Career coaches for mid-career and over 50
Compare 101 career coaches who focus on mid-career and over 50. Besides mid-career and over 50, the most common focus areas are career change, career clarity and purpose, job search and interview coaching. They most often work with professionals, executives and managers. Most charge $100 to $200 per hour or session.
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Jim Black
Jim Black is a career and life coach in New Hampshire who helps people find work that fits the life they want. He runs Destination Vocation. He works with career changers, mid and later career professionals, college students and recent grads. Before coaching, he worked as a business consultant, scientist, program manager and professor. He also advised adult college students and helped build a career services program.
Alice Stapleton
Alice Stapleton is a career coach in London who works with professionals in their 30s and 40s that want to change careers. She also coaches overwhelmed people who need relief from stress and burnout. She has 15 years of coaching experience and is an accredited coach supervisor. She hosts a podcast called The Career Change Diaries. Her stress work uses somatic and nervous system regulation tools. She sees clients in London and online.
Alison McCallum
Alison McCallum is a career and executive coach. She helps people in education, mid-career professionals, new graduates and students find clarity about their next steps. She trained in executive coaching at Royal Roads University in 2017 and holds an ICF Associate Certified Coach credential. She also works in Indigenous student services in higher education. She has coached clients on four continents by audio or video.
Andrei Coso
Andrei Coso is a career coach who helps non-technical professionals move into AI, startups, tech and partnerships roles. He is the third hire and founding business lead at Superpanel, an early-stage AI startup that builds AI agents and workflows for law firms. He has 15+ years across AI, B2B technology, education technology and go-to-market strategy. He has coached 35+ mid-career and senior professionals who target roles at top tech companies.
Anna Zschuppe
Anna Zschuppe is a career coach who helps job seekers, mid-career professionals, young professionals and people who lost their jobs find fulfilling work. She left a six-figure Fortune 500 job at age 26 to open her own coaching and HR consulting business, Summer SOULstice. She also coaches on life and health goals. Her work is faith-based and uses psychological and aptitude tests. One client got six interviews two days after finishing her resume.
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.
Barbara Gamm
Barbara Gamm is a career and creativity coach who helps people who feel stuck in their work or personal life. She founded Invenio Coaching and works in Michigan and online. She spent over eleven years as a global leadership development executive in the Fortune 20 space. She is also a classically trained musician and visual artist, and she uses that creative side in her coaching. She holds ICF and MBTI credentials.
Beth Petrie
Beth Petrie is a career transition and retirement coach in Maryland. She helps mid-to-late career professionals plan what comes next. Before coaching, she held senior leadership roles at Citigroup and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. She is an ICF Associate Certified Coach and a Certified Professional Retirement Coach. Her work uses the CliftonStrengths framework to help clients find their natural talents and make clear choices about their next chapter.
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.
Corbet Fawcett
Corbet Fawcett is a career coach in Waterloo, Ontario. Corbet helps experienced professionals with tough job searches, from career changes to returning after a gap. Corbet is also a seasoned hiring manager with 30 years of work experience across several industries. That includes leadership roles. Corbet has reviewed thousands of resumes and portfolios, interviewed hundreds of candidates, and hired for dozens of roles at all levels.
Cristin Downs
Cristin Downs is a career pivot coach for experienced professionals who need a change. Clients come from higher education, K-12, healthcare, nonprofits, the arts, pharma, finance, marketing and media. Cristin has held more than 40 jobs across more than a dozen industries and has worked as a recruiter, talent sourcer and hiring manager. Most of Cristin's early professional experience was in the theatre. The work covers strategy, resumes, LinkedIn, interview prep and offer evaluation.
Dominique Ferrera Hawkins
Dominique Ferrera Hawkins is a work well-being and burnout coach. She helps people who feel stuck, stressed, or unsure about their next career move. She has more than 17 years of experience in private and nonprofit leadership roles. Her first career was in law. She went through burnout and a career break herself, then changed paths. She also coaches organizations that want to build a well-being culture at work.
