Career coaches for physicians
Compare 30 career coaches. Besides their main focus, the most common focus areas are healthcare careers, career change, career clarity and purpose and interview coaching. They most often work with physicians, professionals and executives. Most charge $85 to $180 per hour or session.
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Carla Vaccarezza Bass
Carla Vaccarezza Bass is a career and executive coach who helps students, alumni, mid-career leaders and physicians moving into industry. She is Associate Director of Career Services and Executive MBA Career Coach at Kellogg School of Management. She has nearly twenty years of experience at Stanford, UC Berkeley and Northwestern. She has also served on admissions committees and led employer relations. She has worked with more than 100 career coaching clients.
Navin Balaji
Navin Balaji is a management consulting and career coach for people moving into business and healthcare roles. He helps clients break into consulting, move from academia to industry, or build a career that mixes clinical and business work. He worked at McKinsey's New York office, advising pharma companies, healthcare data companies and health systems. He is also a radiation oncology resident physician at the University of Miami and a freelance consultant.
Sharvari Vadeyar
Sharvari Vadeyar is a management consulting coach who helps medics and PhDs land offers at MBB firms. She is a medical doctor and BCG alum with more than 3 years at the firm. She took part in recruiting at BCG and has helped several advanced degree candidates win MBB offers. She has coached 10+ consulting clients. She now works in a life sciences startup.
Pamela Skillings
Pamela Skillings is an interview coach and co-founder of Skillful Communications. She helps job seekers prepare for interviews and trains managers to hire better. Her coaching draws on her past work as a hiring manager and a human resources executive. Companies also hire her to consult on their hiring processes, and she often sits in on real job interviews. Skillful is the company behind Big Interview, an online interview training platform.
Femi Giwa
Femi Giwa is an investment banking coach who helps people break into finance, get into top MBA programs, and pursue ETA. He is a former physician who became a Vice President at Goldman Sachs. He started in M&A at Bank of America Merrill Lynch and advised on deals from $200M to $11B+. He now runs Balufon, an independent sponsor private equity firm. He coaches non-traditional candidates.
Amit Bapat
Amit Bapat is a career and life coach who helps professionals make career decisions that fit their lives. He has given 550 hours of coaching to over 50 clients, including founders, vice presidents, physicians and recent MBA graduates. Before coaching, he worked at Citi, McKinsey, Hulu, TrueCar, Wayfair and HelloFresh. His roles covered M&A, strategy, marketing, sales, supply chain and P&L leadership. He uses reflection exercises and Enneagram typing to guide clients.
Geoff Bocobo
Geoff Bocobo is a career coach with an MD. He works with people on medical residency and fellowships, and with startup founders. He also covers management consulting and AI services. He leads a large language model evaluation program at Mercor and serves as its healthcare domain lead. He is an angel investor and advisor to early stage health and biotech companies. He has done bioastronautics research with NASA and was one of 20 healthcare professionals placed at NASA Johnson Space Center.
Yolanda Bryce
Yolanda Bryce is a career coach in New York City who works with physicians. She holds an MD. Her clients can be at any level of training and at any point in their careers. She helps doctors recover faster and stronger after an adverse event. She also helps them find more happiness and peace and reach goals that matter to them.
Brian Holzer
Brian Holzer is an executive and career coach who works with MBA applicants, recent grads, physician executives and other professionals. He is a physician with a Wharton MBA and has been CEO twice at private equity-backed companies. He has 20+ years in healthcare, across biotech, health insurance, health systems, behavioral health and post-acute care. He moved from clinical medicine to the C-suite and now helps others make career moves and reach executive roles.
Alan Young
Alan Young is a management consulting coach who also helps prospective medical students and startup founders. He holds an MD and an MBA. He worked as a surgical physician at Kaiser Permanente and built a consulting career at Deloitte, Accenture, Slalom, McKinsey & Company and Point B. He taught MCAT and GMAT prep for Kaplan. He now mentors UCLA undergraduates and advises founders in healthcare technology, artificial intelligence and data analytics.
