Certified executive coaches
2,255 executive coaches list a coaching credential or degree, 58% of all executive coaches.
Key numbers
- 2,255 executive coaches list a credential (58% of executive coaches).
- 304 hold the ICF's PCC or MCC credential.
Credentials executive coaches hold
| Credential level | Coaches (n) |
|---|---|
| Other coaching certification | 1,654 |
| Graduate degree | 297 |
| ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC) | 275 |
| ICF Master Certified Coach (MCC) | 29 |
Most common credentials
| Credential | Coaches (n) |
|---|---|
| Certified EOS Implementer | 426 |
| MBA | 153 |
| Professional EOS Implementer | 54 |
| ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC) | 48 |
| ICF Associate Certified Coach (ACC) | 40 |
| PhD | 39 |
| CTI Co-Active Training Institute | 35 |
| Certified Executive Coach | 34 |
| Certified Professional Coach | 33 |
| Certified Life Coach | 32 |
Certified executive coaches to compare
Abhilasha Jha
Abhilasha Jha is a business and career coach in India who works with professionals who feel stuck and want to move forward. She spent over 21 years as an HR leader and was Vice President of HR at Accenture. She has coached for over 850 hours and holds the ICF Professional Certified Coach credential. Her clients include mid and senior level leaders, academics and students across many industries.
Adam Fleming
Adam Fleming is a leadership and executive coach in Goshen, Indiana. He also works as a Christian coach. He has coached leaders around the world since 2007 and has logged over 2500 hours of one-on-one coaching. His clients include executives at companies such as Airbnb, Uber and Verizon, especially in sales and marketing leadership. He also trains coaching skills in the USA, Egypt and D.R. Congo. He has published 19 books.
Adella St.Rose
Adella St.Rose is a leadership and career coach in Castries, St. Lucia. She helps leaders set career goals that fit what she calls their "Life Why." She brings over 20 years of experience leading herself and others. She holds a management degree from Warwick Business School and the PHR designation. She is also a certified Leadership Challenge facilitator and trainer. Her clients build clear steps toward their goals.
Adonica Sweet
Adonica Sweet is an executive and conflict coach who helps leaders and coaches build confidence and hold better conversations. She holds the ICF Master Certified Coach credential. She spent over thirty years in Human Services and co-founded the award-winning Ogopogo Tours. She also built an internal coach network that is now in its 5th year. Her clients include leaders at Fortune 100 and 500 companies.
Afsheen Azam
Afsheen Azam is an executive and life coach in Oslo, Norway. She helps managers and leaders who feel overwhelmed, stressed or held back by self-doubt. Before coaching, she spent 15 years in fintech and led teams across Europe. She holds an Executive MBA from BI Norwegian Business School and is an ICF ACC certified coach. Her work starts with quieting mental and emotional noise so clients think more clearly and lead with confidence.
Akin Oyedele
Akin Oyedele is a management consulting and executive coach who works with high-achieving professionals at career and leadership turning points. She is a Partner at BCG and has spent eight-plus years advising Fortune 500 and private equity leadership teams. BCG named her its L&D Coach of the Year for her coaching of senior executives, peers, and teams. She also holds a PhD in semiconductor materials and co-founded a startup.
Alana D. Tanner
Alana D. Tanner is an executive coach in Mobile, Alabama. She helps people, teams and organizations work through communication breakdowns, hard conversations and unhealthy working relationships. She has more than 30 years of experience in business development, communication and leadership coaching. She holds the ICF PCC credential and is a Board Certified Mental Health Coach. She is also an emotional intelligence practitioner. Her own recovery from a stroke at age 40 and brain surgery three years later shapes her work.
Alec Pearson
Alec Pearson is an executive, leadership and business coach in London. He helps new and experienced leaders and business owners build confidence, lead teams and plan for growth. He brings over 30 years of commercial experience and more than 15 years in talent development. He founded a leadership training company approved by the Institute of Leadership. His coaching programmes offer up to 25 CPD hours, and clients use an award-winning coaching portal to track progress.
