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Compare 247 career coaches. Besides their main focus, the most common focus areas are career clarity and purpose, new grads and students, career change and resume and linkedin. They most often work with parents, students and professionals. Most charge $85 to $180 per hour or session.
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Amber Rosenberg
Amber Rosenberg is a life, career and executive coach in San Francisco. She helps professionals in career transition, executives building leadership skills, and working mothers balancing work and home. She spent a decade coaching executives on public relations and marketing before starting her own practice. She has over 25 years of coaching experience and has coached thousands of clients. She also managed a team of 20 at public relations agencies. She mentors new coaches who are building their own practices.
Cassandra Khoury
Cassandra Khoury is a career coach who helps professionals grow their careers in big tech and balance work with family life. She has worked with 60+ career coaching clients. She leads Google Sales School as Global Sales Enablement Lead, where she trains 2,000+ new hires each year. Before that she worked in media planning and ad tech startups. She is also a working mother who returned to a high-demand career.
Corinne Pankovcin
Corinne Pankovcin is a career coach for accountants, finance professionals, and working parents. She helps them at every stage, from starting out to reaching CFO and executive roles. She worked in financial services for many years and became CFO and Managing Director at several firms, including public companies and major asset managers. She led over $1.9B in capital raises, plus M&A deals and carve-outs. She now uses that experience in her coaching.
Gala Jackson-Dobbins
Gala Jackson-Dobbins is a career and leadership coach who helps people line up their goals with their values. She guides leaders through career pivots and life transitions. She is an executive leadership coach and consultant and the author of Courage, Clarity, and Confidence. Her TED Talk has reached 2 million viewers. She founded the BOLD Collaborative and the BOLD Career Collective, two membership communities for women going through change. She offers flexible session times for working parents.
Lisa Petsinis
Lisa Petsinis is a career and life coach who helps career changers, job seekers, midlife women and parents returning to the workforce. She spent 23 years in corporate HR before starting a new career as a coach. She has HR leadership and recruitment experience. She also writes for magazines that are syndicated worldwide. She holds ACC, MBTI and Strong Interest Inventory credentials and is a certified life purpose coach.
Lisa Virtue
Lisa Virtue is a career coach and change management specialist in Oregon. She helps people land jobs they want and do well in them. She spent 20 years as a recruiting manager and rose to the executive suite. Her career began in athletic coaching, health and wellness, and recreational programming. She also wrote the picture book Career Mama - COVID Edition. Her mission is to narrow the gender gap at work and support women in their careers.
Marzena Jagucka
Marzena Jagucka is a coach who helps mums return to work after maternity leave. She is the founder of The Wings of Change. Before starting it, she spent ten years in people leadership, where she managed teams, coached individuals and supported women coming back to work. She works with mums one-on-one on both the practical and emotional sides of returning. She also partners with employers through workshops and training on return-to-work support.
Peter Dudley
Peter Dudley is a career, life, and executive coach who helps people with career change, retirement, caregiving, burnout, and big life shifts. He built and led teams for 30 years at startups, nonprofits, and Fortune 50 companies. He has coached leaders through three CEO changes and onboarded two CEOs. He has helped more than 300 people from 18 to 85. He also coaches parents of gender-expansive teens and young adults, and he coaches writers on finishing books.
Robin Ryan
Robin Ryan is a career counselor who helps new grads, professionals and executives find jobs faster. She writes resumes and LinkedIn profiles, and she coaches clients for interviews and salary talks. She has written over 6000 resumes and prepared over 3300 job seekers for interviews. She also offers AI job search coaching.
Suz Allen
Suz Allen is a career, life and return to work coach who helps people find clarity and confidence at work and at home. She has over 20 years in HR and Talent roles at large global corporates. She knows HR policy and recruitment, so she can also help with CVs and interviews. She also works as a redundancy coach and holds NLP and trauma informed training. Sessions are held online.
Ilana Ivan
Ilana Ivan is a career and life purpose coach who helps career changers, young adults, college students and moms figure out what they want next. She also works with people who are unhappy at work but cannot leave their jobs. She holds an ACC credential, an MBA and a Positive Psychology coaching certification. She hosts The Truly Great Life podcast and offers a single 90-minute clarity session for one big decision.
