Performance coaches for engineers
Compare 7 performance coaches. Besides their main focus, the most common focus areas are athletes and sports and high performers. They most often work with engineers, managers and executives. Most charge $90 to $210 per hour or session.
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Atharva Deshmukh
Atharva Deshmukh is an MBA admissions consultant who helps applicants with school selection, essays, resumes, interviews and GRE quant prep. He has a Biomedical Engineering degree from Georgia Tech and works in medical devices and healthcare. He was admitted to Harvard Business School through the 2+2 program, and also to Kellogg and Darden. He also coaches competitive swimmers, including 2 US Olympians.
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.
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.
Suraj Sinha
Suraj Sinha is a product management coach who helps people break into product roles and grow as product leaders. He leads product analytics and data strategy at Workday and is a hiring manager there. Before that, he was a product leader at Amazon on Amazon Managed Services. He has coached 18 people. His sessions cover PM interviews, strategic thinking, executive communication, and experimentation.
Srinath Ramakrishnan
Srinath Ramakrishnan is a leadership coach in Chennai, India. He helps engineering and technology leaders, senior managers, and emerging executives handle the people side of leadership. He also coaches small business owners and entrepreneurs. He brings over three decades of senior leadership experience to his work. He uses his own 3S Coaching Model, which has three steps: Seeing, Sensing, and Shaping. He offers individual, group, team, and mentor coaching.
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.
Lars Gerull
Lars Gerull is a career and performance coach in Barcelona, Spain. He works with engineers and tech workers who feel stuck in jobs that look good on paper but feel empty. He has a mechanical engineering background and trained as a coach through The Coaching Academy in the UK. He writes about matching a career to personal values and personality. His aim for clients is clarity, confidence, and a path that fits.
Side by side
| Coach | Focus | Hourly rate range |
|---|---|---|
| Atharva Deshmukh | Athletes and sports | $70 to $150 an hour |
| Jeff Doering | Leadership coach for new managers and engineering leaders | $145 to $275 an hour |
| Don Neufeld | Leadership coach for CTOs, VPEs and engineering leaders | $175 to $325 an hour |
| Suraj Sinha | Product management coach for aspiring and current product managers | $90 to $175 an hour |
| Srinath Ramakrishnan | Leadership coach for engineering and technology leaders in Chennai | $150 to $240 an hour |
| Dr Tarek Jomaa | Athletes and sports and High performers | $90 to $175 an hour |
| Lars Gerull | Career coach for engineers and techies in Barcelona | $125 to $159 per hour |
Common questions
How much does a performance coach cost?
Most performance coaches charge $90 to $210 per hour or session.
What else do these performance coaches help with?
Common focus areas include athletes and sports and high performers.
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Last updated September 2026.