Career coaches for women
Compare 317 career coaches. Besides their main focus, the most common focus areas are career change, career clarity and purpose, women's careers and promotions and advancement. They most often work with women, professionals and founders and business owners. Most charge $85 to $180 per hour or session.
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Sara Becker
Sara Becker is a career coach who helps people change careers, prepare for interviews, and ask for raises or new titles. She has spent over a decade in sales and marketing and grew into team leadership. She broke into tech from a non-traditional background. She has coached dozens of professionals, from early-career job seekers to women stepping into leadership. She focuses on people moving into tech, marketing, or sales.
Shal Ahmed
Shal Ahmed is an equity research coach who also helps people apply to top MBA programs. Shal worked at Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch and Goldman Sachs, and was a Vice President on the Growth Equity Team at Goldman Sachs Asset Management. Shal is a CFA Charterholder with an MBA from Harvard. Shal was accepted to Harvard Business School with only two years of work experience. Shal also founded SHALnCO, which teaches women how to invest in the stock market.
André H.
André H. is a career coach for people who want to get into consulting or move up in it. He is a former Roland Berger recruiter, consultant and headhunter. He interviewed with 41 leading firms himself. He has helped 561+ people get offers at firms like McKinsey, BCG and Bain. His strongest markets are Germany, the DACH region, the UK, Dubai, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the wider Middle East.
Angelina Fomina
Angelina Fomina is a product management and career coach who helps high-achieving professionals, founders, creatives and women in tech through career and life changes. She spent a decade launching new products in tech and is a 3x founder. She bootstrapped a SaaS company to $1M ARR and built the Product Management curriculum at General Assembly. Her coaching covers burnout recovery, career change, executive presence and rebuilding a sense of self.
Anne Rae
Anne Rae is a career and life coach who helps mid-life career changers, retirees, women returners and IT specialists. She also works as a redundancy coach. Before coaching, she spent more than 15 years in Human Resources at large multinational organisations, and she later taught primary school. She holds a PCC credential and is a certified Co-Active coach with 7 years of coaching experience. She blends systemic and body-centred methods into her work. She lives in south-west London.
Brandi Smith
Brandi Smith is a life, career and leadership coach in Indiana who works with women. She helps them cut down overwhelm and improve relationships, performance and well-being in ways they can sustain. Her clients range from single mothers working their way out of poverty to professionals earning multiple six-figure salaries. She has also coached college students, nonprofit leaders and professors. She holds a master's degree in Human Development and Family Studies.
Diana Dentinger
Diana Dentinger is a burnout and career coach who helps entrepreneurs, career changers and women in transition find clarity and confidence. She has coached and trained since 1989 and has worked as a psychosomatic illness therapist since 2004. She created the Personality & Needs Profile and the Your Life Your Way method. Her hundreds of clients live in over 20 countries. She is also a best selling author and international speaker.
Elizabeth Sullivan
Elizabeth Sullivan, known as Beth, is a career and executive coach in London. She helps professional men and women change careers, win promotions and settle into new jobs. Before coaching she qualified as a Chartered Accountant and spent 8 years in the corporate world. She has coached for 5 years. She has also trained in NLP and clinical hypnotherapy, and has spoken at Women in Banking and Finance.
Esther Murray
Esther Murray is a life and career coach who helps mid-career professionals who feel stuck, unseen or unsupported at work. She spent more than 26 years in government, where she trained new employees and chaired a committee of supervisors. She holds two Master's degrees and is a certified life and career coach. She works from Nyack and helps clients build confidence, improve communication and move toward leadership and new career paths.
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.
Gina Visram
Gina Visram is a career coach who helps students, graduates and mid-career women plan their working lives. She is a registered careers development professional. She is head of careers at Alleyn's School in South East London and a freelance careers consultant at the London School of Economics. She founded Your Career and Future and hosts the Dive Into Your Career podcast. She also writes books and runs workshops for schools, universities and businesses.
