Executive coaches for CEO and founder coaching
Compare 511 executive coaches who focus on CEO and founder coaching. Besides CEO and founder coaching, the most common focus areas are leadership development, team performance, strategy and decision making and transitions and new roles. They most often work with executives, founders and business owners and managers. Most charge $142 to $338 per hour or session.
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Caroline Webb
Caroline Webb is an executive coach who works with CEOs and senior leaders. She is an economist, a former McKinsey partner, and the author of Leadership Intelligence and How To Have A Good Day. She has 25 years of experience advising leaders around the world. She takes on a small number of individual clients each year, mostly at C-Suite level. Her coaching draws on behavioral science, psychology and neuroscience.
Tanya Spencer
Tanya Spencer is an executive and leadership coach in Gotha, Florida. She helps leaders move toward the C-Suite and handle tough business challenges. She co-owns Build Lead Succeed LLC and has a 31-year career. She spent four years in Nigeria growing markets for GE Oil & Gas. She also served as Chief Diversity Officer for GE Gas Power, leading inclusion work for 20,000 employees across more than 70 countries.
Adam Kanner
Adam Kanner coaches founders and CEOs on hard business decisions, with a focus on AI strategy. He has founded five companies over 25 years and is the sitting CEO of Collect'd, which builds secure data infrastructure for personal AI. He also spent three years inside the NBA league office building its CRM and analytics function. He co-founded ScoreBig, a ticket marketplace that worked with about a third of major pro sports teams. He has raised more than $100 million.
Al Vazquez
Al Vazquez is an executive, leadership and entrepreneurship coach in Ithaca, New York. He helps people with vision build the strength to make a better world for themselves and others. Al has over 20 years in leadership. He is a former technology executive and a social entrepreneur. His clients come from many industries and life paths. What they share is a wish to live and work with purpose.
Alec Pearson
Alec Pearson is an executive coach in London who works with senior leaders, founders and SME leaders. He brings 30+ years of commercial experience, including senior leadership, building and running businesses, and serving as a Non-Executive Director and Board Advisor. He coaches one-to-one and works with leadership teams. He also offers three structured 12-month programmes with progress tracking on a coaching platform called 51 North.
Amie Devero
Amie Devero is a leadership and executive coach in Tampa, Florida. She works with high-performing leaders, mostly in the tech sector, who are growing an organization from small to enterprise size. She has been a strategy and organizational change consultant for over 20 years. She also led two start-up technology companies. One of them, iControl Mobile, was acquired by RingGo. She wrote the management book "Powered by Principle". She coaches clients in the US, Canada and the UK.
Amit Ghosh
Amit Ghosh is an executive coach who works with tech founders and senior corporate leaders. He has coached more than 100 executives, including co-founders and C-level leaders at fintech, logistics, gaming and lending companies. He holds the ICF PCC credential and runs Conscious Reboot. He mixes Western coaching methods with mindfulness, Buddhist teachings and breathwork. He also served as a board director and as a chief technology officer.
Andy Sparks
Andy Sparks is an executive coach for startup founders and CEOs. He also works with their executive teams. He co-founded Mattermark and Holloway, and he has been a startup CEO twice and a COO once. He has coached since 2020. He has worked with over 60 people for more than 1,800 hours. He carries 15 to 20 clients at a time. His clients are usually venture-backed B2B software companies.
Anna Gibbs
Anna Gibbs is an executive and leadership coach in Wallkill, New York. She helps executives, founders, and entrepreneurs build clarity, confidence, and stronger leadership. She brings more than 30 years of leadership and business experience. She also works as a speaker and business strategist. Anna created two programs, The Leadership Advantage and The Leadership Alignment Intensive. She hosts the Monday Morning Mojo podcast and wrote the book Getting Back to You.
Bikram Gupta Sarma
Bikram Gupta Sarma is an executive and emotional intelligence coach who works with technology leaders, technology startups and companies looking for growth. He has three and a half decades in technology. He was a Vice President at Oracle for multiple products and led global operations teams in 6 countries. He has also founded multiple companies and managed teams of 3000 people. He holds an ICF ACC credential.
