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Compare 237 executive coaches. Besides their main focus, the most common focus areas are leadership development, transitions and new roles, team performance and executive presence and communication. They most often work with students, professionals and executives. Most charge $125 to $275 per hour or session.
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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.
Brian Holzer
Brian Holzer is an executive and career coach who works with MBA applicants, recent grads, physician executives and other professionals. He is a physician with a Wharton MBA and has been CEO twice at private equity-backed companies. He has 20+ years in healthcare, across biotech, health insurance, health systems, behavioral health and post-acute care. He moved from clinical medicine to the C-suite and now helps others make career moves and reach executive roles.
Caroline Ouwerkerk
Caroline Ouwerkerk is a Gallup-certified CliftonStrengths coach who works with mission-driven professionals and leaders in social impact. She offers private career coaching and strengths-based leadership coaching, and she also leads workshops for organizations. She taught leadership as an adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins University. She created the Impact Leaders Incubator, a program and community for women in social impact. Her clients span four continents.
Chris Cooper
Chris Cooper is an Atlanta coach who works with executives and high-potential leaders on executive presence, leadership and cross-cultural communication. He also coaches in life and business. He founded Execute Your Passion, LLC and wrote two books, Achieve Your Dreams and Get Sh*t Done. He has led over 15,000 coaching sessions and given over 5,000 presentations. His clients live on 5 continents. He also trains other coaches, speakers and authors.
Dan Silver
Dan Silver is a leadership and career coach who works with college students, small business leaders and people in large companies. He spent over 30 years in business, including time as a division president at Panasonic. He earned his coaching certification in 2016. He also leads a student cohort at Rutgers University and trains new coaches to run cohorts. He has special skills coaching expat managers working in the USA.
Deena Benner
Deena Benner is an executive coach who works with leaders from Director level up to the C-suite. Her clients come from tech, finance and healthcare, in both for-profit and non-profit groups. She owns Inflection Point Consulting and has worked with more than 100 executive clients. She also coaches full-time MBA students at Wharton as they get ready for leadership roles. Before coaching, she worked in sales at IBM and strategic planning at Verizon.
Heather Siskind
Heather Siskind is an executive coach and life coach based in South Florida. She works on personal growth, relationships and careers. Her clients range from high profile executives to people new to the workplace, and from mothers to recent college graduates. She holds two social work degrees and has spent decades helping women find direction. She also serves as a non-profit CEO and has sat on many boards.
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.
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.
Katie J. Adriano
Katie J. Adriano is an executive and team coach in the Philippines. She helps leadership teams find what gets in the way of good decisions and strong teamwork. She founded KJA Gaiety Solutions and has more than 20 years in leadership, HR and operations. She created the Team Impact Index, a report that measures how a leadership team works together. She also coaches individuals, from college students to executive leaders, with a focus on diversity and inclusion.
Logan Thompson
Logan Thompson is an executive coach and test prep tutor who helps senior leaders and students. He founded LT3D, which coaches leaders on clarity, decision-making, resilience and trust. He began in leadership development at McKinsey and has coached over 1,000 people on test prep, case prep, interview prep and leadership. His clients come from Google, World Bank, NIH, McKinsey and Guardant Health. His work joins business, psychology and contemplative practice.
Marvita Franklin
Marvita Franklin is an executive and leadership coach in South Carolina. Marvita works with directors, managers, military leaders, entrepreneurs and educators. Marvita has more than 30 years of experience in talent development. Marvita is a U.S. Air Force veteran with federal and state work history. Marvita started a coaching career with U.S. Army Recruiters, focusing on performance under pressure. Marvita is also a workforce consultant and master trainer.
Michael Lin
Michael Lin is a leadership and diversity coach who focuses on heritage coaching for Asian and Asian American leaders. He helps clients honor their cultural heritage while they advance in a western context. He founded and ran the Asian Executive Coaching Program at Google for 3 years. He also started a cross-company Asian Employee Resource Group at Waymo and Alphabet. He works as a PeopleOps leader and facilitates a Stanford MBA course on Interpersonal Dynamics.
