Executive coaches for tech and engineering leaders
Compare 260 executive coaches who focus on tech and engineering leaders. Besides tech and engineering leaders, the most common focus areas are leadership development, transitions and new roles, new managers and executive presence and communication. They most often work with managers, professionals and engineers. Most charge $112 to $262 per hour or session.
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Alessandro Bahgat
Alessandro Bahgat is a leadership and career coach for software engineers, tech leads, and engineering managers. He is also a working engineering leader. He is Director of Engineering at Quilt and was a Senior Engineering Manager at Google. There he led teams that built sustainable travel products. He built and launched emission labels in Google Flights, going from concept to launch in four months. He coaches on career growth, hard challenges, and leadership skills.
Art A.
Art A. is an ICF-certified career and leadership coach for tech professionals. He helps engineers, architects, product managers and tech leaders move into leadership, earn promotions and land new roles. Art started as an engineer and became a CTO and VP of Engineering at Microsoft and other Fortune 100 tech companies. He has interviewed more than 100 candidates as a hiring manager and has more than 30 years leading engineering teams.
Amie Devero
Amie Devero is a leadership and executive coach in Tampa, Florida. She works with high-performing leaders, mostly in the tech sector, who are growing an organization from small to enterprise size. She has been a strategy and organizational change consultant for over 20 years. She also led two start-up technology companies. One of them, iControl Mobile, was acquired by RingGo. She wrote the management book "Powered by Principle". She coaches clients in the US, Canada and the UK.
Angela Harris
Angela Harris is a leadership and career coach who helps Black women find clarity, confidence, and alignment at work. She spent more than twenty years in technology roles at Fortune 500 companies. She coaches clients on getting seen, building sponsor networks, and moving up. She also holds a PMP and is an Energy Leadership Index Master Practitioner. She has written a chapter in the book A Legacy To Share.
Anton Drukh
Anton Drukh is a tech executive mentor in Vancouver, Canada. He helps CTOs and VPEs of engineering grow their organizations and lead well as AI changes the field. He has worked with more than 100 leaders and held more than 1,200 mentoring sessions over 5 years. His clients come from engineering teams at companies such as Dynamic Yield, Cymulate, Aidoc and Melio. He also works on the people side of the CTO role.
Apurva Garware
Apurva Garware is a product management coach who works with founders and product leaders. She has 17 years of experience and has led P&Ls of more than $300M. She shipped products at Amazon, Microsoft and Upwork. She most recently served as Chief Product Officer at Invisible Technologies, an AI-native scale-up. Her coaching covers product strategy, building with AI, and clear one-slide storytelling for boards and teams.
Atul Thapliyal
Atul Thapliyal is an AI strategy coach who helps consultants, product leaders and executives plan and run enterprise AI programs. He is a Senior Managing Consultant at IBM with more than 14 years of experience leading AI work for Fortune 50 clients. He led a 38-person GenAI Factory and rolled out agentic AI platforms to over 70,000 users. He also holds 2 US patents in AI and machine learning.
Aviv Ben-Yosef
Aviv Ben-Yosef is an advisor to CTOs, VPs of Engineering and other tech executives. He helps them build engineering orgs that are worth more than they cost. He works inside the tech org, with Product, and at the executive table. His client list includes Tabnine, Armis and Gloat. He wrote two books, The Tech Executive Operating System and Capitalizing Your Technology. He is based in Rome, Italy.
Bikram Gupta Sarma
Bikram Gupta Sarma is an executive and emotional intelligence coach who works with technology leaders, technology startups and companies looking for growth. He has three and a half decades in technology. He was a Vice President at Oracle for multiple products and led global operations teams in 6 countries. He has also founded multiple companies and managed teams of 3000 people. He holds an ICF ACC credential.
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.
Bryce Englin
Bryce Englin is a leadership and executive coach in Troy, Ohio. He helps mid-to-senior leaders remove career derailers, handle transitions, and build high-trust teams. He uses Hogan personality assessments and systems thinking based on Deming and Covey. Bryce has over 30 years in institutional leadership and defense acquisition. He is also a PhD student in Organization and Management with a focus on executive coaching.