Heather Fryer
Heather Fryer is a career and creativity coach for professors, scholars, writers and artists. She helps them build success on their own terms. Before coaching, she spent 20 years as an endowed professor of history, journal editor, documentary filmmaker, TEDx speaker and museum exhibition planner. She holds a PhD in history from Boston College. She also offers developmental editing for writers and works from Hawaii.
Iulia Andrei
Iulia Andrei is a career and life coach who helps mid-career professionals at a crossroads. She spent three decades building scalable systems and a decade leading engineering organizations. She also coached and mentored people along the way. Her own path ran from Romania to Canada to the United States. She earned an MBA at 45 and has lived through divorce, single parenting and career reinvention. She works from Trabuco Canyon, California.
Jane Jackson
Jane Jackson is a career coach in Sydney, Australia. Jane helps mid-career professionals with career change, job search and big decisions about what comes next. Jane has more than 25 years of coaching experience. Jane wrote the book Navigating Career Crossroads and hosts the Your Career podcast. Jane is a LinkedIn Top Voice in Careers and Job Search. Jane has lived and worked in Hong Kong, San Francisco, London and Singapore before settling in Sydney.
Jeanette Teh
Jeanette Teh is a career, leadership and life coach based in the United Arab Emirates. She helps managers, senior executives, business owners and mid-career professionals. She is a former lawyer who practiced for a decade in Toronto and Dubai, then taught university students as an Assistant Professor. She now runs Kaleidoscopic Sky Coaching. Her clients have included Microsoft and Cartier, along with start-ups, individuals and university students. She has lived in five countries, which shapes her work with expats.
Jennifer Graesser
Jennifer Graesser is a career and leadership coach in Rochester, New York. She helps professionals who lost a job, want a career pivot, or feel stuck. She spent more than 30 years in finance, operations and leadership, including 26+ years with Sodexo USA. She has coached more than 100 people. She knows both the job seeker side and the hiring side of the table. She founded Mind Align Concepts.
Jessica Sweet
Jessica Sweet is a career coach and licensed therapist in Massachusetts. She helps executives and professionals over 40 who feel stressed, burned out, or stuck at work. She combines career coaching with a clinical background, so she works on mindset blocks and practical job goals together. She trained as a therapist at Harvard Medical School and belongs to the Forbes Coaches Council. She calls herself The Career Therapist.
Kira Dalton
Kira Dalton is a career coach who helps professionals make big career pivots. She focuses on midlife professionals looking for a second or third act. She also works with MBA students, military veterans, and people moving into or out of entertainment. Before coaching, she spent 10 years in the entertainment industry in Los Angeles, including DreamWorks Animation, Disney, and Lucasfilm/ILM. She also worked in higher education.
LeTonya Shaw
LeTonya Shaw is a career and leadership coach who helps mid-career and senior professionals make stronger career moves. She founded Exit to Excel after more than 25 years in HR and talent work at Cognizant, Barclays, Merck, Honeywell and Warner Music Group. She has also been through four layoffs herself. She uses her inside view of hiring and leadership decisions to help clients with interviews, executive presence, layoffs, pivots and promotions.
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.
Maria Giarmeniti
Maria Giarmeniti is a career and executive coach in Athens, Greece. She helps people who are changing careers, feel unsure of their direction, or are stepping into new leadership roles. She spent over 18 years in finance before moving into executive search and coaching. She holds the ICF Professional Certified Coach credential and has over 500 coaching hours. She still works full time in executive search and talent management.
Mark Brenner
Mark Brenner is a Los Angeles career, executive and business coach. He helps mid to late career professionals, new executives and small business owners. He has more than 40 years of experience and held senior leadership roles at national and international organizations. He also owned and grew his own business. Mark teaches Human Resource Management as an adjunct professor at California State University, Northridge. He wrote the Amazon #1 bestseller It's Your Career, It's Your Choice.
Michelle Bracy Medina
Michelle Bracy Medina is a career, life and leadership coach in Washington, DC. She helps recent graduates, mid-career professionals and retirees who feel stuck find direction. She has over 20 years of federal, private and non-profit experience. She works as a Lead Leadership Development Consultant for a large health care organization. She has also held training and professional development roles at the FDA, the VA Office of Inspector General and the GAO.