Naresh Chintalcheru
Naresh Chintalcheru is a career and leadership coach in Illinois who works with R&D leaders. He has coached for 15 years, and his clients range from new college grads to senior executives and entrepreneurs. Before coaching, he spent 25 years in R&D as an engineer, engineering manager, VP of engineering, project manager and Agile coach. He also runs ClueControl, where he builds games and software for escape rooms.
Nicholas Woodruff
Nicholas Woodruff is an executive, leadership and personal development coach who helps senior leaders, new managers and high-performing professionals. He founded Getting Momentum and is based in Metro-Atlanta, with clients across the country. He has more than 15 years of experience in government, transit, global quick service retail, advanced manufacturing and education. He is also a certified Hogan Assessment facilitator who has led large training programs and built leadership pipelines.
Rebecca Eckstein
Rebecca Eckstein is an executive coach and educational consultant. She helps C-suite executives, emerging leaders and entrepreneurs, and she also guides high school students and parents through college planning. She holds an ICF PCC credential and an MIT certificate in Neuroscience for Business. She has over 1,200 coaching hours and 30 years in education. She works by phone with clients in the United States and other countries, in all industries.
Smrati Mehta
Smrati Mehta is an executive and leadership coach who also coaches people with ADHD and dyslexia. She works with C-suite and board leaders, neurodivergent professionals, students, and people going through career change. She spent 20 years in corporate leadership, including NSE transformations and board governance. She has also worked as a Licensed Davis Facilitator for 13 years. She holds an MA in Clinical Psychology and an MBA, and she coaches from India.
Vahbiz Shroff
Vahbiz Shroff is an executive and career coach who helps students and professionals build fulfilling careers. She spent over 20 years in oncology research and diagnostics before she moved into coaching. She has coached for the Entrepreneurship Center at UNC Kenan-Flagler, programs at NC State, the Haslam College of Business, Acadia Healthcare and several pharmaceutical companies. She is an ICF Mentor Coach and serves as President of the ICF Raleigh Area Chapter. She is based in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Volker Glaeske
Volker Glaeske is an executive and career coach in Hong Kong. He helps professionals and leaders handle leadership transitions, international careers, and the unwritten rules of global organisations. Before coaching, he spent more than 25 years in international executive leadership, including 15 years at C-level across Europe and Asia. He holds an ICF Associate Certified Coach credential. His clients include senior executives, emerging leaders, expats, and people working across cultures.
Wilson Leung
Dr Wilson Leung is an executive, leadership and team coach in Toronto. He helps C-suite leaders, executives and teams build leadership skills and get better results. He has over 20 years of coaching and mentoring experience. He is also VP of Global Learning and Leadership Development at an international company. His doctorate work produced a field-tested tool that helps leaders work through their leadership fears.
Zormarah Lyda
Zormarah Lyda, known as Coach Zhee, is an executive and life coach in Maryland. She coaches emerging leaders, managers, executives, veterans and college students through career and leadership change. She is a U.S. military veteran with more than 18 years of leadership experience in federal service. She founded Candidly Unsed and also prepares people for the RBLP, RBLP-C and RBLP-T certifications. She runs workshops and webinars on perfectionism and life seasons.
Devin Gabbard
Devin Gabbard is a leadership and accountability coach who helps emerging leaders, women in business, young professionals, college students and teams. Devin spent 6 years in corporate leadership and has a background in psychology. Sessions draw on mindfulness and presence-based practices, and the work ties personal goals to work life. Devin is based in Arkansas and offers sliding-scale pricing for some groups. The practice is called The Client's Creative.
