Life coaches for engineers
Compare 46 life coaches. Besides their main focus, the most common focus areas are confidence and self-esteem, goal setting and accountability, purpose and direction and stress and overwhelm. They most often work with engineers, professionals and managers. Most charge $80 to $175 per hour or session.
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Dr Tarek Jomaa
Dr Tarek Jomaa is a confidence and creativity coach who works with CEOs, heads of departments, engineers and race drivers. He moved into coaching after designing race cars for the 24 Hours of Le Mans. He holds a PhD in engineering and a master's in motorsports engineering. His coaching centers on "Mastering Your Inner Game," which looks at the interferences that hold people back from their potential. He is an EMCC accredited Senior Practitioner coach and mentor.
Katherine Ferguson
Katherine Ferguson is a confidence coach and life coach. She works with professional women, solopreneurs and women in IT. She spent many years in corporate project management before coaching. She is an NLP Master Practitioner and a Positive Intelligence Coach. She also has an osteopathic background and an interest in nutrition. Her focus is helping clients gain more fun, confidence, emotional resilience, control and productivity.
Kelli Murbach
Kelli Murbach is an anxiety and communication coach who works with women and men. Her clients include artists, engineers, scientists, students over 18, and people going through life transitions. She also coaches childhood trauma survivors, people with cPTSD, LGBTQIA+ clients, and neurodiverse clients. Kelli holds a Master of Social Work and an advanced trauma recovery coaching credential. She is training in parts work. Her practice is called Grow in Any Light.
MK Boehme
MK Boehme is an accountability and business coach who runs ChooseCoaching. MK helps clients turn goals into action steps and make career and life choices that fit their plans. MK brings two decades of work with top Fortune 500 companies and holds a Board Certified Coach credential. MK also works as a redundancy coach and serves engineers, entrepreneurs, executives and startup founders.
Roxanne
She coaches leaders in manufacturing and engineering. Her work helps them build teams with high trust that get results. She also coaches people to lead their own lives by their values. She is a CTA certified coach, an author and a speaker. Her coaching aims to lift team engagement, innovation and execution.
Tyler Suzuki Nelson
Tyler Suzuki Nelson is a productivity, learning and development coach at TSN Coaching. He helps ambitious professionals who start the week strong but lose steam by Thursday. He builds work rhythms that hold up under real-world pressure. He also works on the execution gap, where clients know what to do but do not do it. His clients include software engineers, designers, managers, researchers, analysts and founders.
Presley Pizzo
Presley Pizzo is a burnout and emotional intelligence coach in Massachusetts. Presley helps people build authentic confidence at work. Clients include academics, scientists, software developers, tech workers, women in tech and writers. The work targets imposter syndrome, self-doubt and fear of failure. Presley uses three tools: Parts work for self-critical thoughts, somatic work for stress and anxiety, and emotional work for fear. Presley is a Certified Aletheia Coach.
Amritha N.
Amritha N. coaches software engineers, engineering managers and data analysts on interviews, resumes and career growth. She is a technology leader who has worked as an engineering manager at Zillow Group, a senior software engineer at Microsoft and a senior engineering lead at Oracle. She has coached 75 people. She has run 150 technical, system design and behavioral interviews at Zillow Group, and 50 at Microsoft.
Engin U.
Engin is a Senior Engineering Manager at Compass with 15+ years across GoodRx, Meta, Snap, Microsoft, Remitly, and HBO. He has conducted 300+ interviews, hired 30+ engineers, and has 187 clients on his platform.
Irene Wang
Irene Wang is a product management and life coach who helps engineers and product managers with career moves and life transitions. She spent 6 years as a software engineer, then more than 4 years as a senior product manager. She has worked at Google, Microsoft and Tencent. Irene holds an ICF ACC credential and has interviewed over 100 candidates. She is also building a startup in AI and gaming.
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.
Leonardo Fiocchi
Leonardo Fiocchi is a management consulting coach who helps people get through consulting applications and MBA applications. He has coached 20 people through case interviews and resume work. He worked in Search Fund operations and strategy, including deal scouting and due diligence at Nostos Capital. He also worked as a process engineer at Procter & Gamble. He pays special attention to engineers and people with non-traditional backgrounds.