Aleksei Groshenko
Aleksei Groshenko is a leadership coach and soft skills trainer who helps managers and leaders build stronger teams and lead with confidence. He has more than 20 years of experience. He holds a Master's degree in Psychology and is a PCC certified ICF coach. He has coached and trained more than 18,000 employees, including 5,000 managers. He has also worked with more than 100 leadership coaching clients across industries and cultures.
Alexandera Zaharris
Alexandera Zaharris is a leadership coach who helps people at all stages of their careers grow as leaders. She spent over 10 years consulting at EY and rose to Business Transformation Manager. There she led teams of 15 to 20+ people on large projects for major banks. She has coached 60+ leadership clients. She also guides immigrants through transitions and helps clients build self-awareness and confidence.
Alexandra Popkova
Alexandra Popkova is a career, executive and embodiment coach who helps leaders, expats and leadership teams through personal and professional change. She holds the ICF PCC credential and has more than 1,500 coaching hours with clients from over 35 countries. She spent 15 years in HR, Talent and Organizational Development, with senior roles at Accedo, Concentrix and TripleTen. She has lived in 5 countries and works from Colombia in English, Spanish and Russian.
Alicia Gaspar
Alicia Gaspar is a business and career coach based in Spain. She helps managers, business owners and global teams with communication, work-life balance and leadership. Before coaching, she spent more than fifteen years in film and TV production, working with teams from around the world. She has lived in many countries and coaches on global mobility and company moves. She holds an ACC credential from the International Coaching Federation.
Alyson Schwartz
Alyson Schwartz is a leadership and life coach who helps younger leaders build self-awareness, confidence and empathy. She runs AlignAbility and holds the Certified Professional Co-Active Coach credential. She brings 25+ years of experience in management, marketing, leadership development and executive coaching. Her clients include mid-level executives, new managers and young professionals. She works as a co-creator and talking partner, helping clients plan and act on the steps toward their personal and professional goals.
Amanda Hahn
Amanda Hahn is an executive coach who works with senior leaders carrying a transformation they did not design. She spent years in corporate retail, then seven years as a business lead in enterprise technology change. She led seven implementations, including a three-year Oracle ERP rollout. She now teaches graduate organization development and change at Pittsburg State University and trains coaches in an ICF-accredited program.
Amber Conley
Amber Conley is an executive coach in Gloucester, Massachusetts. She helps senior executives and emerging leaders who face organizational change, career transitions, or bigger roles. She holds a doctorate in Leadership Psychology and has coached Fortune 500 executives for 15 years, including work at IBM and BCG. Her sessions mix coaching, psychological assessment, and strategy. She works on both how leaders see themselves and how they show up.
Amber Waugaman
Amber Waugaman is an executive leadership advisor who works with senior leaders in high-responsibility roles. Organizations bring her in when a leader steps into a bigger scope or a new C-suite seat. She spent more than 14 years in corporate finance and people management before advising full time. Her clients include Penn State University, the Professional Golfers' Association of America and the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. She works mostly online with leaders across the country.
Amelia Noël
Amelia Noël is an executive coach who helps women rise into senior leadership and do well once they are there. She spent more than a decade as an investment banker and global consultant before she started coaching. She built her own method, The Executive Edge, which has 3 stages. She works one-on-one, in small groups and with company teams. Her focus is self-trust, authenticity and strategic influence.
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.
Amit Gupta
Amit Gupta is a leadership and business coach who helps business owners, leadership teams and professionals improve performance. He works from Delhi, India. He came up through the BPO industry, where he turned the worst-performing site into the best by matching roles to each person's strengths. He is a Gallup Certified Strengths Coach and wrote The Decision Maker's Handbook. His work covers leadership, execution, team effectiveness and operational clarity.