Jill Skinner
Jill Skinner is a leadership and performance coach in Richmond, California. She works with CEOs, senior leaders, managers, and professionals who face uncertainty or big change. Before coaching, she spent more than 15 years as a Controller, CFO, and consultant, working with executive teams, boards, and funders. She also holds an MBA and a CPA license. Her finance background shapes how she helps leaders think through hard decisions and lead mission-driven organizations.
Julianne Kuhlmann
Julianne Kuhlmann is an Australian executive and leadership coach who helps senior managers, executives and emerging leaders. She has spent 20+ years coaching individuals, teams, artists and entrepreneurs. Her focus is transition management and business capacity building. She also has over 15 years of experience across non-profit and corporate sectors. She runs JK Leaders, which offers one-on-one coaching, group programs and career coaching.
Kelsey Ashton
Kelsey Ashton is a personal, professional and leadership coach in Denver, Colorado. She helps leaders, managers, small business owners, volunteers and nonprofit workers gain clarity and take action. Kelsey built her career in the environmental, nonprofit and public sectors. She is working toward her Associate Certified Coach credential and is an accredited Enneagram practitioner. She also teaches coaching skills to leaders, managers and supervisors. Sessions run online or in person in Denver.
Ksenia Krylova
Ksenia Krylova is a leadership, career and life coach in Katy, Texas. She helps professionals become stronger leaders, work through career changes, and find clarity and confidence. She holds a Ph.D. in organizational behavior and has taught leadership and psychology. She is ICF certified and coaches both individuals and groups. She also works with students moving from school into working life.
Larry G. Maguire
Larry G. Maguire is a work and organisational psychologist in Dublin, Ireland. He coaches senior leaders, business executives, business owners and career people who want clarity and direction in their work. He runs the Human Performance practice, which teaches mental skills like composure under pressure, decision-making and resilience. He also hosts a podcast and writes articles on the psychology of performance. His coaching focuses on the person, not the business functions.
Mark Manasse
Mark Manasse is a leadership and life coach in San Diego, California. He helps professionals, executives, educators and graduate students who feel stuck, overwhelmed or unsure of their next step. He has more than 25 years of experience in leadership, teaching, training, consulting and mentoring. He holds a Ph.D. in Leadership and is an ICF Associate Certified Coach. His sessions aim to leave clients with a clear plan and momentum.
Tara Montgomery
Tara Montgomery is an executive and leadership coach who works with purpose-driven leaders. Most of her clients are health care executives, medical professionals, medical educators, and public health leaders. She also coaches tech innovators, media leaders, nonprofit leaders, MBA students, and social entrepreneurs around the world. Her practice centers on the human side of leading change. In 2021 she spent six months supporting mentoring and coaching programs at Médecins Sans Frontières. She has also researched trust in the US leadership response to COVID-19.
Torrie Kalm
Dr. Torrie Kalm runs The Kalm Effect, a veteran-owned coaching practice in Nashville, Tennessee. She coaches on resilience, emotional intelligence, leadership and stress management. She holds a doctorate in Industrial Organizational Psychology and spent 30 years in a special operations military career. Her doctoral research looked at how emotional intelligence affects people and organizations. She works with culture-driven business owners, and she also runs a career program for university students.
Ibrahim Dabo
Ibrahim Dabo is a leadership, career and executive coach in Loganville, Georgia. He helps college graduates and aspiring leaders find clarity, build confidence and grow into leadership. He began in journalism as a teenager and became an Africa Editor, covering leaders in business, government, sports and humanitarian work. He later built a career in technology and communications and held senior technology roles. He also served as a Commissioner on the Georgia Commission for the Deaf or Hard of Hearing.
James Monaco
James Monaco is an executive and career coach who works with startup founders and MBA candidates. He is also a senior finance and strategy leader. He is a Vice President at Triumvirate Environmental, where he leads strategy, M&A, corporate development, finance, and growth. Before that he led finance and M&A at Farmers Business Network. He founded and sold a fintech company, Harvest Global, and raised capital from Silicon Valley investors.