CTO Craft
CTO Craft coaches and mentors CTOs and senior engineering leaders. Its coaches are experienced CTOs. It offers one-to-one coaching and small monthly Mentoring Circles. It also runs a community of over 18,000 tech leaders, with conferences, Mixers and online events. Clients lead in start-ups, scale-ups, enterprises and non-profits, or work toward senior technology roles. Sessions run online or at the client's workplace.
Charu Agrawal
Charu Agrawal is a product management and executive coach who helps tech leaders, founders and parents with their careers and their lives outside work. Charu is a Senior Director of Product Management at Salesforce, where the work centers on Missionforce, a business unit for defense, aerospace and national security. Earlier years were spent leading teams at Microsoft. Coaching sessions run peer to peer, mixing a product leader's analytical mindset with a supportive style.
Dana Pylayeva
Dana Pylayeva is an executive and business coach who works with individuals, teams and organizations on leadership. She is an ICF Professional Certified Coach and a Scrum Alliance Certified Enterprise Coach. She also designs agile games, including "DevOps with Lego and Chocolate." She knows the Agile and DevOps space well. She has worked with remote teams and clients in the US, Canada, UK, Ireland, Japan and India.
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.
Don Neufeld
Don Neufeld is an executive coach for CTOs, VPs of Engineering and other engineering leaders. He spent more than twenty years running engineering teams before he started coaching. He was the Founding CTO of Medium and a VP of Engineering at ClassPass and Chartboost. He built and led teams of up to 125 engineers spread around the world. He gives direct advice based on his own operating experience, not only questions.
Edward Taylor
Edward Taylor is a CTO coach and mentor for early-stage engineering leaders. He helps Series A and B tech teams grow from one team to many while building strong leaders. He is an exited founder who has held Director, VP, interim CTO and fractional roles. He has grown teams from 8 to 40 and mentored dozens of engineering leaders. His clients are mostly in the UK and US.
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.
Emma Brillhart
Emma Brillhart is a leadership coach for engineering managers and senior individual contributors. She is a Senior Engineering Manager at Honeycomb, where she leads the App Observability team. Over the past decade she has built and led engineering teams at companies from pre-seed to Series D, including Zapier, MainStreet and Endgame. She has managed through reorgs, layoffs and rapid scaling. She also builds AI tools for her own management work and coaches others on using them.
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.
Harrison Wheeler
Harrison Wheeler is a design mentor and leadership coach who helps designers grow into leaders and move up in their careers. He has more than 15 years in design across startups and large companies. He spent seven years at LinkedIn leading design for Marketing Solutions and grew the team from 6 to 26. He also hosts the Technically Speaking podcast and speaks at Figma Config, SmashingConf, and ConveyUX.
Jean Hsu
Jean Hsu is a startup engineering leader who coaches engineering leaders and tech professionals one on one. Jean also works as a fractional VP of Engineering for early-stage startups. Jean began a career at Google and then spent 15 years at startups, including Pulse and Medium. Jean later served as VP of Engineering at Range and Productable. Jean co-founded Noodle Labs, which gives startups embedded leadership support.
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.
Jonika Hoomes
Jonika Hoomes is an executive coach who works with senior executives, founders and leadership teams. She founded Integralis Leadership in 2023 after 19 years in Big Tech. As GM of the Automotive vertical, she grew the business from $30M to $1B. She later served as Chief of Staff for a 3,000-person engineering organization. Her coaching mixes questions with hands-on strategic work on real business challenges.
Joseph Bird
Joseph Bird is an executive coach who works with tech leaders and engineers. He is also an Executive Director at Disney Streaming, where he leads a global software engineering team of 90+ people. Before that he was a Vice President at Goldman Sachs, where he built the platform behind Apple Card and Marcus. He holds an AI patent and trained in Co-Active coaching. He helps leaders who are stuck, burned out, or unsure of their next move.
Jossie Haines
Jossie Haines is an executive and engineering leadership coach. She helps engineering directors, VPs, and CTOs manage with empathy and build inclusive teams. She spent over 22 years in tech, with management roles at Apple, Tile, Zynga, and American Express. At Tile she was VP of Software Engineering and Head of DEI, and she grew the engineering team from 29 to 55 in 5 months. At Apple she led the Siri music team during HomePod development.
