Best life coaches
The 25 best life coaches, ranked by client ratings, credentials, experience and specialization. Most charge $80 to $175 an hour.
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- 25 life coaches ranked.
- Ranked by client ratings, credentials, experience and specialization.
- Most life coaches charge $80 to $175 an hour.
The 25 best life coaches
- Brendaliz Acosta, Life and leadership coach for high-impact professionals and founders. She is a former Colgate-Palmolive operations director who now combines breathwork, NLP and hypnosis in her coaching.
- Sivan Ron, Life and leadership coach for people in career transitions. Sivan is a former military social worker who also served as Chief of Staff at Zoom.
- Arman Dolabjian, Life and executive coach with a sales enablement background. He combines ICF and Co-Active coaching certification with years of sales enablement and leadership development work at HubSpot, Udemy and LinkedIn.
- Michael Stevens, Life coach for people adjusting to a new disability. Michael coaches from personal experience of stroke recovery and living with disabilities that affect mobility and vision.
- Cathryn Peirce, Life and executive coach for founders and professionals. She coaches from real founder experience, having started three companies and served as an interim CEO.
- Mridula Patnaik, Life and resilience coach for women facing burnout and transitions. He is a resilience coach who once traded on the Madras Stock Exchange floor and later worked as a professional storyteller.
- Laura Buckles, Life and business coach for creatives and entrepreneurs. A working actor, producer and writer of 25+ years who coaches with neuroscience and nervous system tools.
- Jackie Han, Life coach for high achievers who feel stuck or disconnected. A former strategy consultant with an MIT degree who coaches high achievers who feel unfulfilled despite success.
- Sue Hedley, Coach for professional women in midlife, online or in person. Sue moved from 20+ years in corporate IT projects into coaching, and built her midlife programs around her own experience of rebuilding after burnout.
- Dan Remon, Performance and life coach for executives and business owners in Bangkok. Combines a degree in human physiology and psychology with 25 years of coaching and corporate wellness training.
- Nikki Moriarty, Life and career coach for burned out professionals and parents. Nikki is a former corporate leader who became a coach after her own burnout, and she pairs that with her experience as a working mom.
- Graham Kean, Career, leadership and relationship coach for expats in Singapore. Combines over 25 years as a coach, trainer and psychotherapist with support between sessions for expats in Singapore.
- Heidi Fossali, Life reboot and fitness coach on the French Riviera. Offers a private 5-day life reset on the French Riviera that combines coaching, fitness, health and personal style.
- Sandhya Maheshwari, Life and business coach with 25 years of guiding clients. Sandhya combines more than 20 years in banking and IT finance with 23 years in training and development and a DreamBuilder certification.
- Dawn Griswold, Life, health and fitness coach for women over 40 in New Mexico. Dawn was the first independent training contractor for the Pentagon Officers Athletic Club and coached active-duty amputees.
- Whitfield Fowler, Life coach and former hardware startup director with a Stanford PhD. A life coach who is also a Stanford mechanical engineering PhD and a four-time hardware startup director.
- Carolina Lasso, Life, career, and marketing coach with 20 years of corporate experience. She combines 20 years of corporate marketing leadership, including Google and American Express, with training as a Purpose Coach and mindfulness teacher.
- Sarah "Lady Grey" Flynn, Burnout and confidence coach for women in midlife. Sarah combines 30 years of mentoring women with a background as an arts academy owner, event producer and professional dancer.
- Christina Diggs, Strengths-based life and career coach with higher education leadership background. Christina pairs Gallup CliftonStrengths certification with years of leading student development programs in higher education.
- Elizabeth Mathieu, Life coach for people facing career change and life transitions. Made her own career switch from audit to experience strategy consulting at PwC, and is also a certified yoga instructor.
- Enid Fox, Life and relationship coach with 25 years of experience. Enid combines a psychology degree with 25 years of coaching and uses both transformational and mindful coaching styles.
- James Liter, Jungian ecotherapy and depth psychology coach in Michigan. He created Hilltending, a coaching process that combines Jungian ecotherapy with depth psychology and ties inner work to the natural world.
- Kate Stirling, Life coach for confidence, mindset and wellbeing in London. Kate combines 22 years of coaching with a working career as an actor and speaker, so she knows the creative industries firsthand.
- Ariel Díaz, Life and personal transformation coach and mentor in Argentina.
- Shannan Christiansen, Master life coach for women, with 1:1 coaching and courses. Shannan has over 30 years of coaching experience and offers both 1:1 coaching and self-paced courses built for women.
Compare them
Brendaliz Acosta
Brendaliz Acosta is a life and leadership coach who helps high-impact professionals and startup founders move past burnout and self-doubt. She spent more than 24 years in corporate work, including a director role at Colgate-Palmolive where she led manufacturing strategy for a $3B home care category. Today she runs BA Coaching & Consulting LLC and The Breathing Lab. She blends breathwork, NLP and hypnosis into her coaching to work on unconscious patterns.