Brad J. Henderson
Brad J. Henderson runs Consistency Edge, an executive coaching practice in Toronto. He coaches C-suite leaders, senior executives and growth-focused founders who face high-stakes decisions. He brings 45 years of leadership experience and wrote the book The Consistency Effect. His work follows five pillars, from clarity in complexity to sustainable performance. He also helps executives plan their next career move. He takes a select number of executives each quarter.
Brian Wang
Brian Wang is an executive coach who works with early stage startup founders. He helps founders who can build product learn how to build a team and a company that runs without them. Brian founded and sold Fitocracy, a large fitness social network. He later led product work at Credit Karma and Eaze as they scaled. He coaches remotely across the USA through his practice, Dashing Leadership. His focus is decisions, hard conversations, and team standards.
Cameron Herold
Cameron Herold coaches CEOs and COOs on growing their companies. He has helped leaders scale businesses since 2000. He wrote The Second in Command and 6 other bestselling books. He also speaks at events and has been paid to speak in 29 countries and on all 7 continents. He runs the COO Alliance, a community and mastermind group built for second-in-command leaders. He offers both one-on-one and group coaching.
Carl Shawn Watkins
Carl Shawn Watkins is a diversity, equity and inclusion consultant and executive coach in New Jersey. He works with CEOs, entrepreneurs, executives and other leaders. His focus is vulnerability in leadership. In the last 25 years he has trained over 1000 leaders and coached over 200 senior executives. He founded his own consulting firm and holds leadership experience from both public and private sectors. He is also a law student studying business and corporate law.
Catherine Gray
Catherine Gray is a leadership coach who helps organisations, teams, managers and founders get better results and keep their top talent. She has coached since 2016. She started with purpose, identity and goal setting, and now helps leaders find their strengths. She uses the CliftonStrengths tool and builds plans around client data. She also works as a facilitator, consultant and strategist. She is based in Bristol, UK.
Chase Murdock
Chase Murdock is an executive coach who advises CEOs and business owners through Patina Capital, his investment and advisory firm. He is also the CEO of Decada Group, a Salt Lake City holding company that buys small businesses and holds them for the long term. He has completed multiple acquisitions and operated the companies afterward. He takes on a small number of clients so he can build deep context over time.
Cherry Rose Tan
Cherry Rose Tan is a coach and keynote speaker who helps founders and leaders build their organizations without burning out. She has nearly two decades in tech, innovation and entrepreneurship. She is Co-Founder and CEO of One Percent-Her and Entrepreneur in Residence at the Schulich School of Business, where she works with hundreds of startups and their executive teams each year. She also built a movement for entrepreneurial mental health that grew to over 40,000 leaders.
Cindy Chance
Cindy Chance is an executive coach who works with leaders and organizations that feel stalled and need to move toward clear strategy and growth. She holds a PhD in ethics and spent two decades leading organizational change. She is a former nonprofit CEO and runs FosterChance, a coaching and consulting firm. She also teaches leadership, ethics and executive strategy at Loyola University Chicago.
Corrie Block
Corrie Block is an executive, business and burnout coach based in the United Arab Emirates. Corrie works with senior executives, small business owners and high-performing entrepreneurs. Corrie has coached leaders at SERCO, Microsoft, Emirates and the United Nations. Corrie has 25 years of coaching experience across more than 150 companies, has started 5 businesses, and teaches as a Professor of Strategic Management. Corrie holds 4 post-graduate degrees.
Dai Manuel
Dai Manuel is a Vancouver executive health coach, speaker and fitness business consultant. He is known as Coach Moose. He works one to one with founders and executives, and he advises gym and studio owners. He has nearly thirty years in fitness, and he is a former COO who still runs a gym. He wrote the Whole Life Fitness Manifesto, which teaches the 2% Solution.
Dan Auerbach
Dan Auerbach is an executive and business coach in Sydney, Australia. He works with senior executives, CEOs and founders on leadership and business performance. He has 25 years of experience in commerce and clinical psychology. He has coached leaders at Westpac, AMP, Woolworths, Allianz, TPG Telecom and the NSW Government. He also leads a corporate psychology firm that supports 600 member organisations, and he has lectured in an MBA program.