Kathy Caprino
Kathy Caprino is a career and leadership coach who helps professional women build careers that fit them. She is a former corporate vice president. She also writes, speaks and trains. She created the Finding Brave program and the Amazing Career Project course. Her work covers career change, job search, LinkedIn, leadership growth and small business support. She has spoken to groups like the Network of Executive Women and ExecuNet.
Kristin Hendrix
Kristin Hendrix is a career and leadership coach who helps professionals make intentional career moves and build leadership presence. She has a focus on women who balance work and home roles. She created the Energizers & Drainers Coaching Method over 20 years. She started leading at 21 with a group of Marines. She also works with executives, working caregivers, tech professionals and neurodiverse clients through her practice, Leadership VITAE.
Lenora Lassiter
Lenora Lassiter is a career and life coach who helps women find purpose and make a career move. She also works with veterans, professionals, entrepreneurs and leaders. She has more than 15 years in workforce development and leadership development. She worked as a Senior Career Development Counselor and helped thousands of service members and military spouses. She builds her coaching on her own P.I.V.O.T. Success Framework and is a Certified Professional Resume Writer.
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.
Mabel Bachini
Mabel Bachini is a career change coach who helps people leave jobs that drain them and build careers that fit who they are. Her main focus is neurodivergent women. She holds an ICF PCC credential and trained as a mindfulness teacher. She uses her own Career Compass Method, a 5 month one-on-one program. She was born in England, lives in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and started coaching in 2019 after her own career crisis.
Magdolin Boukhary
Magdolin Boukhary is a career, leadership and performance coach in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. She helps talented women grow in their careers and build self-confidence. She has over 21 years of experience in human capital development and leadership roles, both in Saudi Arabia and abroad, often in male dominated industries. She co-wrote the book "She DARES". She runs a program called MaGlorious: ASPIRE, ACHIEVE, INSPIRE.
Mantasha Lakdawala
Mantasha Lakdawala is a career coach who helps college graduates and aspiring product managers break into tech. She began her career at Salesforce as an engineer and moved into product management. She now works as a Senior Product Manager at Palo Alto Networks and mentors at Pathrise. She has a special focus on graduates from minority backgrounds. She also gives talks on the challenges of entering the tech industry.
Mary (Yang) Fu
Mary (Yang) Fu is a career and management consulting coach who helps ambitious women build careers without losing sight of what matters most to them. She worked as a Project Leader at The Boston Consulting Group and later held strategy and commercial roles at Ulta Beauty, Neiman Marcus Group and Saks. She has also been a hiring manager. She coaches on job offers, negotiation and big career tradeoffs.
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.
Michelle Prince
Michelle Prince is a career and leadership coach in Alpharetta, Georgia. She coaches ambitious women who are changing careers, seeking advancement, or building leadership skills. She was a senior vice president at a Fortune 500 company and has over 20 years of experience in leadership development. She holds a PhD and a Doctorate in Management in Organizational Leadership. She has been a certified leadership coach since 2006.
Minyi S.
Minyi S. is a career and interview coach for management consultants, marketing managers, and product marketing managers. She is a luxury marketing and strategy executive with over 10 years in Consumer, Retail, and Luxury. She was a senior Engagement Manager at McKinsey from 2015 to 2019. At McKinsey she conducted over 200 interviews and coached over 20 candidates. She also led the New York office's MBA campus recruiting across North America.
Misha Energí
Misha Energí is a management consulting coach and executive coach. Misha helps professionals break into consulting and grow their careers. Before coaching, Misha spent 20 years in advisory and consulting, including as a Manager at Deloitte leading teams on large IT system projects for government agencies and big tech vendors. Misha has coached 62 people and works mostly with professionals in tech, media, brand, and creative fields.
Nadia Gabbie
Nadia Gabbie is a British career and executive coach who helps senior professionals handle career transitions and decide what comes next. She spent more than two decades in executive roles in communications and leadership development at global organizations. She has coached senior leaders through organizational change and knows career transitions from her own experience. Her clients include people facing redundancy, leaders considering a pivot, and professionals who want to rebuild their presence.
