Career coaches for mid-career and over 50
Compare 113 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 promotions and advancement. They most often work with professionals, executives and people over 40. Most charge $138 to $185 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.
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.
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.
Alison McCallum
Alison McCallum is a burnout and career coach who works with people in education and with students. 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, offering support and advocacy. She is certified in the MBTI and Strong Interest Inventory tools and uses them to help clients gain insight. She also coaches people in other sectors.
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.
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.
Andrew Clemence
Andrew Clemence is a London business, leadership and career coach. He works with founders, business leaders and mid-career professionals on clarity, confidence and performance. He has been a business owner, an entrepreneur and a corporate executive. He supported businesses through international growth from £7M to £4B and helped SME owners scale, internationalize and float their companies. He coaches people across the UK, Europe and the Middle East.
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.
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.
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.
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.
David Abend
David Abend is a career and life coach in Massachusetts who works with people in transition. He helps clients who feel stuck in a career, are close to retirement, or are looking for purpose. He brings over 40 years of marketing experience and is an expert in personal branding. He also founded The Bucket, an online magazine for people over 50 that focuses on reducing deathbed regrets.
Funmi Oni
Funmi Oni is a London life, career and ADHD coach. She works with professionals, young adults and neurodiverse people. Before coaching, she spent 30 years as a management consultant. She worked at IBM, NatWest and The Royal Bank of Scotland, and she was an IT Director at KPMG. She holds an ICF Associate Certified Coach credential and a Diploma in ADHD. She also works with organisations on neurodiversity at work and in education.
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.
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.
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.
Johncey George
Johncey George is an executive, leadership and career coach in Bangalore. He helps quiet, introverted professionals move into senior leadership roles. He spent over 23 years as a COO, Director and Board member at multinational companies. He coaches leaders from mid-management up to CXO level. He works with them on speaking up, building influence and executive presence. Some of his clients have been promoted or hired into CXO roles within 6 months to 1 year.
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.
Marc Stoecker
Marc Stoecker is a career, performance and life coach in Washington, DC. He works with mid- to late-career professionals, leaders and creative changemakers who are going through a transition. He also helps executives, small business owners and entrepreneurs with decisions, work-life balance and their bottom line. He calls his method Embodied Mental Fitness coaching. He brings over 24 years of learning, leadership and creative problem-solving experience.
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. She helps with case interviews, fit interviews, resumes, and career strategy. Nikita spent 10+ years in fintech, data strategy, and consulting. She was an Engagement Manager at McKinsey. She now leads international fintech partnerships at Intuit across the UK, EMEA, and North America. She holds an MBA from INSEAD and has worked across 4 countries.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Funmi Oni
Funmi Oni is a London life and career coach who also coaches people with ADHD. She works with professionals, young adults and neurodiverse people. She spent 30 years as a management consultant and worked with organisations such as IBM and NatWest. She founded Ataraxia Coaching and holds an ICF Associate Certified Coach credential and a Diploma in ADHD. She also works with organisations on neurodiversity at work and in education.
Gopal Subramanian
Gopal Subramanian is a life and career coach in Bangalore. He helps mid-career and mid-life professionals who feel stuck, unclear or out of balance, often during a transition. Before coaching, he spent over 20 years in software engineering and grew into leadership roles. He then studied psychology and moved into behavioural work. He runs Enabling Ventures and is a Certified Enneagram Coach.
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.
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.
Sue Hedley
Sue Hedley is an accountability and business coach for professional women in midlife. She helps them cut stress, find better work-life balance, change careers and find purpose. Sue spent 20+ years in the corporate IT project world before becoming a qualified coach. She has 25 years of coaching and mentoring experience. She offers one-to-one coaching, a group program called Midlife Your Way, and team coaching, online or face to face.
Todd Greider
Todd Greider is a leadership, executive and career coach in Roseville, California. He helps high-performing leaders build confidence, get clear, and make choices with intention at career turning points. He also coaches professionals on presentation skills and communication. Todd is a former non-profit leader and a contributor to ThinkAdvisor on sales and marketing ideas. He trained through the Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching. His clients are often people who have already succeeded and face a bigger next step.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Dominique Ferrera Hawkins
Dominique Ferrera Hawkins is an accountability and burnout coach who helps people with work well-being, career transitions and career purpose. She has nearly two decades of experience in leadership roles in the private and nonprofit sectors. She started her career as a lawyer, then moved into social impact and nonprofit work. She has made three career transitions herself. She also holds a Psychological Safety Coach certification and a 200-hour yoga teacher training.