Anastasia Evstigneeva
Anastasia Evstigneeva is a leadership, entrepreneurship and team coach in Lisbon, Portugal. She helps business professionals in transition, including new leaders, new entrepreneurs, founders who are scaling and senior managers. She spent 15 years in senior roles in financial markets and sales. She holds master's degrees in psychology and economics. She also works as an organisational psychologist and runs team diagnostics for organisations.
Andrea Altier
Andrea Altier is a leadership and business coach in Norway who works with tech leaders and online entrepreneurs. She brings over 20 years of experience in the tech industry. She holds ACC and CPCC coaching credentials. Her coaching mixes leadership strategy with psychological astrology and guided meditations. She offers one-on-one sessions and monthly group coaching, online or in person. She coaches in Norwegian, English and Spanish.
Andrea Millinder
Andrea Millinder is an accountability and leadership coach who works with team leaders, founders and people building personal projects. She spent 20 years in leadership, operations and project management in the SaaS and technology industry. That time was spent helping start-ups and small businesses grow and scale. She earned her ICF Associate Certified Coach credential in July 2025 and holds an MBA with a focus on entrepreneurship.
Andrew Jones
Andrew Jones is an executive coach, career coach and leadership educator in Singapore. He helps senior leaders, executives, managers and mid-career professionals with executive presence, stakeholder influence, career strategy and leadership effectiveness. He has over 14 years of experience and works with leaders at multinational companies and with entrepreneurs. He is a certified facilitator for MBTI, EQ-i 2.0 and Hogan. Clients meet him on Zoom or face to face in Singapore.
Angela Harris
Angela Harris is a leadership and career coach who helps Black women find clarity, confidence, and alignment at work. She spent more than twenty years in technology roles at Fortune 500 companies. She coaches clients on getting seen, building sponsor networks, and moving up. She also holds a PMP and is an Energy Leadership Index Master Practitioner. She has written a chapter in the book A Legacy To Share.
Angela Justice
Angela Justice is an executive coach in Massachusetts who works with senior leaders in biotech and biopharma. She holds a PhD and has served as a C-level executive in biopharma, where she led both Medical Affairs and HR. Today she coaches CSOs, CMOs, CFOs, CCOs and other executives who face complex decisions, high visibility and pressure to influence outcomes they do not fully control.
Angela Knight
Angela Knight is an executive and career coach who helps leaders, teams and growing businesses adapt to change. She spent 30 years as a retail executive at brands like The Limited, Bath & Body Works, Victoria's Secret, Pier 1 Imports and Ulta Beauty. She now coaches individual leaders and consults for organizations. Her work centers on agility, resilience and the Energy Leadership Index assessment. She works from Virginia.
Angie Robinson
Angie Robinson is a leadership and life coach who helps leaders and teams build self-awareness, confidence and stronger connections. She spent more than 20 years as an HR and OD leader in large and small organizations. That background shapes her work on team engagement, communication and results. She coaches one-on-one and in groups. She also leads workshops, gives custom presentations and offers private life coaching.
Anita Green
Anita Green is an accountability and career coach who works with people and teams inside organizations. She combines coaching, training and dispute resolution to build motivated, resilient teams that communicate well. She managed the Royal Australian Air Force in-house coaching program, the largest in Australia, and helped it grow. She now lives in Abu Dhabi and works with organizations across the Middle East.
Anjali Joshi
Anjali Joshi is an executive and leadership coach who helps corporate leaders handle change, career shifts, and personal transitions. She spent over 20 years in corporate roles, including leadership jobs at Nike, Salesforce, Ancestry and HP. She has coached senior leaders for more than 10 years and founded Echelon Coaching in 2022. Her clients come from North America, Latin America, Europe, and Asia.
Common questions
How many executive coaches are certified?
58% of executive coaches list a coaching credential or degree.
What is the top executive coach credential?
The International Coaching Federation's MCC is the highest coaching credential, followed by the PCC and ACC.
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Last updated September 2026.