Career coaches for military transition
Compare 56 career coaches who focus on military transition. Besides military transition, the most common focus areas are career change, consulting and finance recruiting, interview coaching and resume and linkedin. They most often work with veterans, professionals and students. Most charge $75 to $250 per hour or session.
What career coaches for military transition charge
Career coaches for military transition to compare
Tick "Compare" on the coaches you like, then message them all at once.
Inbar G.
Inbar G. coaches software engineers, engineering managers, product managers and other tech roles on interviews, resumes and leadership. Inbar is a Senior Engineering Manager at DocuSign and a former Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft. Inbar has run over 100 interviews and has managed people for 17 years. Inbar also mentors veterans who want to move into tech and helps them improve their resumes.
Alex Shushunov
Alex Shushunov coaches people who want to get into top MBA programs and management consulting firms. He is a former U.S. Army officer who worked at Accenture and McKinsey & Company. At McKinsey he was a trained interviewer and recruiting lead. He has coached since 2018 and has helped hundreds of candidates, both veterans and non-veterans, prepare for MBA programs and firms like McKinsey, Bain, and BCG.
Amos Lee
Amos Lee is a career coach who helps people with career pivots, MBA and fellowship admissions, and service academy and ROTC paths. He also coaches on burnout and life direction. His own path runs from Wall Street to the U.S. Army, then to humanitarian aid and development finance in East Africa and the Middle East. He mixes practical planning with meditation, somatic practices, or yoga when they help. He also advised firms on investment deals at CrossBoundary.
Andrew Glaze
Andrew Glaze is a private equity and finance coach who works with students, professionals, founders and finance candidates. He coaches private equity, investment banking, asset management, CFA preparation, AI for sales and marketing, and career development. He is a West Point graduate, a former Army officer, and a CFA charterholder with a Columbia MBA. He is also Chief Investment Officer at Equitable Capital, a media-focused private equity firm.
Andy Fleischer
Andy Fleischer is a career coach who helps veterans and other professionals move into business, consulting, tech and top MBA programs. He began as a Special Operations Infantry Officer and led soldiers on three deployments to the Middle East. He then earned an MBA at Wharton and worked at L.E.K. Consulting. Today he leads a $1B+ business at Amazon. He has coached more than 60 clients through military transitions.
Brian Landry
Brian Landry is a management consulting coach who helps veterans and career changers break into top-tier consulting or the defense tech industry. He is a former Green Beret and 75th Ranger Regiment officer. He later consulted at Bain & Company and then moved into defense technology. He has made the move from military to consulting and from consulting to industry. Today he works as a business development manager for the Army portfolio.
Cristin Browne
Cristin Browne is a coach who helps veterans move from military service into civilian leadership. Cristin is a former U.S. Army Blackhawk pilot and aviation company commander with an MBA from Harvard Business School. Cristin leads Brave Peak, where they buy and run businesses, advise founders and operators, and coach veterans. Past roles include Chief Customer Officer at Homebot and Business Operations Manager at Twilio.
David Hollestelle
David Hollestelle is a career and executive coach for people in tech, venture capital and private equity. He has over 15 years of experience recruiting and leading teams at companies like a16z, Meta, Intuit and Zoom. He knows how hiring works from the inside. He left the military earlier in his career and now coaches others through career moves. He is finishing a coaching master's degree that is accredited by the ICF.
Gaylan Greenawalt
Gaylan Greenawalt is a product management coach who helps people break into product roles and grow in them. He also coaches military and first responder veterans who want to move into tech. He worked as a product manager at LinkedIn, Amazon, Guideline and Airspeed. He served 11 years as a Navy officer and led teams of 30 to 100 people across 4 deployments. He now works as a senior product manager at Overland AI.
James Thao
James Thao is a management consulting coach. He helps career switchers, MBA applicants, and experienced hires prepare for consulting offers. His case experience spans financial services, aerospace and defense, and technology. He spent 2017 to 2022 as a Senior Manager in strategy consulting and served in the United States Army from 2005 to 2013. He now runs Apstelios and co-founded Nupt.AI, where he is Chief Operating Officer.
John Buchner
John Buchner is a career coach who helps professionals land jobs at top management consulting firms. He is a former McKinsey Engagement Manager and U.S. Marine Corps Captain. He coaches case interviews, behavioral interviews, resumes and cover letters. He holds an MBA from Michigan's Ross School of Business and works from Pittsburgh.