Jess Jarmo
Jess Jarmo is a career and life coach for people with ADHD, dyslexia, anxiety and autism. Jess brings over 18 years in recruitment to the work, along with an MBA in Human Resources. Clients learn how hiring managers think, practice with mock interviews, and build a 3 to 5 year career plan. Jess also lives with dyslexia, anxiety and ADHD, and leads a team of neurodivergent career coaches based in Massachusetts.
Marisa Singer
Marisa Singer is a career and life coach who helps people through career changes, burnout and big life transitions. She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who spent a decade as a child and family therapist for marginalized communities. Burnout pushed her to change careers, and she became a certified coach. She now focuses on social impact professionals, helpers and healers who want work that lasts. She also coaches on work/life balance and parenting stress.
Shannon MacDonald
Shannon MacDonald is a career and confidence coach in the United Arab Emirates. She helps people who want a career change, face issues at work, return to work after a career gap, or adjust to expat life. She began her career as a litigation attorney in Canada. She later lived and worked in several countries and rebuilt her own career with each move. She also runs group coaching and a portable career program for expat partners.
Susie Fishleder
Susie Fishleder is a career and leadership coach in Suffolk, Virginia. She helps women get promoted and balance work with home life. Before coaching, she spent 15 years in corporate sales and business development and founded two companies. She runs Rebel Leaders. She has also taught women's yoga for over two decades, and she brings a body-based lens to her coaching work.
Suzanne Lindsay Holt
Suzanne Lindsay Holt is a career and leadership coach for women in construction and the built environment. She helps them with career changes, stepping into leadership, and returning to work after maternity leave. She has over 20 years of experience in the built environment and local government. She holds EMCC Senior Practitioner accreditation, an ILM Level 7 executive coaching qualification, and a behavioural science degree.
Helen Green
Helen Green is a career counsellor in Melbourne, Australia, who runs Career Confident. She helps adults with job search and career change, and she helps students choose courses and careers. She is an experienced careers practitioner who has advised thousands of students. She worked for several years at the University of Melbourne. She holds qualifications in adolescent counselling and writes about careers and study for young people in the media.
Nic Frick
Nic Frick is a career and confidence coach who helps new moms choose their careers on purpose. Nic worked as a tech recruiter before coaching. That work included over a decade of hiring for customer service teams and talking with 3000+ candidates. Nic also trained hiring managers on how to interview. Nic runs coaching programs and retreats that help women find jobs that fit their values. Nic is based in San Francisco.
Rita Abraham
Rita Abraham is a business and career coach based in the United Arab Emirates. She helps business professionals, career changers and people who want to grow. She worked in business analysis and financial control before she moved into behavioral analysis and mindset coaching. She holds an ICF ACC credential and master's degrees in economics and psychology. She also guides parents who want to support their children during key developmental and performance stages.
Move with Courage Careers
Move with Courage Careers is a career and confidence coaching practice based in Ohio. It helps values-driven professionals sharpen their leadership message so they can speak up, stand out, and lead with integrity. Services cover leadership branding, resumes, cover letters, and interview strategy. The practice holds certifications as a career coach, resume writer, and digital career strategist. It also offers life coaching and self belief training for people facing career or life transitions.
Puja Shah
Puja Shah is a career and life coach who helps high-performing professionals through career transitions, burnout, and major life changes. She also works as an Executive Director at UBS and once led the financial services business line at Sikich. She is a first-generation graduate. She also coaches working mothers who want to balance career goals with being present at home. She hosts workshops for professional associations and corporate chapters.
Tara Goodfellow
Tara Goodfellow owns Athena Educational Consultants, a career consulting and coaching firm in Charlotte. She helps individuals, families and companies with career and college planning choices. Before starting her firm, she worked as a C-suite executive, a college career development instructor, a student lending account manager and a financial aid director. She and her team serve clients across the country. Her work has been featured in the New York Times and USA Today.
Carrie Jones
Carrie Jones is a career coach and life coach in Minnesota. She helps people get unstuck and grow. Her coaching draws on brain science and nervous system awareness. She works with people who have ADHD, individual contributors, moms, and people who feel burned out. She looks at balance across career, family, community, and health. She is working toward her ICF credentials. Sessions are flexible, so clients can handle new challenges while they stay on their goals.
Aafke Loney
Aafke Loney is a career and entrepreneurship coach in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She helps students, recent graduates and stay at home parents who want to return to work. Her focus is on finding your strengths and matching them to a career path that fits. She holds an MBA and a resume writer certification. She also writes about planning a career before choosing a college and about getting a return on college spending.