Nedheya Baby
Nedheya Baby is a career and life coach in Singapore. She helps mid-level professionals, women executives, graduates and youth. She started as a chemical engineer in manufacturing, then worked as an Assistant Professor at business schools. She holds an ICF ACC credential and is an ontological coach. She coaches engineers and managers who want to move from technical work into leadership. She has clients in India and Singapore.
Nupur D.
Nupur D. is a career coach for technical program managers, program managers, business analysts, chiefs of staff, data analysts and founders. She is a former Googler with 20+ years of experience in Silicon Valley and India's startup world. She has coached 300+ candidates who aimed for roles at companies like Google and Meta. She helps with career moves, interviews and resumes, and she gives direct, unfiltered feedback.
Parley Acker
Parley Acker is a career and executive coach in Tacoma, Washington. He is the founder of CareerWon. He has more than 30 years of experience as a career counselor, executive coach and talent development executive. He held global roles at Citigroup and General Electric. He was Senior Vice President of Human Resources for Citi Cards and Global Head of Career Development with Aramco. He works with college students, recent graduates and leaders.
Patricia Gestoso
Patricia Gestoso is a feminist life and career coach who helps ambitious women in tech move up without burning out. She is also a technologist with more than 20 years in digital transformation and AI. She works as an inclusion strategist and international keynote speaker. She wrote a career workbook and runs surveys on how women succeed in tech in 45+ countries. She also teaches female executives and board members about AI.
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.
Priya Mohal
Priya Mohal is a career and business coach who works with South Asian women. She helps them reach their career and business goals with more confidence and clarity, while keeping balance at home. Before coaching, she worked in banking at Lloyds after a Business Management degree. She trained for two years and earned Distinction in both her Personal Performance and Small Business Coaching diplomas. She also runs online webinars for employee resource networks.
Revital Padovitz
Revital Padovitz is a career and leadership coach who helps professionals with career transitions and senior leadership challenges. She is a former product leader who built and led PM teams at Meta, LinkedIn, and Microsoft. Her path ran from finance to strategy consulting to a Chief of Staff role in tech. She also advises startups, leads women's career and leadership circles, and mentors product managers in a PM career accelerator.
RoseMarie Nero
RoseMarie Nero is a career and life coach who helps people in transition, women seeking life harmony, new graduates, and teams. She spent thirty years in corporate roles across finance, marketing, supply chain, and learning and development. She then founded Play at WOW. She has been an ICF member since December 2006 and served as a judge for the ICF Prism Awards. Her coaching has supported people in business, healthcare, and education.
Sabine Schoellhorn
Sabine Schoellhorn is a career coach in Tokyo who helps women move into careers they want. She also offers life coaching. Sabine is German and has lived in Tokyo for over 15 years. Before coaching, she worked in HR, procurement, supply chain and marketing across pharmaceuticals, IT, consulting and manufacturing. She holds an MBA from GLOBIS University. She coaches in English, German and Japanese and can guide clients on job hunting in Japan.
Samorn Selim
Samorn Selim is a career, executive, and leadership coach who helps BIPOC, women, and first-generation professionals build careers they enjoy. Samorn is a lawyer turned coach and the founder of Career Unicorns. Samorn was a big law attorney, then Director of Employer Outreach at Berkeley Law. Samorn has coached more than 1,000 lawyers, tech workers, and leaders. Samorn's programs aim to get clients to their goals in 3 months.
Shannon Bartlett
Shannon Bartlett is a career coach who also helps people with law school admissions and leadership. She has built a career across law, higher education and the nonprofit world. She sits on the admissions committee at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law. She has launched new offices and functions along the way. She was the first in her family to graduate from college, and she coaches many first-generation professionals.
Suzie Bae
Suzie Bae is a career coach who also helps with MBA admissions. She works with high-performing women and first-generation professionals who want more clarity and confidence in their careers. She is a Senior Manager and Chief of Staff at Capital One. She worked as a consultant at KPMG and earned her MBA at Wharton. She also served on the Wharton admissions committee, so she knows the process from the inside.
