Executive coaches for conflict and difficult conversations
Compare 360 executive coaches who focus on conflict and difficult conversations. Besides conflict and difficult conversations, the most common focus areas are leadership development, team performance, executive presence and communication and transitions and new roles. They most often work with executives, founders and business owners and managers. Most charge $125 to $225 per hour or session.
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Jocelyn Chong
Jocelyn Chong is an executive mentor and corporate facilitator who develops senior managers, directors and new executives into stronger leaders. She spent over 20 years in banking at ANZ, Commonwealth Bank and Westpac, where she managed more than $100 million in revenue and led hundreds of direct reports. In 2019 she left banking to teach leadership. Since then she has run leadership programs for thousands of professionals in financial services, professional services, government and healthcare.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Barbara Bouchet
Barbara Bouchet is a communication and conflict coach who works with executives, business owners, professionals and leaders. She is President of Contact Point Associates LLC and has run her own business since 1980. She has coached leaders at Amazon, Microsoft, Costco, Starbucks and other large companies. She also wrote a leadership book and created a board game and training called The Contact-Zone. Her work covers executive presence, conflict, influence and negotiation.
Barbara Jordan
Barbara Jordan is a leadership, executive and ADHD coach who works with busy, accomplished leaders. She helps them build calm, confident composure, capacity and influence. She holds a clinical license and a healthcare executive coaching certification. Her background covers healthcare, construction, real estate investing and adult learning. She runs a hybrid coaching model that pairs inner mindset work with outside leadership challenges. Clients can meet with her in person or online.
Brad Schwartz
Brad Schwartz is a leadership coach who helps tech managers, directors, and executives grow as leaders. He founded Leaders In Tech and has coached over 200 tech leaders one on one and in teams. He also works as a Leadership Coach at Intel, where he is a Director of Software Engineering. He draws on 25 years in tech. He created the Tech Leadership Accelerator Program, a cohort-based program for technical leaders.
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.
Bryn Sakagawa
Bryn Sakagawa is an executive coach who helps leaders and teams with career transitions, team culture, and leading across cultures. Bryn is a former USAID Director who managed multicultural teams across 21 countries and led the COVID-19 response across 6 countries. Bryn holds the ACC credential and has worked with more than 60 leadership coaching clients. Bryn is based in Ottawa, Canada.
Brynmor James
Brynmor James is an executive and leadership coach in London. He works with managers who have done well in their careers but are held back by behavioural obstacles. Before coaching, he spent two decades in the UK Government in diplomatic and managerial roles. He negotiated the EU Conflict Minerals Regulation for the UK and helped lead counter-terrorism work at the British Embassy in Tunis. He pays close attention to how language shapes hard workplace situations.
Caolan Hunter
Caolan Hunter is a career and executive coach who helps high-performing professionals and teams handle international transitions. Clients work on communicating across cultures, leading in global companies, and making major moves. Caolan has coached executives at Netflix Korea, Woven by Toyota and Banco Santander. Before coaching, Caolan was Global Head of Content at On, where he built the brand team across three continents and led the story through a $10B IPO.
Casey Lankow
Casey Lankow is a leadership and executive coach and organizational psychologist. Casey helps leaders build their skills through coaching, executive assessments, and leadership development consultation. Casey works on the Executive Development team at Amazon, where the focus is strengthening the pipeline of future vice presidents. Casey has coached over 100 people and co-developed assessment tools that were used with over 1 million people. Casey also teaches graduate psychology courses as an adjunct professor.
Cindy Nicholson
Cindy Nicholson is an executive and leadership coach who works with C-suite leaders, directors, general managers and senior managers. She also mentors start-up and scale-up companies. Her career spans more than 35 years in investment banking, management consulting, software and telecom. She has built four companies that were sold or listed. Clients often call her their Business/Career Psychologist. She held a seat on the ICF Australasia board for 3 years.
Claire Read
Claire Read is a coach for professionals facing work and life transitions, burnout and anxiety. She also works with teams. She spent decades in corporate roles and built a talent management department from scratch at an international development consulting firm. She has worked with staff in the US, Afghanistan and Uganda. Her practice, ProSocial Dynamics, focuses on trust, collaboration and emotional agility at work. She is certified by ICF and EMCC.