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.
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.
Nakisha Dixon
Nakisha Dixon is a career pivot coach in Arlington, Virginia. She helps accomplished professionals in midlife who have outgrown their careers and want a smart change. She spent 19 years in people, leadership, operations and business. Her roles reached the executive and C-suite level in technology, cybersecurity, professional services and government contracting. She holds the ICF Associate Certified Coach credential and has an HR and organizational strategy background.
Nikita Pillai
Nikita Pillai is a consultant who coaches people on MBA admissions and consulting recruiting. Nikita helps with case interviews, fit interviews, resumes, and career strategy. Nikita spent 10+ years in fintech, data strategy, and consulting. Nikita was an Engagement Manager at McKinsey. Nikita now leads international fintech partnerships at Intuit across the UK, EMEA, and North America. Nikita holds an MBA from INSEAD and has worked across 4 countries.
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.
Rachel East
Rachel East is a life and career coach who helps people who know what they don't want in work and life, but not what they'd rather do. She co-founded Clarity on Fire with Kristen Walker. Together they made the Passion Profile Quiz, which more than 500,000 people have used to link passion and career. They also host a podcast. Rachel works with clients on career change, life purpose, and burnout.
Rachel Newton
Rachel Newton is a career coach who helps mid-career tech executives move out of careers that drain them. She built the ENTRADA Method and has worked with tech executives for over 14 years. Before coaching, she was a Marketing Events Manager and advised students at Monash University. She also worked in executive recruitment, IT and hospitality across four regions. She is based in Vancouver, Canada, and calls herself a Career Energy Coach.
Tara James
Tara James is a career and life coach who helps accomplished professionals plan their next chapter. She founded MacGuffin House, a coaching and strategic communications practice. Before coaching, she worked as a private investigator and then spent over twenty years in child and youth policy. She holds a master's degree in human development and psychology from Harvard. Her work starts with what a client wants from life, then builds the career and communications plan to match.
Wanderlust Careers
Wanderlust Careers is a career coaching practice that helps people choose a career path and get hired. The team is made up of coaches with Ph.D. and M.A. degrees. The founder, Katherine Kirkinis, trained as a psychotherapist and later earned a Ph.D. in vocational psychology. The practice combines career testing with one-on-one coaching. It also writes resumes for complex work histories, such as employment gaps and career pivots.
Andy Burton
Andy Burton is a career and business coach for midlife professionals. He helps accomplished people who feel unfulfilled, burnt out, or cut off from their families. Andy spent 20 years in corporate work before he redesigned his own career around purpose and freedom. For the last decade he has coached others to do the same. His programs help clients turn their expertise into a purposeful career or a business built around their values and lifestyle.
Arno Alarcon
Arno Alarcon is a management consulting coach who helps candidates prepare for consulting interviews. He is a former McKinsey consultant and interviewer who specialized in mid-career candidates. He sat in the room when candidates were assessed. He also coached mid-career operations candidates in a formal program in EMEA. Before consulting, he worked as a factory engineer. His sessions start with a real mock interview, with no intro call.
Caroline Fraissinet
Caroline Fraissinet is a career and burnout coach who helps professionals through career transitions and growth. She founded Career Wavelength, which blends career strategy with mental health support. She spent seven years in career development, including a role as Director of Internship Programs & Employer Relations at USC Dornsife. She built a six-part workshop series on careers for people with mood disorders. It won the 2025 Outstanding Peer Leader Award from DBSA.
Danielle Bradley
Danielle Bradley is a career coach who helps mid-career professionals get hired faster. She founded Coach With Danielle and created the Get Hired Mid-Career Formula. She has worked with hundreds of professionals, from managers to C-suite executives, across many industries. Her work covers resumes, LinkedIn profiles, cover letters, interviews and offer negotiation. She focuses on clients who want a more fulfilling role with better pay.