Fanny Charmasson
Fanny Charmasson is a certified career coach and skills assessment specialist. She helps women who feel stuck in their work life build a career project that fits them. Before coaching, she spent 10 years in the luxury industry and went through a burnout in 2019. She is based in Crozet in the Pays de Gex. She works with clients near Geneva, across France by video, and in French-speaking Switzerland.
Gandharvi Nadkarni
Gandharvi Nadkarni is a career and executive coach in India who helps high-achieving professionals find clarity about what comes next. She brings more than 23 years of HR leadership experience across India, Europe and Latin America. She has worked closely with senior leaders and high-potential talent. Her focus areas include career clarity, professional positioning, interview preparation and executive presence. She also works with women founders and women professionals.
Gretchen Skalka
Gretchen Skalka is a career and leadership development coach who works with purpose-driven women. She is a former corporate Marketing Director with a background in leadership and employee development. She helps women lead with authenticity, raise their income and widen their professional influence. She uses an exercise called Mine Your Mind to find transferable skills and better career options. She also builds leadership and team programs based on Positive Intelligence and gives talks to businesses.
Hebah Zamzami
Hebah Zamzami is a career and leadership coach in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. She coaches female professionals who are going through career or life transitions. Before coaching, she built Beyti Express from a small food venture into 22 stores across two cities. She now leads Digital & Innovation at a large FMCG conglomerate. She trained with the Co-Active Training Institute and coaches in both Arabic and English.
Kanika Watson
Kanika Watson is a career and executive coach in Maryland. She helps ambitious professionals, especially women of color, build their voice, brand and career impact without burning out. She is a senior communications leader with more than 20 years of experience in government, corporate and mission-driven work. She holds an Accreditation in Public Relations. She created The Career Branding Suite, a program built around personal branding and purposeful leadership.
Kieu Anh Vuong
Kieu Anh Vuong is a career strategist who coaches accomplished women who feel stuck in successful careers and want to make a change. Kieu has changed careers five times, across investment banking, management consulting, academia, tech and coaching. Kieu led teams at Google / YouTube and Airbnb before starting a private practice. Kieu's Take the Leap program is an 8 week small group format that helps women pick a direction and build a plan.
Kristin Dabney
Kristin Dabney is a career and leadership coach for high-achieving women. She helps them handle overwhelm, change their mindset and take clear action. Her background spans counseling, leadership and coaching, and she has worked in nonprofits, education and corporate teams. Clients come to her for a career pivot, a promotion, a raise or a step into leadership. She also offers team consulting and strategic advice, and she uses mindset work to help clients drop harsh self-judgment.
Ksenia Krylova
Dr. Ksenia Krylova is a career, leadership and life coach in Katy, Texas. She helps professionals become stronger leaders, guides people through career and life transitions, and supports students moving from school to work. She holds a Ph.D. in organizational behavior and has taught leadership and psychology. She is ICF certified and coaches both individuals and groups. Her group sessions let members learn from each other's goals.
Madjeen Lorthe
Madjeen Lorthe is a leadership and career transitions coach who helps professional women of color. She works with clients stepping into senior leadership, changing industries, or resetting their career path. She has more than 20 years in mental health, nonprofit leadership, and team development. She also works as a change consultant for mission-driven organizations. Her coaching uses a trauma-informed, intersectional approach. She is based in Boston, Massachusetts.
Monica Watt
Monica Watt is a career, business and leadership coach and consultant. She helps individuals, business owners and organisations set goals and act on them. She founded Incredible Buzz Coaching & Consulting. She brings 20 years in HR and business across private, public, government and not-for-profit sectors. Her work covers career direction, resumes, salary negotiation, leadership growth, and people, systems and processes in a business. She also works as a redundancy coach.
Nicole Miller McDaniel
Nicole Miller McDaniel is a career and performance coach in the Atlanta area. She helps high-achieving professionals, performing artists, athletes and founders who feel stuck, burned out or unfulfilled. Nicole is a licensed professional counselor and a Board Certified Coach. Her coaching is directive and solution-focused. She uses psychology-backed strategies to move clients from inaction to action. Sessions run 50 minutes and can be virtual or in person on request.
