Performance coaches for managers
Compare 59 performance coaches. Besides their main focus, the most common focus areas are high performers, peak performance at work, athletes and sports and mental toughness. They most often work with managers, executives and professionals. Most charge $90 to $210 per hour or session.
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Samantha Wines
Samantha Wines is a performance, leadership and life coach in Deerfield Beach, Florida. She helps high-performing professionals get through major transitions and keep their careers going without losing their health or relationships. Her whole career has been in sales, in both corporate leadership and her own ventures. She now runs One Shift, where she works with first responders, emerging leaders and busy professionals. She combines coaching with yoga, nutrition and wellness practices.
Deborah Jordan
Deborah Jordan is a performance, career and business coach in Johannesburg, South Africa. She helps people who want a change, a new direction and a stronger sense of purpose. She is a former senior executive and a Gallup Certified Strengths Coach. Her sessions use the online Gallup assessment and report. She works with graduates, female entrepreneurs and new managers, and she coaches remotely on Teams and Zoom.
Loreta Vatamanu
Loreta Vatamanu is a performance, leadership and career coach in Bucharest, Romania. She works one-on-one with early leaders, mid-level managers and seasoned professionals who are at career checkpoints. Her clients want clarity, confidence and a real plan to move forward. She has written articles on coaching middle managers, managing former peers after a promotion and building leadership presence. She is an ICF member, a CIPD associate and a Design Thinking facilitator.
Victoria Canham
Victoria Canham is a performance, leadership and career coach in Reading, England. She works one-to-one with mid to senior-level professionals who have had a major setback. Her aim is to help them rebuild confidence, get past obstacles and do well in their careers. She is also an accredited civil and commercial mediator, and she holds the Energy Leadership Index Master Practitioner and DiSC Practitioner credentials.
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.
Sarah L.
Sarah L. is a career and executive coach for operations managers, product operations managers, program managers, and strategy and operations managers. She is an Olympian who now works as a Director of Strategy and Operations at Abnormal AI. She has coached leaders from Amazon, Salesforce, LinkedIn, Oracle, and McKinsey for high-stakes interviews and leadership roles. She uses performance principles from her Olympic career to help clients communicate well and do their best under pressure.
Tanya Spencer
Tanya Spencer is an executive and leadership coach in Gotha, Florida. She helps leaders move toward the C-Suite and handle tough business challenges. She co-owns Build Lead Succeed LLC and has a 31-year career. She spent four years in Nigeria growing markets for GE Oil & Gas. She also served as Chief Diversity Officer for GE Gas Power, leading inclusion work for 20,000 employees across more than 70 countries.
Tenji Moyana
Tenji Moyana is an accountability and burnout coach who works with high-growth executives, managers and ambitious professionals. Tenji helps clients lead high-performance teams, move into senior roles and find more meaning in their careers. Tenji is a Certified Integral Coach and worked at McKinsey & Company, Massmart, J.P. Morgan and Harvard University. In those roles, Tenji advised C-suite executives on corporate strategy, talent performance and capital investments. Tenji is based in South Africa.
Aimee G.
Aimee G. is a career and executive coach who helps professionals and leaders with interviews, career transitions, and performing with confidence. She spent 14 years at Amazon as a global HR leader and Bar Raiser. She has conducted 700+ interviews across roles from early career to senior leadership. She held HR roles in Ireland and Luxembourg and most recently led as Senior Manager of Global HR Transformation. She coaches clients globally.
Alex L Vessey
Alex L Vessey is an anxiety and confidence coach. Alex works with individuals, employees, managers and entrepreneurs who want to clear the blocks that hold them back. Alex has coached over 1,900 clients face to face across 6,200 sessions. Clients have ranged from school-leavers to CEOs, and one came home with a Team GB medal. The main focus now is workplace and performance anxiety, confidence, problem solving, social and relationship anxiety, and panic attacks.
Clara Musama
Clara Musama is a leadership and career coach in Lusaka, Zambia. She helps new leaders and people changing careers build clarity, confidence and practical skills. Before coaching, she spent 25+ years in the African energy sector, including 10 years in executive leadership in investor relations, business development and change management. She has coached leaders and teams across Africa, Eastern Europe and the Middle East. She runs a program for leaders in a new role.
Coach KTalk
Coach KTalk is an executive coach in Dubai who works with mid-level managers, new leaders and senior employees. They help clients raise their performance through mentoring and coaching. Coach KTalk has over 25 years of management and leadership experience across Asia and the Middle East, built on a background in engineering. They also wrote a book called The Executive Fix, a guide to leadership presence, decision-making and career growth. They have logged 100+ coaching hours.