Damion Triplett
Damion Triplett is a leadership coach who helps professionals grow their leadership skills and reach senior roles. He spent 13 years as a Global Senior Creative Director at Nike, including 3 years leading creative for Jordan Brand. He also worked at Wieden+Kennedy and Adobe. He has coached more than 60 leadership clients. Some of them moved into director-level roles and above at Nike, Google, Amazon and Apple.
Danielle R. Ayodele
Danielle R. Ayodele is a leadership and career coach who works with women. She helps clients move their careers forward and lead teams with more confidence. She is the CEO and Principal Consultant at Let's Lead Consulting & Coaching. Before that, she worked at McKinsey & Company, Accenture, and Kirkland & Ellis. She has coached over 100 clients and holds two coaching certifications, including one from McKinsey.
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.
Debbie Lawrence
Debbie Lawrence is a leadership coach and business strategist who helps women who lead. She works with leaders whose teams miss the standard and who end up doing the work themselves. She has 40 years in leadership and has coached over 500 leaders in the last decade. She teaches the 9+6 Delegation Framework, the CLEAR+KIND Feedback Formula and the Hold-the-Line Protocol. She also hosts a podcast and a weekly newsletter.
Ekaterina Hoffmann
Ekaterina Hoffmann is a leadership coach in the Netherlands. She helps experts moving into leadership, new managers and experienced leaders who deal with people, pressure and responsibility. She spent more than 10 years in technology and business, with work in product marketing, generative AI, international projects and cross-functional team leadership. She uses ICF coaching and practical tools informed by neuroscience, and she works from real situations in a client's job.
Elizabeth Gentzkow
Elizabeth Gentzkow, who goes by Lizz, is an executive, leadership and career coach who also works with adults who have ADHD. She helps high-achieving professionals, executives and entrepreneurs. She is a Board Certified Coach and a Licensed Professional Counselor with a background in Organizational Behavior. She runs Thrive West in Oregon and has 15+ years of experience. Her work also covers teams and organizations, including an 8-week mindfulness program for leaders.
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.
Emmanuelle Rouaud
Emmanuelle Rouaud is an international certified coach for executives and their teams, based in France. She is also a trainer and management consultant. She spent 20 years in multinational companies, where she led complex, global and multicultural projects and teams. She coaches on leadership, emotional intelligence, team cohesion, communication and well-being at work. She uses MBTI and Lencioni's team assessment to build teams. She works in English and French.
Gail Page
Gail Page is a communication and conflict coach who helps managers handle hard conversations and performance issues. She works with business owners, leaders and teams in New Zealand. Before coaching, she worked as a psych nurse and a social worker. She has coached communication and mindset for over two decades and has helped hundreds of managers build healthy working relationships. She also looks after the emotional well-being and performance of the managers and teams she serves.
Gina Howell
Gina Howell is a burnout coach and executive coach for leaders in healthcare and public service. She began as a registered nurse, then managed public health programs. She led teams through several public health emergencies at Health Canada and the Public Health Agency of Canada. Today she offers coaching, training and consulting.
Géraud Bablon
Géraud Bablon is a leadership coach who works with public and social-sector leaders. He began his career in design and social practice at an architecture nonprofit, then consulted for the United Nations and city governments. He later worked at Harvard Kennedy School. His coaching uses Adaptive Leadership and adult development theory, with influence from Buddhist meditation and somatics. He has coached more than 60 leadership clients.
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.
James Berscheit
James Berscheit is a leadership coach in Virginia who helps new leaders work through team problems and build positive workplace cultures. He is a retired diplomat with 30 years of experience leading complex teams in the federal government and military. He served as a Foreign Service Officer, a Nuclear Missile Launch Officer in the U.S. Air Force, and a Peace Corps Volunteer. He also coaches people who are changing careers or job hunting, using his 20 years as an HR director.
Jamie Lee
Jamie Lee is an executive coach for women who want to get promoted and paid more without playing office politics. She focuses on leadership and negotiation. Before coaching, she worked as a buyer, on a hedge fund trading desk, and at a tech startup. She has led negotiation workshops at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs and at tech and women's conferences. She also hosts a podcast called Risky Conversations.
Jason Weeman
Jason Weeman is a leadership coach who helps leaders at every level, from first-time managers to seasoned executives. He runs Refine Talent Development. Before coaching, he led a retail store, opened two Apple stores, and spent five years at LinkedIn building learning programs. He has worked with more than 100 leadership coaching clients. He holds an ICF PCC credential and uses the Energy Leadership Index to help leaders see the energy they bring to work.
