Performance coaches for women
Compare 51 performance coaches. Besides their main focus, the most common focus areas are high performers, athletes and sports, mental toughness and focus and productivity. They most often work with women, professionals and men. Most charge $90 to $210 per hour or session.
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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.
Bella Pecyna
Bella Pecyna is a high performance coach in Illinois who helps women go from stressed-out overachievers to healthy, happy high performers. She is a former therapist with a background in primary care and a master's in clinical social work from the University of Chicago. She uses a 4-step signature framework and ties her coaching to faith. Her work targets perfectionism, overworking and constant stress.
Isabelle Powers
Isabelle Powers is a performance, business and life coach in San Diego, California. She works with young career women who want to move their lives and careers to the next level. She holds an MBA and is a Certified Professional Coach. She also has training in neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) and completed the UC Berkeley course The Science of Happiness. She has written short articles that help people decide if and when to try coaching.
Armando Hung
Armando Hung is a performance, leadership and Christian coach in St. Cloud, Florida. He coaches adult men and women who are at a crossroad in their lives. He helps clients clear the doubt that holds them back in work and in life situations. He trained through the Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching (iPEC) and holds a DE&I certification. He also writes articles on work and life balance.
Joe Bukartek
Joe Bukartek is a performance, executive and life coach in Delaware. He works with successful men and women in their 30s to 50s. His clients want to focus their energy and live more intentionally. He helps them match their priorities to how they spend their time. Joe is a Board Certified Coach and an Energy Leadership Index Master Practitioner. He trained through the Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching and writes articles on intentional living.
Amy Boyd
Amy Boyd is a coach who helps doctoral and master's students finish their dissertations and theses. She also trains new coaches. She is a former K-12 educational leader. Since 2018 she has helped over 17,000 students make progress on their writing. She works from Maryland and runs three brands, including a podcast for high performing women.
Alicia Bell
Alicia Bell is a Toronto personal trainer, performance coach and online coach. She works with athletes, physique competitors and people who want to lose fat. She is an IFBB Figure Pro and a kinesiologist. She was head track and field coach at Ryerson University and led Team Canada to 13 medals at the 2013 Maccabi Games. Her clients include pro basketball players and entertainers.
Bernenda Marc
Bernenda Marc is a preparedness and life coach who helps women and LGBTQ+ individuals feel safer and trust their instincts in everyday places. Bernenda is a U.S. Army combat veteran and former police officer with nearly two decades in high-risk environments. Bernenda teaches Bernenda's own 3C Formula: Control, Cover, and Communication. Bernenda's training includes crisis intervention, hostage negotiation, and FEMA Psychological First Aid.
FitBliss Fitness
FitBliss Fitness is a team of contest prep coaches for physique competitors. They coach athletes in Bikini, Fit Model, Wellness, Figure and Men's Physique. Their team has guided athletes on the bodybuilding stage since 2013, from first-time competitors to IFBB Pros. Each athlete gets a primary coach plus the input of the whole team. Their Chief Science Officer, Natalie, is a published researcher who checks that training and nutrition methods rest on evidence.
Gina Visram
Gina Visram is a career coach who helps students, graduates and mid-career women plan their working lives. She is a registered careers development professional. She is head of careers at Alleyn's School in South East London and a freelance careers consultant at the London School of Economics. She founded Your Career and Future and hosts the Dive Into Your Career podcast. She also writes books and runs workshops for schools, universities and businesses.
Hongyok Chimphan
Hongyok Chimphan is an executive and leadership coach in Bangkok, Thailand. Hongyok coaches ambitious women who want to build confidence, grow their careers, and balance leadership with purpose and joy. Before coaching, Hongyok built a business and managed teams. Hongyok uses the Energy Leadership Index and holds training from iPEC and the Oxford Women's Leadership Development Programme. Hongyok also writes articles on women in leadership and energy leadership.
Karen Bush
Karen Bush is a health and breathwork coach who helps stressed and high-achieving women, along with athletes and CEOs. She began her career in hospitals as a speech pathologist before moving into health coaching. She trained at Duke University Integrative Medicine and worked as a health coach at the Cleveland Clinic's Center for Functional Medicine. Today she runs a private virtual practice in Ohio and works with functional medicine providers in the US and UK.
Kate Mansfield
Kate Mansfield is a dating and relationship coach in the UK. She helps high achievers, including leaders, artists, celebrities and athletes, with love, confidence and performance. She has coached for 15 years and advised corporations and high profile clients. Before coaching she worked in artist and celebrity management with A-list talent. She is also a couples and family therapist.