Gregory Pal
Gregory Pal is an executive coach who helps leaders grow their clarity, confidence and influence. He has spent more than 25 years leading teams, products and strategy in technology and energy companies. Today he is VP of Product at Mainspring Energy. He is an ICF-certified coach and a marathoner. He coaches part time in his off-hours and works with people where he can make the biggest difference.
Jeff Porter
Jeff Porter is a business and entrepreneurship coach in Alexandria, Virginia. He helps entrepreneurs, business owners and managers solve complex business problems. He has worked with small and medium-sized businesses in Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong and the USA for several decades. He once helped an electronic service and manufacturing company grow from 5 people to over 100 in five years. His focus is strategic and operational planning and continuous improvement.
Jose Dominguez
Jose Dominguez is an executive coach who works with BIPOC leaders. He spent 16 years in the not-for-profit sector as a CEO, COO, Major Gifts Officer, and Board Chair. He also trained as an actor at NYU Tisch School of the Arts and worked five years as a professional performer. He brings voice, gesture, and body work into his coaching. He holds a PCC certification and coaches in English and Spanish.
Michael Cooper
Michael "Coop" Cooper founded High Performance Organizations (HPO), a firm that offers executive coaching and leadership development. HPO works with founders, executives, managers and high-potential leaders. In 27 years, the firm has coached more than 3,000 leaders and trained more than 150,000 employees in 37 countries. Every engagement tracks results at baseline, 90 days and 180 days. Clients have included leaders at PayPal, Lattice, Imperfect Foods, Baton, Cellares and Boeing.
Rajesh Hari
Rajesh Hari is an executive and performance coach in Dubai. He helps senior managers move up to Director roles. He is a former VP at Accenture and a former Director at Cognizant. He runs a 6-month program called Vigilant OS. His clients come from Aramco, ADNOC, Accenture and Big 4 firms. He has coached 55+ senior managers into Director roles.
Shelly Lyons
Shelly Lyons is an ADHD and life coach in New Hampshire. She also coaches autistic and dyslexic adults. She works with individuals, groups and couples, plus parents, partners and managers of neurodivergent people. She has 20+ years in HR leadership, disability programs, education, technology and life sciences. She is a former college athlete and coaches current and former competitive athletes. She learned she had ADHD at age 39.
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.
Vandana Sharma
Vandana Sharma is a leadership and executive coach in Hyderabad. She works one-to-one with women entrepreneurs, professionals and managers who feel mentally exhausted. She spent 15 years in HR and Talent Development in Ireland, the UK and India. She built teams from 1 to 300+ people and led HR through a company closing down from 300 people to zero. She founded LeadNorth Consulting and uses the Leadership Circle Profile 360 assessment in her work.
Vanessa Chan
Vanessa Chan is a personal performance and corporate executive coach who helps people build a growth mindset and handle challenges at work and in life. She runs MINDFLOSS. Before coaching, she held global leadership roles at adidas and Burberry across Hong Kong, Shanghai, Switzerland and London. She has lived through frequent role changes, redundancies, relocations and leadership changes, and she uses that experience with clients. Her sessions use goal-based work.
Wendy Bouwman
Wendy Bouwman is a confidence and emotional intelligence coach who works with senior leaders, executives and leadership teams. She has more than 25 years of experience as a senior leader in people development. She has launched training and development programs for large organizations. She has coached CEOs of multi-million-dollar corporations. She is also an Insights Discovery Practitioner and Distributor who leads one on one debriefs and team sessions.
Alli Levy
Alli Levy is a leadership and business coach in Denver, Colorado. She helps small business owners, senior managers, executives and entrepreneurs build strong company culture and get the best from their teams. Alli works as an HR consultant and employee development specialist. She coaches clients across the country, online and in person. She also focuses on balance, so leaders can take back their time without giving up strong results.
Arden Coaching
Arden Coaching is an executive coaching and leadership development firm. It works with senior leaders, managers and whole teams inside large organizations. Maren Perry is the founder and CEO. A global team of more than 45 coaches delivers the work. The firm has helped leaders drive change for almost two decades. Its services cover executive, C-suite, managerial, transition and team coaching, plus a leadership academy, training and assessments.
Bryan Johnson
Bryan Johnson is a coach for people in media and entertainment. He helps professionals, managers and emerging executives become stronger leaders, handle career transitions and perform at their best. Bryan brings 20 years of industry experience. His career spans news, operations strategy, accessibility and compliance. He began coaching after colleagues kept asking him for career advice, and that turned into mentoring. He offers sessions on weekday evenings and Saturdays.