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.
Jeanne Haws
Jeanne Haws is an executive and leadership coach in New York. She helps new leaders step into their roles, build strong working relationships and lead their staff. Before coaching, she spent more than 25 years in operations and HR leadership, mostly in non-profit and higher education. She was a CHRO for many years and oversaw HR, finance and IT managers. She is known for a direct, straight-talking style and holds clients accountable.
Jeff Doering
Jeff Doering is a leadership coach who works with new managers and engineers. He has more than 30 years of corporate engineering leadership and holds a Ph.D. in engineering. He has over 300 U.S. patents. Jeff helps leaders run better discussions, handle conflict, and grow influence without authority. He also works on team alignment and decision quality. He does not currently take clients in the automotive industry.
Jennifer Yeh
Jennifer Yeh is a coach and mediator who helps leaders, teams and individuals handle conflict, bias and hard conversations. She has coached since 2015 and mediated since 2007. She is a trained lawyer with a Juris Doctor and MIT degrees in Brain and Cognitive Sciences and Political Science. She has researched the psychology of bias and conflict. Her global work and travel shape her cross-cultural coaching. She also coaches cancer survivors and their caregivers.
Jeny Androukaki
Jeny Androukaki is a professional development coach in Greece. She helps professionals, leaders and teams with career change, leadership skills, stress and burnout. She began her career as a biologist and later moved into coaching and HR consulting. She holds ICF coaching credentials and a SHRM-SCP certification. Her clients come from finance, law, tech, pharma, consulting, government and NGOs. She also works with small and family businesses.
Jevon Wooden
Jevon Wooden is a leadership coach and growth consultant who helps business owners and organizational leaders. He runs BrightMind Consulting Group in Houston. He is an Army Veteran with 12 years of military service, and he also worked in public accounting and cybersecurity. He offers one-on-one and group coaching, team training, consulting and keynote talks. His work centers on emotional intelligence, team culture and sustainable growth.
Joann Bellenkes
Joann Bellenkes is an executive and leadership coach who helps corporate managers, directors and C-level leaders. She runs Sidecar Coaching. Before coaching, she spent two decades in corporate roles and rose to Director and COO. She works on communication, confidence, difficult conversations and decision making. She also coaches women leaders on authority and perfectionism, and trains teams inside organizations. Her one-on-one coaching uses the DRIVE framework.
John Lindmeier
John Lindmeier is a leadership coach in Japan who works with executives, managers and leadership teams. He is an English and Japanese bilingual ICF Professional Certified Coach and a former General Manager. He spent eight years leading multicultural teams in Japan. He has coached leaders across Japan and the APAC region, including people at Amazon, AbbVie and Mitsubishi Chemical Group. His work centers on self-awareness and leadership communication.
John Schinnerer
John Schinnerer is a Ph.D.-trained coach who works with high-achieving men on stress, burnout, anger, and emotional skills. He is based in the SF Bay Area and works with clients worldwide. He hosts The Evolved Caveman podcast, which has over 500,000 downloads. He consulted on Pixar's Inside Out and has coached leaders at Meta, Airbnb, and Wells Fargo. His practice is called Guide to Self.
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.
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.
Jorge Benito
Jorge Benito is a Miami coach who works with executives, leaders and entrepreneurs. He runs JB Coaches and holds an ICF PCC credential. He helps senior leaders perform better without burning out, and helps professionals move into business ownership. He also works with owners who want to scale. He coaches in English and Spanish. He is an Argentine bilingual coach and a Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses alumnus.
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.
Karen Gulliford
Karen Gulliford is an executive and leadership coach and HR consultant in Virginia. She helps new executives, mid-career leaders and leaders near the end of their careers build trust, improve how they manage and create better workplaces. She owns Great Workplaces and holds a PCC credential. She has worked as an interim HR director at Virginia State University and as a career coach for Capital One employees. She also serves DEI and HR leaders and African American professionals.
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.
Katherine Kuhn
Katherine Kuhn is an HR coach and speaker who helps HR professionals and leaders stay calm and clear under pressure. She spent 25+ years in executive HR, handling employee relations, executive advising, and workforce transitions. She created Regulated Presence, a framework built on stress science, and the RP4 Method. She also gives keynotes on calm leadership, burnout, and high-stakes conversations.