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.
Iulia Andrei
Iulia Andrei is a career and life coach in Trabuco Canyon, California. She helps mid-career professionals who ask what comes next. Iulia spent three decades building scalable technology systems. She then spent ten years leading engineering organizations. She is a first-generation immigrant who built her career across three countries. She earned an MBA at 45. She coaches on career pivots, stepping into leadership, and life transitions.
Mary Monttein Alonso
Mary Monttein Alonso is a career, leadership and spirituality coach in Dallas, Texas. She coaches mid and late career professional women who feel let down by their jobs. She holds a group facilitator and coach certification from Shadow Work Seminars. She is also a transformational life coach with Marie Diamond International and a certified DreamBuilder Coach. Her clients are women who are energetically aware.
Personal Career Management
Personal Career Management is a career coaching and outplacement practice in the United Kingdom. It works with individuals who want career change advice, job search help or executive outplacement. It also sells outplacement services to employers. The practice has locations in London and many other UK cities, and it offers online coaching through its icareercoach platform. It also trains people to become career coaches.
Barbara Gamm
Barbara Gamm is a career and creativity coach in Michigan. She helps people who feel stuck in their careers, their personal lives, or both. Before coaching, she spent over eleven years in the Fortune 20 as a global leadership development executive. She also worked in turnaround consulting and became Director of Talent at a Chicago consulting firm. She began in healthcare and once ran her own allied health clinic.
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.
Claudia Cerna
Claudia Cerna is an anxiety and career coach based in Italy. She works with women leaders, women returning from maternity leave, and men and women at mid-life. She has coached more than 500 clients since 2006. She holds the ICF Professional Certified Coach credential and an ICF team coaching certification. She is also certified in the DISC, Facet5 and Hogan assessments, which few coaches hold together.
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.
Julie Gaye Murphy
Julie Gaye Murphy is a life, relationship, divorce, blended family and career coach in Brisbane, Australia. She runs MOJO Your Life Today and helps women build confidence, handle big life changes and find a clearer path. She has a strong focus on women over 50, step-moms and women going through separation, divorce or redundancy. She also coaches retirees and small business owners on staff management and teamwork.
Kimberly Hall
Kimberly Hall is a career and confidence coach. She helps purpose-driven professionals in mid-to-later career who are at a crossroads. She left a 20-year career at a public library and now guides clients through their own changes. She holds training as an employment strategist and job interview strategist, and in emotional intelligence and creativity coaching. Her clients build a vision of their future and take action on it.
Lucy Todd
Lucy Todd is a career change coach who helps people leave the wrong industry and find work that fits. She also coaches on the confidence it takes to make that move. Lucy spent 10 years in marketing and dealt with anxiety and burnout before she reset her own career. Her clients include career pivoters, corporate millennials and mid-career professionals who want clarity about what comes next.
Mel Diaz-Tan
Mel Diaz-Tan is an executive and career transition coach based in the Philippines. Mel helps high-achieving women, along with executives, mid-career professionals, emerging leaders and business owners, who face career pivots and big decisions. Mel spent more than 20 years leading teams in large corporates and small to medium organisations across many industries.
Moni Le
Moni Le is a career and purpose coach who helps mid-senior and senior professionals find work that feels fulfilling. She also works with professionals who want to explore starting a business. Before coaching, she spent 6 years in product marketing across non-profit, financial and startup companies. She became a coach in 2021. She holds a PCC credential from the International Coach Federation and is based in Switzerland after living in three other countries.
Nancy Collamer
Nancy Collamer is a retirement coach and author of Second-Act Careers. She helps professionals who are at or near retirement plan a retirement that has meaning. She coaches one-on-one by video through her Retirement Discovery Package. She also writes a blog, sends a monthly newsletter and runs webinars. She offers a free workbook with 25 questions to help people decide what to do in retirement. She also speaks to companies, groups and associations.
Nora Paxton
Nora Paxton is an executive, career and life coach in Bellevue, Washington. She helps corporate executives and rising executives who feel stuck in their careers or lives and need to find the right next step. She holds a John Maxwell coaching certification and is a CBT practitioner. She also trained with The Myers-Briggs Company. Her focus includes executive job search for mid-to-senior professionals and leaders.
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.
Sherwin Chasen
Sherwin Chasen is a career, executive and performance coach in Carlsbad, California. He works with mid-to-senior professionals and leaders in midlife, including people over 50. He is a retired executive who worked as an HR executive and as a COO. That gives him a view from both sides of the desk. He holds an MBA. His coaching focuses on interviewing and personal branding.