Claudia Curran
Claudia Curran is a performance coach for leaders whose responsibilities have grown faster than their confidence. She spent nearly two decades in finance, including ten years in Capital Markets at Citi. She then set up and ran the Asia office of a global hedge fund. Her coaching uses frameworks and a model of how the mind works. She offers one-on-one work, a Leadership Accelerator, and programs for organisations.
Dunja Perkovic
Dunja Perkovic is a performance, leadership and career coach in Croatia. She blends business and life coaching for people who want to change careers, lead better or build stronger habits. Before coaching, she spent more than 20 years building marketing, brand and trade strategies for international brands across Central and Eastern Europe. In 2020 she founded Lead Alike Ltd. She holds a Stanford LEAD Executive Certificate and coaches online in English, Croatian and Serbian.
Evan Burk
Evan Burk is a leadership and performance coach who helps leaders, high performers and teams build winning cultures. He spent nearly two decades coaching elite athletes and leaders in top sports organizations, including the NFL and college football. He also works as a keynote speaker and author. His 2022 book, Finding Intangibles, covers the hidden traits behind elite performers and championship teams. He hosts a weekly leadership podcast.
Jill Skinner
Jill Skinner is a leadership and performance coach in Richmond, California. She works with CEOs, senior leaders, managers, and professionals who face uncertainty or big change. Before coaching, she spent more than 15 years as a Controller, CFO, and consultant, working with executive teams, boards, and funders. She also holds an MBA and a CPA license. Her finance background shapes how she helps leaders think through hard decisions and lead mission-driven organizations.
Lindsey Paskvan
Lindsey Paskvan is a career, business and performance coach in Morristown, New Jersey. She helps sales, recruiting and business leaders use modern tools to work faster. She spent over 20 years in the workforce industry and rose from top producer to SVP of enterprise growth. She runs the firm Layer137. Her method, called Practical Momentum, uses Microsoft Copilot to automate routine work.
Loeb Leadership
Loeb Leadership is a leadership development firm that provides executive coaching, management training and consulting. It works with leaders and managers at all levels. Clients include law firms, financial services firms, healthcare organizations and corporate teams. The firm has worked since 1997 and has a team of over 80 coaches, consultants, facilitators and workplace culture experts. Its office is in Marlboro, New Jersey. Its work centers on building strong leaders, inclusive cultures and engaged employees.
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.
Kamini Wood
Kamini Wood is an anxiety and breathwork coach who helps high performers and overachievers. She is the creator of AuthenticMe and CEO of Live Joy Your Way. Her clients look at the beliefs that hold them back and build a new view of success that comes from within. She is trained in internal family systems, cognitive behavioral based coaching and acceptance and commitment based coaching. She also holds certifications in high performance and wellness coaching.
Kumar Visvanathan
Kumar Visvanathan is a leadership, performance and business coach in Bangalore, Karnataka. He works with managers, senior executives, business heads, CXOs and entrepreneurs. He also specializes in developing women leaders. He holds a PhD and two advanced Toastmasters certifications, and he has won the Man of Excellence Award and an HR Superstar award. He has written on coaching, including a piece that links scuba diving to detached curiosity.
Oz Merchant
Oz Merchant is an entrepreneurship, business and performance coach in Raleigh, North Carolina. He helps founders, sales professionals and managers who are playing below their potential. His method is mindhacking, which works on the inner game to lift results on the outside. He has trained in SPIN Selling and Sandler Sales Training and serves as a SCORE mentor. He also writes articles on how the mind works and how to train it.
Rashmi Priya
Rashmi Priya is a life, executive and performance coach in Ahmadabad, Gujarat. She helps managers who are moving from their current role into higher leadership roles. Her focus is building confidence and skills so they deliver strong results. She uses her own program, called BYLP, short for Boost Your Leadership Potential. She holds an MBA and is a certified Extended DiSC practitioner. She also writes articles on gratitude and listening.
Ahmed Aref
Ahmed Aref is an executive, leadership and performance coach in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He works with managers who feel stuck, are moving into a new stage of life, or want to advance their careers. He holds the Marshall Goldsmith Stakeholder Centered Coach certification. He is also a Certified Management Accountant and a certified assessor for the EQ-i 2.0 and EQ-360 emotional intelligence tools.
Barbara Valentine
Barbara Valentine is an executive, leadership and performance coach in El Dorado Hills, California. She helps new managers, executives and professionals build leadership and communication skills, find career direction and reach measurable goals. She brings over 40 years of business experience. She has worked for organizations on customized training and development and on team performance. She also works with women who feel blocked from moving up.