Danielle Lombard-Sims
Danielle Lombard-Sims is an executive, leadership and team coach who also works as a retirement coach. She helps CEOs, healthcare leaders, higher education leaders, HR leaders and physician leaders. She is a former Executive Partner with Gartner and a C-Suite business executive. She has 29 years of experience in coaching, change management, succession planning and leadership development. She has coached leaders in healthcare, banking, oil and gas, government and manufacturing. She works from Tennessee.
Dave Bailey
Dave Bailey is a CEO coach for founders of venture-backed tech companies. He has been a founder CEO himself. In eight years he has coached more than 250 CEOs, from Series A to Series D. His clients are backed by firms like Sequoia Capital, Accel and Insight Partners. He splits his coaching by company stage. He also writes a weekly essay on founder leadership and speaks at VC events. He works from London and San Francisco.
Dave Bailey
Dave Bailey is the founder of Founder Coach, a CEO coaching practice for venture-backed founders. He helps founder-CEOs of scale-ups align their teams and grow faster. He has coached over 250 CEOs across 26 countries, and those CEOs have raised $7.2Bn. His work is built on more than 500 visual frameworks that CEOs learn and then teach to their own teams. Clients start with a free five-minute assessment called the CEO Focus Finder.
Dave Miles
Dave Miles is an executive and team coach in Virginia who helps CEOs and executives build strong teams. He holds a Ph.D. in Organizational Leadership and is a certified executive and team coach through Marshall Goldsmith's Stakeholder Centered Coaching. He is also a professional speaker and author. His clients include hotel chains, manufacturers, non-profits and healthcare systems, among them Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He uses his own set of tools called the Insights Suite.
David Ferranti
David Ferranti is a leadership coach in Michigan who focuses on entrepreneurship and executive coaching. He is a certified Maxwell Leadership Coach, Trainer, and Speaker. He has led leadership training programs for for-profit and non-profit groups across the United States and other countries. He founded Leaders for America and a Michigan trade school. He also runs 3, 5, and 7 day leadership intensives at his 80 acre ranch near Yosemite National Park.
David Krueger
David Krueger is an executive mentor coach in Houston who helps professionals reach and keep peak performance. He is CEO of MentorPath, a firm for executive coaching, training, publishing and wellness. He is a physician who once practiced and taught psychiatry and psychoanalysis. He has written 24 books, including The Secret Language of Money, a business bestseller translated into 10 languages. He also trained professionals around the world in his own coaching programs.
David Lancefield
David Lancefield is a strategist and executive coach who works with CEOs and C-suite leaders. He spent 30 years advising organisations on strategy, innovation, leadership and culture in more than 30 countries. He was a senior partner in Strategy& at PwC. He has led more than 500 client engagements and worked with 60 CEOs. He also lectures at London Business School and hosts a podcast called Lancefield on the Line.
Denis Simonov
Denis Simonov is an executive coach who works with high-performing leaders on growth, resilience and purpose. He spent over 15 years building and leading global teams at companies including Amazon, Unilever and Ford. He also founded and scaled businesses in New York and Asia. He has coached more than 60 executives. He leads the Harvard Business School alumni group in Southern California and uses the Leadership Circle Profile and Erickson Coaching methods.
Don Neufeld
Don Neufeld is an executive coach for CTOs, VPs of Engineering and other engineering leaders. He spent more than twenty years running engineering teams before he started coaching. He was the Founding CTO of Medium and a VP of Engineering at ClassPass and Chartboost. He built and led teams of up to 125 engineers spread around the world. He gives direct advice based on his own operating experience, not only questions.
ECI Partners
ECI Partners is a boutique executive and leadership coaching firm based in Sydney. It works with individual leaders, teams and whole organisations. The team is made up of former executives, entrepreneurs and psychologists. The firm built its own team model, TEEM, and also uses a project team model called PPM. It also runs pod coaching, which is executive coaching for groups inside an organisation. Coaches are located across Australia.