Venus Gilbert
Venus Gilbert is an executive and career coach based in India. She works with senior leaders, CXOs, senior women leaders and young adults. Before coaching, she was an HR professional who led teams around the world in banking and technology firms. She has coached for over 12 years and has been a certified executive and leadership coach for 4 years. She coaches both inside organisations and as an outside coach.
Jon Bleakley
Jon Bleakley is a performance and leadership coach who works with new leaders, young leaders, students and athletes. He also offers accountability and confidence coaching. Jon spent 26 years leading teams in military and non-profit settings. He led Special Operations, conventional military and civilian teams through intensive training and high-risk deployments. He focuses on building leaders who coach their own people and lead with care and authenticity.
Mandilyn Graham
Mandilyn Graham is an executive and life coach in Michigan. She helps Black women executives, diversity leaders, educational leaders, and college and graduate students. She has been a licensed clinical trauma therapist for over 10 years. She is a licensed counselor in Illinois and Michigan and also works as a trauma-informed trainer, consultant and clinical supervisor. Her practice is Make a Way Psychology Based Services. She uses evidence based strategies with individuals, groups and organizations.
Maya Niksic
Maya Niksic is a leadership coach in Massachusetts who works mainly with women leaders. She holds an ICF Professional Certified Coach credential and teaches trauma-sensitive yoga. She founded Adaptive Leadership Atelier, a studio for coaching, healing and leadership training. She trained as a chemical engineer and worked on Wall Street during the 2008 market collapse. She also facilitates vertical development and consults on adaptive leadership. She works with individuals and groups.
Shauna C. Bryce
Shauna C. Bryce runs Bryce Legal, a career and leadership coaching practice for lawyers. She works with law firm partners, general counsel, associates, junior attorneys, law students and lawyers leaving law practice. Since 2006, she has helped lawyers in law firms, corporate legal departments, government and non-profits build both hard and soft skills. Her services cover leadership coaching, job search help, resume writing, LinkedIn profiles and outplacement. She also offers group training for legal teams.
Shayna Bergman
Shayna Bergman is a leadership and burnout coach who works with parents in executive and leadership roles. She spent years in HR before coaching full-time, including a role as HR Business Partner at a global professional services firm. She also helped build the HR department at a legal start-up. She taught executive coaching and public speaking as an adjunct professor at NYU and George Washington University. Her clients range from C-suite leaders to students.
Angela Lopez
Angela Lopez is a career and leadership coach in Oregon. She helps leaders and career changers build clarity, confidence, and communication skills so they can lead people, not just processes. Many of her clients are stepping into new leadership roles or going through change. She has a background in DEIB and leadership program development. She has worked with professionals in government, nonprofit, and mission-driven sectors, and has done contract work with national coaching platforms and public agencies.
Arpita Dutta
Arpita Dutta is an executive, career and life coach in Bangalore. She coaches women who are starting or restarting their careers, working professionals at all experience levels and in any industry, homemakers and students who want to reach their goals. She holds management education from IISWBM and IIML. She is certified by ICF CCE and IAPCCT. She also offers leadership and wellness coaching and writes about learning plans and self-care.
Melinda Kelly
Melinda Kelly is a leadership development consultant and coach in Cincinnati, Ohio. She co-leads Right Path Enterprises with Mike Kelly, helping leaders and teams build skills and improve workplace culture. She designed and delivered a training program for an Ohio state government department with supervisors in remote offices. She also lists college admissions consulting for students and parents, and is a member of IECA. Her work covers training, facilitation, curriculum design and coaching.
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.
Chris Jacob
Chris Jacob is a product marketing coach and mentor who helps startup founders build and grow their businesses. He has been a founder and global executive at tech and SaaS companies including Salesforce, Adobe, Jive and Gravity, with 2 exits. He now runs Data+AI and mentors at Score. He also teaches financial literacy in New York City public high schools and mentors 80 startups at a time.