Julie Chatman
Julie Chatman is a cybersecurity and executive coach who helps IT and security leaders step into high-stakes roles. She is a senior technology executive with 20+ years of experience. She has advised boards, executives and regulators in government, healthcare, pharmaceuticals and financial services. Her background includes the FBI, global consulting and CISO roles. She also served as Deputy CISO for Finance for the Commonwealth of Virginia in 2025.
Justin Henriksen
Justin Henriksen is an executive coach and business advisor who helps CEOs and their teams scale software and SaaS companies. He has more than 20 years of experience in SaaS, AI, services and line-of-business software. He led a team of consultants at Microsoft and later served as CEO of several companies. In 2024 he left the CEO role to run Fenix Venture full time. He helps leaders grow their companies and themselves at the same time.
Keith Corbin
Keith Corbin is an executive coach who works with tech leaders at the Director and VP level. He also coaches founders and C-level leaders. Keith spent over 25 years leading engineering, product and business development teams before he became a coach. He is also a former jazz musician and software engineer. His coaching helps leaders see their habits and test their assumptions so they can handle complex challenges. He is based in Massachusetts.
Ken Gavranovic
Ken Gavranovic is an executive coach and strategy consultant who works with CEOs, founders, COOs, CPOs, CTOs, GMs and their leadership teams. He is based in Alpharetta, Georgia. Before coaching, he founded a company and led it through a Nasdaq IPO. He was also an EVP at New Relic and a VP at Cox Automotive. He spent a decade as a managing partner at a venture firm and sat on boards across 35 deals and 18 exits.
Keshawn Hughes
Keshawn Hughes is a neurocoach and NeuroLeadership consultant who coaches leaders on burnout, confidence and influence. She founded NeuroSavvy, a brain-based framework for leadership growth. Keshawn has helped hundreds of leaders reach their goals. She also consults for HR and DEI teams in tech and for government agencies. Her speaking clients include Intuit, Fullscript, Georgia Tech and Purdue University. She holds a Master's degree in Strategic Communication.
Kim Jones
Kim Jones is an executive leadership and career coach who works with professional women, leaders and women in tech. She also advises companies on gender equity. Before coaching, she spent 25 years in corporate roles. She was divisional CIO and SVP of Information Technology at Farmers Insurance Company, where she led teams of over 1,000 people. She holds an MBA and has a background in cultural anthropology. She also speaks and runs workshops.
Kim Surko
Kim Surko is an executive coach and strategic advisor who works with leaders and executives. Kim spent 20 years as a marketing and tech executive, including a role as Chief Experience Officer at Flowcode. Kim mixes coaching with direct consulting when a client needs it. Kim's focus is the move from functional leader to business leader. Some former CEOs know Kim as The Velvet Hammer.
LaKeisha Lovett
LaKeisha Lovett is a career and leadership coach who helps high-achieving professionals move from individual contributor to people-first leader. She spent 20 years leading experience design and service strategy at Fortune 50 companies, working on digital products used by millions. She mixes human-centered design with human-centered leadership. She also founded Flourish Experience Lab, a career readiness, wellness, and leadership brand.
Lainie Bradley
Lainie Bradley is a product management and executive coach who works with tech leaders, founders, operators and emerging leaders. She has over 15 years in product management and held leadership roles at Dropbox and Zillow. She also teaches at Product School. Her coaching centers on clarity, decision making and building careers that last. She also practices yoga and meditation and brings that calm focus into her sessions.
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.
Laura Tacho
Laura Tacho is an engineering leadership coach. She coaches CTOs, VPs of Engineering and engineering managers, and she also trains engineering leadership teams. She is the CTO at DX, a developer intelligence platform, and co-author of the Core 4 developer productivity metrics framework. She held leadership roles at CloudBees, Aula Education and Nova Credit. Her coaching uses data and evidence to help leaders manage, measure and scale their engineering orgs. She is based in Austria.
Leah Farmer
Leah Farmer is a coach for people who build things in tech. She works with product managers, engineers, designers, founders and the leaders around them. She has 25 years of experience building products and leading teams, including at Amazon, Expedia and two Sequoia-backed startups. She still works as a fractional CPTO at a travel startup. She coaches online from Cardiff, Wales, and also offers separate EFT tapping sessions for stress and anxiety.
