Executive coaches for physician and healthcare leaders
Compare 54 executive coaches who focus on physician and healthcare leaders. Besides physician and healthcare leaders, the most common focus areas are burnout and resilience, leadership development, transitions and new roles and team performance. They most often work with physicians, executives and professionals. Most charge $112 to $275 per hour or session.
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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.
Cecile Andreas
Cecile Andreas is an executive and career coach who works with healthcare professionals and leaders. She is also a family physician, so she knows the field from the inside. She coaches individuals, teams and organizations. She holds an ICF PCC credential and is a certified coach supervisor. She teaches coaching at Royal Roads University. She uses the Dare to Lead™ and Daring Way™ programs in her work.
Danielle Lombard-Sims
Danielle Lombard-Sims is an executive, leadership and team coach who also works as a retirement coach. She helps CEOs, healthcare leaders, higher education leaders, HR leaders and physician leaders. She is a former Executive Partner with Gartner and a C-Suite business executive. She has 29 years of experience in coaching, change management, succession planning and leadership development. She has coached leaders in healthcare, banking, oil and gas, government and manufacturing. She works from Tennessee.
Ellen Zimmerman
Ellen Zimmerman is an executive and leadership coach who works with individuals and teams. Her clients include C-suite leaders, HR leaders, healthcare professionals and team leaders. She pairs coaching with training and facilitation to give teams a clear strategic direction. She also runs coaching supervision groups and a 16-hour team coaching recertification program for coaches. She is Vice President of the Texas Coaches Coalition.
Emma Pineda Fortin
Emma Pineda Fortin is a somatic leadership coach who works with people of color and allies, including executives and managers. She runs Guerrera de La Luz Leadership. Before coaching, she was a management consultant and the COO of an e-commerce startup, and she holds a PhD. Her sessions use body awareness, breath, visualization and truth-telling to help clients face limiting beliefs and lead with clarity. She is based in Nevada.
Epiphany Coaches
Epiphany Coaches is an executive coaching firm based in Toronto, Canada. It coaches individual leaders, groups and top teams. The firm has 20+ years in business, and its coaches average 15+ years in coaching. It has built programs for Microsoft, a large healthcare company, a milling company and a nuclear energy company. Its own RQ Relationship Intelligence Report is one of the assessments it uses. Most work is in technology, healthcare and finance.
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.
Janicek Performance Group
Janicek Performance Group is a communication coaching firm for executives and senior leaders. It covers executive coaching, public speaking, media training and personal branding. The team includes Emmy-winning journalists, performance trainers and communication advisors. The firm has trained more than 10,000 executives over 20 years. Clients range from Fortune 500 CEOs to venture-backed founders. It teaches its own system, the JPG Method, to help leaders communicate with clarity and authority.
Jodie Lowinger
Dr Jodie Lowinger is an executive coach and clinical psychologist who works with CEOs, founders, senior leaders and doctors. She builds mental resilience and steady high performance. She created The Mind Strength Method, which was named one of the 50 Australian Inventions Changing the World. She founded The Anxiety Clinic and has 20 years in business strategy and leadership consulting. She is based in Bondi Junction, Sydney.
Lauren Fine
Lauren Fine is a physician and decision coach who helps executives, physicians and other professionals through career transitions and high-stakes choices. She spent 15 years in medicine and academic leadership before moving into education, entrepreneurship and coaching. She is a TEDx speaker and a Harvard Macy Institute faculty member. She uses her training in clinical reasoning to help clients get clear on what they want and act on a plan.
Lynn Torossian
Lynn Torossian is an executive and leadership coach in Michigan who works with leaders at all levels. She spent over 30 years in healthcare leadership. She served as CEO of multiple hospitals across three healthcare systems and also worked as a system level finance executive. She speaks nationally on change leadership and has published on it internationally. She trained as a coach at the Hudson Institute of Coaching.
Melissa Williams-Platt
Melissa Williams-Platt is an executive, life and team coach in Gauteng, South Africa. She works mostly with doctors, nurses, surgeons and allied health professionals facing burnout, compassion fatigue, grief and moral injury. She also coaches C-suite executives, managers and teams. She holds a PCC credential and studied Palliative Medicine, passing Cum Laude. Before coaching, she spent many years in senior business management and led her own teams.