Cyndy McDonald
Cyndy McDonald is a college admissions counselor in Visalia, California. She helps students and parents plan and prepare for college. She is a credentialed school counselor who has worked at the high school and middle school levels. She holds leadership roles in WACAC and founded HECA. She also runs The College Counselor's Coach, where she helps other college counselors grow their practices. She hosts a free Zoom series called Friday Forums.
Pamela Skillings
Pamela Skillings is an interview coach and co-founder of Skillful Communications. She helps job seekers prepare for interviews and trains managers to hire better. Her coaching draws on her past work as a hiring manager and a human resources executive. Companies also hire her to consult on their hiring processes, and she often sits in on real job interviews. Skillful is the company behind Big Interview, an online interview training platform.
Sara Becker
Sara Becker is a career coach who helps people change careers, prepare for interviews, and ask for raises or new titles. She has spent over a decade in sales and marketing and grew into team leadership. She broke into tech from a non-traditional background. She has coached dozens of professionals, from early-career job seekers to women stepping into leadership. She focuses on people moving into tech, marketing, or sales.
Vasu R.
Vasu R. is a career, business, and executive coach for tech professionals. Clients include product managers, engineering managers, consultants, account executives, and founders. Vasu spent 25 years in software, including a role as Global Head of Product Development for Workforce Intelligence at Amazon and 14 years at Oracle in product strategy. Vasu is also a three-time entrepreneur and an enterprise AI consultant. Vasu has run hiring interviews for senior roles at top companies.
Adam B
Adam B is a career and admissions coach who helps MBA and Master's applicants, and people breaking into consulting, banking and private equity. She spent seven years at Citi in EMEA, then earned an MBA at London Business School as a Merit Scholar. She now works in post-merger integration at Accenture. She coaches candidates worldwide and speaks Arabic. She has deep experience with international applicants, including many women from the Gulf and emerging markets.
Ahmed Sameer
Ahmed Sameer is a career, leadership and life coach in Erbil, Iraq. He helps professionals, leaders and graduates who feel stuck or unsure about their next step. Before coaching, he spent more than 15 years leading humanitarian and development programs across the Middle East. He managed large teams and multimillion-dollar portfolios. He is a certified Professional Life Coach and a certified member of the Project Management Institute. His focus is moving clients from confusion to clarity, confidence and purpose.
Al Robinette
Al Robinette is a career and leadership coach who helps professionals, managers and executives plan their next career step. He also consults for businesses. He is the founder of Career Path Consulting & Development and has more than 20 years of experience. He moved from an hourly front-line job to an executive role in corporate business. He is an Industrial and Organizational Psychology practitioner and uses behavioral assessments in his coaching.
Alessandro Voltolini
Alessandro Voltolini is a management consulting coach who helps people prepare for MBB interviews and wider career moves. He is a former McKinsey Senior Engagement Manager who assessed hundreds of candidates and led interviewer training and calibration. He also received offers from all three MBB firms as a candidate. He has held leadership roles at HappyFresh and Grab. He coaches through realistic interview simulations with direct feedback.
Alexander Nowak
Alexander Nowak is a career coach who helps students and early to mid-career professionals define their career path and land new roles. He has 10 years of coaching and career advising for Bachelors, MBA, Masters and PhD students. He also spent 10 years leading teams and shaping strategy in marketing and sales. He has worked with more than 100 career coaching clients and uses the GROW coaching model.
Alexandra Guynn
Alexandra Guynn coaches professionals on Amazon interviews and MBA applications. She spent 6.5 years at Amazon across Devices, AWS, and Retail. She interviewed 25 candidates for full-time roles and MBA internships. She also moved from Finance to Product Management inside the company. She helps clients turn their work history into clear stories for hiring teams and admissions readers. Her focus is finance and product roles.
Alisha O.