Aafke Loney
Aafke Loney is a career coach in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She helps students, recent college graduates and stay-at-home parents who want to return to work. She also lists entrepreneurship coaching. Her work centers on finding your strengths and applying them to a career path that fits. She holds an MBA and a resume writer certification. She writes about building career skills first and then choosing the education to match.
Eugenie Lewis
Eugenie Lewis is the founder of Creative Life Mapping, a California practice for career and college planning. She works with people of all ages on career exploration, academic planning and life transitions. She is an independent college consultant and a HECA member. Her clients build a personal snapshot of their values and skills using storytelling, creative projects and games. She also uses the One Life Tools platform in her career work.
Rachael Schaller
Rachael Schaller is a coach in Nevada who helps students, parents and professionals plan for the future. She has more than 13 years of experience counseling and coaching people through the K-12 school years and beyond. She is a licensed school psychologist with two master's degrees, in organizational behavior and school psychology. She built a coaching program that helps young adults plan for independence after high school and college.
Sara Tans
Sara Tans is an ICF-certified career and life coach for new parents. She supports clients from the time they are expecting a baby through their return to work. Sara spent 17 years in the corporate world before coaching. She offers parental transition coaching, and many of her clients find their employers will cover the cost. Her work helps parents keep their career moving while they focus on what matters most at home.
Amy Sack
Amy Sack runs Admissions Accomplished, an independent admissions consulting practice in Ponte Vedra, Florida. She helps students and parents with college, MBA and graduate school applications. The practice also offers career counseling and works with international students. Her team includes a former deputy director of admissions at an Ivy League university. The practice has served students worldwide since 2000. She is a member of IECA, the Independent Educational Consultants Association.
Charlotte Lawson
Charlotte Lawson is an admissions consultant who helps people decide whether to pursue medical school or an MBA, and then get through the process. She is a physician with an MBA from Harvard Business School. She founded a healthcare startup and raised venture capital for it. She works with career switchers, parents, older applicants, and people coming off a rejection. She is most useful early, when clients are working out their reasons for choosing a path.
Charu Agrawal
Charu Agrawal is a product management and executive coach who helps tech leaders, founders and parents with their careers and their lives outside work. Charu is a Senior Director of Product Management at Salesforce, where the work centers on Missionforce, a business unit for defense, aerospace and national security. Earlier years were spent leading teams at Microsoft. Coaching sessions run peer to peer, mixing a product leader's analytical mindset with a supportive style.
Chris Holzwarth
Chris Holzwarth is an independent college consultant who helps students and their families choose a college and plan a career. Chris uses a process called IDEAL to match each student's strengths and talents to schools and careers. Chris was a classical ballet dancer before moving into this work. Chris also gives talks at national conferences and partners with other consultants on arts admissions and assessments. Sessions run online, so students across the country can work with Chris.
Christine Chapman-Fierz
Christine Chapman-Fierz is an independent educational consultant who helps students and parents with private school, college and graduate school admissions. She runs Chapman Education from Shrewsbury, Massachusetts. She has worked in admissions since 1991 and has coached over 5,000 students. She once served as the first Director of International Students at a Boston-area independent school. She also runs Next Act Consulting, which helps parents plan their next career step after their kids leave for college.
Claudine Vainrub
Claudine Vainrub is an independent educational consultant who helps students and parents with college, MBA and graduate school admissions. She founded EduPlan in 2004 and has over 15 years of admissions counseling experience. She works one-on-one with every student and leads a team of editors and writing specialists. Her practice is in Hollywood, Florida, and she has served clients in countries from India and Brazil to Italy and Saudi Arabia.
Connie Pollack
Connie Pollack is a college admissions consultant in Pittsburgh who helps high school students and their parents plan for college. She also guides students applying to graduate school. She started her practice in 2004 after 15 years of teaching and work in school counseling. She recently served as a college counselor at an independent high school in Pittsburgh. She tours 10 colleges a year to keep her advice current.
Dana Ponsky
Dana Ponsky is an independent educational consultant in Brooklyn, New York. She helps high school students, college students and their parents with college and graduate school admissions. Her work draws on over 20 years in admissions counseling, career counseling and student development at the high school and college level. She has helped students get into top national and international colleges, and into medical, law, MBA and other graduate programs. She works in person and online with families in the U.S. and abroad.