Lena Reinhard
Lena Reinhard is an engineering leadership coach and organizational advisor in Berlin, Germany. She helps executives, senior managers and technical leaders grow in their roles. She also coaches people on public speaking. Before coaching, she was a SaaS co-founder and CEO, and a VP Engineering at startups and scale-ups. She also runs offsite workshops, team development and group training for newer leaders and people managers.
Linda S.
Linda S. is a tech leadership and executive coach based in Ireland. She helps tech professionals and managers with career pivots, high-stakes interviews and leadership growth. She spent 23+ years in Big Tech, including 12 years at Google and over 5 years at Indeed. She has coached 300+ clients and 120+ sales leaders. She also ran 100+ interviews at Google for senior Cloud and Large Customer Sales roles.
Marta Simeonova
Marta Simeonova is an executive and career coach who helps busy leaders and managers cut through overwork and overwhelm. She spent 15 years in Human Resources and eight of those years leading global teams. She managed people from 25 countries and built processes for tens of thousands of employees. Her clients are middle and senior managers in software development, clinical trials, IT, logistics, and outsourcing. She is based in Bulgaria.
Martin Slaney
Martin Slaney is a product leadership and innovation coach. He helps founders, product leaders and product managers. He works as a product strategy consultant for some of the world's largest brands. He co-founded the fintechs Openwage and Dabbl. He has also served as CPO at construction tech firm Asite and at fintech GFT, which City Index acquired. He mentors for the accelerator Mass Challenge and teaches with General Assembly.
Matte Scheinker
Matte Scheinker is a product management coach who helps product and design leaders. Since 2020, he has coached 100+ leaders around the world, from first-time leaders to seasoned CPOs. He spent 20+ years building product teams at Yahoo, AOL, Hightail, FutureAdvisor and Lyra Health. He also builds and ships AI products with Claude Code and LLMs, so he stays hands-on with the tools he recommends.
Melanie Harris
Melanie Harris is a leadership and executive coach who helps technically focused clients. She comes from engineering, program management and executive leadership. She focuses on change management and strategic planning. She works as a Senior Director of Engineering and Program Management at Aerin Medical, where she was promoted to lead strategic planning within her first year. She also coaches careers on the Join A Crew platform and has lived through the ups and downs of startup leadership.
Melissa Shapiro
Melissa Shapiro is a life, career and executive coach based in Seattle, Washington. She helps people at transition points feel less alone and more confident. Her clients include senior executives, new front-line managers, technical leaders and parents returning from leave. She spent over 20 years in talent development at large multinational companies and started in engineering and product roles. She also lived and worked in Asia for 2 years and co-founded Together We.
Michelle Sullivan
Michelle Sullivan is an executive coach who works with startup founders and business leaders. She has 25 years of experience in technology and business, including roles at Intel, Nike, DIRECTV, Chevron and The Honest Company. She was a COO and acting CEO of a San Francisco startup before she went out on her own in 2014. She also taught as an Adjunct Professor in the UCLA MBA program. She is ICF qualified and takes on a small number of clients.
Mike Tamayo
Mike Tamayo is a leadership coach who helps people step into leadership roles and grow as established leaders. He spent 28 years in technology as an engineer, leader, and coach. He has worked with more than 60 leadership coaching clients. He once led a coaching program where he coached the coaches. At another company he started a leadership roundtable. He was a musician before he worked in tech, and he brings that creative side to his sessions.
Ming Chen
Ming Chen is an executive and career coach and the founder of Nebula Coaching. She works with women and BIPOC executives in tech who are stuck in the margins of the workplace or facing a career pivot. Before coaching, she was Director of Global Product Partnerships at Twitter. She also took startups to acquisition 3 times, with buyers Comcast, Oracle and Akamai. She teaches as a Women-in-Management Facilitator at Stanford GSB.
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.
Nathan Tanner
Nathan Tanner is an executive coach who works with high-impact leaders and operators. He was VP of People at Neighbor and spent 4.5 years at DoorDash as the first head of people operations, growing the company from 250 to 5,000+ employees. At DoorDash he built the first leadership development program and coached more than half of the executive team. He has coached 100+ executive clients and wrote the career book Not Your Parents' Workplace.
