Performance coaches for women
Compare 46 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 athletes. 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 worked as a therapist before coaching and has a background in primary care. She holds a master's in clinical social work from the University of Chicago. She uses a 4-step signature framework and brings faith into her work with clients.
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.
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.
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. She is a U.S. Army combat veteran and former police officer with nearly two decades in high-risk environments. She teaches her own 3C Formula: Control, Cover, and Communication. Her 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.
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.
Rich Cooper
Rich Cooper is a coach for men on dating, business and money. He is also an entrepreneur, private equity investor and author of The Unplugged Alpha. From 2003 to 2019 he founded and ran Canada's largest private debt relief company. He has done thousands of one on one sessions with high net worth men and women worldwide. He also runs a men's community and online courses on entrepreneurship.
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.
Steve Mousharbash
Steve Mousharbash is an IFBB pro who coaches bodybuilding competitors and people who want to improve their health and fitness. He founded Flawless Physique in Jacksonville, Florida in 2009. He has over 20 years in the industry and has coached hundreds of men and women to national and pro status in the IFBB and other federations. His team works with athletes in bodybuilding, classic physique, men's physique, figure, wellness and bikini divisions.
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.
Aleksandra Miciul
Aleksandra Miciul is a life and mental performance coach who helps athletes, professionals and women who feel stuck or overwhelmed. She is a former Olympic swimmer who then worked 15 years in corporate real estate in London. She coaches on overthinking, confidence, focus and burnout. She works in London and online across the UK and abroad. Her sessions follow a simple path of clarity, a structured plan and steady action.
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.
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.
Jess Heiss
Jess Heiss is an online running and strength coach who helps everyday athletes get stronger and more confident. She runs Sturdy Girl, a coaching business with a weekly podcast and an apparel shop. Her plans mix strength, running, triathlon, nutrition, and mindset work. She builds training around each client's job, stress, and goals. She rejects body shrinking as a goal and focuses on strength and body image.
Meg Kissack
She helps them get unstuck, find clarity and build momentum on their projects. Her coaching style centers on compassion, accountability and strategy. She hosts The Daily Pep! Podcast, a daily show for unconventional women. She also offers a 1:1 Brain Huddle session and a 100 day online group program called One Woman Band Club. She has coached for over a decade.
Nicole Miller McDaniel
Nicole Miller McDaniel is a career and performance coach in the Atlanta area. She helps high-achieving professionals, performing artists, athletes and founders who feel stuck, burned out or unfulfilled. Nicole is a licensed professional counselor and a Board Certified Coach. Her coaching is directive and solution-focused. She uses psychology-backed strategies to move clients from inaction to action. Sessions run 50 minutes and can be virtual or in person on request.
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.
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.
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.
Isabella Rassin
Isabella Rassin is a personal development and productivity coach who helps people turn a goal into a clear plan. She lays out the steps in an order that makes sense. She works on big decisions like starting a divorce and everyday goals like renting out a home or losing weight. She is studying for a master's in clinical psychology and meets clients on Zoom on weekday afternoons. Her coaching focuses on goals and action, not therapy.
Jessica Mejia
Jessica Mejia is a brand architect and certified coach who helps business owners build modern brands. She also coaches ambitious, career-driven women through a 90 day life coaching program. Her branding work covers offers, websites, funnels, sales copy, and a yearly marketing plan with a promo calendar. She comes from an art and digital marketing background. She also takes on executive coaching and recorded coach training contracts.
Petra Williams
Petra Williams is a performance life coach in Missouri who helps people build a life around their values and strengths. She holds a master's in psychology with an emphasis in life coaching. Before coaching, she worked as an industrial engineer and taught thousands of high school students. She offers private coaching, team coaching, workshops and a self-guided program called the Be You Challenge for women.
Travia Steward
Travia Steward is a performance, life and leadership coach in Mesa, Arizona. She helps women over 35 who struggle with self-doubt and want more confidence at work and in their relationships. Her background in theatre and communication shapes a structured way of working. She treats low confidence as an identity issue, not a flaw to fix. Her clients learn to decide without second-guessing and set limits without guilt.
Manar Abdelal
Manar Abdelal is a career and leadership coach who works with high-performing women. Her 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. She aims to help clients make grounded decisions and build self-trust.
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.
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.
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.
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 a personal Somatic Visibility Protocol to help clients plan their next life chapter.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 |
| Joe Bukartek | High performers | $200 to $335 per 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 |
| 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 |
| Marie Hickey | Life and career coach in Mount Vernon, New York | $75 to $120 per hour |
| Rich Cooper | High performers | $80 to $250 an hour |
| Shelly Lyons | Athletes and sports | $110 to $150 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.