Dave S. Wallace
Dave S. Wallace is a career and couples coach who works mostly with men and professionals. He has coached for 17 years, in private and group settings. He is a licensed marriage and family therapist with degrees in clinical and organizational psychology. Before this work, he spent 10 years composing music in Hollywood. His clients include entrepreneurs, producers, artists, doctors, lawyers, principals and veterans. Most of the men he sees are between 16 and 50 and feel stuck in work or relationships.
Eleanora Ferrante
Eleanora Ferrante is a college admissions advisor and career counselor who helps students, parents and career seekers find the right fit. She founded Square Peg Square Hole Coaching on Long Island after earning a College Admissions Specialist certificate in 2017. She is a certified Gallup Strengths Coach and a former vice president at Chase Manhattan Bank. She also volunteered as a Cornell University admissions liaison. She builds every plan around each client's strengths.
Elizaveta Shafir
Elizaveta Shafir is a personal finance coach who helps women, mothers, immigrants and their families build clear, steady money habits. She is the founder of Intentional Money and an AFC candidate. She spent six years in Google Supply Chain and earned two promotions. She studied at MIT and has worked with 10+ personal finance clients. Her work covers cash flow, money mindset, family finances and long-term wealth.
Gloria Chun
Gloria Chun is a college admissions counselor who helps high achieving domestic and international students and their parents. She holds a Ph.D. from UC Berkeley and a B.A. from Cornell. She has taught at Bard, Columbia, Princeton and Berkeley, and she once worked in admissions at a leading research university. She has over a decade of admissions counseling experience. She also wrote a book and teaches writing.
Heather Siskind
Heather Siskind is an executive coach and life coach based in South Florida. She works on personal growth, relationships and careers. Her clients range from high profile executives to people new to the workplace, and from mothers to recent college graduates. She holds two social work degrees and has spent decades helping women find direction. She also serves as a non-profit CEO and has sat on many boards.
Heejung Laird
Heejung Laird is an independent educational consultant who helps students and parents with college admissions. She runs Song & Laird Education Partners in Nashville, Tennessee. Before consulting, she earned a doctorate and worked in global organizations. She holds a certificate with distinction from UC Irvine. She has visited colleges and met admissions officers to give informed advice. Her firm also offers essay help, transfer applications, graduate school guidance, and career counseling.
InGenius Prep
InGenius Prep is an admissions consulting firm that helps students and parents with college, graduate, law, medical and business school applications. Each student gets a former admissions officer and a graduate coach. The team has 160+ former admissions officers from top 30 universities and has worked with 6,000+ students. All sessions run by video, phone and email, so students can join from anywhere.
Jen McKenzie
Jen McKenzie is an independent educational consultant in Boca Raton, Florida. She runs Milestone College Prep, which helps students and parents with college planning, applications, essays and graduate school advising. The team also offers ACT, SAT, CLT and SSAT tutoring and executive functioning coaching. Milestone students have been admitted to schools such as Yale, Stanford, Duke and Brown. Milestone also lists score gains, such as an ACT baseline of 21 rising to a SuperScore of 30.
Jennifer and Mitch Firestone
Jennifer and Mitch Firestone are a married couple who run Staying Joyful. They coach youths, families and working adults who want more joy and better relationships. Jennifer spent 30 years as a social worker and educator. Mitch has spent over 20 years in education and has a psychology background. Together they bring 50 years of combined experience. They also sell aromatherapy and color therapy candles in their shop.
Jigisha Doshi
Jigisha Doshi is an independent college admissions counselor and the founder of Sojourn Consulting LLC. She helps high school students and their parents plan for college, from building a college list to finishing applications. She holds a UCLA certificate in college counseling and is an ICF Professional Certified Coach. She also uses the Birkman assessment with students. Her students have been admitted to schools such as Stanford, Rice, Duke and Carnegie Mellon.
Jihane Labib
Jihane Labib is an executive and career coach who works with executives, board members, managers, entrepreneurs and artists. She also mentors other coaches. She spent 12 years as an executive in multinational companies before founding Coachinglab Academy in 2012. She holds the ICF Master Certified Coach and Team Coach credentials. She was the first professional in French-speaking Africa to hold both. She has coached leaders and teams in about ten countries.