Mira Brancu
Dr. Mira Brancu is an executive coach and licensed psychologist who works with leaders and their teams. She founded Towerscope, a leadership and organization consulting firm that has advised hundreds of leaders. She has 20+ years in academia and healthcare, and held award-winning leadership roles at the US Department of Veterans Affairs. She was an Associate Professor at Duke University's School of Medicine and writes for Psychology Today. She also coaches leaders with ADHD.
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.
Nasser Khan
Nasser Khan is a business operations and strategy coach who works with healthcare leaders, clinicians and people aiming for business operations jobs. He is a physician with an M.D. and a Senior Advisor at McKinsey & Company. He was Chief Operating Officer at Acadia Healthcare and Senior Vice President of Operations at Shields Health Solutions. There he ran health system operations across the Midwest and Western US as general manager and P&L owner.
Nondumiso Makhunga-Stevenson
Nondumiso Makhunga-Stevenson coaches Black women physicians who hold leadership roles and want to move up in their careers. She is a medical doctor with more than 20 years of experience in clinical care, hospital management, private practice and pharmaceutical organisations. She has led international projects in Eastern, Southern and West Africa. She built her own coaching framework from strategies that won her several promotions.
Sonnie Linebarger
Sonnie Linebarger is an executive and leadership coach who works with healthcare organizations and their leaders. She is a Registered Nurse with more than 20 years in healthcare. She spent 4 years as Chief Operating Officer of Bristol Hospice, which grew to 45 locations across 20 states. She has been part of more than 40 M&A deals and knows post-acquisition integration. She coaches through her platform, Evoke Greatness, from Arizona.
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.
Vanessa Calderón
Vanessa Calderón is a coach for physicians, leaders and entrepreneurs who want to grow without burning out. She is a board-certified physician and Harvard graduate with 20 years of leadership and business development experience. She blends business strategy, nervous-system work, identity work and ancestral healing wisdom. She also built a burnout prevention program that helped hundreds of professionals, and its results were published in peer-reviewed medical journals.
Yara Demo
Yara Demo is an executive and leadership coach who helps physicians, healthcare leaders and other professionals. She holds an ICF PCC certification and is also a practicing neurologist. She trained at Northwestern and is triple-boarded. She focuses on burnout prevention and workplace wellness. She especially supports women leaders who want to move out of burnout and build careers with more impact and balance.
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.
Terri Finney
Dr. Terri Finney is a Denver executive coach and licensed psychologist. She helps C-suite leaders, founders and senior managers build clarity, presence and performance. She has 35 years of clinical practice and 17 years of coaching executives. Her clients come from tech, energy, aerospace, healthcare and finance. She also offers burnout coaching, startup consulting and support with professional transitions. Sessions are held by video for clients in Colorado and across the country.
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.
Jennifer Shaer
Jennifer Shaer is an executive and life coach for pediatricians. She works with women in the middle to late stages of their careers who feel burned out, unfulfilled or stuck. Shaer is a pediatrician and the Chief Wellness Officer of Allied Physicians Group. She holds coaching certifications in executive, life and physician development coaching. She offers three private programs that cover reconnecting with medicine, growing into leadership and retiring from clinical practice.
Lynn Thorsell
Lynn Thorsell is a leadership and personal development coach who helps leaders with burnout, stress, and major life transitions. She has coached for over ten years and has 30+ years of business experience. She works with health care leaders, nonprofit leaders, Indigenous leaders, social enterprise leaders, and tech and biotech leaders. She also coaches small business leaders and people on unconventional career paths. Her practice is called Being Human Together.
Lance Wagner
Lance Wagner is a coach for physicians at every stage, from residency through retirement. He spent more than three decades in medicine as an anesthesiologist, physician leader, department chair and medical educator. Health challenges of his own moved him away from clinical practice. Today he combines his clinical and organizational experience with advocacy, organized medicine, physician well-being and coaching. He helps doctors find clarity, build resilience and shape a sustainable career.