Edward Taylor
Edward Taylor is a CTO coach and mentor for early-stage engineering leaders. He helps Series A and B tech teams grow from one team to many while building strong leaders. He is an exited founder who has held Director, VP, interim CTO and fractional roles. He has grown teams from 8 to 40 and mentored dozens of engineering leaders. His clients are mostly in the UK and US.
Ellen Van Driessche
Ellen Van Driessche is an online executive coach and organizational psychologist in Belgium. She helps new leaders, senior executives, founders and ambitious professionals lead with more confidence and less stress. She has supported leaders for more than two decades, across Europe and internationally. Her work covers leadership development, mindset and emotional resilience. She mixes psychology, neuroscience and practical leadership tools. She also lists retirement coaching.
Emese Pogácsás
Emese Pogácsás is a leadership coach and advisor for tech founders and executives. She founded Namaste & Cabernet and works with leaders whose roles have outgrown their playbook. She spent more than two decades in tech before coaching, moving from junior engineer to project lead to executive. Her work covers delegation, decision making and difficult conversations. She also builds mindfulness into her coaching and offers team workshops built around real situations.
Eric Markowitz
Eric Markowitz is an executive and business coach who works with CEOs, founders and executives under real pressure. He led the global launch of Gardasil for Merck and has worked with over 100 Fortune 500 companies. He also rebuilt a company on his first day after two partners walked out with half the business. He helps leaders build, pivot and lead through big moments. He also shows leaders where AI can make a practical difference.
Eric Partaker
Eric Partaker is a CEO coach who helps CEOs, founders and entrepreneurs scale themselves and their companies. He is based in London and runs the CEO Accelerator, an online program for leaders of small and medium-sized businesses. He advised Fortune 50 CEOs at McKinsey and helped build Skype's multi-billion dollar exit. He has helped scale over 100 companies and wrote the book The 3 Alarms.
Federico Malatesta
Federico Malatesta is an executive and leadership coach in Perrin, Texas. He works with experienced leaders and professionals in midlife who face a change and want clear direction. He runs FM Transformational Coaching. He was once Chief Investment Officer for a $40 billion energy portfolio. He also runs The Artha Ranch, a working horse ranch where he breeds reined cow horses and hosts coaching sessions with horses.
Glen Hellman
Glen Hellman is an executive coach who works with founders, CEOs and other senior leaders through his practice, CXO Elevate. He has worked in tech since 1978 as a sales rep, startup CEO and turnaround executive. He raised over 100 million dollars in venture financing and helped lead multiple exits, including a 400 million dollar IPO. He also spent over a decade fixing troubled companies for private equity investors. He wrote a leadership book called Intentionality.
Gwen Tormey
Gwen Tormey is a leadership and executive coach who helps people move into bigger roles and manage high-pressure careers. She is a President and former COO at CoreStream. She has led several private equity and VC-backed companies through growth, change and exits. Her career began in management consulting and private equity, and she holds a Stanford MBA. She has worked as both an investor and an operator.
Heran Getachew
Heran Getachew is an executive and career coach who works with founders, executives and business leaders. Heran has coached and trained 100+ entrepreneurs and leaders at firms such as Justworks, UBS and Morgan Stanley. Heran also works as Strategy Director in the Office of the COO at The Carlyle Group, and spent 15+ years in investment banking, private equity and corporate strategy before coaching full time alongside that role.
Hugo Velazco
Hugo Velazco is an executive and leadership coach in Torrance, California. He helps leaders, professionals, founders and veterans who carry heavy responsibility and need clarity before a big decision. He holds a PhD in Business Psychology and is an ICF Professional Certified Coach. His background includes military service, human resources and organizational systems. He created Judgment Intelligence, a framework for sound judgment under pressure. He offers a 30-minute private conversation as a starting point.
Ian Kahng
Ian Kahng is an executive coach and consulting recruiting coach. He works with CEOs, founders, senior leaders, and candidates aiming for consulting offers. He worked at McKinsey and later managed profitability across 80+ companies at Teamshares. There he coached first-time CEOs who took over acquired businesses. He holds a Georgetown leadership coaching certificate from an ICF Level 2 program. He has also tutored ACT prep since 2012.