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.
Magdolin Boukhary
Magdolin Boukhary is a career, leadership and performance coach in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. She helps talented women grow in their careers and build self-confidence. She has over 21 years of experience in human capital development and leadership roles, both in Saudi Arabia and abroad, often in male dominated industries. She co-wrote the book "She DARES". She runs a program called MaGlorious: ASPIRE, ACHIEVE, INSPIRE.
Marie Hickey
Marie Hickey is a life and career coach in Mount Vernon, New York. She helps people who face a crossroads, such as a career change, a life transition, or a big decision. Before coaching, she was an Emmy Award-winning television producer and senior manager with more than 25 years in media. She served as New York Bureau Chief for Extra and News Director for Fox 5 New York. She holds an ICF credential.
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.
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.
Amita Devnani
Amita Devnani is a life coach and psychologist in Gurgaon, Haryana. She helps women who feel guilty about balancing work and home. She has over 6 years of experience as a counsellor and ICF Certified Life Coach. She has coached and counselled more than 300 clients. She has also trained over 2,000 employees and students at corporates, colleges and schools. She runs sessions on mom's guilt for working women.
Coral Owen
Coral Owen is an endurance and strength coach who trains women athletes. She leads Team BABE Athletics in the Tampa Bay area of Florida. She has coached female athletes since 2008 and has more than 20 years of experience. She is a certified triathlon and strength coach and a HYROX Academy certified performance coach. She also directs the Tampa Bay BABES Triathlon, the area's only women's sprint triathlon.
Faizah Baldonado
Faizah Baldonado is a life and leadership coach in Sydney, Australia. She helps capable people who feel lost, stuck or overwhelmed find clarity and direction. She has coached professionally since 2009. Her work covers life design, purpose, goal setting, self-leadership and major change. She works mostly with women going through identity shifts and life transitions, and she also coaches men on similar themes. She works with clients locally and around the world.
Grace Anderson
Grace Anderson is a relationship coach in Blackpool, England. She helps women recover from breakups and divorce, and she coaches singles and couples on their relationships. She also works with professionals and executives on goals, confidence and stress. Before coaching, she was a Headteacher at Emotan College in Benin City, Nigeria, and later led English departments in London schools. She retrained as an NLP Practitioner after she retired.
Granville Mayers
Granville Mayers is a fitness and performance coach in Oakville, Canada. He runs the Athletic Leaders gym and trains women and men in person and online. He coaches HYROX and hybrid athletes. He is a drug-free powerlifting champion and a world record holder. He is a StrongFirst Certified Team Leader and a HYROX Academy certified performance coach. His gym offers a 12-week program built around fat loss, strength and confidence.
Jackie Corbally
Jackie Corbally is a trauma coach in Essex Junction, Vermont. Jackie helps women move forward in life after a trauma event. Jackie owns Woven Waters Trauma Coaching and works with clients virtually. Jackie is also a trauma clinician, though Jackie's coaching is not therapy. Jackie has worked with hundreds of women as a coach and therapist. Jackie uses Jackie's own Somatic Visibility Protocol to help clients plan their next life chapter.
Sarah Alsawy-Davies
Dr Sarah Alsawy-Davies is a leadership and performance coach in Manchester, England. She helps executive women who feel stuck in self-doubt, perfectionism and burnout. She is a psychologist and a global award winner. Her work draws on psychology, neuroscience and behaviour change. She also leads retreats and programs for women. Her focus is helping clients build calm, clarity and lasting confidence in their leadership.
Sarah McDonald
Sarah McDonald is a performance coach who trains HYROX and hybrid athletes in Massachusetts. She founded Focused Gainz Fitness, an official HYROX training center near Boston. She is a hybrid athlete herself and holds a HYROX Academy performance coach certification. Her facility offers hybrid training seven days a week, personal training, group classes, online training and meal prep for men and women.
Tamara Hanegraaf
Tamara Hanegraaf is a sports nutritionist, personal trainer and HYROX performance coach in Melbourne, Australia. She runs Ember Nutrition and helps people fuel for performance or lose fat in a lasting way. Her clients include beginner endurance athletes and women who want to feel stronger. She holds HYROX Academy certification. Her coaching mixes nutrition, strength and endurance training, and mindset work. She trains for HYROX and half marathons herself.