Gagan Vaseer
Gagan Vaseer is a career and college admissions coach who helps students and working professionals. He is a former career coach and advisor at Harvard University, where he worked with undergraduate and graduate students and alumni. His clients have landed roles at Google, Meta, Deloitte, and the World Economic Forum. He has more than 10 years of experience and has worked with students from around the world.
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.
Kimberly Hall
Kimberly Hall is a career and life coach who helps people at a crossroads in mid-to-later career. She works with career changers, late bloomers, and quiet leaders who want to find their strengths and direction. Before coaching, she spent 20 years working at a public library, then made a career change herself. She holds credentials in emotional intelligence and job interview strategy. Sessions are one-on-one on Zoom.
LaSchwann Killens
LaSchwann Killens is a career and leadership coach in Bisbee, Arizona. He works with mid-to-senior professionals and leaders who look successful on the outside but feel unsure on the inside. Before coaching, he spent twenty years in the U.S. Army and more than a decade in adult learning and development. His coaching centers on psychological safety and clarity about personal values, so clients make decisions from what matters to them.
Michelle Bracy Medina
Michelle Bracy Medina is a career, life and leadership coach in Washington, DC. She helps recent grads, mid-career professionals and retirees who feel stuck find direction and purpose. She has more than 20 years of federal, private and nonprofit experience. She now works as a Lead Leadership Development Consultant for a large health care organization. Before that, she held training and professional development leadership roles at the Food and Drug Administration and the VA Office of Inspector General.
Nakisha Dixon
Nakisha Dixon is a career coach in Arlington, Virginia. She helps accomplished professionals in midlife who have outgrown their careers and want a smart pivot without starting over. She has spent 19 years in people, leadership, operations and business. Her past roles include executive and C-suite positions in technology, cybersecurity, professional services and government contracting. She is an ICF Associate Certified Coach with HR credentials.
Paul Bradbeer
Paul Bradbeer is a career coach for experienced professionals in software, data and AI who feel stuck, misaligned or underused. He spent 35 years working in software, data and AI before coaching. He knows how people, systems and incentives interact inside complex technology organisations. He helps clients work out what has changed and plan realistic next steps. He offers a free 30 minute chemistry call and coaches online.
Roberta Dombrowski
Roberta Dombrowski is a career and burnout coach who works with experienced professionals and leaders. She also works as a facilitator and writer. Her Learn Mindfully program helps clients rethink their relationship to work. She has supported leaders at companies like Adobe, Instacart, LinkedIn, Zapier, Okta and Zoom. She has a special focus on leaders who are often the only one like them in the room. She is based in Massachusetts and has over a decade in coaching, learning and development, and research.
Yvonne Akinmodun
Yvonne Akinmodun is a career and leadership coach who helps mid to senior level executives and managers find clearer career paths. She is an FCIPD-qualified HR professional with over 25 years across public, private and not-for-profit sectors. She also works with organisations and HR teams to build career development into daily leadership. Her work covers career strategy, leadership skills and the way organisations handle progression.
Alex Makarovski
Alex Makarovski is a career coach in Dubai who helps mid-career professionals find their next direction. Clients are often successful on paper but unsure what to do next. Alex has worked in both coaching and recruitment in the UAE market. Work and insights from Alex have been featured in Gulf News and LinkedIn News. Alex holds an ICF certification and a master's degree in sociology.
Claudia Rossi
Claudia Rossi is a career, entrepreneurship and life coach in Roswell, Georgia. She helps mid to late career professionals who want a change. Some want a new job. Some want a new career. Others want to leave the corporate world and build their own business. She has reinvented her own career many times, and she uses that experience to help clients position their value and tell their story.
Jean Calasa
Jean Calasa is a career coach who helps mid-career professionals find clarity, meaning and direction in their work. She has spent 25 years guiding people through career transitions. Her clients have left corporate careers to start their own businesses and found roles that fit their values. She looks at values, relationships and identity along with the job itself. She also coaches people through layoffs and toxic work situations.