Alisha O. coaches product managers, engineers, and executives who want to become stronger product and technology leaders. She is a former executive at Meta, Reuters, iHeartMedia, and TuneCore, and worked at a computer vision AI startup that Apple acquired. She teaches Emerging Tech Leadership at Brown University and Entrepreneurship at CUNY. She also helps with interviews, resumes, salary negotiation, and advises founders on building and scaling products.
Alison McCallum
Alison McCallum is a career and executive coach. She helps people in education, mid-career professionals, new graduates and students find clarity about their next steps. She trained in executive coaching at Royal Roads University in 2017 and holds an ICF Associate Certified Coach credential. She also works in Indigenous student services in higher education. She has coached clients on four continents by audio or video.
Amy Johnson
Amy Johnson is a career coach who helps people start out, change direction, or move up in their careers. She is a Senior Accounting Manager at Wayfair with more than 10 years in accounting. She began in public accounting at Grant Thornton and then moved to PwC. At Wayfair she has spent eight years hiring and developing teams and building more efficient processes. She coaches accounting professionals on resumes, interviews, and career paths.
Andrew Glaze
Andrew Glaze is a private equity and finance coach who works with students, professionals, founders and finance candidates. He coaches private equity, investment banking, asset management, CFA preparation, AI for sales and marketing, and career development. He is a West Point graduate, a former Army officer, and a CFA charterholder with a Columbia MBA. He is also Chief Investment Officer at Equitable Capital, a media-focused private equity firm.
André H.
André H. is a career coach for people who want to get into consulting or move up in it. He is a former Roland Berger recruiter, consultant and headhunter. He interviewed with 41 leading firms himself. He has helped 561+ people get offers at firms like McKinsey, BCG and Bain. His strongest markets are Germany, the DACH region, the UK, Dubai, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the wider Middle East.
Aneri Shah
Aneri Shah is a product marketing coach who helps people build careers in product management, marketing and customer success. She leads the B2B Marketing team at Ethos, a Series D fintech startup. Before that she spent 12 years in product marketing leadership at Meta, Microsoft, Glassdoor and Clever. She has coached for 10 years and helped 50+ clients land jobs and grow in their roles. She also coaches international students and people with visa sponsorship questions.
Annie Flippo
Annie Flippo is a data science career coach who helps new grads, career switchers and working data scientists move forward in their careers. She is a Chief Data Officer with 30+ years of experience, and she started as an engineer. She led ML and AI work at her company that cut costs by 10%. She has mentored university students for over a decade and helps them land internships and first jobs.
Antonietta Breitenfeldt
Antonietta Breitenfeldt is an independent college admissions consultant who helps students and parents plan for life after high school. She runs BrightSpot Labs in Seattle. Her background includes classroom teaching, school and district leadership, and professional learning. She has worked as an independent consultant since 2022. She helps with college lists, applications, essays, scholarships and interviews. She also guides families on PreK to 12 school choices.
Arjun Arjun
Arjun Arjun is a career and sales coach for people who want to break into or move up in big tech. He is a Senior Account Director at Google with 17+ years of experience leading enterprise teams and driving over $500M in ARR. He leads a team of 35+ sellers and specialists. He moved from engineering to consulting at EY, then to sales leadership at Google across 2 regions. He has coached 100+ career clients.
Ash Cross
Ash Cross is a career coach and master's programs admissions consultant. Ash helps grad students, career changers, and senior professionals with resumes, mock interviews, and job searches. Ash spent time at Carnegie Mellon University, where they worked with the MSCF finance program and 16 Master's Engineering programs. There, Ash coached 300+ MSCF students, and all of them landed internships. Ash went full-time with their practice this year and booked 20 clients in the first month.
Ashish Dave
Ashish Dave is a management consulting coach who helps candidates prepare for behavioral interviews, case interviews and resume reviews. He has coached more than 30 candidates for corporate roles and university programs. He works at McKinsey & Company as a strategy consultant and is a JD/MBA candidate at Wharton and Penn Carey Law. He also co-founded and led a startup called Politiq. He coaches on management consulting, law school and MBA paths.