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.
Kimberly Lai
Kimberly Lai is a leadership coach and trainer who helps professionals grow as leaders and communicate with impact. She has trained and coached people at Google, Netflix and BlackRock since she was 24. She has worked with 5,000+ professionals and led 1,000+ workshops at LifeLabs Learning. She now runs Origin Co., where she teaches both leadership tools and the principles behind them.
Kirke Leadership
Kirke Leadership is a leadership training and executive coaching firm with offices in Toronto and Vancouver. It works with executives, managers and future leaders at companies around the world. The firm has developed more than 5000 leaders and delivered 200 programs. It is an authorized partner of Blanchard and Everything DiSC. It also runs assessments, team coaching, and a 90-minute Speaker Series for organizations.
Lara Hogan
Lara Hogan is the founder of Wherewithall, a coaching and training practice for managers and leaders in the tech industry. She spent more than a decade as a VP of Engineering before coaching full time. She now specializes in supporting members of underrepresented groups. Her coaching schedule filled up in early 2019, so she built a team of coaches. Wherewithall offers one-on-one coaching, manager training, workshops and roundtables, and also sells to companies.
Laure Goubau
Laure Goubau is an executive coach who helps executives and professionals build confidence, clarity and performance. She founded Gloria Coach, a women's leadership and health platform. Before coaching, she was a litigator at McCarthy Tétrault and later its Director of Professional Resources. At McKinsey & Company Canada, she coached consultants from business analysts to senior partners. She coaches in English and French and hosts the podcast My Imposter Story.
Lisa Nichols
Lisa Nichols is a career and leadership coach in Ohio. She helps leaders build connected teams and helps individuals align their careers with what matters to them. She runs Lisa Nichols Consulting, which works on employee engagement and retention. She built the 3C Method, based on compassion, connection and communication, and the KeepWOL platform, which supports teams for 3 to 12 months. She also coaches job seekers on resumes, career changes and raises.
Liz Jolley
Liz Jolley is a leadership coach who helps high-achieving women who feel overwhelmed, trapped, or emotionally reactive. She spent more than 22 years at ConocoPhillips. She is an electrical engineer by training and rose to Director of Innovation and Culture. Today she runs The School of Courage and hosts The Great Leader, Great Mom Podcast. Her work builds grounded self-leadership at work, at home, and within.
Marjorie Daniel
Marjorie Daniel is an executive, leadership and career coach in Cape Town, South Africa. She helps people who feel busy, stuck or unsure of their next step. Before coaching, she worked as a manager and business analyst in Fortune 500 companies in FMCG, retail and logistics. She has over 2000 hours of coaching experience and holds an ICF Professional Certified Coach credential. She is also a PADI open water scuba diving instructor.
Mary Beth Toczek
Mary Beth Toczek is an accountability and burnout coach in Maryland who works with professionals and teams. She helps leaders build their skills, handle competing priorities and improve communication. Before coaching, she spent more than 25 years in leadership across technology, education, telecommunications, real estate, consulting and nonprofits. Her work history covers startups and Fortune 50 companies. She holds ICF PCC and CTI CPCC credentials and has built and led many training programs.
Matt Goswick
Matt Goswick is a leadership coach who works with managers and senior leaders. He spent more than a decade at Deloitte and left as an Audit Senior Manager. He then worked at eBay in finance and investor relations, and later led its global leadership-development programs. He has coached more than 100 leadership clients. His style is structured and direct. He helps clients separate what is really happening from the story around it, so they can make decisions they stand behind.
Matt Munson
Matt Munson is a CEO coach who works with startup founders and company leaders. He is a two-time founder who exited both companies, and he is an active angel investor. He coaches on the human side of building a company, including founder psychology, burnout, and co-founder conflict. He also writes and speaks on these topics. He founded the coaching firm Sanity Labs. He led his own company through a layoff of 80% of its staff before it sold.
Michael Cooper
Michael "Coop" Cooper founded High Performance Organizations (HPO), a firm that offers executive coaching and leadership development. HPO works with founders, executives, managers and high-potential leaders. In 27 years, the firm has coached more than 3,000 leaders and trained more than 150,000 employees in 37 countries. Every engagement tracks results at baseline, 90 days and 180 days. Clients have included leaders at PayPal, Lattice, Imperfect Foods, Baton, Cellares and Boeing.