Rehema Kutua
Rehema Kutua is a physician and coach who helps people build lives that match their values. She uses a method called Healing Centered Coaching. She has spent more than 13 years in medicine and works as a community pediatrician serving under-resourced populations. She has also been an Assistant Medical Director in Washington DC and a science teacher in Jordan. She works in District of Columbia and coaches on leadership, resilience, and emotional intelligence.
Erica Bentley
Erica Bentley is a career and executive coach who works with nurses, nurse executives and other healthcare professionals. She runs Leading Influence Careers in Maryland. She is a healthcare executive with two decades of corporate experience. That time includes Fortune 5 companies and one of the largest health systems in the country. She coaches on executive leadership and on general career growth in healthcare.
Ashley Albers
Ashley Albers is a life coach who works only with physicians. Ashley is a licensed physician, so this coach knows the daily pressures of the job. Ashley offers small group coaching with other physicians and a written coaching option where clients message their coach each business day. Topics include burnout, work-life balance, career changes and better relationships. Ashley keeps equity pricing available so any physician can get coached.
Kathleen Nelson
Kathleen Nelson is a leadership and career coach for people building academic medical careers. She spent 40 years as an academic medicine physician and leader. She was a Professor of Pediatrics, Division Chief, Department Vice Chair and Senior Associate Dean at two medical schools. She co-directed Healthcare Leadership Academies at both schools. She has coached and consulted since 2021. She works most with women faculty and new leaders.
Faith Chang
Faith Chang is a leadership coach in Paris who helps founders, C-level leaders and ambitious professionals in science, tech and healthcare. She draws on 15 years in corporate communications, performing arts and consultancy. She has guided hundreds of professionals toward promotions, funding and stronger public visibility. Her clients have spoken at TED AI, CES, HLTH, SXSW and Vivatech. She also runs strength-based leadership workshops for teams.
Mary Printz
Mary Printz is an executive and leadership coach in Calgary, Alberta. Mary helps executives, physicians and other professionals deal with burnout, stress and big career changes. Mary's coaching is built on Adaptive Development, a model from Harvard Graduate Studies. Before coaching, Mary spent over 30 years as an educational leader, school principal, consultant and entrepreneur. Mary has worked with clients from new managers to senior executives in education, healthcare, business and engineering.
Brad Fern
Brad Fern is an executive, leadership and team coach in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He coaches physicians and physician leaders, along with other leaders who want to grow. He runs an Adaptive Development program built to improve cognitive and emotional agility. He is also a licensed psychotherapist and a certified Physician Coach. He uses Immunity to Change coaching, which he writes about for doctors and healthcare executives.
Matt Williams
Matt Williams is an executive, business and leadership coach in Spring, Texas, near Houston. He coaches technical professionals who have been promoted into executive roles. His clients include engineers, financial leaders, IT leaders and physicians. He also writes articles for coaching readers, including a piece on how to choose a coach and one on success for entrepreneurs. His focus on newly promoted technical people sets his practice apart from general leadership coaching.
Alejandra Molina
Alejandra Molina is an anxiety and confidence coach in Miami. She helps high achievers, working parents, entrepreneurs, executives and physicians manage stress and find emotional clarity. She worked in nonprofits and grassroots development before moving into resilience and early childhood development in Latin America. She has lived in six cities in different countries. She built her own model, The Thriving Self, and runs her practice as The Bliss Well.
Elizabeth Woods
Elizabeth Woods is a physician and life and leadership coach for women physicians and women leaders. She helps them recover from burnout, rebuild confidence, and lead in a way that fits their values. She has mentored healthcare professionals for over 14 years and has a background in trauma-informed care. She has helped hundreds of women, including with raises. She runs a program called The Physician Reset.
Gideon Strich
Gideon Strich is a burnout and career coach who works with healthcare professionals and executives. He spent over 30 years as a diagnostic radiologist and was a managing partner in a private practice group. He is a Clinical Professor of Radiology at University of California, Irvine. He wrote the book BurnoutRx for Healthcare Professionals. His coaching focuses on stress, burnout, communication skills, and finding meaning and purpose.