Bara Sapir
Bara Sapir is a GMAT tutor who also coaches students on mindset and test anxiety. She has worked with hundreds of clients, including students who got into schools like Harvard, Stanford and INSEAD. Her clients also include physicians preparing for medical boards and executives at Fortune 500 companies. She brought mindfulness tools into test prep, using methods like hypnosis, NLP and tapping. She wrote The Full Potential Manual and created the MindFlow speed reading workshop.
Barbara Gamm
Barbara Gamm is a career and creativity coach who helps people who feel stuck in their work or personal life. She founded Invenio Coaching and works in Michigan and online. She spent over eleven years as a global leadership development executive in the Fortune 20 space. She is also a classically trained musician and visual artist, and she uses that creative side in her coaching. She holds ICF and MBTI credentials.
Bettina M. Jones
Bettina M. Jones is a life and career coach who works with Black women in corporate, non-profit, academic and small business settings. She spent over 20 years in the corporate world, in financial services, tech, consumer goods and academia. She trained as a Master Certified Life Coach through Martha Beck, Inc. Her work centers on finding meaning, building self-leadership and defining success on your own terms. She also offers tiered rates and special rates for college students entering the workforce.
Brandi Smith
Brandi Smith is a life, career and leadership coach in Indiana who works with women. She helps them cut down overwhelm and improve relationships, performance and well-being in ways they can sustain. Her clients range from single mothers working their way out of poverty to professionals earning multiple six-figure salaries. She has also coached college students, nonprofit leaders and professors. She holds a master's degree in Human Development and Family Studies.
Brandon Benson
Brandon Benson is a PhD admissions consultant and mentor for graduate students and future tech leaders. He holds a PhD in Applied Physics from Stanford, with a focus on neuroscience and machine learning. He is also co-founder and CTO of an AI marketing company. His research has been published in Science and Nature. He helps clients with PhD applications, research development, and moving research into a venture.
Brandon Mack
Brandon Mack is an independent college admissions consultant in Houston, Texas. He helps students, parents, and organizations through the admissions process. He worked in admissions for 13 years, including as Associate Director of Admission and Coordinator of Transfer Admission at Rice University. He later served as Interim Director of Operations at the International Association for College Admission Counseling. He also offers equity, inclusion, and diversity consulting and meeting facilitation through B. Mack Strategies.
Brian Anderson
Brian Anderson is a career coach who helps people at every stage, from recent graduates to experienced professionals. He also offers packages for product marketing, product management, and medical device and biotech careers. He has over 25 years in global product marketing management at Abbott, 3M, and Align Technology. He is a former Group Marketing Manager at Abbott and has managed teams and developed talent. He owns Brian Anderson Strategy LLC.
Candace B.
Candace B. is an executive career coach and certified resume writer in Birmingham. She helps leaders with resumes, interviews, career changes, salary talks and leadership moves. She has worked one-on-one with over 1000 leaders and has more than 30 years in C-suite and board-level recruiting. Her clients have landed roles at Apple, Amazon, Deloitte, McKinsey and PayPal. She is one of 10 resume writers recommended by Heller Search Associates.
Caren Robinson
She helps people through life transitions, stress, burnout and recovery after a life altering event. She is also a TBI mentor and medical advocacy consultant. Her past work includes emergency medical services, healthcare and advocacy roles. She founded Vital Ability, LLC, which offers one-on-one coaching and workshops for groups and organizations. Her coaching draws on brain-based methods, emotional intelligence and mindfulness.
Carla Coury
Carla Coury is a career coach who helps students, MBA candidates and early-career professionals get from uncertainty to job offers. She was Executive Director of Career Management at Tulane University's Freeman School of Business, where her team reached a 100% MBA offer rate. She also directed Tulane's campus-wide career services and ran the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses Program in the Gulf South. She has worked in the field for 30 years.