Nicci Arsenault
Nicci Arsenault is an executive and career coach with a human resources background in tech. She has spent more than 15 years at fast-growing companies, including Facebook, GitHub, Cribl, Replicate and ElevenLabs. She rose from HR business partner to Chief People Officer. At Replicate she led the people side of the acquisition by Cloudflare. At ElevenLabs she led People and Talent through a quarter with 219 hires.
Nikola Maras
Nikola Maras is a certified life and business coach and breathwork coach in Croatia. He helps tech professionals raise their energy, sleep better, and avoid burnout while they lead. He also works with entrepreneurs and managers who want less stress and more focus. His program runs 12 weekly Zoom sessions of 2 hours each, with WhatsApp contact between sessions. He uses the Positive Intelligence program with clients.
Patrick Mork
Patrick Mork is an executive coach who works with CEOs and senior leaders. He is a former CMO at Google Play and holds an MBA from INSEAD. He helps leaders with AI transformation, first-time CEO roles, life after an exit, and growth during a crisis. He uses his own 360 leadership diagnostic called Mork MIrror. He is based in Miami and coaches in four languages.
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.
Sarah Stokes
Sarah Stokes is an executive and career coach who works with leaders and teams in tech and design. She spent over 20 years leading teams at Atlassian, Westpac and Domain. She holds a Master's in Business Coaching and has coached for more than 1,250 hours. She focuses on human and AI collaboration, influence, and senior leaders moving into fractional or portfolio careers.
Sarah Williams
Sarah Williams is a leadership coach who helps high-achieving women in tech get recognized and promoted. She spent 15+ years in tech before coaching, moving from systems analysis into senior leadership. At Atlassian, she led AI and data programs that delivered over $7M in support cost avoidance. She works with senior individual contributors and managers in male-dominated workplaces on visibility, executive presence, and clear communication.
Sasha Ashpis
Sasha Ashpis is an engineering leadership coach who works with founders, engineering managers and individual contributors. Sasha has 20+ years of Silicon Valley experience, including 13+ years as an individual contributor and 7+ years as a people leader. Career stops include being the first hire at a seed funded startup and being part of an acquisition by Salesforce. Most of the work has been with Series A and B companies. Sasha also serves as a fractional engineering leader for startups.
Shawn Yates
Shawn Yates is an executive and leadership coach for technology and R&D leaders. He works with people at every level, from new college grads to senior executives and entrepreneurs. He has coached for 15 years and worked 25 years in research and development. His past roles include engineer, VP of engineering and director of Agile coaching. He is based in Cumming, Georgia. He also runs ClueControl, a company that makes escape room games and software.
Sibylle Tretera
Sibylle Tretera is a leadership and career coach who works with leaders at innovative tech companies. She spent 15 years leading international teams at Google and Pinterest across Europe and Latin America. She managed portfolios worth more than $215M. Her clients include leaders at DeepMind, LinkedIn and Reddit. She also serves as CFO and Board Trustee at artsdepot in London, and she brings a neurodivergent-informed view to leadership work.
Sowmya Kannan
Sowmya Kannan is a leadership coach who helps midlevel and senior leaders build executive presence and stronger teams. She founded Pellucid Communications in March 2023. She has coached leaders at Google and at startups in engineering, sales, finance and professional services. She also mentors founders at the Stanford GSB LISA accelerator on product and go-to-market strategy. She holds CPCC and ICF ACC coaching credentials.
Stephan Schmidt
Stephan Schmidt is a CTO coach who helps CTOs, VPs of Engineering and engineering managers with hard leadership problems. He has 25 years of experience as an engineering manager. He has run 1200+ sparring and coaching sessions with 100+ CTOs. He is a 3x founder with an exit, and he worked at eBay and ImmobilienScout24. He coaches in English and German.
Tim Inman
Tim Inman is a coach for software engineers and engineering managers. He spent 15 years leading engineering teams at Facebook, LinkedIn, and Pinterest before he left corporate leadership to coach. He helps clients step into management, influence across teams, and talk with senior leaders. His style is structured, direct, and free of judgment.