Sofia Yatsinska Georgiou
Sofia Yatsinska Georgiou is a burnout and communication coach in Cyprus who helps high-achieving women stop people-pleasing and over-functioning. She founded The Modern Alchemist. Before coaching, she spent seven years in the fintech and payments industry. She created the Over-Functioning Reset Method, which blends identity coaching, nervous system regulation and behavior change. Her clients are women in corporate leadership who want to lead with clarity instead of exhaustion.
Jermaine Andre
Jermaine Andre is a life, performance, and health and fitness coach in St. Charles, Missouri. He coaches men, women and teens. He is a two-time world champion and a Hall of Fame inductee. He also holds a black belt in grappling and teaches Muay Thai. His work mixes resilience-focused life coaching, combat defense training and performance training. He has a background as a bodyguard and teaches security defensive tactics.
Dan Go
Dan Go is a health and performance coach who helps entrepreneurs get lean and stay lean. She works with business owners who are doing well at work but have let their health slip. She offers one-on-one coaching and a self-paced course called Lean Body 90. She also writes a fitness newsletter with 560,000+ subscribers. Her content covers fat loss, muscle gain and longevity. She is based in Toronto, Canada.
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.
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.
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.
Keely Capel
Keely Capel is a business, performance and leadership coach in Quarteira, Portugal. She helps female real estate agents and brokers build traction, grow their teams and raise their gross commission income. She is a licensed real estate agent herself and a certified professional coach. Her program for agents is called "rocking real estate." It aims to build growth without giving up freedom or flexibility.
Lisa Zappetti
Lisa Zappetti is a life coach in Haddonfield, New Jersey. She coaches women who are entering or living in midlife. She helps them with transitions, empty nesting, accountability, and new paths. She uses her own ALIGN Method to help women set goals and reach them. She holds a PhD and an EdD. She is also a college professor and leads an empty-nest support group.
Reshmma Gulati
Reshmma Gulati is a life, career and performance coach in Mumbai, Maharashtra. Reshmma works with women who feel stuck in their personal or professional lives. Reshmma's focus is helping clients move from a victim mindset to a victor mindset, take back their power, and live on their own terms with more success. Reshmma holds an MBA, an ICF ACC credential, and NLP training certified by Dr Richard Bandler. Reshmma also practices sound healing.
Travia Steward
Travia Steward is a performance, life and leadership coach in Mesa, Arizona. Travia helps women over 35 who struggle with self-doubt and want more confidence at work and in their relationships. Travia's background in theatre and communication shapes a structured way of working. Travia treats low confidence as an identity issue, not a flaw to fix. Travia's clients learn to decide without second-guessing and set limits without guilt.
Henry Lam
Henry Lam is an accountability and ADHD coach who works with ambitious women. Henry coaches women who feel overwhelmed and stuck, with or without an ADHD diagnosis. Sessions use strategies drawn from neuroscience, psychology and evolutionary biology. The focus is on perfectionism, distraction, procrastination and rebuilding confidence. Henry works with clients anywhere and best suits women ready to take action, even when life feels messy.
Jayashree Venkataraman
Jayashree Venkataraman is an executive and entrepreneurship coach in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. She coaches leaders, first-time entrepreneurs and women leaders. Her focus is emotional fitness, so leaders can manage themselves and guide their teams. She holds an MBA and completed an executive coaching certificate at ISB in Hyderabad. She is also trained in the Marshall Goldsmith Stakeholder Centered Coaching method, which few coaches in her region list.
Natalie Fayman
Natalie Fayman is a life, health and fitness, and performance coach in Boynton Beach, Florida. She helps women who feel exhausted, frustrated and stressed reconnect with their self-worth. Her work covers losing touch with your identity when you care for others, why diets fail, and eating for reasons other than hunger. She holds Associate Certified Coach and Certified Positive Intelligence Mastery Coach credentials and trained through iPEC.
Rael Eckenroed
Rael Eckenroed is a life coach in Arlington, Texas. Rael helps women start over after a divorce or a breakup from a spouse. The work focuses on moving forward, taking control of life and happiness, and learning to love again. Rael is a Master Certified Life Coach through the Certified Life Coach Institute and also lists performance and relationship coaching. Rael serves the Dallas area and writes articles on starting over and fear of success.
Rosie Zilinskas
Rosie Zilinskas is a career coach in Orland Park, Illinois. She helps corporate women move ahead in their careers with clear intent and confidence. She uses high-performance coaching to work through barriers. Each client gets a custom career roadmap. Rosie is a Certified High-Performance Coach and a Certified Kolbe Consultant, and she trained at the High Performance Institute. She also works as a performance coach and a leadership coach.