John Catalano
John Catalano is the founder of Catalano Advising. He advises students and families on medical school, health professions school, and college admissions. He spent more than 30 years as a senior academic healthcare executive before starting his practice. He sits on the admissions team at NYU Grossman Long Island School of Medicine, where he reviews applications and conducts interviews. He also serves on the doctoral admissions committee at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health. The practice is based in Locust Valley, New York.
Julia Ross
Julia Ross is an admissions and career coach who runs Professional Tutoring in Northern Virginia. She helps students from sixth grade through graduate school with college and grad school applications, academic planning, and tutoring. Her center opened in 1994. She built a College Selection Decision Matrix with over 40,000 data points and spoke on student retention at a national registrar conference in 2019. She also wrote a college admissions handbook.
Kate Coffman
Kate Coffman is a private college admissions counselor in Indianapolis, Indiana. She helps students and their parents with the college search, financial aid and applications. She has over twenty-five years of experience in admissions and financial aid. She worked in admissions at four Indiana schools, including Butler University and Indiana University. She also ran a state-wide college counseling program for school counselors. She works with families in Central Indiana and with students online across the country.
Kathie Gautille
Kathie Gautille is a Catholic, faith-based coach who uses Gallup CliftonStrengths to help individuals, teams and churches. She spent her career in marketing and sales and was a Vice President of Marketing and Development. She has coached since 2011 and says hundreds of people have reached their goals with her method. She also coaches career changers and parents. She is based in Dallas, Texas. She is an international best-selling author.
Keith Berman
Keith Berman is an independent educational consultant who helps high school students and their parents with college admissions. He runs Options for College, Inc. in New York City and has worked with students since 2005. He built the Keith AI Essay Evaluator, and clients work with him directly on essays and forms. His process covers building a résumé, prepping for interviews, choosing colleges and finishing applications.
Kimberly Kim Chorosiewski
Kim Chorosiewski is a college and school planning counselor at McMillan Education. She helps students and families find the right school or college, with a focus on athletic recruiting. She spent 25 years as an educator, coach and administrator in schools and colleges. She also chairs the firm's Athletic Recruiting College Planning area. She was an All-American in field hockey and lacrosse and played for the US National Team in both sports.
Lauren Gordon
Lauren Gordon is a certified coach who helps working moms balance their careers and family lives. She spent nearly two decades in a corporate job, including sales, business development and leadership roles. She later ran Global Executive Recruiting at her company. She has been a certified coach since 2014 and earned a second coaching certification in 2019. She also facilitates groups for women-owned organizations and coaches working moms one-on-one.
Lea Baechler-Brabo
Lea Baechler-Brabo is an independent college consultant who guides students and families through college planning. She runs Great Choices College Advising and serves students in Berkeley, the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond. She began as a college student advisor. She later worked as an education consultant for the Berkeley Unified School District on college and career readiness. She has advised students on college and career paths for over five years.
Liisa Wagner
Liisa Wagner is a life coach who helps women and teen girls build confidence, find direction, and make their next move. She runs Mindful Boom from Whistler, BC, and coaches clients online. Her work started with moms who wanted more balance. Their mothers and daughters then joined too. She trained at the Flow Coaching Institute and holds a business degree. Her flagship offer is a 6-week lifestyle program.
Linda Jang
Linda Jang runs Next Step 4U, a college and career counseling practice for students and their parents in Monterey, California. She helps students organize their college applications and find schools that fit their interests and abilities. Before counseling, she spent over fourteen years designing corporate interiors and now serves as Art Docent Director for the Washington Union School District. She holds a UCLA Certificate of College Counseling.
Lindsey Myers
Lindsey Myers is an independent educational consultant who helps students and parents with college admissions and career guidance. She works with families throughout rural Colorado from Minturn. She has 10 years of experience in college admissions and has worked with 317 students since 2017. She is a professional member of IECA. She also tours many colleges each year, often with her business mascot, a dog named Zephyr.
Lisa Barrett
Lisa Barrett is a college admissions consultant in Athens, Georgia. She helps high school students and their parents plan for college. She founded 5 Points Prep, which also offers test prep and tutoring. Before that, she spent two decades in higher education administration and worked as a professor and admissions officer at Columbia University. She has guided hundreds of families through the admissions process and focuses on finding the right college fit for each student.