Nathan Toups
Nathan Toups is a software engineering coach who helps engineers and teams do their best work. He started in theatre, taught himself to code, and later earned a Master's in Computer Science. He has worked as a Staff Platform Engineer, Software Architect and CTO, and has consulted with over 100 companies. He co-hosts the Book Overflow podcast, where guests have included Kent Beck and Martin Fowler. He works from Costa Rica.
Akul Loomba
Akul Loomba is a career and life coach who helps people in tech find clarity, confidence and direction. He also coaches on product management. He worked as a Product Manager II on the Microsoft Security team, on Entra ID Protection. Before that he worked as a Network Engineer at Verizon. He holds a computer science degree and is finishing a master's with a focus on machine learning.
Andrea Millinder
Andrea Millinder is an accountability and leadership coach who works with team leaders, founders and people building personal projects. She spent 20 years in leadership, operations and project management in the SaaS and technology industry. That time was spent helping start-ups and small businesses grow and scale. She earned her ICF Associate Certified Coach credential in July 2025 and holds an MBA with a focus on entrepreneurship.
Jim Hodapp
Jim Hodapp is a career and communication coach for software engineers. He works with embedded, systems, and web and cloud engineers at every career stage. He also helps people who want to switch into software. Jim has worked as a software engineer, a technical pre-sales engineer, a tech lead, and an engineering manager and director. He describes his style as part engineering manager and part applied life coach. He is based in Illinois and works with engineers around the world.
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.
Brittany J. Brown
Brittany J. Brown is a career, leadership and team coach in Mechanicsville, Virginia. She helps IT professionals who feel undervalued and want more growth, confidence and recognition at work. She holds an ICF ACC credential and has 13 years of experience working with IT professionals. She starts clients with a Growth Snapshot Assessment, then builds a plan for promotions or role changes within six months.
Brittany J. Brown
Brittany J. Brown is a career and leadership coach in Mechanicsville, Virginia. She helps IT professionals who feel undervalued build confidence and move ahead in their careers. She holds the ICF ACC credential and has 13 years of experience supporting IT professionals. Her work starts with a Growth Snapshot Assessment that maps out career opportunities. She states that 82% of her clients step into leadership roles or major career advancements after coaching.
David Mahler
David Mahler is a career and life coach in San Diego who works with IT professionals. He helps them gain clarity in their career, health and relationships. He built a process called CLARITY for IT Professionals. His own work history runs from restaurant server to IT Director, across education, health care, finance and technology. He holds a BA in Psychology and certifications in coaching, NLP, hypnosis and Reiki.
David Mahler
David Mahler, who goes by Coach Dave, is a career and life coach in San Diego, California. He helps IT professionals with their careers, health and relationships. He built a process called CLARITY for IT Professionals. His own work history runs from restaurant server to IT Director, across education, health care, finance and technology. He holds a BA in Psychology and training in NLP, hypnosis and Reiki.
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.
Rachel Daeschler
Rachel Daeschler is a career and leadership coach for engineers and technical professionals. She is also an international aerospace executive. In 2025 she left a senior executive role in Europe and moved to Canada, so she knows career change firsthand. She helps clients get clear on their next step, build leadership presence, and increase their impact at work. She trained as a coach at the Institut de Coaching International in Paris and Geneva.
Aleksandar Zeljic
Aleksandar Zeljic is a career and life coach who works with driven professionals. He helps them with burnout, career transitions and impostor syndrome. He holds a PhD in Computer Science, did postdoctoral research at Stanford, and worked as a software engineer in Silicon Valley. His coaching is built on the Psychology of Personal Constructs. He runs his practice, Constructive Spaces, online, and sessions start with the client's own experience.
Bill Lawrence
Bill Lawrence is a career and life coach who helps technology professionals. He founded Back on Track Career Coaching after a long career as an engineer and business leader. He worked in telecommunications, data networks, IT, cybersecurity and electric power distribution. He holds a Ph.D. in Electronics Engineering and an Executive M.B.A. He works with clients on job satisfaction, goals, career growth and life balance.
Claire Pennline
Claire Pennline is an executive coach who works with executives, especially those in the tech industry or in cyber security. She has over 20 years in cyber security in Europe and the US. She worked as a consultant and an industry expert, with experience in red teaming and blue teaming. She has been at Google since 2007, where she led security education, internal security policy and outreach to the security community.