Michelle Nicole Martin
Michelle Nicole Martin is a leadership consultant and coach who helps leaders and business owners build stronger teams. She works in Kitchener, Ontario, and serves clients across Canada and the US. She started her career on the back of a garbage truck and later became a national Director for Canada at a Fortune 500 company. She offers one-on-one executive coaching, team workshops, assessments, and team conflict resolution, and works with operations-focused companies.
Milka Milliance
Milka Milliance is a leadership coach, retreat facilitator and organizational change consultant. She helps executives and leadership teams who are dealing with complex change. She founded Simetras Team Experiences and has over 20 years of experience. She has led C-suite consultations at Fortune 500 companies. Her clients have included Verizon, the Gates Foundation, the Knight Foundation and Unilever. She also holds an MBA from Babson College.
Nadia De Ala
Nadia De Ala is a leadership and negotiation coach who runs Real You Leadership. She coaches women of color and BIPOC leaders on career moves, pay, and using their voice. Before coaching, she spent more than ten years in enterprise and startup tech, leading teams through fast growth. She also runs workshops for companies including Google, Airbnb, Amazon and Meta. Her stated mission is to close the pay and leadership gap for BIPOC professionals.
Nash Hassan
Nash Hassan is an executive and leadership coach who helps leaders in healthcare and service-based organizations. Nash has spent over 16 years in leadership roles, including at the executive level, in Canada and the GCC. Nash still leads inside complex systems while coaching. Work centers on pressure, career transitions, organizational complexity, conflict, burnout and high-stakes decisions. Nash holds ACC, CHE, PMP and Six Sigma Black Belt credentials.
Nathan Parcells
Nathan Parcells is a coach for startup founders, CEOs and executives. He runs Sharpend Coaching and focuses on co-founder and co-executive dynamics. He spent more than 7 years as a founder of Looksharp and worked as a marketing executive at Carta. He has coached founders who have raised over $1b in funding, plus CXOs at Fortune 500 companies. He also speaks at conferences and runs team workshops.
Nola Gephart
Nola Gephart is an executive and relationship coach who helps leaders, parents, and professionals with communication, stress, and work-life balance. She has logged over 5,000 hours of client coaching and holds the ICF PCC credential. She works on time management, conflict, imposter syndrome, and family dynamics. She is a working mother of four adult children, and 98% of her clients come from referrals.
Pamela Meadows
Pamela Meadows coaches high-performing women who carry too much at work and at home. She helps them stop over-functioning and lead themselves first. Before coaching, she spent fifteen years in corporate leadership, including time at IBM and a role as VP of Operations. She also speaks to companies and hosts the Over This Should podcast. Her work covers boundaries, burnout and stalled careers. She coaches one-on-one and in circles of women.
Patrick Louden
Patrick Louden is an executive coach who helps professionals grow as leaders. He works on leadership, emotional intelligence, conflict, and high stakes conversations. He spent 34 years in the U.S. Government and reached the Senior Executive Service at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, where he oversaw nuclear facilities in the Midwest. He has led more than 3,500 coaching sessions with over 700 professionals, from individual contributors to C-Suite leaders.
Paul Edelman
Paul Edelman is a coach and consultant who works with leaders, families and family enterprises facing big decisions. He holds a PhD in developmental psychology from Harvard. For over four decades he has worked with senior executives and family businesses. He has been an AT&T internal consultant, an executive search consultant, and a senior executive at a venture-backed company. He uses his own COImpAct model to work through hard choices step by step.
Paula Castillo
Paula Castillo is an executive and leadership coach in Washington, DC. She helps high achievers, managers and leaders turn imposter syndrome into confidence. Before coaching, she worked in international development finance at the IDB and IFC. She has coached people in finance, pharma, consumer goods, sales and professional sports, from startups to Fortune 100 companies. She coaches in English and Spanish, and she also leads team facilitation and retreats.
Priya Nalkur
Priya Nalkur is an executive and leadership coach who also teaches communication and public speaking. She is president of RoundTable Institute, which she has led since 2011. Before that, she worked as an executive coach and facilitator at The Boda Group. She also coached lawyers and other professionals on business development at PCT Solutions. She holds an Ed.D. from Harvard Graduate School of Education and has created five Udemy courses on leadership topics.