Inas Ghanem
Inas Ghanem is a leadership, business and entrepreneurship coach in Cairo, Egypt. She helps executives, entrepreneurs and expats. She holds a PhD and was an engineer and university professor before she became a coach. She is a World Bank Master Trainer and advises ecommerce entrepreneurs for the World Bank. She runs Coaching Planet and Engineering Planet. She works with clients in Egypt and around the world.
JM Pique
JM Pique is an executive, career and business coach in Barcelona, Spain. He works with founders, CEOs and professionals who want to keep growing. He brings 25 years of experience across government, corporate, business and entrepreneurship. He is a certified Gallup Strengths Coach, so his work starts with finding a client's top talents and strengths. He also holds an ICF Associate Certified Coach credential and writes articles on entrepreneurship and listening.
Jakob Franzen
Jakob Franzen is an executive coach who works with CEOs, senior leaders and the teams they lead. He holds the ICF Master Certified Coach credential. Before coaching, he spent 30 years in leadership across biotech, software, healthcare, manufacturing and nonprofit. He owned P&Ls and led executive teams through business pivots. He offers private coaching and a 6 to 12 week Executive Team Reset for teams that have stalled. He takes on a small number of clients at a time.
Janicek Performance Group
Janicek Performance Group is a communication coaching firm for executives and senior leaders. It covers executive coaching, public speaking, media training and personal branding. The team includes Emmy-winning journalists, performance trainers and communication advisors. The firm has trained more than 10,000 executives over 20 years. Clients range from Fortune 500 CEOs to venture-backed founders. It teaches its own system, the JPG Method, to help leaders communicate with clarity and authority.
Jason Waller
Jason Waller is an executive coach who works with startup founders, CEOs, executives and investors. He came to coaching after a career in the military and strategy consulting. He is a combat veteran and a Partner at Evolution, a Silicon Valley coaching and investment firm. His work is global and often virtual, and he has coached leaders across six continents. He also works with executive teams on offsites, workshops, culture and strategy.
Jay Izso
Jay Izso is a business, executive and Christian life coach who helps owners, CEOs and their teams. He founded Coaching Mavericks. His graduate work is in psychology, and he looks at the whole person. With teams, he meets people one by one and as a group. Before coaching, people called him "The Internet Doctor" because he diagnosed digital problems. He also speaks, writes books and hosts a podcast.
Jerry Colonna
Jerry Colonna is a CEO coach and co-founder of Reboot, a coaching and leadership development firm for founders and chief executives. Reboot began in 2014 and has offices in Boulder and New York City. Colonna began running CEO and Founder Bootcamps in 2013 with Ali Schultz. He wrote two books on leadership. Most Reboot clients work with the firm's team coaches, not with Colonna himself.
Jess Yuen
Jess Yuen is an executive coach and advisor for leaders at fast-changing, mostly VC-backed companies. She works with CEOs, CFOs, COOs, CHROs, CTOs, CROs and other executives. Jess is a former Stanford engineer, McKinsey consultant and three-time startup operator. She also served as Head of People at Gusto, where she helped scale the company culture. Her clients include founders, People leaders and VC partners who want better decisions and stronger leadership.
Jihane Labib
Jihane Labib is an executive and career coach who works with executives, board members, managers, entrepreneurs and artists. She also mentors other coaches. She spent 12 years as an executive in multinational companies before founding Coachinglab Academy in 2012. She holds the ICF Master Certified Coach and Team Coach credentials. She was the first professional in French-speaking Africa to hold both. She has coached leaders and teams in about ten countries.
Jodie Lowinger
Dr Jodie Lowinger is an executive coach and clinical psychologist who works with CEOs, founders, senior leaders and doctors. She builds mental resilience and steady high performance. She created The Mind Strength Method, which was named one of the 50 Australian Inventions Changing the World. She founded The Anxiety Clinic and has 20 years in business strategy and leadership consulting. She is based in Bondi Junction, Sydney.
Jody Michael
Jody Michael is an executive and career coach in Chicago who leads Jody Michael Associates. The firm has coached clients since 1997 and has helped thousands of them. Jody works with seasoned executives, new leaders, high potentials and leadership teams, from Fortune 100 companies to small businesses. Career services include interview coaching and resume writing. Jody is the author of Leading Lightly, a book on mental fitness, resilience and emotional intelligence.