Jennifer Nunez
Jennifer Nunez is a career and life coach in Lisbon, Portugal. She helps experienced professionals who have outgrown a career they spent years building. Her work follows 3 phases: Self-understanding, testing new directions, and positioning. She holds an ICF credential at ACC level and is an EMCC Senior Practitioner. She meets clients weekly or every two weeks for 60 minutes, with an async check-in between sessions. She does not offer CV reviews or job search strategy.
Marc Miller
Marc Miller runs Career Pivot, a career design firm in Austin, Texas for people in the second half of life who want a career change. He helps clients move toward a new career in small, practical steps instead of one big leap. He wrote Repurpose Your Career and hosts a podcast by the same name. His one-on-one package centers on the Birkman/AboutU assessment and three feedback sessions.
Theresa Mathews
Theresa Mathews is a Certified Professional Coach who helps mid-senior professionals at a career crossroads decide what to do next. In 2022 she joined a Transition Assistance Team that supported laid-off managers, and that work led her to coaching. She also wrote Fishing with Hyenas, a book that won three awards. Her approach also applies to planning retirement.
Lucy Todd
Lucy Todd is a career change coach in Seattle. She helps corporate millennials and mid-career professionals who feel stuck, burnt out, or unsure what to do next. Before coaching, she spent 10 years in marketing and dealt with anxiety and burnout. She went through her own career reset in 2021 and now guides clients through the same process. Her work starts with getting clear on a new path before any job search begins.
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.
Shiv Kumar
Shiv Kumar is a career and life coach in Auckland, New Zealand. He helps mid-career professionals who feel stuck, bored or unsure about what comes next. Shiv worked as an engineer and then in supply chain before he became a coach. He brings over 30 years of corporate experience to his one-on-one sessions. He works with clients on goals, action plans and results, with a focus on the second half of a career.
Edwin Perera
Edwin Perera is a career, business and money coach based in Wellington, New Zealand. He helps people who are starting a new chapter after redundancy, change or stagnation. He works with people in mid career and late career on lifestyle and income. He has worked in career transitions for more than 12 years, starting at OPEN Universities Australia. He coaches clients around the world in a coach-mentor role.
Jen Dionisio
Jen Dionisio is a career coach and communication coach. She helps mid-career professionals, new managers, and people managers who face a work change. Her client groups also include community managers, designers, technologists, and nonprofit professionals. She also works with people pleasers. She holds the Associate Certified Coach credential from the International Coaching Federation. Her work centers on helping clients learn what they want from work and build plans to reach it.
Oriana LaVilla
Oriana LaVilla is a career coach in Virginia who works with mid-career professionals. Her clients know something needs to change in their work life but are not sure what it is. She helps them explore a new role, a career pivot, or a better fit between work and life. She holds the Professional Certified Coach (PCC) credential. She also offers human design and astrology as optional tools for self-awareness.
Chad Carlile
Chad Carlile is a career, executive and life coach in Los Angeles. He helps senior professionals and leaders who have built strong careers but feel restless or stuck in a life that no longer fits. Chad spent 13 years at a Fortune 500 company and reached a Director role before he left for a smaller firm. He later left again to coach full time. He holds a graduate degree in I/O Psychology.
Joe Casey
Joe Casey is an executive, career and life coach in Princeton, New Jersey. He helps people plan a second act career after a buyout, layoff or retirement, or when they want to switch to something new. Joe spent 26 years at Merrill Lynch and finished as SVP, Head of HR for Global Markets and Investment Banking. He holds four coaching certifications and hosts The Retirement Wisdom podcast.
Johann Romero
Johann Romero is a career coach for Customer Success professionals. He helps mid-career people and LATAM-based talent find jobs and move into leadership roles in enterprise SaaS. He has 15+ years in Customer Success and worked at Salesforce, Red Hat, ServiceNow, Symantec, NetApp and Veritas. He moved up from individual contributor to Senior Manager, leading teams across the LATAM market. He coaches in English and Spanish and is based in Mexico.
CareerCycles
CareerCycles is a career counselling and coaching practice in Toronto and Vancouver. Its team of career counsellors and executive coaches has helped 5,000+ clients with career change, job search, retirement planning and outplacement. Clients meet online across Canada or in person. The practice uses a narrative career assessment built on a client's own stories. It also has published outcome studies and book chapters on its work.