Miguel Villagra
Miguel Villagra is a physician and certified life coach who helps other physicians with burnout and career direction. He runs RevitalizeMD, a coaching program built on the Positive Intelligence mental fitness framework. It lasts 8 to 10 weeks and includes weekly group calls. He also offers PEX, a 90-day program for physicians who own or are building a practice or business.
Cecile Andreas
Cecile Andreas is an executive and career coach who works with healthcare professionals and leaders. She is also a family physician, so she knows the field from the inside. She coaches individuals, teams and organizations. She holds an ICF PCC credential and is a certified coach supervisor. She teaches coaching at Royal Roads University. She uses the Dare to Lead™ and Daring Way™ programs in her work.
Christina Adams
Christina Adams is a coach for women physicians who feel burned out and want a plan. She is also a board-certified OB-GYN who has practiced since 2006. She helps doctors set boundaries around their time and decide whether to stay in their job or move to a new path. She trained as a coach through The Life Coach School.
Gideon Strich
Gideon Strich is a burnout and career coach who works with healthcare professionals and executives. He spent over 30 years as a diagnostic radiologist and was a managing partner in a private practice group. He is a Clinical Professor of Radiology at University of California, Irvine. He wrote the book BurnoutRx for Healthcare Professionals. His coaching focuses on stress, burnout, communication skills, and finding meaning and purpose.
Joe Sherman
Joe Sherman is a burnout and career coach for physicians and other health professionals. He is a pediatrician with over 35 years of clinical, academic and leadership experience. He spent his career on teaching and care for underserved and medically complex children. He has practiced in Washington DC, Tacoma, Seattle, Uganda and Bolivia. After his own burnout, he built a coaching and facilitation practice for health professionals, working with them one on one and in groups.
Kathleen Nelson
Kathleen Nelson is a leadership and career coach for people building academic medical careers. She spent 40 years as an academic medicine physician and leader. She was a Professor of Pediatrics, Division Chief, Department Vice Chair and Senior Associate Dean at two medical schools. She co-directed Healthcare Leadership Academies at both schools. She has coached and consulted since 2021. She works most with women faculty and new leaders.
Lauren Fine
Lauren Fine is a physician and decision coach who helps executives, physicians and other professionals through career transitions and high-stakes choices. She spent 15 years in medicine and academic leadership before moving into education, entrepreneurship and coaching. She is a TEDx speaker and a Harvard Macy Institute faculty member. She uses her training in clinical reasoning to help clients get clear on what they want and act on a plan.
Nasser Khan
Nasser Khan is a business operations and strategy coach who works with healthcare leaders, clinicians and people aiming for business operations jobs. He is a physician with an M.D. and a Senior Advisor at McKinsey & Company. He was Chief Operating Officer at Acadia Healthcare and Senior Vice President of Operations at Shields Health Solutions. There he ran health system operations across the Midwest and Western US as general manager and P&L owner.
Nondumiso Makhunga-Stevenson
Nondumiso Makhunga-Stevenson coaches Black women physicians who hold leadership roles and want to move up in their careers. She is a medical doctor with more than 20 years of experience in clinical care, hospital management, private practice and pharmaceutical organisations. She has led international projects in Eastern, Southern and West Africa. She built her own coaching framework from strategies that won her several promotions.
Trina Dorrah
Trina Dorrah is a life coach who helps women in medicine build a life they enjoy. She is a practicing physician with an MD and an MPH. She is also a certified intuitive eating coach. She works with women who feel burned out, overwhelmed and stuck in their careers. Her coaching covers boundaries, clarity about what they want, goal setting and accountability. She coaches from her own experience of burnout in medicine.
Lillian Emlet
Lillian Emlet is an energy leadership coach for healthcare clinicians. She helps stressed clinicians build a stronger mindset for work and life. She is an academic physician and healthcare leader with 15+ years of experience developing clinicians. Her company coaches every member of the healthcare team, including nurses, pharmacists, physicians and healthcare executives. She works on leadership for individuals and for teams.
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.