Carla Vaccarezza Bass
Carla Vaccarezza Bass is a career and executive coach who helps students, alumni, mid-career leaders and physicians moving into industry. She is Associate Director of Career Services and Executive MBA Career Coach at Kellogg School of Management. She has nearly twenty years of experience at Stanford, UC Berkeley and Northwestern. She has also served on admissions committees and led employer relations. She has worked with more than 100 career coaching clients.
Caryl Frankenberger
Caryl Frankenberger is an independent educational consultant and the founder of Frankenberger Associates in Branford, Connecticut. She helps students and parents with boarding and private school admissions. Her learning center also offers executive function coaching, social learning programs, tutoring, brain training and assessments. The center has operated for over four decades and has helped thousands of students and families. Support is available in person or online for children, teens and adults.
Chris Barry
Chris Barry is a management consulting coach who helps people break into consulting. He spent 11 years at Bain and rose to Partner. He was the Recruiting Partner, so he ran second round interviews and made final offer decisions. He also built a university course that helped students from a non-core school land jobs at top consulting firms. He worked in Boston and Los Angeles and led business transformation teams that won Best of Bain awards.
Christiane Drew
Christiane Drew is a life and leadership coach who helps women build confidence and move through change. She holds an ICF PCC credential and an MBA from Penn State University. She has logged over 1000 coaching hours, many with businesswomen going through life transitions. She has lived in four countries and started a new career along the way. Her sessions use brain-based tools, NLP and mindfulness. She also gives talks on confidence and self-worth.
Claire Qin
Claire Qin is an MBA admissions consultant and executive coach. She helps applicants shape their story and sharpen their positioning, and she coaches leaders through career moves. She holds a Stanford MBA and spent a decade in senior roles at Amazon, Uber, Sylvera and Morgan Stanley. She has trained in organisational psychology at the NHS Tavistock Clinic. She has also coached senior leaders and MBA students in INSEAD's Personal Leadership Development Programme.
DW Performance
DW Performance is an interview and executive coach based in the UK who works with clients online. The focus is helping people perform better in job interviews and speak with clarity and confidence. The coach spent 20 years in finance and banking, rising from a call centre role to Head of Credit Analysis at Barclays. That inside view of hiring decisions shapes every mock interview. Sessions are one on one and centre on emotional intelligence.
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| Coach | Focus | Hourly rate range |
|---|---|---|
| Abhilasha Jha | Leadership development and Transitions and new roles | $125 to $230 an hour |
| Brian Holzer | Leadership development and Transitions and new roles | $125 to $200 an hour |
| Caroline Ouwerkerk | Leadership development and Women in leadership | $145 to $275 an hour |
| Chris Cooper | Executive presence and communication and Leadership development | $150 to $275 an hour |
| Dan Silver | Leadership development and Team performance | $145 to $275 an hour |
| Deena Benner | Executive presence and communication and Leadership development | $110 to $200 an hour |
| Heather Siskind | Leadership development | $225 to $300 an hour |
| Ian Kahng | CEO and founder coaching and Transitions and new roles | $130 to $225 an hour |
| Jody Michael | CEO and founder coaching and New managers | $175 to $325 an hour |
| Katie J. Adriano | Leadership development and Team performance | $145 to $275 an hour |
| Logan Thompson | Leadership development and Executive presence and communication | $125 to $200 an hour |
| Marvita Franklin | Leadership development and Assessments (360, DISC, CliftonStrengths) | $150 to $250 an hour |
| Michael Lin | Leadership development and New managers | $145 to $275 an hour |
| Naresh Chintalcheru | Leadership development and Team performance | $160 to $275 an hour |
| Nicholas Woodruff | New managers and Leadership development | $225 to $300 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, transitions and new roles, team performance and executive presence and communication.
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Last updated September 2026.