Jessie Mahoney
Jessie Mahoney is a physician coach who works with women in medicine. She blends mindfulness, coaching, and nervous system healing to help clients stop over-functioning and over-giving. She is a pediatrician who left her practice in 2020 to coach full-time. She began work in physician wellness in 2002 and coached physicians from 2018. She offers virtual coaching, retreats in California, keynote talks, and team programs for health systems.
Joe Sherman
Joe Sherman is a burnout and career coach for physicians and other health professionals. He is a pediatrician with over 35 years of clinical, academic and leadership experience. He spent his career on teaching and care for underserved and medically complex children. He has practiced in Washington DC, Tacoma, Seattle, Uganda and Bolivia. After his own burnout, he built a coaching and facilitation practice for health professionals, working with them one on one and in groups.
Kirsten Paynter
Kirsten Paynter is a coach for women physicians who want to stop surviving medicine and start flourishing. She spent 20 years as an academic physician at Mayo Clinic Arizona. She is board certified in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and Sports Medicine. She was the only woman in her department for nine years. She also wrote a book chapter in Burnout in Women Physicians. She runs Everyday Flourishing and holds NBHWC certification.
Mary Leung
Mary Leung is a physician and certified life coach who helps other physicians with stress, overwork and burnout. She works one-on-one with doctors who feel trapped or devalued. Before coaching, she was a full-time attending physician who worked far past her paid hours and spent long evenings on charts. Coaching cut her clinic day by more than 2 hours. She now helps physicians manage time, handle charting and leave work on time.
Nicole Perrotte
Nicole Perrotte is a burnout coach for women in medicine. She is a board certified internal medicine physician and a certified wellness coach. She runs her practice as The Burnout MD. She has faced burnout twice herself. She offers individual coaching, workshops, speaking talks, and retreats. Her work covers self care, boundaries, imposter syndrome, and work-life balance for doctors who feel overworked and unfulfilled.
Nora Vasquez
Nora Vasquez is a physician and high-performance coach who helps doctors, healthcare leaders and other clinicians deal with burnout and build a better balance between work and life. She runs the Renewed Leaders in Medicine Coaching Program and works with clients one on one or as whole teams. Hospital staff, including medical directors, take part in her program. She also speaks at medical conferences on burnout in healthcare.
Robin Magnani
Robin Magnani is a life coach for women physicians. She helps them build a medical career and a personal life that fit together. She is a board-certified anesthesiologist and a Chief Medical Officer, so she knows the pressure of practicing medicine while balancing other priorities. She works one-on-one with clients on burnout, time management, and long-standing struggles that keep coming up. Her coaching starts with clarifying what a client wants and then building a plan to get there.
Michele L. Dorfsman
Michele Dorfsman is a physician coach who helps high-achieving doctors handle stress, fatigue, and burnout. She has coached physicians for over 10 years. She is also a practicing academic emergency department physician, so she knows the job firsthand. Her coaching uses cognitive-behavioral exercises and thought reframing. Sessions are one-on-one by phone or video. She helps doctors reach both personal and professional goals.
Amanda Dinsmore
Amanda Dinsmore is a physician wellness coach who helps doctors recover from burnout. She is an MD and runs The Whole Physician. Her Wellness 911 program is built for the reality of shift work, call, cognitive overload and emotional labor. Clients get twice monthly coaching calls with a physician coach and monthly masterclasses with other physicians. The program follows a 5-step framework and aims to help doctors feel better within 30 days.
Jessie Turnbull
Jessie Turnbull is a burnout coach for women physicians. She is also a pediatric intensivist and clinical ethicist. She founded Burning Bright MD to help doctors recover from burnout and prevent it. Eight years into her first faculty job, she was 80 pounds overweight and exhausted. She used life coaching skills to lose 60 pounds and change how she handled work and personal relationships. She now coaches women in medicine on the same problems.