Iaroslav Rybakov
Iaroslav Rybakov is a career and life coach in Montreal, Quebec. He helps millennials who are unhappy in engineering or software jobs. He guides them to build a life plan for the next 5, 10, or 20 years. He holds an M.Eng, the Project Management Professional credential, and a pilot qualification. He trained as a coach through the Concordia University Professional and Personal Coach Certification. He has also hired a purpose coach himself and later became one.
Gloriana Teh
Gloriana Teh is a leadership, career and team coach in Norcross, Georgia. She coaches leaders and technical professionals who want to advance their careers. She uses assessment tools to give clients clear insights and to build emotional intelligence. She provides DISC, Emotional Intelligence and 360 Degree assessments, and she is a Certified Harrison Assessments Provider. She is also a Positive Intelligence Coach and holds the PMP credential.
Iaroslav Rybakov
Iaroslav Rybakov is a career and life coach in Montreal, Quebec. He helps millennials who are unhappy in engineering or software jobs. He guides them to build a life plan for the next 5, 10, or 20 years. He holds an engineering master's degree and the PMP certification, and he is also a pilot. He trained as a coach at Concordia University. He has also worked with a purpose coach himself.
Johanna Rothman
Johanna Rothman coaches and consults for managers and leaders who run product development and software projects. She helps teams make decisions faster, cut overload and deliver products customers want. She offers coaching, a year-long mentoring option, a trusted advisor service and workshops. She has written many books on management, project portfolios, hiring technical people and agile teams, and she also writes fiction.
Lav Chintapalli
Lav Chintapalli is a leadership, executive and team coach in Austin, Texas. Lav helps rising leaders find their strengths and share their ideas with confidence. Lav also coaches teams and works with women in tech. Focus areas include organizational design, storytelling for influence and public speaking. Lav is also a TRE coach, which is a rare add-on for a leadership coach. Purpose coaching for life and career is part of the work too.
Malcolm
Malcolm runs Social Skydiving Academy, a dating coaching practice for men in Singapore. He helps men meet and date women with honesty and better social skills. Hundreds of clients have worked with the academy, including doctors, engineers, professionals and entrepreneurs. He was featured on Channel News Asia. The academy teaches through online courses, live bootcamps, private coaching and VIP coaching. It does not offer matchmaking.
Rachel Leeman-Munk
Rachel Leeman-Munk is a career coach who helps women working in tech. She works with them on confidence, career direction, and stress. Rachel has worked in tech as a software engineer for 9 years. She is now a full-stack senior software engineer and front-end specialist. She coaches online. Her clients want to speak up more, plan their next career step, and feel good about their work.
Ritika Rao
Ritika Rao is a career and burnout coach who works with software engineers. She is a lead software engineer with over 8 years of corporate tech experience. She has worked at Amazon and Microsoft. She has mentored interns, college students and entry level engineers. She helps new engineers learn how tech companies run, plan their career goals and build leadership skills. She also helps career changers and employees facing burnout.
Susan Schneider
Susan Schneider is a career, leadership and retirement coach in Annapolis, Maryland. She coaches clients in the arts and technical fields. Her clients include federal managers and leaders of non-profit organizations. She trained at Fielding Graduate University and holds MS and EdM degrees. In her work, she helps clients set goals, look at their options, and map out a path forward.
Jessica Tai
Jessica Tai is a career and leadership coach in New York City. She works with underrepresented people in tech, including women, non-binary people, trans people and minorities. She is an engineering manager with 11 years of experience. She helps clients move into engineering or move within it. She has written about managing remote engineering teams at Airbnb. She also spoke at a tech conference series in Australia on engineering leadership.
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.
Karen Adams
Karen Adams is a career and executive coach. She helps key members of business teams who carry heavy workloads and want room to grow. These are the experienced people others lean on for support while they also handle their own daily tasks. Karen works on stress and work-life balance. She also has training as a mediator and an NLP practitioner, and she lists architects, engineers and teams among the groups she works with.
Lyla Cookson
Lyla Cookson is a career development and mindset coach for women engineers. She helps clients stop overworking and under-advancing, and move toward a career that feels fulfilling. Her main tool is the Positive Intelligence program, which runs for 7 weeks. She also offers a negotiation guide, a compensation toolkit, and a free 5-minute quiz that shows which thought patterns hold a client back.