Bryan Yates
Bryan Yates is an executive, leadership and performance coach in Atascadero, California. He works with high-capacity leaders from senior manager to vice president who feel stuck in doubt, overwhelm or burnout. He holds an MA and is a board certified health and wellness coach and a NASM certified personal trainer. He also writes articles on leadership, habits, body language and middle-aged male disconnection.
Ellen Chua
Ellen Chua is a career coach based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. She helps female professional managers who want to leave jobs that feel meaningless, misaligned or draining. She guides them toward careers that fit their values, without starting over. She also holds MBSR practitioner training and has completed a 20-day Vipassana course, which is uncommon among career coaches.
Hewsons
Hewsons is an executive development and coaching firm with offices in Melbourne and Sydney. It coaches individual leaders and whole leadership teams. The firm traces its roots to a Sydney company founded in the 1970s and calls itself Australia's longest established executive development firm. Its programs are custom designed for each client. It has worked with leaders at some of Australia's largest companies, including a chief marketing officer at Qantas.
Jon Bleakley
Jon Bleakley is a performance and leadership coach who works with new leaders, young leaders, students and athletes. He also offers accountability and confidence coaching. Jon spent 26 years leading teams in military and non-profit settings. He led Special Operations, conventional military and civilian teams through intensive training and high-risk deployments. He focuses on building leaders who coach their own people and lead with care and authenticity.
Kit Tankhiwale
Kit Tankhiwale is a business, executive and performance coach in Neptune, New Jersey. Kit helps directors, people managers and project managers cut down unnecessary conflict and turn necessary conflict into success. Kit holds ICF and iPEC coaching credentials along with project management certifications. Kit is also a third degree Aikido black belt and draws on the martial art of peace in writing about conflict at work.
Moneke Fields
Moneke Fields is a life, business and performance coach in Lilburn, Georgia. Moneke helps employees and managers who feel stressed or overwhelmed by work. Moneke holds a doctorate in education and spent 24 years as an educator and administrator. Training comes from The Life Coach School. Moneke also works as a business coach, speaker and mentor, and coaches self-mastery. Moneke offers a free consultation.
Nelson Almanzar
Nelson Almanzar is a leadership, business and performance coach in Miami, Florida. He works with managers and entrepreneurs in the technology industry. His focus is on people held back by thoughts of inadequacy and self-doubt. He helps them build self-trust and use their potential. He is an Energy Leadership Index Master Practitioner and a DSIL Innovation Leader, and he trained through iPEC.
Rony Klayany
Rony Klayany is a performance and executive coach in Qatar. Rony helps leaders improve their performance in work and in life. Rony has over 17 years of experience in leadership management, performance enhancement, employee engagement, culture building and customer service. Rony has led strategic and operational projects at start-ups and well-established corporations. Rony holds the Associate Certified Coach (ACC) credential.
Sarah VanderMeiden
Sarah VanderMeiden is a leadership, performance and career coach in Duluth, Minnesota. She works with organizations by coaching their leaders toward strong management and team development. She also helps people who dislike their jobs move into careers that feel satisfying and rewarding. Sarah is a Board Certified Coach with a BA and an MS. She has written on how to get focused and be more effective when pulled in many directions.
Andrea Kiss
Andrea Kiss is an executive and performance coach in Toronto, Ontario. She coaches sales leaders who did very well in the past and have now lost control of their calendar. She pushes them to use their strengths so work and life fit together better. She trained with the Co-Active Training Institute. She starts new clients with a Power Wheel worksheet and also lists health and fitness coaching.
Annie Archer-Byerley
Annie Archer-Byerley is a leadership and ADHD coach who works with first-time people managers, senior leaders, and people in career transition. She spent time in a corporate HR department and saw leadership development go mainly to executives and high potentials. She now offers that kind of learning to a wider group. She also supports disabled, chronically ill, and neurodivergent leaders. She holds Hogan assessment training and a Brown University leadership coaching credential.
Bijal Shah
Bijal Shah is a leadership wellbeing coach in the UK who helps leaders build balance and lead in a way that fits who they are. Before coaching, Bijal spent over 15 years in education leadership, in the UK and abroad, including many years as a Headteacher. Bijal uses Human Design and a two-step process called the Think Link Lead Coaching Experience Model.
Christy Kercheville
Christy Kercheville is an executive, leadership and performance coach in Dallas, Texas. She coaches executives, leaders, high potential staff and technical professionals, both men and women. Her work centers on presence and bottom line results in three areas: People, presentation and savvy communication. She has 25 years of experience and holds an executive coaching certification approved by ICF. She also writes articles on presentation skills, including one on six ways to open a presentation.