Nikki Wildfang
Nikki Wildfang is a career and leadership coach for professional women. She helps them handle career changes, stress and burnout, and growth as leaders. Before coaching, she spent more than 20 years in corporate technology. She led teams and shaped operations at small start-ups and large global tech companies. She runs Anchor + Ascend Collective and guides clients through her own ANCHOR method.
Phoebe Gavin
Phoebe Gavin is a career and leadership coach in Virginia. She helps mid-career and senior professionals find clarity, set goals, and build systems for progress. She formalized her coaching practice in 2019 and has helped hundreds of professionals. She is the author of The Workplace Guide to Time Management.
Rebecca Visser
Rebecca Visser is a career and purpose coach who helps high-achieving women move from burnout to a career that fits them. She founded Crescent Coaching after ten years as a marketing leader in tech. She burned out in that role, then rebuilt her career around her own values. Her work covers career clarity, career pivots, promotions, and burnout recovery. She also coaches women entrepreneurs and people-pleasers who want stronger boundaries.
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.
Val Nelson
Val Nelson is a business and career coach in Massachusetts. Val helps quiet-loving, heart-centered women find their callings, strengths, and energy needs. The work centers on introverts and highly sensitive people (HSPs). Val has coached since 2009. Clients can choose 1:1 coaching, small groups, or courses. Two courses focus on career clarity and on moving into self-employment. Val also offers a no-cost access option for the courses.
Vicky N.
Vicky N. coaches people who want to break into or move up in tech sales. She works with early-career professionals, career switchers, and women in tech. She is an Enterprise Account Executive at Google Cloud with 10 years in the tech industry. She has also worked at Twilio and Salesforce. Her coaching covers interviews, resumes, salary negotiation, and moves from SDR or BDR roles into enterprise field sales.
Lyla Cookson
Lyla Cookson is a career and mindset coach for women engineers. She used to work as a semiconductor design engineer before she moved into coaching. She helps clients build confidence, speak up, negotiate, and move into leadership roles. Her main program uses Positive Intelligence and runs for 7 weeks. She also offers a negotiation guide, a compensation toolkit, and a free 5-minute quiz on thought patterns.
Milda Tarcijonaite
Milda Tarcijonaite is a career and leadership coach in Lithuania. She helps women at a career crossroads, newly promoted managers, and professionals who feel stuck. Before coaching, she worked for years as a business journalist and communications specialist. She uses that background to help clients put their answers into words and show their value with confidence. She has logged 100+ hours of coaching and works online in English or Lithuanian.
Nancy Gettridge
Nancy Gettridge is a career and life coach who helps women reach their full leadership potential. She founded Phenomenal Image. Her work centers on career strategy, confidence, purpose, and gender bias at work. She serves faith-driven women leaders who feel overlooked for top roles. She built the Aligned Authority Architecture Framework, which moves clients from proving their worth to positioning themselves for the roles they want.
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.
Patricia Ortega
Patricia Ortega is a career coach and Christian life coach who helps women of faith, students and professionals. She holds a master's degree in counseling and has ten years of professional experience. She supports clients from exploring options to starting a new role, including resumes, applications, interviews and essays. She uses scripture and prayer in her work on mindset and direction. She left home at 16 and later reached a master's degree and a 6-figure position.
Candace McRae
Candace McRae is a business, career and life coach. She works with individuals and businesses who feel stuck and want to reach their ideal career. She also helps people with mindset, productivity and building a fulfilling lifestyle. In 2021 she founded Ladies of Life, an interstate Christian group for women. She is also a mediator, an arbitrator and an ordained minister, and she has spoken at women's events.
Cindy Esliger
Cindy Esliger is a career confidence coach and engineering mentor. She helps women in engineering and technology build the careers they want. Her work covers getting recognized and promoted, handling workplace politics, and dealing with power dynamics. She also builds custom career development plans. Cindy runs the Confidence Collective, a monthly coaching program for women who want to find workarounds to career barriers. She also offers courses and a quiz on what holds people back at work.