Miguel Villagra
Miguel Villagra is a physician and certified life coach who helps other physicians with burnout and career direction. He runs RevitalizeMD, a coaching program built on the Positive Intelligence mental fitness framework. It lasts 8 to 10 weeks and includes weekly group calls. He also offers PEX, a 90-day program for physicians who own or are building a practice or business.
Mark Henderson Leary
Mark Henderson Leary is an Expert EOS Implementer who helps healthcare practice owners grow their people, their practices, and themselves. He focuses on owners scaling to multiple locations. He started his first business at 27, sold it, and then ran growth strategy for the buyer. Revenue tripled in less than three years. He has worked with hundreds of companies and hosts the Practice Freedom podcast.
Dr Jo Braid
Dr Jo Braid is a burnout recovery coach and speaker who works with healthcare professionals and healthcare organisations. She is also a senior rehabilitation physician. She has delivered over 500 hours of coaching and hosts a podcast with 200+ episodes. Her work includes keynotes, workshops and leadership intensives for healthcare teams across Australia. She built her methods after going through burnout herself.
Melisa Boersma
Melisa Boersma is a certified life coach who helps women physicians and other professionals find balance in work, home and community. She is also a practicing radiation oncologist with board certifications in radiation oncology and hospice and palliative medicine. She has worked in rural, suburban and urban clinics since 2007. She was a Stanford All-American diver and co-captain of a national championship team.
Melissa Fransky
Melissa Fransky is a burnout coach who helps female physicians who feel overwhelmed and worn out. She is also a rural family physician in Canada, so she knows the job from the inside. She went through her own burnout and now coaches other doctors. Her work draws on psychology, neuroscience and coaching. She also gives talks and workshops made for physicians.
Sara Walker
Sara Walker is a family medicine doctor who coaches medical trainees through burnout. She finished residency and served as chief resident. During the COVID pandemic she became a certified life coach. She combines that training with her own time in the trenches of residency. Sessions are private, one-on-one, and held over Zoom. Many of her clients are trainees, and she keeps sessions short and low cost so they are within reach.
Clara Teo
Clara Teo is a life, executive and career coach in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. She is a former medical doctor with an MBBS degree. She writes about how coaching helps doctors who feel burnt out, and she knows the daily pressures they face. She trained with the Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching and is an Energy Leadership Index Master Practitioner. She also works with people who want to deal with the effect of trauma on chronic health.
Side by side
| Coach | Focus | Hourly rate range |
|---|---|---|
| Brian Holzer | Leadership development and Transitions and new roles | $125 to $200 an hour |
| Cecile Andreas | Physician and healthcare leaders and Leadership development | $150 to $250 an hour |
| Danielle Lombard-Sims | CEO and founder coaching and Leadership development | $150 to $300 an hour |
| Ellen Zimmerman | Leadership development and Team performance | $150 to $250 an hour |
| Emma Pineda Fortin | Executive presence and communication and Leadership development | $200 to $300 an hour |
| Epiphany Coaches | Leadership development and Team performance | $120 to $215 an hour |
| Gina Howell | Burnout and resilience and Leadership development | $150 to $240 an hour |
| Janicek Performance Group | CEO and founder coaching and Executive presence and communication | $130 to $255 an hour |
| Jodie Lowinger | CEO and founder coaching and Leadership development | $150 to $275 an hour |
| Lauren Fine | Leadership development and Transitions and new roles | $145 to $275 an hour |
| Lynn Torossian | Leadership development and Physician and healthcare leaders | $225 to $300 an hour |
| Melissa Williams-Platt | Leadership development and Team performance | $270 to $600 per hour |
| Mira Brancu | Leadership development and Women in leadership | $145 to $275 an hour |
| Nash Hassan | Leadership development and Burnout and resilience | $200 to $250 per hour |
| Nasser Khan | Physician and healthcare leaders and Strategy and decision making | $75 to $225 an hour |
Common questions
How much does an executive coach for physician and healthcare leaders cost?
Most executive coaches charge $112 to $275 per hour or session.
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Common focus areas include burnout and resilience, leadership development, transitions and new roles and team performance.
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Last updated September 2026.