Rachel Radway
Rachel Radway is a coach for executives, business owners, and emerging leaders who are highly perceptive and often neurodivergent. She helps them lead with clarity and confidence without burning out. Rachel spent 25+ years in corporate leadership roles before she began coaching. She has lived in 11 countries and wrote an award-winning book about a stint working in Switzerland. She was diagnosed with ADHD in 2023 and has autistic traits, which shapes how she coaches.
Robert Tignor
Robert Tignor is a leadership and career coach in Richmond, Virginia. He helps new leaders, small business owners and job seekers. Before coaching, he held leadership roles in operations management, training and development, and human resources. He runs a private practice in Midlothian, Virginia. His main focus areas are communication, conflict management and career management, from first jobs to mid-career changes. He is certified to give several assessments, including the MBTI and EQi 2.0.
Robin Parker
Robin Parker is a leadership coach who works with emerging and experienced leaders, with a focus on engineers and technical professionals. Robin coaches and teaches leadership at Cornell Engineering and co-founded NeuroLead, which builds neuroscience-informed leadership and team development methods. Robin has logged more than 2,500 hours coaching engineering leaders. Clients work on leadership transitions, hard decisions, difficult relationships, and career changes.
Rucha Modi
Rucha Modi is a leadership and career coach who helps professionals from many sectors. She has coached 60+ people from 20+ countries, in fields like business, government, law, nonprofits, medicine and the arts. She has also helped teach leadership, negotiation and workplace communication at Harvard schools. Her past roles include work at the White House, the U.S. House of Representatives and Massachusetts General Hospital.
Scott Pickering
Scott Pickering is an executive, leadership and business coach in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He helps professionals, entrepreneurs and business leaders build a stronger mindset, gain clarity and act on clear goals. Scott began his career in finance, where he led high-performing teams for major European banks. He managed financial deadlines, succession planning and operations across several countries. He now brings that corporate leadership background to more than ten years of coaching and mentoring.
Shanti Sharma
Shanti Sharma is a leadership, professional development and team coach in India. She works with people at all levels, from aspiring leaders to CXOs. She has coached since 2018 and has over 25 years in Learning and Development. That work spans IT, BPO and banking. She is also an author and a mentor coach for other coaches. She runs Grow with Satori and uses assessments such as Belbin, Harrison and Lumina Spark.
The Institute for Medical Leadership
The Institute for Medical Leadership trains and coaches physicians and healthcare executives. It has worked with over 800 hospitals and 37 medical societies in every U.S. state. Programs began in 2003, and the Chief of Staff Boot Camp has run 42 times. It also offers VirtualCMO, a part-time chief medical officer service for small, rural and critical access hospitals. Faculty teach leadership skills for a fast-changing healthcare market.
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| Coach | Focus | Hourly rate range |
|---|---|---|
| Jocelyn Chong | New managers and Executive presence and communication | $110 to $200 an hour |
| Adam Fleming | Leadership development and Conflict and difficult conversations | $195 to $500 per hour |
| Adonica Sweet | Executive presence and communication and Leadership development | $200 to $350 an hour |
| Alicia Gaspar | Leadership development and Team performance | $145 to $275 an hour |
| Anastasia Evstigneeva | New managers and Leadership development | $171 to $228 per hour |
| Andrew Jones | Executive presence and communication and Leadership development | $160 to $275 an hour |
| Andy Sparks | CEO and founder coaching and Leadership development | $175 to $325 an hour |
| Anita Green | Team performance and Leadership development | $145 to $275 an hour |
| Barbara Bouchet | Leadership development and Executive presence and communication | $100 to $175 an hour |
| Barbara Jordan | Executive presence and communication and Leadership development | $200 to $250 per hour |
| Brad Schwartz | Tech and engineering leaders and Leadership development | $100 to $200 an hour |
| Brian Wang | CEO and founder coaching and Team performance | $175 to $325 an hour |
| Bryn Sakagawa | Leadership development and Team performance | $175 to $300 an hour |
| Brynmor James | Leadership development and Executive presence and communication | $120 to $215 an hour |
| Caolan Hunter | Executive presence and communication and Transitions and new roles | $110 to $200 an hour |
Common questions
How much does an executive coach for conflict and difficult conversations cost?
Most executive coaches charge $125 to $225 per hour or session.
What else do these executive coaches help with?
Common focus areas include leadership development, team performance, executive presence and communication and transitions and new roles.
Prices and research
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Other focus areas
Last updated September 2026.