Emilie Aries
Emilie Aries is the founder and CEO of Bossed Up, a leadership development and career services company for women. She started it in 2013 after burning out as a grassroots organizer and political advocate. Her team runs programs on leadership, assertive communication and job searching. Bossed Up also builds custom leadership and DEI training for company teams. Emilie is also an author, speaker and podcaster.
Lauren McGoodwin
Lauren McGoodwin is the founder of Career Contessa, a career site and coaching marketplace for women. She started as a recruiter and launched the company in 2013 from her master's thesis on millennial women and career resources. Career Contessa offers online coaching by video or phone with pre-vetted coaches, plus on-demand courses, a podcast and a jobs board. The team helps women search for jobs, change careers, negotiate pay and move up at work.
Michelle Kevill
Michelle Kevill is a career and life coach for high-achieving neurodivergent women in corporate jobs. She helps clients handle stress, burnout, boundaries, workplace politics and emotional regulation. Before coaching, she worked long corporate hours and burned out. Coaching helped her recover, and she was promoted within a year. She runs the Corporate Glow Up Program and hosts a podcast for neurodivergent women who want to build careers on their own terms.
Palu Bancarel
Palu Bancarel is a career and business coach who helps women build AI skills and start their own businesses. Palu began as an investment banker, then became a startup founder with two exits. Palu then moved into tech sales and now works as a Senior Account Executive at Shopify, selling to large global brands. Palu also created FiAI, a program that teaches women AI skills.
Sally Watson
Sally Watson is a career and business coach on the Gold Coast in Australia. She runs Career Creators and helps professionals and service based business owners find direction and take practical next steps. She has ten years in business and worked as a career coach for years before that focus grew. She built the Identity to Impact framework and teaches it in an 8-week group program on personal brand businesses.
Ana McGough
Ana McGough is a career and life coach. She helps people who feel stuck or under-challenged at work find a career that fits them. She holds a Master's degree in Work & Organizational Psychology and is certified through the Laser-Focused Coaching program. Ana is Dutch and American and coaches in both Dutch and English. She offers one-on-one sessions and group programs, including a 5-session package for job seekers. Her coaching draws on mindfulness.
Autumn Wade
Autumn Wade is a burnout and career coach in Virginia. She helps early and mid-career professionals, IT professionals, new and future leaders, gamers and quiet quitters. Before coaching, she spent 20+ years in IT, operations and strategy. She began formal coach training with the Co-Active Training Institute in Summer 2021. She holds ACC and CPCC coaching credentials as well as PMI-ACP and PMI-PMP project management certifications.
Cathy Montes
Cathy Montes is a career and business coach in Nevada. She helps high potential career women raise their performance and find better work/life balance. Cathy built her own corporate career after an Ivy League degree. She earned many promotions, led teams and worked in high pressure settings. She learned how to keep excelling at work while gaining more balance, and she teaches clients to do the same.
Huong Bui
Huong Bui is a burnout coach and career coach. She helps hyper-achievers, people-pleasers and perfectionists do well at work without losing themselves. Her clients include ambitious women and new leaders. She holds an ICF Associate Certified Coach credential and is a certified solution-focused coach. She is also a trained career development professional. Huong has changed careers several times herself, and she balanced a demanding career with parenting while dealing with stress and overwhelm.
Katherine DiMaggio
Katherine DiMaggio is a career and life coach who helps millennial women who feel stuck and burnt out. She guides them toward more confidence and a clearer sense of purpose, so they can move into a career they want. Before coaching, she earned a Master's in Counseling from Columbia University and worked in schools. She left a tenured job, moved to Los Angeles, and launched her coaching business in 2021. She is also a Registered Yoga Teacher.
Laurie Swanson
Laurie Swanson is a career and business coach for women in tech. She runs InspiHER Tech in Illinois. She helps women who feel burnt out or stuck in their careers. Some want to change roles, go part-time, or leave and start their own business. She offers private one-on-one coaching, the Career Alchemy Academy community, and the Career Reset program. She also gave a TEDx talk called Why People Hate Their Jobs.