Joe Hudson
Joe Hudson is an executive coach and the founder of Art of Accomplishment. He works with founders and top leaders at companies like Apple, OpenAI and Google. Before coaching, he spent thirteen years in venture capital and managed a philanthropic foundation. He teaches through group courses, podcasts and team workshops. His work links ambition with inner work, using the head, the heart and the gut as three areas of growth.
John Mattone
John Mattone is an executive coach who works with CEOs and senior leaders. He leads John Mattone Global in Orlando, Florida. His firm uses a method called Intelligent Leadership. It starts with a leader's inner core, which means character, values and self-concept. Mattone is a five-time bestselling author. His method is used in more than 55 countries. He also teaches a certification program for other coaches, and the firm's network includes more than 700 ICF-credentialed coaches.
Johnny Hammond
Johnny Hammond is an executive and founder coach in the UK. He works with start-up and scale-up founders, C-suite and senior leaders, and leadership teams. He holds the ICF Professional Certified Coach credential and is an EMCC accredited team coach. He is also an award-winning entrepreneur with clients in many countries. He offers one-to-one coaching, team coaching, group coaching, workshops and leadership assessments such as DiSC and the Enneagram.
Jonathan Bennett
Jonathan Bennett is an executive coach and advisor who works with founders, CEOs, executive directors and boards. He runs ClearlyThen, a practice based in Ontario. He founded the management consulting firm Laridae in 2011 and grew it into a B Corp that served 200+ organizations. He exited in 2021 through a management buyout. He is a Chartered Director and has served on boards for more than 25 years. He is also an award-winning novelist and poet.
Jonathan Raymond
Jonathan Raymond works with CEOs and their leaders to build a culture of high accountability through direct and kind conversations. He ran someone else's company for five years and has run his own for ten. He is the author of Good Authority, which has sold more than 500,000 copies. He takes on only eight companies a year and works with each one for a full year.
Jonika Hoomes
Jonika Hoomes is an executive coach who works with senior executives, founders and leadership teams. She founded Integralis Leadership in 2023 after 19 years in Big Tech. As GM of the Automotive vertical, she grew the business from $30M to $1B. She later served as Chief of Staff for a 3,000-person engineering organization. Her coaching mixes questions with hands-on strategic work on real business challenges.
Justin Henriksen
Justin Henriksen is an executive coach and business advisor who helps CEOs and their teams scale software and SaaS companies. He has more than 20 years of experience in SaaS, AI, services and line-of-business software. He led a team of consultants at Microsoft and later served as CEO of several companies. In 2024 he left the CEO role to run Fenix Venture full time. He helps leaders grow their companies and themselves at the same time.
Karen Gombault
Karen Gombault is a strategic advisor and executive coach for senior leaders who are stepping into bigger roles. She helps them deal with organizational friction that slows their momentum. Karen spent 30 years in international corporate leadership. She is an American in France and a former CEO of a $30M business unit. She was also part of the top 200 leaders in a 16,000-person global organisation. Her work centers on power, influence, and reputation at the senior level.
Kari Schneider
Kari Schneider is an executive coach and leadership strategist who works with senior leaders and organizations. She has spent over 25 years coaching high performers, starting at the Olympic and professional sport level. Her work covers decision clarity, leadership structure, and performance that lasts. She also runs leadership consulting for organizations and speaks at corporate conferences and leadership summits. She wrote The Human Algorithm, a book on leadership and ethics in the AI era.
Katarina Polonska
Katarina Polonska is a relationship strategist and behavioral scientist who coaches founders and executives. She helps them with uncertain marriages and tense teams when stress starts to hurt their focus, revenue, or sense of self. She created the Successfully in Love Method. It draws on neuroscience, attachment theory, and subconscious mind rewiring. She has coached executives, founders, and high-net-worth individuals through both relationship decisions and leadership growth.
Kate Lowry
Kate Lowry is a CEO coach and advisor who works with startup founders and CEOs. She has almost two decades of experience as a serial founder, venture capitalist, tech leader and coach. She worked as a McKinsey consultant and led product strategy at Meta. She runs Scaleheart Co. and has coached 70+ executives. She focuses on AI, healthcare and other mission-driven companies.