Claudia Rossi
Claudia Rossi is a career coach in Roswell, Georgia. She helps mid to late career professionals who want a change, such as landing a new job, switching careers, or leaving corporate work to build a business. She has worked with more than 500 clients. She has changed her own career many times, and she uses what she learned about telling her story and selling her value to guide her clients. She is a Certified Professional Coach through iPEC.
Judi Lansky
Judi Lansky is a career and executive coach who leads Lansky Career Consultants in Chicago. She helps people look for a new job, change careers, explore a second career, or review their career path. Her clients include executives, recent graduates, retirees, and people who are unemployed or self-employed. She offers a one-day, five-hour Career Boot Camp where she works one-on-one with a client. She also coaches by phone and online.
i Career Counseling
i Career Counseling is a career decision service that helps students and working professionals in Egypt and the MENA region choose a career path. The practice has more than 15 years of career counseling experience. It combines MBTI personality assessment, career analysis, and local job market data. Clients get one-on-one interpretation from a dedicated coach. The focus is on career moves that build on past education and work, so clients do not start from zero.
Andy Burton
Andy Burton is a career coach in Newark, New Jersey. He helps experienced professionals in their 40s and 50s reinvent their careers. He has worked with mid-life professionals for a decade. Before coaching, he spent 20 years in one industry and used his IT background to retrain in a new field. He also negotiated remote work, relocated to a new country and built his own business while still employed.
Carlos López Hernández
Carlos López Hernández is a life, career and business coach in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. He helps Hispanic business executives and mid-to-senior professionals move ahead in their careers. He has held roles as a Vice-Chancellor and CEO, and he also works as an advisor, consultant and academic in the corporate world. He has written research on strategy in small and medium-sized enterprises, negotiation and organizational integrity. He trained at the Certified Life Coach Institute.
Hal Flantzer
Hal Flantzer is a career, retirement and life coach in New York City. He works with mid- to late career professionals who feel anxious about their career or retirement direction. His goal is to help them make focused, confident decisions about their next act. He studied psychology at the New School for Social Research and trained at NYU School of Professional Studies, Health Coach Institute and Retirement Options.
Chad Carlile
Chad Carlile is a career, executive and life coach in Los Angeles, California. He works with established senior professionals and leaders who built successful careers but feel restless or stuck in a life that no longer fits. Chad spent 13 years at a Fortune 500 company and reached a Director role. He later left that job for a smaller company. He holds a master's degree in psychology. He knows the pull of a good job that still feels wrong.
Ginger Terrell
Ginger Terrell is a career and business coach in Asheville, North Carolina. She helps high school and college students cut thousands of dollars from tuition costs. She also works with mid-career changers and people nearing retirement who want to find work they care about. She holds a BS, an MA and an MBA. She is clear that she is not a headhunter. She also writes articles on side hustles and on acting on coaching advice.
Ginger Terrell
Ginger Terrell is a career and business coach in Asheville, North Carolina. She works with high school and college students to save thousands in tuition costs. She also helps mid-career transitioners and people nearing retirement find work they care about. She holds a BS, an MA and an MBA. She states clearly that she is not a headhunter, so she does not place people in jobs.
Oriana LaVilla
Oriana LaVilla is a career coach in Seattle, Washington. She helps professionals in transition, including people making mid-career shifts and early-stage entrepreneurs. Her work centers on getting clear on a career path and vision, and on making decisions when things feel uncertain. She trained through the Newfield Network and The Institute for Generative Leadership, and she is a Newfield Certified Coach. She also practices Emotion-Centered Coaching and uses the Emotional Culture Deck.
Priya Khosla
Priya Khosla is a career, life and leadership coach in Bangalore, Karnataka. She coaches working people in the middle of their careers who want to shift into something new but feel unclear about what. Her clients have usually worked for at least 8 to 10 years. She also writes for people who want to return to work after a sabbatical and need clarity on their next career step.
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.