Sivan Ron
Sivan Ron is a life and leadership coach who helps people in transitions. Sivan works on career, relationships and wellbeing together, not as separate topics. The path to coaching ran through volunteering with at-risk teens, social work in the military, and a Chief of Staff role at Zoom. Sivan also worked as a strategist at Salesforce. Sivan has coached for more than 15 years and holds an MBA from USC Marshall.
Arman Dolabjian
Arman Dolabjian is a life, executive, leadership and career coach. He works with people on personal and professional growth. He has coached over 100 individuals. He holds ICF and Co-Active coaching certifications. His corporate career includes roles at HubSpot, Udemy and LinkedIn, where he worked on leadership development and sales enablement. He started as a sales performance coach in 2004. He offers one-on-one and group coaching.
Michael Stevens
Michael Stevens is a life coach who helps people adjust to a new disability or medical diagnosis. He worked as a talent agent in Los Angeles and Nashville before a stroke at age 27 changed his life and career. He later held roles in marketing and strategy at C Spire and the University of Mississippi Medical Center. He holds an MBA and coaches clients on life transitions, goals, resilience and balance.
Cathryn Peirce
Cathryn Peirce is a life and executive coach who helps founders and professionals build stronger self-trust and reach big goals. She runs Mountain Tops Consulting and leads programming at the Entrepreneur House of San Diego. Before coaching, she was a three-time founder in climate fintech, consulting and fiscal literacy. She has coached 18 professionals and run 200+ hours of executive masterminds, 60 development workshops and 5 leadership retreats.
Mridula Patnaik
Mridula Patnaik is a life and resilience coach who helps women rebuild confidence and leadership after burnout and big life changes. He began as an interior designer in Chennai, then worked on the Madras Stock Exchange as a stockbroker's assistant. He later became a professional storyteller in California libraries and worked in public schools, helping young people. He now coaches women at career and purpose crossroads and holds a certification from Jay Shetty Certification School.
Laura Buckles
Laura Buckles is a life and business coach who helps creatives, entrepreneurs, small business owners and professionals handle pressure. She spent more than 25 years as a professional actor, producer and writer. She also ran digital media for the mobile app Twrrl. Her coaching uses neuroscience and nervous system regulation to build focus and steady decision making. She also offers on-camera coaching for interviews, speaking events and live performances.
Jackie Han
Jackie Han is a life coach who helps high achievers who have the career and the resume but feel stuck or disconnected. Jackie holds an MIT degree and worked in strategy consulting at a top-tier firm before turning to coaching. Jackie trained with the Co-Active Training Institute and holds the ACC credential from the International Coaching Federation. Jackie founded Vibrant Ventures Coaching and works on career, relationships, and sense of self.
Sue Hedley
Sue Hedley is an accountability and business coach for professional women in midlife. She helps them cut stress, find better work-life balance, change careers and find purpose. Sue spent 20+ years in the corporate IT project world before becoming a qualified coach. She has 25 years of coaching and mentoring experience. She offers one-to-one coaching, a group program called Midlife Your Way, and team coaching, online or face to face.
Dan Remon
Dan Remon is a performance and life coach in Bangkok who works with executives, entrepreneurs and business owners. He has coached for 25 years and been in business for 23. He holds a degree in human physiology and psychology and trained at health resorts in Thailand, India, Mexico, the UK and Europe. He also runs corporate training on resilience, energy management and self leadership, and offers a men's fitness and performance program.
Nikki Moriarty
Nikki Moriarty is a life coach who helps people dealing with burnout, stress, and overwhelm. She also offers career, executive, and leadership coaching. Nikki spent more than a decade in a high-pressure corporate job before she became a certified life coach. She hit a breaking point in April of 2019 and changed her path after that. She now uses her experience as a mom and former corporate leader to help clients rebuild their energy and purpose.
Graham Kean
Graham Kean is a career, leadership and relationship coach in Singapore. He helps expats and professionals build a clear path in work and relationships. He has more than 25 years of experience as a coach, trainer and psychotherapist. He is originally from the UK and has worked with clients from many cultures. He holds an MA in Psychosynthesis Psychology and also trains and supervises other coaches.
Heidi Fossali
Heidi Fossali is a life coach and personal trainer who helps men and women rebuild confidence, health and purpose. She has worked with clients for over 25 years. She holds ICF and NASM credentials and is a beauty and personal style consultant. She wrote the #1 Amazon bestseller From Frightened To Fabulous, which lays out an 8-step plan. She is based on the French Riviera and coaches privately worldwide.