Lisa Hillhouse
Lisa Hillhouse is an independent college adviser who helps students and parents plan for college. She is a specialist in military service academy appointments and ROTC programs. She also works with students on general admissions, college lists, and merit aid. She founded Hillhouse College & Career Advising and works with families across the US and abroad by video. She spends several weeks each year working in Northern California.
Mara Patti
Mara Patti is the founder of One2One College Consulting. She helps students and parents with college and graduate school admissions. She has 25 years of experience in college admissions. Before starting her firm, she was the college coordinator and guidance counselor at Bergen County Academies in New Jersey. She visits colleges around the country every year to keep her school knowledge current. She has helped hundreds of students gain admission.
MaryPat St.Jean
MaryPat St.Jean is an independent college admissions consultant who helps high school students and their parents with the college search and application process. She founded Compass College Advisors in 2012. Before that, she worked in admissions at Providence College and NYU, where she led the team for the Stern School of Business. She also worked as a high school guidance counselor and as a career counselor at MIT.
Melissa Shapiro
Melissa Shapiro is a life, career and executive coach based in Seattle, Washington. She helps people at transition points feel less alone and more confident. Her clients include senior executives, new front-line managers, technical leaders and parents returning from leave. She spent over 20 years in talent development at large multinational companies and started in engineering and product roles. She also lived and worked in Asia for 2 years and co-founded Together We.
Missy Van Anda
Missy Van Anda is an independent educational consultant who helps students and parents with college admissions. She owns College & Career Pathfinder, LLC in Central Florida. She is a former school-based counselor with 18 years of experience and more than 100 college visits. She guides families through the college search, applications, essays, deadlines and final decisions. She helps students find a school that fits them academically, socially and financially.
Monica James
Monica James runs The Competitive Edge, a college and career consulting practice in Atlanta that also works online. She helps students and families with college lists, essays, applications, interviews and financial aid. Before consulting, she taught public speaking to executives and worked as a speech writer. She also interviews applicants for Vanderbilt University. Her practice has helped students and job seekers since 2006. She works with students from 9th grade through college and into a first career.
Nicole Smith
Nicole Smith is a college advisor and the owner of Next Step Advising in Clinton, New Jersey. She helps students and parents with the whole admissions process, from the college search to applications, essays, testing, financial aid and scholarships. She has over 27 years in education, including work at Rutgers, Drexel and the College Board headquarters. She started her firm in 2016 and uses her counseling background to guide students.
Nikki Brock-Maruska
Nikki Brock-Maruska is a life, career and leadership coach who helps people find clarity, purpose and next steps at work and at home. She worked as a broadcast journalist and spent many years in HR leadership before coaching. She has coached since 2003 and focuses on helping clients drive and manage change. She reports that 85% of her clients were promoted in the last 9 months. She also works with working parents.
Paige Cisneros
Paige Cisneros is an independent educational consultant who helps high school students and their parents plan for college and apply. She has more than 15 years of experience in college admissions and 20 years in school counseling. She holds a master's degree in counseling and is certified by the Texas Education Agency. She works from McAllen, Texas and serves the Rio Grande Valley. Her services cover college lists, essays, resumes, financial aid advice and career exploration.
Paul Nicholas
Paul Nicholas is an independent college admissions counselor in the Los Angeles area. He helps students and their parents plan for college, from choosing schools to accepting an offer. He finished UCLA Extension's college counseling certificate program with distinction and founded Alma Mater Educational Services. He also runs an exam proctoring service and is a member of the National College Testing Association. He is studying educational technology at Teachers College, Columbia University.
Penny Linsenmayer
Penny Linsenmayer is an independent educational consultant in Bellaire, Texas. She runs Pathway Admissions and helps students and parents with the college admissions process. She works alongside her colleague Alexandra. Their team has guided hundreds of students over fifteen years. Their class of 2023 earned over 18 million dollars in merit-based scholarship money and received offers from 200 different institutions. Penny is also a Birkman Certified Consultant.
Poojha Daryanani
Poojha Daryanani is a college admissions consultant in Bellevue, Washington. She helps students and parents plan for college and graduate school. She has 23 years of experience. She holds an MBA from the Yale School of Management and worked with Yale's Admissions Committee. She also read applications at the University of Washington, Seattle, and worked as a high school counselor at a private IB school in Redmond. She takes a limited number of students each year.