Emmanuel Gallant
Emmanuel Gallant is a leadership, performance and entrepreneurship coach in Montreal, Quebec. He works with managers, team leads, emerging leaders and founders. His goal for clients is more clarity, confidence and steadiness as they grow into stronger leaders. He holds an MBA and trained at Elite Coaching University. He also writes articles on beating procrastination, why start-ups fail early, and finding the courage to pursue a dream job.
Gennifer Baker
Gennifer Baker is the founder of EVP Leadership. She trains executives and business leaders to perform well under pressure. Her 90-Day PressurePoint System builds clear thinking, focus, and discipline in leaders. She works with small and mid-size businesses whose teams struggle with poor communication, weak accountability, and burnout at the top. Her method conditions leaders, tests them in real scenarios, and then builds the system across the whole organization.
Jennifer Kaminsky
Jennifer Kaminsky is a leadership, career and performance coach who helps entry and mid-level leaders. She works with them on building clarity, confidence and self-awareness. Her own path into leadership began more than 25 years ago in healthcare. She moved up by delivering results, then found that no one had taught her how to lead. She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker. Her coaching focuses on leading with purpose and presence without burning out.
Kevin Campbell
Kevin Campbell is a San Francisco leadership and career coach. He works with mid-to-senior professionals and leaders on career advancement and leadership growth. His work centers on finding and building a client's greatest strengths. He is a Gallup Certified Strengths Coach and holds a Master's in Positive Organizational Psychology. He has logged over 1,000 hours of paid executive coaching and workshop facilitation. His coaching draws on research into workplace culture, employee motivation and leadership psychology.
Sandy
Sandy is a performance and sales leadership coach in Toronto. Sandy is President of Greatness Incorporated, a company that offers performance coaching and training for leaders who want better sales and business results. Sandy has over 19 years in business as a senior leader, coach, advisor, strategist, consultant and entrepreneur. Sandy also builds learning curriculum and workshops for client companies, and teaches leaders how to coach their own people.
Michelle Dunn
Michelle Dunn is a leadership and career coach in North Vancouver, British Columbia. She works with mid-to-senior professionals and leaders on career advancement and leadership development. Her coaching helps clients use the leadership qualities they already have to perform better at work and in their personal lives. She holds a Certified Co-Active Professional Coach credential and trained through the Co-Active Training Institute. She also holds a business degree and an education degree.
Sarah Griffen
Sarah Griffen is a career coach and executive coach who works with leaders at all levels. She focuses on leader impact, peak performance and careers. Her aim is to help leaders cut through the noise and focus on the impact they make each day. She also works with people who are changing careers or moving to new roles. Her coaching tagline is "Making leadership personal."
Osaru Anyumba
Osaru Anyumba runs The Anyumba Group, which advises leaders who must deliver a fixed result by a fixed date. The work suits decision owners who run a business, a team or a season. Each engagement defines success and the non-negotiables, finds gaps in resources, timing and coordination, and sets a working cadence to check that decisions still serve the goal. It applies in business, sports and public service.
Side by side
| Coach | Focus | Hourly rate range |
|---|---|---|
| Samantha Wines | High performers and Peak performance at work | $100 to $150 per hour |
| Deborah Jordan | Strengths-based performance and career coach in Johannesburg | $80 to $155 an hour |
| Loreta Vatamanu | Performance, leadership and career coach in Bucharest, Romania | $91 to $137 per hour |
| Victoria Canham | High performers and Peak performance at work | $133 to $332 per hour |
| Jeff Doering | Leadership coach for new managers and engineering leaders | $145 to $275 an hour |
| Sarah L. | Athletes and sports and High performers | $90 to $185 an hour |
| Tanya Spencer | Executive and leadership coach in Gotha, Florida | $175 to $325 an hour |
| Tenji Moyana | High performers and Peak performance at work | $145 to $275 an hour |
| Aimee G. | High performers and Peak performance at work | $100 to $175 an hour |
| Alex L Vessey | Performance anxiety and Peak performance at work | $80 to $155 an hour |
| Clara Musama | Leadership and career coach for new leaders in Lusaka | $100 to $220 per hour |
| Coach KTalk | High performers and Peak performance at work | $60 to $150 per hour |
| Gregory Pal | High performers and Mental toughness | $145 to $275 an hour |
| Jeff Porter | Business and entrepreneurship coach in Alexandria, Virginia | $125 to $300 an hour |
| Jose Dominguez | Executive coach for BIPOC leaders and former nonprofit CEO | $150 to $300 an 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 high performers, peak performance at work, athletes and sports and mental toughness.
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Last updated September 2026.