Health coaches for engineers
Compare 9 health coaches. Besides their main focus, the most common focus areas are stress and burnout, healthy habits, nutrition and healthy eating and sleep. They most often work with engineers, professionals and women. Most charge $75 to $150 per hour or session.
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Melissa E. Anders
Melissa E. Anders is a life coach who helps women in STEM break the habits that lead to burnout. She left a PhD and built a career in research strategy, where she helped raise over $50M in funding. Since 2018 she has coached hundreds of women in STEM. She also leads workshops for organizations and employee resource groups across North America. Her talk on burnout that looks like success was featured by the Association for Women in Science's Massachusetts chapter.
Jolene Hermanson
Jolene Hermanson is a stress and wellness coach for technical professionals. She helps busy engineers, geoscientists and other science and technology workers manage stress, avoid burnout and build healthy habits. She is also a Professional Geoscientist, so she knows the fields her clients work in. Her coaching covers stress triggers, task management systems, nutrition, fitness, sleep, mindset tools and a plan to grow technical skills.
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.
Stefan A.
Stefan A. is a career coach for software and infrastructure engineers. He helps senior engineers move into staff and architect roles and do well once they get there. He is a principal system software architect with over 15 years at Microsoft and Apple. He has interviewed over 100 candidates across software, firmware and architecture roles. He also mentors engineers in firmware and systems-level skills like C/C++, UEFI and cloud infrastructure.
Taru
Taru is a career and interview coach for software engineers and engineering managers. Taru spent six years as an engineering manager and lead software engineer at TCI: Teachers' Curriculum Institute. Before that, Taru interviewed more than 100 candidates at startups and at Meta, including engineers at L4 to L6 levels. Sessions cover mock interviews, resume review, career direction, and leadership challenges such as ramping up in a new role or preparing for a promotion.
Mike Saladino
Mike Saladino is a burnout and career coach who helps high performers in tech. He runs Formative Solutions in Tucson, Arizona. Before coaching, he worked as a software engineer and technical lead, and spent years in Agile coaching. He created The Persona Method, where clients give their self-doubt a name and a face. Every session ends with homework, so clients leave with a next step to take.
People Storming
People Storming offers coaching, training and workshops for leaders and teams. Its coaches work with professionals, managers, executives and entrepreneurs, with a strong focus on people in tech companies. The team also runs virtual workshops, leadership programs, team chartering, retreats and 360-degree reviews. One coach brings over 20 years of leading product-focused technology teams and began as a software developer at an ISP. Clients include engineering managers, QA leads and design managers.
Ritika Rao
Ritika Rao is a career and burnout coach for software engineers and other tech workers. She is a lead software engineer with over 8 years of corporate tech experience, including time at Amazon and Microsoft. She has mentored interns, college students and entry level engineers. She helps new engineers learn how tech companies and management levels work. She also coaches career changers and employees facing burnout.
Rachel Leeman-Munk
Rachel Leeman-Munk is a career and confidence coach for women in tech. She works one-on-one with clients on career planning, growth, and building support at work. She is also a working senior software engineer and front-end specialist. She started as a junior developer and rose to lead engineer. She trained as a coach through the Coactive Training Institute. Her client roster is currently full, and she keeps a waitlist.
Side by side
| Coach | Focus | Hourly rate range |
|---|---|---|
| Melissa E. Anders | Stress and burnout and Healthy habits | $100 to $150 an hour |
| Jolene Hermanson | Nutrition and healthy eating and Stress and burnout | $75 to $165 an hour |
| Leah Farmer | Stress and burnout | $150 to $300 an hour |
| Stefan A. | Career coach for senior engineers moving into staff and architect roles | $75 to $150 an hour |
| Taru | Interview and career coach for software engineers and engineering managers | $75 to $150 an hour |
| Mike Saladino | Stress and burnout | $125 to $200 an hour |
| People Storming | Leadership and team coaching for engineering and tech leaders | $160 to $275 an hour |
| Ritika Rao | Stress and burnout | $70 to $150 an hour |
| Rachel Leeman-Munk | Stress and burnout | $90 to $175 an hour |
Common questions
How much does a health coach cost?
Most health coaches charge $75 to $150 per hour or session.
What else do these health coaches help with?
Common focus areas include stress and burnout, healthy habits, nutrition and healthy eating and sleep.
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Last updated September 2026.