Rebecca Eckstein
Rebecca Eckstein is an executive coach and educational consultant. She helps C-suite executives, emerging leaders and entrepreneurs, and she also guides high school students and parents through college planning. She holds an ICF PCC credential and an MIT certificate in Neuroscience for Business. She has over 1,200 coaching hours and 30 years in education. She works by phone with clients in the United States and other countries, in all industries.
Reena Kamins
Reena Kamins is an independent educational consultant who helps students and parents with college admissions. She runs College, Career & Life, LLC in Flemington, New Jersey. Before consulting, she spent 15 years in higher education and school admissions, including as Director of Admission at The Pingry School. She also co-taught a college course on adjusting to college. She works with families in 20 states and on every continent except Antarctica.
Rufaro Jarati
Rufaro Jarati is a college admissions counselor who helps students plan their path from freshman year of high school to college enrollment. Rufaro has coached over 100 students, both from the US and from countries like China, South Korea, South Africa and the UAE. Past roles include strategy consultant at Crimson Education and head admissions consultant at PrepStart, where Rufaro led a team. Clients have gained admission to schools like Cornell, Vanderbilt and Northwestern.
Rya Carpenter
Rya Carpenter is a college admissions consultant and the founder of Balanced College Planning in Santa Barbara County, California. She helps students in grades 9 to 12 and their parents plan for college. She has more than 25 years of school counseling and admission consulting experience. She worked as a school based counselor for over 20 years. She also scored more than 2,000 applications as an admissions reader.
Sangeeta Sharma
Sangeeta Sharma is a life coach and clinical hypnotherapist in India. She helps professionals, students and business owners who feel stuck, drained or unsure of who they are. She spent 27 years in IT and trained more than 10,000 students and professionals before coaching. She wrote the book Four Layers to Your Dream Life. For over 11 years she has guided people in 23 countries using her Four Layers Method.
Sarah Epstein
Sarah Epstein is a college admissions coach who helps students and parents with college search, applications and essays. She is a former admissions officer who worked at Rice University, where she read thousands of applications and helped make final decisions. She has more than 12 years in admissions and college counseling, in both university and high school settings. She focuses on highly selective colleges, liberal arts colleges, fine and performing arts programs, and students with learning differences.
Shannon Connelly
Shannon Connelly is a life coach who helps moms who feel stuck, tired, or unsure what comes next. She is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor in Washington who opened a private counseling practice before moving into coaching. She also trained as a Certified Mindset Coach through The Life Coach School. She works with clients by video and serves Lake Stevens and the greater Puget Sound area. Her focus is clarity, purpose, and goals that fit each client's life.
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.
Shellee Howard
Shellee Howard is a college admissions consultant who helps middle and high school students and their parents get ready for college. She is the founder and CEO of College Ready and has worked as a paid independent college consultant for 13 years. She helps each student build a Stand Out Strategy and find a good academic, social, athletic and financial fit. She also wrote a book on paying for college and has appeared on FOX, CBS and NBC.
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| Coach | Focus | Hourly rate range |
|---|---|---|
| Amber Rosenberg | Career change and Job search | $125 to $200 an hour |
| Cassandra Khoury | Career change and Job search | $100 to $175 an hour |
| Corinne Pankovcin | Promotions and advancement and Consulting and finance recruiting | $90 to $170 an hour |
| Gala Jackson-Dobbins | Career change and Career clarity and purpose | $90 to $175 an hour |
| Lisa Petsinis | Career change and Job search | $100 to $175 an hour |
| Lisa Virtue | Career change and Job search | $125 to $175 an hour |
| Marzena Jagucka | Career clarity and purpose and Women's careers | $80 to $150 an hour |
| Peter Dudley | Career change and Career clarity and purpose | $100 to $175 an hour |
| Robin Ryan | Job search and Interview coaching | $80 to $160 an hour |
| Suz Allen | Career change and Interview coaching | $100 to $175 an hour |
| Ilana Ivan | Career change and Career clarity and purpose | $100 to $175 an hour |
| Jess Jarmo | Career change and Job search | $110 to $200 an hour |
| Marisa Singer | Career change and Career clarity and purpose | $100 to $175 an hour |
| Shannon MacDonald | Career change and Job search | $90 to $175 an hour |
| Susie Fishleder | Promotions and advancement and Women's careers | $130 to $225 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 clarity and purpose, new grads and students, career change and resume and linkedin.
Prices and research
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Last updated September 2026.