Shivkumar Krishnamurti
Shivkumar Krishnamurti is a career, life and business coach in Manukau City, Auckland. Shivkumar helps mid-career professionals who feel stuck in a dead-end job and unsure about their future. Shivkumar holds a Bachelor of Engineering and a postgraduate diploma in supply chain management. Shivkumar also trained as a life coach. Shivkumar's own experience as a new migrant shaped the Six Ps principle for handling setbacks and failure.
Barbara Berger
Barbara Berger is a career coach in Allentown, Pennsylvania. She helps people at many stages, from students to mid-career and late-career job changers. She spent time working in HR, and she uses that background to teach interview and resume best practices. She holds Certified Career Coach and Certified Professional Coach credentials from World Coach Institute. Her coaching looks at overall well-being through what she calls career wellness.
Kristin Snyder
Kristin Snyder is a career coach in Boston, Massachusetts. She works with mid-career professionals who feel stuck in a job that no longer fits. She helps them find better opportunities and apply in a planned way, so they can land meaningful careers. She trained at the Career Coach Entrepreneur Academy. She also writes articles on job search barriers like limited time and energy, and on starting to network.
Tiffany Wong
Tiffany Wong is a Toronto career and executive coach. She works with professionals in their 30s and 40s, especially high performers who want to grow their careers and deal with burnout. She also coaches executives on strategy, influence, and workplace dynamics. She is a Professional Engineer with a BSc and has trained at the NeuroLeadership Institute. She is also a Kundalini and Vinyasa yoga teacher, which is rare among career coaches.
William Ingogly
William Ingogly is a career, retirement and life coach in Greenville, South Carolina. He helps professionals build career and retirement plans that hold up as technology changes fast. He holds MA and MS degrees and the BCC board certification. He trained at The Institute for Life Coach Training. He also writes about managing stress during career and retirement transitions and how retirement is changing in the 21st century.
Ariel Hennig Wood
Ariel Hennig Wood is a career coach in Calgary, Alberta. He coaches mid-career professionals who want to change direction, move up, or find work that fits them. He helps clients assess their skills, line up their resume, and start a job search that gets fast results. He holds the Associate Certified Coach and Applied Positive Psychology Coach credentials. He also writes articles on resume mistakes, LinkedIn and personal values in job seeking.
Side by side
| Coach | Focus | Hourly rate range |
|---|---|---|
| Jim Black | Career change and Job search | $125 to $175 an hour |
| Alice Stapleton | Career change and Career clarity and purpose | $70 to $130 an hour |
| Alison McCallum | Career change and Career clarity and purpose | $100 to $175 an hour |
| Andrei Coso | Career change and Job search | $90 to $175 an hour |
| Anna Zschuppe | 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 |
| Barbara Gamm | Career change and Promotions and advancement | $125 to $175 an hour |
| Beth Petrie | Career change and Career clarity and purpose | $125 to $175 an hour |
| Carla Vaccarezza Bass | Career change and Career clarity and purpose | $100 to $175 an hour |
| Corbet Fawcett | Career change and Job search | $150 to $250 per hour |
| Cristin Downs | Career change and Job search | $90 to $175 an hour |
| Dominique Ferrera Hawkins | Career change and Job search | $100 to $175 an hour |
| Heather Fryer | Career clarity and purpose and Promotions and advancement | $135 to $210 an hour |
| Iulia Andrei | Career change and Job search | $125 to $175 an hour |
| Jane Jackson | Career change and Job search | $100 to $180 an hour |
Common questions
How much does a career coach for mid-career and over 50 cost?
Most career coaches charge $100 to $200 per hour or session.
What else do these career coaches help with?
Common focus areas include career change, career clarity and purpose, job search and interview coaching.
Prices and research
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- How Much Does a Career Coach Cost?
- How Much Does Interview Coaching Cost?
- Coaching Packages and Prices: Hourly vs Monthly
- Coaching Rates Per Hour by Coach Type
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- Do Certified Coaches Charge More?
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- How Many Coaches Are There?
- How Many Coaching Sessions Do I Need?
Other focus areas
Last updated September 2026.