Vee U
Vee U is a Christian life coach and mental health coach who helps faith-minded professionals with spiritual needs, anxiety and stress. Clients include doctors, nurses, lawyers, accountants, business owners, CEOs and other Christian life coaches. Vee also helps people who just finished therapy or counseling and want to move their lives forward. Vee holds an MBA and runs a Christian teaching ministry for women.
Lance Wagner
Lance Wagner is a coach for physicians at every stage, from residency through retirement. He spent more than three decades in medicine as an anesthesiologist, physician leader, department chair and medical educator. Health challenges of his own moved him away from clinical practice. Today he combines his clinical and organizational experience with advocacy, organized medicine, physician well-being and coaching. He helps doctors find clarity, build resilience and shape a sustainable career.
Clara Teo
Clara Teo is a life, executive and career coach in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. She is a former medical doctor with an MBBS degree. She writes about how coaching helps doctors who feel burnt out, and she knows the daily pressures they face. She trained with the Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching and is an Energy Leadership Index Master Practitioner. She also works with people who want to deal with the effect of trauma on chronic health.
Motivate MD
Motivate MD is a physician-led admissions consulting team that helps people applying to medical school and residency. The team works remotely across the USA. Services cover essay editing, interview prep, CASPer test prep, and BS/MD applications. It also helps with Canadian medical school applications and ERAS residency applications. Motivate MD adds MCAT and USMLE tutoring and mindset coaching for people studying or working in medicine.
Yara Demo
Yara Demo is an executive and leadership coach who helps leaders and professionals build well-being and lead with clarity. She holds an ICF PCC credential and works as a practicing neurologist. Her background includes workplace wellness and burnout prevention. She helps leaders find their values and strengths, take strategic risks, and build teams that support psychological well-being. She also coaches on career growth, confidence, and mindset, with a focus on demanding work settings.
Angela Veesenmeyer
Angela Veesenmeyer is a work life balance coach for physicians in Arizona. She is a physician herself and a certified life coach through The Life Coach School. She helps other doctors build the balance of work and life they want without leaving their jobs. She works with physicians who have been told to just set boundaries, go part-time, or hire out parts of their personal life.
Tricia James
Tricia James is a life and career coach for physicians. She works with doctors who have spent years putting others first and feel they have lost touch with themselves. Her coaching uses a framework that separates what a client can control from what they can only influence. She recommends books and resources between sessions to support the work. Her clients include doctors in OBGYN, internal medicine and hematology and oncology.
Charity Hix
Charity Hix is a burnout and career coach who helps introverts in healthcare. She is a physician herself, so she knows the pressure of a medical career. She works with clinicians and other healthcare professionals who feel stuck, tired, or resentful at work. Her coaching focuses on putting yourself first, building steady energy, and letting go of guilt about wanting something better. She is based in West Virginia.
Side by side
| Coach | Focus | Hourly rate range |
|---|---|---|
| Carla Vaccarezza Bass | Career change and Career clarity and purpose | $100 to $175 an hour |
| Navin Balaji | Career change and Interview coaching | $90 to $185 an hour |
| Sharvari Vadeyar | Career change and Interview coaching | $90 to $175 an hour |
| Pamela Skillings | Interview coaching and Job search | $100 to $175 an hour |
| Femi Giwa | Career change and Interview coaching | $90 to $185 an hour |
| Amit Bapat | Career change and Interview coaching | $90 to $175 an hour |
| Geoff Bocobo | Career change and Healthcare careers | $90 to $185 an hour |
| Yolanda Bryce | Healthcare careers | $145 to $275 an hour |
| Brian Holzer | Career change and Job search | $125 to $200 an hour |
| Alan Young | Consulting and finance recruiting and Interview coaching | $70 to $145 an hour |
| Miguel Villagra | Career clarity and purpose | $140 to $225 an hour |
| Cecile Andreas | Healthcare careers | $150 to $250 an hour |
| Christina Adams | Career change and Career clarity and purpose | $125 to $220 an hour |
| Gideon Strich | Career clarity and purpose and Healthcare careers | $140 to $225 an hour |
| Joe Sherman | Healthcare careers and Career clarity and purpose | $140 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 healthcare careers, career change, career clarity and purpose and interview coaching.
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Last updated September 2026.