Margaret Ruiz
Margaret Ruiz is a career transition and habit coach. She helps early and mid-career professionals change careers, find their life purpose, and build healthy movement habits. Her work mixes behavioral science, habit formation, exercise science, and life design tools. She has a program for people who want to move into nonprofit or social impact work. She also has one for employees who want to become entrepreneurs.
Ritika Rao
Ritika Rao is a career and burnout coach for software engineers and other tech workers. She is a lead software engineer with over 8 years of corporate tech experience, including time at Amazon and Microsoft. She has mentored interns, college students and entry level engineers. She helps new engineers learn how tech companies and management levels work. She also coaches career changers and employees facing burnout.
Shai Ahmed
Shai Ahmed is an ICF accredited coach who offers career, executive and personal coaching through Rayala Coaching. Shai worked in the media industry for over 25 years, including news, current affairs and public relations, before moving into coaching. Clients include middle managers, senior executives, mid lifers, working mothers and women of colour. Shai offers bespoke one-on-one programmes and a free 20 minute coaching session.
Susan Edwards
Susan Edwards is a Christian career coach and small business HR consultant in South Carolina. She helps job seekers find work that fits them and land jobs in careers they enjoy. Susan spent more than 15 years in Director-level Human Resources roles and has held HR certification since 2012. She also runs Forwards Career Services in Hilton Head, where she advises small businesses on HR policies, hiring, and legal compliance.
Tiny Mfihlo
Tiny Mfihlo is a career and leadership coach in South Africa. She helps women professionals and leaders prepare for and move through key career milestones. Her own career spans over 20 years in major South African corporates across different industries. She worked in talent management, learning and development, organisation effectiveness, change management and employee engagement. She is a certified NLP coach and practitioner, and she tailors each coaching plan to the client's context.
Chris Dalton Castillo
Chris Dalton Castillo is a career coach in Denver who helps high-achieving professional women build careers they love. Before coaching, Chris worked in corporate advertising and was the Global Mobile Media Supervisor at a San Francisco agency, where Google was the main client. Chris knows the pressure of long corporate days and helps clients fit their work into a full life.
Numica Perera
Numica Perera is a career and mentoring coach in Sri Lanka who also works with people dealing with anxiety. She helps students, women leaders, and early to mid-career professionals. She brings more than 18 years of HR experience to her coaching. In that time she worked with people at many stages, from students looking for a first job to leaders ready for a bigger role. Her sessions focus on finding strengths and getting past work challenges.
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| Coach | Focus | Hourly rate range |
|---|---|---|
| Sara Becker | Career change and Job search | $90 to $175 an hour |
| Shal Ahmed | Job search and Interview coaching | $60 to $160 an hour |
| André H. | Consulting and finance recruiting and Interview coaching | $70 to $150 an hour |
| Angelina Fomina | Career change and Job search | $100 to $175 an hour |
| Anne Rae | Career change and Mid-career and over 50 | $140 to $225 an hour |
| Brandi Smith | Career change and Career clarity and purpose | $140 to $210 an hour |
| Diana Dentinger | Career change and Career clarity and purpose | $100 to $175 an hour |
| Elizabeth Sullivan | Career change and Interview coaching | $105 to $200 an hour |
| Esther Murray | Career change and Career clarity and purpose | $125 to $175 an hour |
| Gala Jackson-Dobbins | Career change and Career clarity and purpose | $90 to $175 an hour |
| Gina Visram | New grads and students and Women's careers | $100 to $190 an hour |
| Kathy Caprino | Career change and Job search | $125 to $200 an hour |
| Kristin Hendrix | Career change and Job search | $90 to $175 an hour |
| Lenora Lassiter | Career change and Resume and LinkedIn | $125 to $175 an hour |
| Lisa Petsinis | Career change and Job search | $100 to $175 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, women's careers and promotions and advancement.
Prices and research
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Last updated September 2026.