Jonathan Javier & Jerry Lee
Jonathan Javier and Jerry Lee run Wonsulting, a career coaching company that helps job seekers from non-traditional backgrounds get hired. Coaches rewrite resumes and LinkedIn profiles, apply to targeted jobs for clients, and run mock interviews. The team includes former Fortune 500 recruiters and hiring managers. Wonsulting also offers a 120-day job offer guarantee and WonsultingAI, a set of AI job search tools with over 1.6M users.
Judy Horton
Judy Horton is a career coach and team trainer in Spartanburg, South Carolina. She helps professionals plan promotions, change careers, and communicate better at work. She spent 20 years leading teams in Information Systems, Human Resources, and Learning. She holds PMP, RCC, and SHRM-SCP credentials. She uses the HBDI thinking style assessment with teams. She also guides military veterans as they map a move into a civilian career.
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.
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.
Mark Brostoff
Mark Brostoff is a career and leadership coach who helps college students, recent graduates, and experienced professionals plan their career search. He has over 20 years of senior leadership in higher education. He served as Assistant Dean of Graduate Career Services at USC Marshall School of Business and as Associate Dean at Olin Business School. He also retired as a Commander from the US Navy after 20 years of service.
Mark Delaney
Mark Delaney is a career coach who helps high-performing professionals make big career decisions. He spent eight years as an Army officer, then earned an MBA at Darden. He co-founded an HR tech startup and later spent two years as a self-funded searcher. Today he also runs an executive recruiting practice focused on data centers, defense, energy, and manufacturing. He coaches people who are weighing pivots or working out what comes next.
Steven Crane
Steven Crane is an executive coach, keynote speaker and business strategist who works with veterans, professionals and entrepreneurs. He is a former Marine who was homeless and disabled after leaving the service. He went on to build multiple businesses and secure over $4.2 billion in benefits for veterans worldwide. He coaches on leaving the military, scaling a business and taking control of personal finances. He holds 2 doctorates and is now in law school.
William Widjaja
William Widjaja is a software engineering coach who helps people break into tech and grow their careers. He works with students and with adults from fields like the military, nursing and real estate. He has built products in law, tax, finance and biotech, and launched his own startup while in college. He interviews for real jobs himself and records those sessions so clients can learn from them. His clients have gone on to offers at Wells Fargo and IBM.
Kyle Koenig
Kyle Koenig is a career coach who helps transitioning service members, veterans and career changers plan their next move. He is based in San Diego. He spent nearly ten years as a Navy pilot and officer, then worked as a senior case manager with the Navy Wounded Warrior Program. There he supported 50+ sailors and their families, many heading toward separation. He holds an MBA from USC Marshall.
Wilbanks Consulting Group
Wilbanks Consulting Group is a career and leadership coaching firm for professionals and executives. The team helps clients change careers, move up, and run a job search. The firm is woman-owned and has worked with mid to executive level leaders for over 10 years. Its team includes certified HR professionals, career and leadership coaches, and writers. It also serves companies, colleges, professional associations, and nonprofits across the country.
Brendan Lorton
Brendan Lorton is a management consulting coach who helps people move into consulting and navigate business school. He went from the military to business school and knows what it is like to start from zero. He explored investment banking, worked at a startup, and spent a summer consulting with BCG. He now works at Boston Consulting Group. He has coached 1,516 minutes and has 21 reviews.
Ben Kozy
Ben Kozy is a career and business coach who also works as an AI services expert. His own path runs from the Navy to Capital One, Booz Allen Hamilton, a Columbia MBA, McKinsey, and a COO role at a startup. He now co-founded Operating Co., which puts AI into companies, and runs OpsRay, a fractional COO practice. He coaches on management consulting, MBA paths, startup careers, and leaving the military.
Lauren Stephenson
Lauren Stephenson is a coach for people aiming at service academies and ROTC, moving out of the military, or stepping into leadership roles. She is a former Navy officer and decision scientist with a background in operations research and analytics. She worked as a consultant at BCG and as Lead Data Scientist for the US Navy. She built the Surface Force Response Plan, a planning and decision system for Navy forces.
Donna Serdula
Donna Serdula runs LinkedIn Makeover, a service of Vision Board Media that writes and brands LinkedIn profiles and resumes. She works with job seekers and executives who want a stronger career story. Her team also builds LinkedIn company pages and profiles for employees. She wrote a For Dummies book on LinkedIn and hosts the Dream Big Conversations podcast. She also offers resources for veterans and military professionals.
Tamika Creekmore
Tamika Creekmore is a career coach in Leland who helps people plan their next move, including veterans moving into civilian work. She is also a working interior designer, project manager and U.S. Army veteran. She has worked in design, sales, client services and retail. She has changed industries herself and returned to school after the military. She helps clients take an overwhelming idea, split it into small steps, and choose what to do next.