Suzanna Frazier
Suzanna Frazier, known as Coach Su, is a fitness and performance coach in Sacramento, California. She coaches women who want to build strength and confidence. She owns Vault Fitness and works with HYROX and hybrid athletes. She holds a certification as a HYROX Academy performance coach, which is a specific credential for the HYROX race format.
Zee Najarian
Zee Najarian is a life coach in Glendale, California. Zee coaches overachieving and overworked women who want to work less and live more. Clients often feel that there has to be more to life. Zee helps them move from where they are to where they want to be. Zee also lists performance and leadership coaching as focus areas and has written articles on getting unstuck and building self-belief.
Kathy Houston
Kathy Houston is a leadership, health and fitness, and performance coach in St. Petersburg, Florida. She helps women deal with overwhelm, feeling stuck, and unhealthy habits. Her goal for clients is less stress, a more fulfilling career, and strong relationships. She trained through Coach Training Alliance. She also writes about the skills needed to build and grow a lasting relationship, including love, passion, and play.
Aline Kotfila
Aline Kotfila is a career and compensation coach in Ayer, Massachusetts. She helps women negotiate salaries, move ahead in their careers, and handle the challenges that come with working in tech. She draws on her own industry experience and insight in her coaching. Her focus on pay negotiation for women in the tech field sets her apart from general career coaches.
Isabella Rassin
Isabella Rassin is a personal development and productivity coach. She helps people who have a goal but do not know where to start. She turns a big goal or a hard decision into a clear plan with steps in a sensible order. Her clients bring her both large life events, like starting a divorce, and everyday tasks, like renting out a home. She also builds weight loss and health plans that fit a client's real life.
Manar Abdelal
Manar Abdelal is a career and leadership coach who works with high-performing women. Manar's clients face career pressure, burnout, transitions and times of uncertainty. Many look successful on the outside but feel overwhelmed or unsure what they want next. Manar uses the Co-Active coaching model and adds embodiment and nervous system awareness. Manar aims to help clients make grounded decisions and build self-trust.
Mira Rutter
Mira Rutter is an accountability coach and life coach for female owners of online service-based businesses. She helps them manage their time and energy with a plan. She also works on mindset and high-performance habits. Her coaching is female-centric, and she includes business owners who menstruate. She holds an accredited personal performance coach credential. Her goal for clients is a business that grows to the next level and success on their own terms.
Monica Young
Monica Young is an accountability coach and business coach for small business owners and high performing professionals. She also works with women business owners. Her program is called Do L.E.S.S. Accomplish More. She holds the Certified Productive Environment Specialist credential. Monica helps overwhelmed owners build strategies and systems that use their time, energy, team, and resources well. Her clients want more productivity, better morale, lower turnover, and more work/life harmony.
Tami Simkins
Tami Simkins is a life coach who helps women rebuild a steady sense of self after burnout, caregiving, or loss. She runs a practice called Cultivating Confidence. Her sessions center on self-awareness, reflection, and gentle accountability for action that fits the client. She keeps the work focused on the present and future. Clients make intentional choices and build consistency without pressure or urgency.
Side by side
| Coach | Focus | Hourly rate range |
|---|---|---|
| Deborah Jordan | Strengths-based performance and career coach in Johannesburg | $80 to $155 an hour |
| Bella Pecyna | High performers and Mental toughness | $175 to $240 an hour |
| Isabelle Powers | Performance, business and life coach in San Diego | $95 to $200 per hour |
| Armando Hung | Performance and leadership coach in St. Cloud, Florida | $70 to $100 per hour |
| Joe Bukartek | High performers | $200 to $335 per hour |
| Amy Boyd | High performers | $110 to $190 an hour |
| Alicia Bell | Athletes and sports | $75 to $150 an hour |
| Bernenda Marc | Preparedness coach for women and LGBTQ+ clients, U.S. Army combat veteran | $80 to $155 an hour |
| FitBliss Fitness | Athletes and sports | $75 to $140 an hour |
| Gina Visram | Career coach for students, graduates and mid-career women | $100 to $190 an hour |
| Hongyok Chimphan | Executive and women's leadership coach in Bangkok, Thailand | $400 to $600 per hour |
| Karen Bush | Athletes and sports and High performers | $140 to $225 an hour |
| Kate Mansfield | High performers and Athletes and sports | $80 to $250 an hour |
| Kate Stirling | High performers and Focus and productivity | $105 to $170 an hour |
| Magdolin Boukhary | Career and leadership coach for women in Jeddah | $100 to $190 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, athletes and sports, mental toughness and focus and productivity.
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Last updated September 2026.