Executive coaches for people over 40
Compare 13 executive coaches. Besides their main focus, the most common focus areas are leadership development, burnout and resilience, executive presence and communication and transitions and new roles. They most often work with people over 40, women and professionals. Most charge $125 to $275 per hour or session.
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Sharon L West
Sharon L West is a business and executive coach in New Jersey. She works with leaders, executives, founders, and women 40+ who face reinvention, burnout, or communication breakdown. She has over 5,000 hours of coaching and consulting experience. Her practice, MightyDreamer Mindset, blends communication arts, applied positive psychology, and business strategy. She is also the author of Words Live: Erase the Codes, a framework for replacing inherited communication patterns with intentional language.
Vanesa Castillo
Vanesa Castillo is a leadership and career coach for professional women in corporate roles and entrepreneurship. She works mostly with women 40+ who feel stuck, burned out, or undervalued. She spent 25 years leading high-performing teams in corporate before she started coaching. She uses her own five-step CLEAR Method and offers a 90-day executive coaching program with 12 private sessions for senior women leaders.
Melody Duckins
Melody Duckins is a leadership and life coach. She works with leadership professionals, Black and brown women over 50, college students, and artists. She helps clients find their core values and build steps toward success. She holds three coaching certifications, including one in student success. Before coaching, she worked as an international educator, artist, writer, and community activist. Her work covers life, education, and career goals.
Jessica Sweet
Jessica Sweet is a career coach and licensed therapist in Massachusetts. She helps executives and professionals over 40 who feel stressed, burned out, or stuck at work. She combines career coaching with a clinical background, so she works on mindset blocks and practical job goals together. She trained as a therapist at Harvard Medical School and belongs to the Forbes Coaches Council. She calls herself The Career Therapist.
Nicky Taylor
Nicky Taylor is a life coach who helps female leaders over 40 in financial services. She founded Blow Up Your Life with her sister Stephanie. Nicky spent 16 years in London banking and rose from Assistant Payroll Co-ordinator to Global HR Director. She now helps senior women build a full life outside work without stress, overwhelm or burnout. She is also a property investor and an award-winning entrepreneur.
Sondra Slivon
Sondra Slivon is a life and career coach who helps women through big life changes. She runs Sueño Consulting LLC in New Mexico. She works with women over 40 facing career change, retirement, divorce, or the loss of a spouse. She also coaches high school and college age women on education, career and life plans. Before coaching, she led community programs at United Way of Central New Mexico and worked in teaching and sales.
Tara James
Tara James is a career and life coach who helps accomplished professionals plan their next chapter. She founded MacGuffin House, a coaching and strategic communications practice. Before coaching, she worked as a private investigator and then spent over twenty years in child and youth policy. She holds a master's degree in human development and psychology from Harvard. Her work starts with what a client wants from life, then builds the career and communications plan to match.
Ted Ryce
Ted Ryce is a health and fitness coach who helps entrepreneurs, executives and busy professionals over 40 lose fat and rebuild their health. He has worked in the field for 25 years. His clients have included CEOs of Fortune 500 companies and celebrities like Sir Richard Branson and Ricky Martin. He started as a coach in Miami Beach. He also hosts the weekly Legendary Life podcast and teaches a method called R3 for knee injuries.
Maree White
Maree White is a private coach, mentor and thinking partner for people around age 50. She helps women, men and couples work through midlife turning points. She trained and certified in the United States with The Life Coach School, then built her own Australian approach. Before coaching, she spent decades developing people, businesses and creative projects. She sees clients in person from her garden studio on the Surf Coast and online worldwide.
Nakisha Dixon
Nakisha Dixon is a career coach in Arlington, Virginia. She helps accomplished professionals in midlife who have outgrown their careers and want a smart pivot without starting over. She has spent 19 years in people, leadership, operations and business. Her past roles include executive and C-suite positions in technology, cybersecurity, professional services and government contracting. She is an ICF Associate Certified Coach with HR credentials.
Dr. Elizabeth Sherrell-Davis
Dr. Elizabeth Sherrell-Davis, known as Dr. E., is a life and accountability coach who helps women over 40, entrepreneurs, and leaders. She founded Signature of Excellence Coaching & Consulting Firm. She holds a Ph.D. in Organization & Management. Her work draws on higher education, leadership training, and business consulting. She helps clients regain balance, find clarity, and set boundaries with confidence. She also runs workshops and speaks publicly.
Cole Baker-Bagwell
Cole Baker-Bagwell is a life and mindfulness coach who focuses on mindset. Cole works with people facing life transitions, career pivots, stress, and self-limiting beliefs. Before coaching, Cole spent two decades in enterprise technology in sales, strategy, and leadership roles. Cole has more than 30 years of mindfulness practice. Clients include tech leaders from Amazon, Cisco, Nvidia, and Red Hat. Coaching is virtual across the U.S. and onsite in Raleigh, N.C.
CareerCycles
CareerCycles is a career counselling and coaching practice in Toronto and Vancouver. Its team of career counsellors and executive coaches has helped 5,000+ clients with career change, job search, retirement planning and outplacement. Clients meet online across Canada or in person. The practice uses a narrative career assessment built on a client's own stories. It also has published outcome studies and book chapters on its work.
Side by side
| Coach | Focus | Hourly rate range |
|---|---|---|
| Sharon L West | Executive presence and communication and Leadership development | $200 to $300 an hour |
| Vanesa Castillo | Executive presence and communication and Women in leadership | $160 to $275 an hour |
| Melody Duckins | Leadership development | $145 to $275 an hour |
| Jessica Sweet | Leadership development and Burnout and resilience | $125 to $175 an hour |
| Nicky Taylor | Women in leadership and Burnout and resilience | $90 to $180 an hour |
| Sondra Slivon | Life transition and career coach for women in New Mexico | $100 to $160 an hour |
| Tara James | Executive presence and communication and Nonprofit leaders | $90 to $175 an hour |
| Ted Ryce | Health and fat loss coach for busy professionals over 40 in Miami | $90 to $150 an hour |
| Maree White | Midlife coach for women, men and couples on the Surf Coast | $100 to $175 an hour |
| Nakisha Dixon | Transitions and new roles | $125 to $175 an hour |
| Dr. Elizabeth Sherrell-Davis | Leadership development and Burnout and resilience | $90 to $175 an hour |
| Cole Baker-Bagwell | Executive presence and communication | $130 to $190 an hour |
| CareerCycles | Transitions and new roles | $100 to $180 an hour |
Common questions
How much does an executive coach cost?
Most executive coaches charge $125 to $275 per hour or session.
What else do these executive coaches help with?
Common focus areas include leadership development, burnout and resilience, executive presence and communication and transitions and new roles.
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Last updated September 2026.