Shivkumar Krishnamurti
Shivkumar Krishnamurti is a career, life and business coach in Manukau City, Auckland. He helps mid-career professionals who feel stuck in a dead-end job and unsure about their future. He holds a Bachelor of Engineering and a postgraduate diploma in supply chain management. He also trained as a life coach. His own experience as a new migrant shaped his Six Ps principle for handling setbacks and failure.
Vanessa Zeiler
Vanessa Zeiler is a career and leadership coach in Austin, Texas. She helps mid-career professionals and leaders in tech who feel unfulfilled or burned out. She combines her background as a tech leader with mental fitness coaching. Her goal for clients is to restore their energy and help them move through their careers with confidence. She trained with the Co-Active Training Institute and in Positive Intelligence.
Arissa Freeman
Arissa Freeman is a career coach and leadership coach in Atlanta, Georgia. She helps mid-career professionals who feel stuck and want a career change but do not know where to start. She holds three career credentials, including Certified Professional Resume Writer and Certified Professional Career Coach. She also trained through the Professional Association of Resume Writers and Career Coaches, which fits her focus on career moves.
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.
David Abend
David Abend is a retirement, career and life coach in Carlisle, Massachusetts. He works with people over 50 who feel stuck. He helps them with career pivots, the move into retirement, and finding purpose. David is also the editor of The Bucket, an online magazine. He writes there about death-bed regrets and how to avoid them. That theme shapes his focus on helping clients make choices they will not regret.
David Abend
David Abend is a retirement, career and life coach in Carlisle, Massachusetts. He works with people over 50 who feel stuck. He helps them with career pivots, the move into retirement, and finding purpose. He trained at the Life Purpose Institute. He also edits The Bucket, an online magazine, where he writes about death-bed regrets and how to avoid them. His goal is to help clients make choices they will not second-guess later.
Djessica Duchatelier
Djessica Duchatelier, who goes by DJ, is a career coach and purpose coach. She helps college graduates, young adults, mid-career professionals, empty nesters and retirees. She also helps people going through major life transitions. She holds certifications in career coaching, mindset coaching and professional goal setting. DJ is an entrepreneur and creativity expert. She offers resume writing alongside her coaching, so clients can get both services from one person.
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| Coach | Focus | Works with | Based in | Hourly rate range |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carla Vaccarezza Bass | Career change and Career clarity and purpose | Students and Professionals | $100 to $175 an hour | |
| Arno Alarcon | Interview coaching and Career change | Professionals and Engineers | $75 to $150 an hour | |
| Gagan Vaseer | Career change and Job search | Students and Professionals | $90 to $175 an hour | |
| Alison McCallum | Career change and Career clarity and purpose | Students and Professionals | $100 to $175 an hour | |
| Alice Stapleton | Career change and Career clarity and purpose | Professionals | London, United Kingdom | $70 to $130 an hour |
| Andrei Coso | Career change and Job search | Professionals and Managers | $90 to $175 an hour | |
| Andrew Clemence | Career clarity and purpose and Mid-career and over 50 | Founders and business owners and Executives | London, England, United Kingdom | $150 to $300 an hour |
| Anne Rae | Career change and Mid-career and over 50 | Professionals and Retirees | London, United Kingdom | $140 to $225 an hour |
| Beth Petrie | Career change and Career clarity and purpose | Professionals | Maryland, United States | $125 to $175 an hour |
| Chad Carlile | Career change and Career clarity and purpose | Executives and Professionals | Los Angeles, California, United States | $135 to $170 per hour |
| Corbet Fawcett | Career change and Job search | Professionals | Waterloo, Ontario, Canada | $150 to $250 per hour |
| Cristin Downs | Career change and Job search | Professionals and Neurodivergent adults | $90 to $175 an hour | |
| David Abend | Career change and Resume and LinkedIn | People over 40 | Massachusetts, United States | $115 to $190 an hour |
| Funmi Oni | Career clarity and purpose and Mid-career and over 50 | Professionals and Students | London, England, United Kingdom | $99 to $199 per hour |
| Heather Fryer | Career clarity and purpose and Promotions and advancement | Professionals and Creatives | Hawaii, United States | $135 to $210 an hour |
Common questions
How much does a career coach for mid-career and over 50 cost?
Most career coaches charge $138 to $185 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 promotions and advancement.
Prices and research
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Other focus areas
Last updated September 2026.