Daniel Simpson
Daniel Simpson is a career and leadership coach for veterans and service members moving into civilian work. He is a Special Operations veteran with a social work degree. He is Chief Operating Officer of Vocational Rehabilitation Specialists Inc., a large Department of Labor funded veteran employment provider. He grew it from a small regional provider into a multi-state group. He has coached more than 100 clients on the Leland platform.
Ryan Schuler
Ryan Schuler is a career, leadership and business coach in Covington, Georgia. He helps veterans, transitioning military personnel and small businesses. He is a U.S. Army Reserve veteran and runs Bald Eagle Coaching LLC. He holds a Ph.D. in Industrial-Organizational Psychology and a Graduate Certificate in Human Resource Management. He is a Board-Certified Coach. His work covers leadership development, career readiness and workforce solutions for organizations.
Ryan Schuler
Ryan Schuler is a career and leadership coach in Covington, Georgia. He works with veterans, service members leaving the military, and small businesses. He is a U.S. Army Reserve veteran and runs Bald Eagle Coaching LLC. He holds a PhD in Industrial-Organizational Psychology and a Graduate Certificate in Human Resource Management. He is a Board-Certified Coach. His focus areas are leadership development, career readiness, and workforce solutions for organizations.
Spencer Shih
Spencer Shih is an MBA admissions consultant who helps applicants choose schools and tell their story based on career goals. He is a Navy veteran who used a full-time MBA to move into marketing. He has worked with more than 60 MBA clients and has coached full-time MBA students on recruiting for over 5 years. He starts by asking what career you want after the MBA and what experience you want during the two years.
Alec Emmert
Alec Emmert coaches people who want into top MBA programs and elite consulting firms. He works with applicants from non-traditional backgrounds. He was admitted to Wharton at age 35 with a 2.85 undergraduate GPA. He then joined McKinsey & Company as an Associate and worked in its Private Equity practice. He also led Service to School, a nonprofit that helps veterans get into top universities, and wrote a book on MBA success for veterans.
Dee Taylor
Dee Taylor is an MBA admissions consultant who helps veterans, engineers, and other non-traditional applicants get into business school. Dee is a Harvard Business School MBA and a former U.S. Navy officer with an engineering background. Through Service2School, Dee has supported applicants admitted to Tuck, Wharton, Harvard Business School, Kellogg, and Chicago Booth. Dee also works as a product leader in gaming and has founded a business.
Grant Miller
Grant Miller is an MBA admissions consultant who also helps clients with consulting recruiting and the move from military to civilian work. He has conducted over 30 MBA admissions interviews for Georgetown and interviewed job candidates at Deloitte and in government. He is a Georgetown MBA candidate and a former Deloitte Senior Consultant. He now works at Visa Consulting & Analytics. He also has U.S. Army experience.
Greg Furnia
Greg Furnia is a life, executive and career transition coach who works with first responders and their families. He also coaches leaders and professionals who want success at work without losing what matters at home. Greg spent 26 years in federal law enforcement, including special operations and leadership roles. He founded Living the Good Life LLC and coaches clients online across the United States. He also partners with agencies on retirement readiness and leadership training.
James Palmer III
James Palmer III is an MBA admissions consultant who also coaches students, veterans and professionals on service academy and ROTC applications, career strategy and leadership. He is a West Point graduate and former U.S. Army officer with a Columbia Business School MBA. He has coached more than 100 people. He serves as a Columbia Business School Admissions Ambassador, a Management Leadership for Tomorrow coach and a West Point Admissions Liaison.
Jeremy Wano
Jeremy Wano is an admissions consultant who helps people get into MBA and MPA programs, get into dental school, and land jobs in consulting. He studied at Tuck School of Business and worked at Boston Consulting Group. He served as a dentist in the US Navy. He has also worked as a strategy consultant and as a Head of Customer Success Strategy.
Kasey Crumpton
Kasey Crumpton is an MBA admissions consultant who helps non-traditional and military applicants. Kasey has a Kellogg MBA from the Class of 2026 and has worked in consulting at Boston Consulting Group. Kasey also served as Director of Network Operations for the Space Force and as an Army Signal and Infantry Officer. Kasey has guided 5 clients through the MBA application process and received offers from multiple top-25 MBA programs.
Kim Green
Kim Green is a life and leadership coach who helps people through major life and career transitions. She is a retired Navy Commander with 18 years of leadership experience. She has worked in military and professional settings, building workforces and improving global operations. She holds a Masters in Human Systems Integration and an M.B.A. in Human Resources. She uses the Energy Leadership Index to help clients find what blocks them and gain clarity.