Kathy Lu
Kathy Lu is an executive and mental fitness coach who also works with embodiment. She partners with leaders who are curious and want to rewrite their story. She was a founding member of Deloitte's Chief Executive Program and served as its research director. Earlier, at Monitor Group, she built leadership programs that served more than 3,000 executives across four continents. She has more than 15 years of experience with clients around the world.
Ken Gavranovic
Ken Gavranovic is an executive coach in Alpharetta, Georgia. He coaches CEOs, founders and executive teams at venture-backed, PE-backed and founder-led companies. He founded a company and led it as CEO through a Nasdaq IPO. He also held senior roles at New Relic and Cox Automotive and served as COO in a turnaround. He has worked on 35+ M&A deals and 18 exits over 25 years of operating experience. He meets clients in person around metro Atlanta and works remotely with leaders elsewhere.
Ken Gavranovic
Ken Gavranovic is an executive coach and strategy consultant who works with CEOs, founders, COOs, CPOs, CTOs, GMs and their leadership teams. He is based in Alpharetta, Georgia. Before coaching, he founded a company and led it through a Nasdaq IPO. He was also an EVP at New Relic and a VP at Cox Automotive. He spent a decade as a managing partner at a venture firm and sat on boards across 35 deals and 18 exits.
Kerri Sutey
Kerri Sutey is an executive coach and leadership consultant who works with leaders and teams. She is ICF-certified and a former Forbes Coaches Council member. Her past clients include leaders at Google, IBM, ExxonMobil, Southwest Airlines and the Department of Defense. She has deep experience in agile leadership and organizational change. She uses CliftonStrengths assessments in her work. She also publishes a guide for new C-suite executives. She coaches online and in person.
Kim Ades
Kim Ades is an executive coach who helps leaders and entrepreneurs change the thinking that holds them back. Kim runs Frame of Mind Coaching in Toronto. Kim has coached leaders at more than 600 companies, with 80% of clients in the C-suite. Kim has coached for over 20 years. Clients work with Kim's one-on-one and write in an online journal between sessions. Kim also offers family business coaching and crisis mediation.
Kim Surko
Kim Surko is an executive coach and strategic advisor who works with leaders and executives. Kim spent 20 years as a marketing and tech executive, including a role as Chief Experience Officer at Flowcode. Kim mixes coaching with direct consulting when a client needs it. Kim's focus is the move from functional leader to business leader. Some former CEOs know Kim as The Velvet Hammer.
Kimberly Spikes
Kimberly Spikes is a leadership coach who works with leaders and entrepreneurs at every level. She spent more than 20 years in executive roles in entertainment and high fashion, from manager to COO. She led operations, production, sales, and culture work, and guided teams through rapid change and mergers. Her clients come from technology, entertainment, fashion, finance, automotive, and wellness. She co-hosts the Rebel Mindset podcast and has run three marathons.
Laura Tacho
Laura Tacho is an engineering leadership coach. She coaches CTOs, VPs of Engineering and engineering managers, and she also trains engineering leadership teams. She is the CTO at DX, a developer intelligence platform, and co-author of the Core 4 developer productivity metrics framework. She held leadership roles at CloudBees, Aula Education and Nova Credit. Her coaching uses data and evidence to help leaders manage, measure and scale their engineering orgs. She is based in Austria.
Laurie Cameron
Laurie Cameron is an executive coach and mentor coach who helps mission-driven companies build a coaching culture. She works with CEOs at Certified B Corps and companies in the B Corp pipeline. She has coached since 1998 and has been senior CTA faculty since 2002. She has trained over 1200 CTA coaches and written the Coaching Skills Quick Start guide for leaders. She also mentors new coaches who want to build their own coaching business.
Leah Farmer
Leah Farmer is a coach for people who build things in tech. She works with product managers, engineers, designers, founders and the leaders around them. She has 25 years of experience building products and leading teams, including at Amazon, Expedia and two Sequoia-backed startups. She still works as a fractional CPTO at a travel startup. She coaches online from Cardiff, Wales, and also offers separate EFT tapping sessions for stress and anxiety.