Vanessa Kafka
Vanessa Kafka is a product management coach who helps PMs and product leaders grow their scope and lead at the executive level. She has 15+ years in consumer marketplaces. She was VP of Product at Eventbrite and SVP of Product Management at KAYAK, where she led 40 PMs and designers. She also coaches engineers, designers, researchers and operators who want to think like product leaders.
Vicky Regan
Vicky Regan is an executive and leadership coach who helps professional women in business and technology grow as leaders. She holds PCC and CEC credentials and has 25 years of leadership experience in business and technology. She works with women on communication confidence, imposter syndrome, limiting beliefs and personal brand. She also coaches job seekers, runs small group cohorts, and offers workshops for teams. She sets aside 15% of her coaching services for pro bono and discounted sessions.
Vishal Sharma
Vishal Sharma is a leadership and executive coach in Bangalore. He helps seasoned leaders and professionals grow their careers, gain visibility, and lead with confidence. He is a former Intel Director with 26 years of leadership experience in tech. He built teams from the ground up and led global programs. He is trained in Mind-Kinetics Power Coaching and also coaches on life topics like confidence and stress.
Ada Chen Rekhi
Ada Chen Rekhi is an executive coach who works with startup founders and tech executives. She helps founders grow their own skills as their teams grow. She is also co-founder and COO of Notejoy, a notes app, and still works in that role every day. Because of this, she takes only a very small number of active clients. Her background covers entrepreneurship, marketing leadership and coaching in Silicon Valley.
Adam Thomas
Adam Thomas is an executive and leadership coach who helps product managers and product teams make better decisions. He started as a founder of a gaming news site and later built a startup that linked people to video game careers. He also speaks and writes on product topics, and he created Survival Metrics, a roadmap for deciding when to push, pivot, or stop.
Andrea Altier
Andrea Altier is a leadership and business coach in Norway who works with tech leaders and online entrepreneurs. She brings over 20 years of experience in the tech industry. She holds ACC and CPCC coaching credentials. Her coaching mixes leadership strategy with psychological astrology and guided meditations. She offers one-on-one sessions and monthly group coaching, online or in person. She coaches in Norwegian, English and Spanish.
Brian Branagan
Brian Branagan is a communication and leadership coach for busy leaders and high-potential employees. He teaches people to speak up, be heard, and get results. Before coaching, he spent more than 25 years as a technology manager at Adobe, Getty Images, RealNetworks and F5 Networks. He is a certified Conversational Intelligence coach and an ECHO Listening Intelligence practitioner. He also works with global teams to close communication gaps caused by virtual distance.
Cindy Gross
Cindy Gross is a leadership coach who helps high-capacity leaders in tech, including women and underestimated leaders. She founded Befriending Dragons and draws on more than 25 years of tech and leadership experience. Her work covers burnout, boundaries, workplace politics and high-stakes decisions. She built the Leadership Navigation System, a structured method for handling friction at work. She also offers workshops and cohorts for organizations that want to keep their top leaders.
David Fung
David Fung is an executive coach who helps leaders think clearly, make decisions with confidence, and lead well under pressure. He spent 23 years in tech, including 14 years leading Solution Engineering teams at Salesforce. He started Coachful Coaching in January 2023. He works with executives, founders, and high-potential managers. He is ICF-certified and hosts the Coachful Coaching Leadership Podcast.
Diana Stepner
Diana Stepner is a product management and leadership coach who helps ambitious product leaders grow. She spent over 20 years building and leading global product teams before she moved into coaching. Her career includes startups like E.piphany, Cheapflights and SimplePractice, and larger firms like Salesforce, Monster and Pearson. She is a Silicon Valley native. Her coaching draws on her own experience of moving from being the team "fixer" to a leader who asks questions.
Esther Derby
Esther Derby is a leadership coach who works with leaders at all levels, from team leads and managers to those running a department or enterprise. She helps them build settings where people and teams do good work. Her coaching draws on systems thinking and organizational change. She has spoken professionally since 2000 and has given keynotes in the US and around the world. She also offers a self-paced online workshop on self-leadership. She is based in Minnesota.