Matt Kilby
Matt Kilby is an MBA admissions consultant who helps applicants get into top business schools and undergraduate schools. He has coached for over 6 years. He is a former nuclear submarine officer and a Project Leader at BCG. Clients he has helped were admitted to Harvard Business School, Wharton, Chicago Booth, Kellogg and MIT Sloan, including the LGO program. He also works with military veterans, engineers and athletes.
Shikina Tellis
Shikina Tellis is a leadership and life coach who helps professionals, veterans, and entrepreneurs build success without burnout. Shikina founded TWS Coaching & Consulting Group, LLC. Shikina is a military veteran with more than 26 years of senior leadership experience. Shikina holds an ICF Associate Certified Coach credential and an MBA. Shikina also coaches couples and offers workshops and speaking. Shikina works with clients across the country by video.
Stephen Morris
Stephen Morris is a leadership and career coach in Indiana. He helps CEOs, managers and team members grow their leadership skills and plan their careers. He spent 21 years in the military and corporate worlds, and he is a United States Army veteran who led deployments worldwide. He runs Renowned Leadership, which builds coaching around three ideas: Community, Consistency and Clarity. He works with STEM leaders and with people leaving the military.
Taylor Applegate
Taylor Applegate is a law school admissions consultant who helps transitioning military members, veterans, young professionals and senior undergraduates plan a future in law. Taylor served six years on active duty as an Air Force officer, then earned a JD at Stanford Law School. Taylor clerked for the Ninth Circuit and now practices as an attorney at Salahi PC. Taylor also helps clients apply to other graduate and fellowship programs.
Tyler Oates
Tyler Oates is a management consulting and MBA coach. He helps candidates get into elite MBA programs, land jobs at top consulting firms, and move into entrepreneurship through search and acquisition. Tyler worked at McKinsey & Company after Harvard Business School. He later became CEO of a Michigan-based manufacturing company. Before business school, he spent ten years as a U.S. Army Green Beret. He also coaches people leaving the military.
Walter Woo
Walter Woo is an MBA admissions consultant who also helps with master's programs, venture capital paths, and military transitions. He served as a US Army officer from 2015 to 2023 after graduating from the United States Military Academy. He later earned a Master of Public Administration at Harvard Kennedy School. He has invested in early-stage startups in Southeast Asia and other markets. He also interviewed and mentored prospective candidates for the Military Academy.
William Chung
William Chung is an MBA admissions consultant who helps veterans and service members get into business school and move into tech. He is a Product Manager at Microsoft and a former Army MEDEVAC Black Hawk pilot. He earned his own MBA at MIT Sloan. He has helped 20+ people win acceptances at top 25 programs, including HBS, Stanford GSB, Booth, Columbia and Kellogg. He also coaches career changers into product management and product marketing.
Zack Doherty
Zack Doherty is an admissions consultant and career coach. He helps clients with MBA applications, college applications and career pivots. He turns each client's experiences into a clear story. Zack is a Marine Corps officer with a Stanford MBA and a philosophy degree from Dartmouth. He captained the Dartmouth swimming and diving team and later served as Chief Revenue Officer at a startup. He focuses on people with nontraditional paths.
Zormarah Lyda
Zormarah Lyda, known as Coach Zhee, is an executive and life coach in Maryland. She coaches emerging leaders, managers, executives, veterans and college students through career and leadership change. She is a U.S. military veteran with more than 18 years of leadership experience in federal service. She founded Candidly Unsed and also prepares people for the RBLP, RBLP-C and RBLP-T certifications. She runs workshops and webinars on perfectionism and life seasons.
Austin Welch
Austin Welch is an MBA admissions and consulting recruiting coach. He helps candidates get into top business schools and land jobs at firms like McKinsey, BCG, and Bain. He is a former McKinsey Engagement Manager and interviewer who now leads a team of 30 as a Managing Director at FedEx. He was accepted at all seven business schools he applied to, then earned his MBA at Stanford.
Mark A. Mitchell
Dr. Mark A. Mitchell is a life, career, and leadership coach who helps professionals get clear on their next step. He is a retired U.S. Air Force veteran with more than 20 years of leadership experience in the military, federal government, and private sector. He holds a Doctor of Business Administration and runs Pay Attention Coaching in Spokane, Washington. He coaches clients across the country by video or phone.
