows the choices his clients face. His private coaching is direct and built around ending stalling and making real moves.
Misti Mahon
Misti Mahon is an accountability, life and career coach based in Michigan. She helps clients find what makes them authentically themselves and link who they are today to who they want to become. She holds several coaching certifications, including Master Certified Life Coach and Certified Career Coach. She also uses the Strong Interest Inventory and knows her own CliftonStrengths results, which lead with Empathy, Adaptability and Connectedness.
Scott Garbini
Scott Garbini is a college and career consultant. He helps students and families find the right college or career. He is the owner and lead consultant of Garbini Education and Career Consulting LLC. He works with students who have anxiety, attention deficit disorders, dyslexia, dyscalculia, or who are on the autism spectrum. He also helps LGBT students find schools with strong support services. He coaches families and students on executive function and life skills.
Angela Lopez
Angela Lopez is a career and leadership coach in Oregon. She helps leaders and career changers build clarity, confidence, and communication skills so they can lead people, not just processes. Many of her clients are stepping into new leadership roles or going through change. She has a background in DEIB and leadership program development. She has worked with professionals in government, nonprofit, and mission-driven sectors, and has done contract work with national coaching platforms and public agencies.
Britt Travis
Britt Travis is a life and confidence coach who helps people stop living by other people's expectations and start trusting themselves. Britt spent fifteen years in a corporate career before leaving to start Creative Healing. Sessions use reflective questions, Internal Family Systems and somatic techniques. Clients include people in the corporate world, small business owners, perfectionists and LGBTQIA people. Britt also works on burnout, self-doubt and career transitions.
Sònia Victoria Werner
Sònia Victoria Werner is a certified transformation coach who works mainly with artists, creatives and students. Sònia founded Werner Learning & Coaching. Sònia is also a working artist and actress. Sònia grew up around the world as a first-generation American. Sònia helps clients find their purpose, set goals and build daily habits. Sònia also teaches stress reduction practices and explains how the creative industry works.
Side by side
| Coach | Focus | Hourly rate range |
|---|---|---|
| David Riche | Career change and Job search | $90 to $175 an hour |
| James Bryant | Career change and Interview coaching | $105 to $200 an hour |
| Kyle Inselman | Career change and Job search | $100 to $175 an hour |
| Prerika Agarwal | Career change and Career clarity and purpose | $115 to $200 an hour |
| Tara James | Career change and Career clarity and purpose | $90 to $175 an hour |
| Clarissa "Clo" Fuselier | Career change and Career clarity and purpose | $100 to $175 an hour |
| Duc Nguyen | Career change and Interview coaching | $90 to $175 an hour |
| Chelsea Gerdes | Career change and Job search | $90 to $175 an hour |
| Gina Robinson | Career change and Job search | $150 to $200 per hour |
| Dee White | Career coach and couples coach based in Maine | $100 to $175 an hour |
| Athena Reich | Career and performance coach in Toronto, Ontario | $90 to $160 an hour |
| Claire Baker | Career change and Career clarity and purpose | $90 to $175 an hour |
| Faith Heinaman | Master's programs admissions consultant with a Harvard MPH in health policy | $80 to $230 an hour |
| Jonas | Promotions and advancement | $225 to $300 an hour |
| Justin Tidmarsh | Executive and burnout coach for leaders in Oregon | $150 to $275 an hour |
Common questions
How much does a career coach cost?
Most career coaches charge $85 to $180 per hour or session.
What else do these career coaches help with?
Common focus areas include career change, career clarity and purpose, job search and interview coaching.
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Last updated September 2026.