Justin Travis
Justin Travis is a career and executive coach for engineers. He works with engineering leaders, product managers and software engineers. Before coaching, he spent 15 years as a software engineer and leader. In that time he mentored engineers through burnout, technical challenges and career changes. He helps engineers get clear on their path, handle change with confidence and lead with more purpose.
Liubov Kaskova
Liubov Kaskova is a business and communication coach in Ukraine. She helps experts turn clarity into action. She also works with creators, entrepreneurs, employees, HR staff and people in IT. She brings system thinking from her IT background and combines it with deep listening. She looks at each client's context and patterns, and at what sits under their decisions. She holds ASPICE, CAPM and SAFe credentials.
Tiffany Lewis
Tiffany Lewis is a career coach in Toledo, Ohio. She also offers executive coaching and life coaching. Her focus is engineers and technical professionals who find it hard to present themselves well on a resume or in interviews. She runs a program called Top-Tier Interview Boot Camp. She trained in the Certified Professional Coach Program of The John Maxwell Team. She has also written articles for engineers about finding the right career match.
Cindy Esliger
Cindy Esliger is a career confidence coach and engineering mentor. She helps women in engineering and technology build the careers they want instead of settling for what they were told to accept. Her work covers speaking up for recognition, moving toward promotion, and handling workplace politics and power dynamics. She also runs a monthly coaching program called The Confidence Collective and offers a quiz that shows what holds people back at work.
Eric Brechner
Eric Brechner is a career coach in Kirkland, Washington. He works one-on-one with midcareer software professionals who are underrepresented in the field. His coaching gives clients techniques, strategies, and support to get past obstacles and reach their goals. He is based in the Seattle area. He offers a free consultation so a client can check the fit before starting to work together.
Paul Bradbeer
Paul Bradbeer is a career coach for experienced professionals who are facing change. He works with people who have built solid experience but feel their role has become maintenance instead of progress. His clients include data analysts, data engineers, data scientists, IT professionals, product managers, product owners and software engineers. He helps them find direction when the next move is not clear. He is working toward an ILM Level 5 certificate in career coaching and mentoring.
Susan Shimamura
Susan Shimamura is a leadership and team coach in Arizona. She works with new leaders who want their teams to perform better and bring more value to their organizations. Her team coaching is aimed at newly promoted engineers. She helps corporate teams find their four COs through discovery, analysis, and discussion: Cohesiveness, collaboration, communication, and co-creation.
Side by side
| Coach | Focus | Hourly rate range |
|---|---|---|
| Dr Tarek Jomaa | Confidence and self-esteem | $90 to $175 an hour |
| Katherine Ferguson | Confidence and self-esteem and Stress and overwhelm | $80 to $150 an hour |
| Kelli Murbach | Life transitions and Confidence and self-esteem | $90 to $175 an hour |
| MK Boehme | Goal setting and accountability | $80 to $160 an hour |
| Roxanne | Purpose and direction | $115 to $190 an hour |
| Tyler Suzuki Nelson | Mindset and habits and Goal setting and accountability | $80 to $140 an hour |
| Presley Pizzo | Confidence and self-esteem and Stress and overwhelm | $130 to $190 an hour |
| Amritha N. | Work-life balance and Mindset and habits | $80 to $160 an hour |
| Engin U. | Engineering leader coaching interviews and new managers | $75 to $150 an hour |
| Irene Wang | Life transitions and Purpose and direction | $100 to $175 an hour |
| Melissa Shapiro | Life transitions and Confidence and self-esteem | $225 to $300 an hour |
| Leonardo Fiocchi | Management consulting and MBA application coach | $75 to $150 an hour |
| Nathan Toups | Software engineering coach and former CTO and architect | $100 to $200 an hour |
| Akul Loomba | Purpose and direction and Confidence and self-esteem | $90 to $175 an hour |
| Andrea Millinder | Goal setting and accountability and Mindset and habits | $145 to $275 an hour |
Common questions
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Most life coaches charge $80 to $175 per hour or session.
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Common focus areas include confidence and self-esteem, goal setting and accountability, purpose and direction and stress and overwhelm.
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Last updated September 2026.