Leo Widrich
Leo Widrich is a coach who works with founders and leaders who feel lost after big success. He co-founded Buffer, a software company that grew to 100 remote team members. After burning out, he spent years in Buddhist monasteries, therapy and coaching training. He has now coached hundreds of people. His work joins his business experience with body-based inner work and meditation practice.
Leslie Monieson
Leslie Monieson is a Chicago coach who works with business owners, entrepreneurs, and executives in middle to upper management. Her practice, Monieson Coaching Solutions, covers executive coaching, high potential coaching, and career transition coaching. She holds the Energy Leadership Index Master Practitioner credential and uses its assessment with clients. She has served on several boards and knows startups well. Clients also come to her for interview prep and career search help.
Linda Travelute
Dr. Linda Travelute is an executive and accountability coach who helps professionals, business owners, executives and team members get better results through others. She is a doctor of clinical psychology and founder of Maximized Leaders. She focuses on boss behavior, so leaders make their teams feel valued and follow the vision. She is also Executive Director of the John Maxwell Team and speaks at national and international conferences.
Lindsey Rogers
Lindsey Rogers is a leadership, career, and life coach for people who want to change the world. She works with activists, nonprofit leaders, social entrepreneurs, and mission-driven business leaders. She founded her coaching company, Alchemi, in 2013. Before and alongside coaching, she worked in grassroots activism, nonprofit hiring, fundraising, and impact investing. She is based in Michigan and studied organizational development and social impact.
Lisa Friscia
Lisa Friscia is an executive and career coach who helps new leaders, career changers, early career professionals and small business owners. She was a teacher, a high school principal and a Chief People Officer before she started Franca Consulting in 2022. Since then she has trained over 100 leaders, built performance management systems and audited hiring for growing organizations. She also holds a health coaching certification and works with clients who want healthier habits.
Lisa Frusztajer
Lisa Frusztajer is an executive coach who works with entrepreneurs and senior managers. She helps high-achieving leaders who feel anxious and overworked. Before coaching, she spent over twenty years as a technology executive, running large global teams and multi-nine-figure product lines. She also founded a real estate partnership and served as a venture partner and startup advisor. Her coaching mixes practical problem-solving with mindset work.
Side by side
| Coach | Focus | Hourly rate range |
|---|---|---|
| Caroline Webb | CEO and founder coaching and Leadership development | $150 to $265 an hour |
| Tanya Spencer | CEO and founder coaching and Leadership development | $175 to $325 an hour |
| Adam Kanner | CEO and founder coaching and Strategy and decision making | $130 to $255 an hour |
| Al Vazquez | CEO and founder coaching and Leadership development | $250 to $750 per hour |
| Alec Pearson | CEO and founder coaching and Leadership development | $150 to $265 an hour |
| Amie Devero | CEO and founder coaching and Leadership development | $500 to $700 per hour |
| Amit Ghosh | CEO and founder coaching and Executive presence and communication | $150 to $300 an hour |
| Andy Sparks | CEO and founder coaching and Leadership development | $175 to $325 an hour |
| Anna Gibbs | CEO and founder coaching and Leadership development | $800 to $1,000 per hour |
| Bikram Gupta Sarma | CEO and founder coaching and Leadership development | $130 to $225 an hour |
| Brad J. Henderson | CEO and founder coaching and Executive presence and communication | $150 to $275 an hour |
| Brian Wang | CEO and founder coaching and Team performance | $175 to $325 an hour |
| Cameron Herold | CEO and founder coaching and Leadership development | $150 to $275 an hour |
| Carl Shawn Watkins | CEO and founder coaching and Leadership development | $175 to $325 an hour |
| Catherine Gray | Leadership development and Team performance | $120 to $215 an hour |
Common questions
How much does an executive coach for CEO and founder coaching cost?
Most executive coaches charge $142 to $338 per hour or session.
What else do these executive coaches help with?
Common focus areas include leadership development, team performance, strategy and decision making and transitions and new roles.
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Other focus areas
Last updated September 2026.