Janet Kim
Janet Kim is a leadership and career coach in Menlo Park, California. She helps emerging leaders, mid-career professionals and executives think strategically, build influence and act with confidence. Before coaching, she spent 19 years in technology leadership at Stanford, where she led initiatives and worked across diverse teams. She holds the Senior Professional Career Coach credential. Her work centers on career roadmap, leadership presence, voice and personal brand.
Jay Floyd
Jay Floyd is a leadership coach for technical managers who moved into people leadership. He is a former Engineering Manager, Data Platforms at Zapier, with 15+ years in data engineering and technical leadership. He has coached 60+ leaders and professionals, many in tech and high-growth companies. His clients build a People Leadership OS, a leadership system shaped by how they think, communicate, decide and handle pressure.
Jill Wetzler
Jill Wetzler is a team and leadership coach who helps managers and leaders build strong, high-performing teams. She has 20 years of experience in high-growth Silicon Valley tech companies. She works as a facilitator, advisor and executive coach. She offers one-on-one and group coaching, fractional work and workshops. She works online and in person with clients worldwide, often in San Francisco, New York City and London.
Johanna Rothman
Johanna Rothman coaches and consults for leaders, managers and teams who run product development and software projects. She helps them cut slow decisions, stop multitasking and use agile and lean ideas at every level of the organization. She wrote the Modern Management Made Easy books and Manage It!, and she writes the Pragmatic Manager newsletter. She also offers workshops, keynotes and a trusted advisor service.
Ken Norton
Ken Norton is an executive coach for product leaders. He works with people who hold the most senior product role at their company. He also writes and speaks about product management and product leadership. His blog, Bring the Donuts, holds essays on topics like hiring product managers and long-term product vision. Coaching runs for a minimum of six months. His clients include product leaders at Asana and Whole Foods Market.
Limor Bergman Gross
Limor Bergman Gross is an executive and leadership coach for women in tech. She helps women engineers and tech leaders gain visibility, influence and promotion. Before coaching, she was a Director of Engineering at DigitalOcean and spent over 20 years in tech. She works one-on-one with clients and also offers team coaching and speaking. She takes a limited number of one-on-one clients each quarter.
Lulu Cheng
Lulu Cheng is an executive coach who works with founders and leaders at startups. Lulu also coaches highly sensitive people. Before coaching, Lulu spent a decade as a product leader and team manager at Dropbox and Pinterest. Lulu helped both companies grow fast and go through an IPO. Most of Lulu's clients lead seed stage through series C startups. Lulu also runs founder forums where founders meet often to support each other.
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| Coach | Focus | Hourly rate range |
|---|---|---|
| Alessandro Bahgat | Leadership development and Tech and engineering leaders | $100 to $175 an hour |
| Art A. | New managers and Leadership development | $145 to $275 an hour |
| Amie Devero | CEO and founder coaching and Leadership development | $500 to $700 per hour |
| Angela Harris | Women in leadership and Executive presence and communication | $160 to $275 an hour |
| Anton Drukh | Tech and engineering leaders and Leadership development | $120 to $210 an hour |
| Apurva Garware | Leadership development and Tech and engineering leaders | $100 to $175 an hour |
| Atul Thapliyal | Leadership development and Strategy and decision making | $125 to $200 an hour |
| Aviv Ben-Yosef | Tech and engineering leaders and Team performance | $100 to $200 an hour |
| Bikram Gupta Sarma | CEO and founder coaching and Leadership development | $130 to $225 an hour |
| Brad Schwartz | Tech and engineering leaders and Leadership development | $100 to $200 an hour |
| Bryce Englin | Leadership development and Team performance | $225 to $300 an hour |
| CTO Craft | Leadership development and Tech and engineering leaders | $160 to $250 an hour |
| Charu Agrawal | New managers and Leadership development | $100 to $175 an hour |
| Dana Pylayeva | Leadership development and Team performance | $150 to $250 an hour |
| Dave Bailey | CEO and founder coaching and Leadership development | $150 to $265 an hour |
Common questions
How much does an executive coach for tech and engineering leaders cost?
Most executive coaches charge $112 to $262 per hour or session.
What else do these executive coaches help with?
Common focus areas include leadership development, transitions and new roles, new managers and executive presence and communication.
Prices and research
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Other focus areas
Last updated September 2026.