Torrie Kalm
Dr. Torrie Kalm runs The Kalm Effect, a veteran-owned coaching practice in Nashville, Tennessee. She coaches on resilience, emotional intelligence, leadership and stress management. She holds a doctorate in Industrial Organizational Psychology and spent 30 years in a special operations military career. Her doctoral research looked at how emotional intelligence affects people and organizations. She works with culture-driven business owners, and she also runs a career program for university students.
Al Lopez
Al Lopez is a leadership and military transition coach. He helps people grow as leaders, make hard decisions, and move from military service into new careers. He is a retired U.S. Navy Captain and a certified coach. He also works full time as Director of Operations at Sterigenics, where he leads multiple manufacturing facilities. He is working toward full ICF accreditation and coaches people from many backgrounds.
David Frost
David Frost is a leadership and career coach. He also offers MBA coaching. He works as Director of Supply Chain at Johnson & Johnson, where he leads the core planning team for Abiomed. He served as Chief of Staff to the Abiomed CEO during Johnson & Johnson's $16.6B acquisition of the company in December 2022. Before that, he taught leadership and tactics at West Point and served as an Army infantry officer for over a decade.
Maya Niksic
Maya Niksic is a women's leadership coach who works with leaders on self-awareness, self-mastery, and the behaviors that move a career forward. She holds an ICF-PCC credential and is also a trauma-sensitive yoga teacher. She founded Adaptive Leadership Atelier, where she coaches and trains leaders one-on-one and in groups. She worked on Wall Street during the 2008 market collapse and now coaches executives at BetterUp. She also writes as a contributor for Brainz Magazine.
Mark Bergquist
Mark Bergquist is an accountability, career and life coach who helps people work through change in their personal and work lives. He is a U.S. Navy veteran who served in Desert Storm and has nearly three decades of leadership experience. He rose from hourly supervisor to operations manager and has led teams in Fortune 500 companies and churches. He is an iPEC certified coach and works with a practice in Katy, Texas.
Jose Samayoa
Jose Samayoa is an executive and career coach in Connecticut. He helps leaders, first-time managers, career changers, and small business teams. He runs Eels Professional Development. His work draws on 20 years of leadership in the military, corporate management, and small business operations. He uses a framework built on Experiences, Expectations, Feedback, Actions, and Self. Sessions can be virtual, in an office, or onsite at a client's workplace.
Richard Burke
Richard Burke is a business, career and life coach in Illinois. He helps people in transition, including recent college graduates, veterans leaving the military, and executives who want to grow their careers and businesses. He spent ten years as President of a $25 million ecommerce company and five years as a Vice President of ecommerce at a Fortune 500 company. He also led the Graduate School of Management at Lewis University for three years.
Side by side
| Coach | Focus | Hourly rate range |
|---|---|---|
| Inbar G. | Interview coaching and Resume and LinkedIn | $75 to $150 an hour |
| Alex Shushunov | Consulting and finance recruiting and Interview coaching | $80 to $165 an hour |
| Amos Lee | Career change and Career clarity and purpose | $90 to $175 an hour |
| Andrew Glaze | Interview coaching and Consulting and finance recruiting | $75 to $150 an hour |
| Andy Fleischer | Career change and Consulting and finance recruiting | $90 to $185 an hour |
| Brian Landry | Career change and Consulting and finance recruiting | $90 to $175 an hour |
| Cristin Browne | Career change and Military transition | $90 to $185 an hour |
| David Hollestelle | Job search and Interview coaching | $95 to $175 an hour |
| Gaylan Greenawalt | Career change and Tech careers | $90 to $175 an hour |
| James Thao | Consulting and finance recruiting and Interview coaching | $70 to $150 an hour |
| John Buchner | Interview coaching and Resume and LinkedIn | $75 to $150 an hour |
| Jonathan Javier & Jerry Lee | Career change and Job search | $125 to $200 an hour |
| Judy Horton | Career change and Promotions and advancement | $125 to $175 an hour |
| Kira Dalton | Career change and Job search | $90 to $175 an hour |
| Lenora Lassiter | Career change and Resume and LinkedIn | $125 to $175 an hour |
Common questions
How much does a career coach for military transition cost?
Most career coaches charge $75 to $250 per hour or session.
What else do these career coaches help with?
Common focus areas include career change, consulting and finance recruiting, interview coaching and resume and linkedin.
Prices and research
- Are Career Coaches Worth It?
- Career Coach vs Career Counselor vs Recruiter
- 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
- Coaching vs Therapy: Cost and Key Differences
- Do Certified Coaches Charge More?
- Executive Functioning Coach Cost
- How Many Coaches Are There?
- How Many Coaching Sessions Do I Need?
Other focus areas
Last updated September 2026.