Sandhya Maheshwari
Sandhya Maheshwari is a life and business coach who helps individuals, entrepreneurs, professionals and leaders close the gap between where they are and where they want to be. She has guided people for more than 25 years. Before that work grew, she spent over 20 years in corporate America, in banking and then in IT finance. She is a certified DreamBuilder Coach trained through the Brave Thinking Institute. She also gives workshops and keynotes.
Dawn Griswold
Dawn Griswold is a life, health and fitness coach who helps women, especially those over 40, through midlife change. She holds ICF, nutrition and personal training certifications. In the 1990s she was the first independent training contractor for the Pentagon Officers Athletic Club, where she coached military leaders and active-duty amputees. She later ran her own gym on Camano Island. She coaches in person around Albuquerque and online worldwide.
Whitfield Fowler
Whitfield Fowler, who goes by Whit, is a life coach who helps people find what matters most and set clear goals. He spent 15 years as a hardware startup director, leading engineering and operations teams at four companies. He holds a PhD and MS from the Design Division of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford. He also offers coaching on communication skills. His work draws on startup leadership, engineering training and years of travel across three continents.
Carolina Lasso
Carolina Lasso is a life, career, and marketing coach. She mentors individuals and organizations on leadership, marketing, and career growth. She has 20 years of corporate experience, including work at Google and American Express. From 2018 to 2023 she was Global Marketing Director at SIYLI. She holds an MBA in Finance and Marketing from NYU Stern and is a certified Purpose Coach. She runs her practice through Lassos, LLC.
Sarah "Lady Grey" Flynn
Sarah "Lady Grey" Flynn is a coach who helps women in midlife build confidence, find purpose, and live a more balanced life. She runs a practice called Live Outrageously. She has worked as an educator, coach and mentor to thousands of women over 30 years. Before coaching, she ran her own arts academy for 15 years and worked as a professional dancer. She offers private coaching, group mentoring and international retreats.
Christina Diggs
Christina Diggs is a life and career coach who uses the Gallup CliftonStrengths assessment to help people grow. She has nearly a decade of coaching experience alongside a career in higher education leadership. She has worked with 60+ coaching clients. She currently leads a team of 11 professionals as a Senior Director. She also piloted a seminar called "Authoring Your NYU Story" for 1,500 undergraduates.
Elizabeth Mathieu
Elizabeth Mathieu is a life coach who helps people work through change, growth, and transition. She coaches people who are questioning a career path, redefining success, or looking for more clarity and balance. Before coaching, she worked at PwC. She started in audit and then moved into experience strategy consulting. She is a Certified Professional Coach through iPEC and a certified yoga instructor. She also designed and leads the Thrive with Balance program at Boston College.
Enid Fox
Enid Fox is a life and relationship coach. She helps clients reach their goals and cope with hard relationships. She also works with people who feel stuck in their personal or work life. Enid has coached for 25 years and holds a psychology degree. She is certified through IAPRC. Her sessions use a transformational style and a mindful style. The mindful style helps clients notice their thoughts and emotions.
James Liter
James Liter is a Jungian ecotherapy and depth psychology coach. He helps people improve their relationship to their inner life and to the natural world. He has worked as an ecotherapist and Jungian coach for 25 years and has clients around the world. He holds a Ph.D. in Depth Psychology. He built his own coaching process called Hilltending. He meets clients online and at the Hilltending Campus in western Michigan.
Kate Stirling
Kate Stirling is a life coach in Soho, London who helps people build confidence, mindset, wellbeing and energy. She has coached for 22 years and has worked with hundreds of people in high performance, health, fitness and the creative industries. She is also a professional actor and speaker. She runs corporate workshops and hosts the podcast Club Thrive. Her clients are mostly actors, creatives, entrepreneurs, mums and coaches.
Ariel Díaz
Ariel Díaz is a coach, mentor and speaker in Argentina who helps people and professionals find clarity, purpose and direction. The work mixes coaching, NLP, mindfulness and neuroscience. Ariel created the Método Fénix for deep reinvention and wrote the book Renacer con Propósito. Talks and workshops have taken place in Spain and across Latin America.
Shannan Christiansen
Shannan Christiansen is a certified master life coach and the founder of BFLYCoaching. She coaches women who want to build confidence, set goals and change their lives. She has more than 30 years of coaching experience and has worked with clients around the world. Her focus areas are mindset, goal setting, self-care and relationship building. She offers 1:1 coaching and self-paced courses, including a program called Becoming Her.
Common questions
Who are the best life coaches?
The top life coaches are Brendaliz Acosta, Sivan Ron and Arman Dolabjian, ranked by client ratings, credentials, experience and specialization.
How much do the best life coaches charge?
Most life coaches charge $80 to $175 an hour.
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Last updated September 2026.