Speaking coaches for engineers
Compare 23 speaking coaches. Besides their main focus, the most common focus areas are public speaking, presentation skills, interpersonal communication and executive communication. They most often work with engineers, professionals and managers. Most charge $80 to $250 per hour or session.
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Ivy Naistadt
Ivy Naistadt is an executive speaking coach and public speaking coach in New York. She helps executives, founders, sales teams and tech leaders present with confidence. She has coached for over 25 years and has worked with Fortune 500 companies such as Comcast, IBM, The New York Times and Pitney Bowes. She also works with universities including Princeton and NYU. She wrote the book Speak Without Fear and teaches a system built on that idea.
Michelle Brenner
Michelle Brenner is a software engineering coach who helps aspiring and working engineers break into tech and grow their careers. She is a Senior Software Engineer at Netflix with over 15 years in the industry. She is a self-taught engineer with an art degree, not a computer science degree. She lives in Los Angeles.
Priyanka
Priyanka is a career coach for product managers, aspiring PMs, software engineers, and founders. She is a product leader and AI startup founder with more than 10 years at Amazon, eBay, Walmart, and Quicken. She has run over 100 interviews and mentored more than 45 people. She also screened over 1000 resumes. She moved from engineering into product management herself, so she coaches others making that same switch.
Cesar V.
Cesar V. is a career coach for tech professionals. He works with product managers, software engineers, front-end engineers and program managers. He is a Senior Program Manager and Internal Coach at Microsoft with a software engineering background. He has coached and interviewed hundreds of candidates for Program Manager and Software Engineer roles. His help covers interviews, resumes, communication, public speaking and career direction. He also knows how Big Tech pay packages are built.
Himanshi J.
Himanshi J. is a career coach for software engineers and infrastructure engineers. She is a former Senior Software Engineer at Google, where she worked in Switzerland and India. Her teams covered Payments, Large-Scale Data Processing and Data Privacy Infrastructure. She coaches individual contributors on productivity, time management, structured communication, storytelling and executive presence. She also helps candidates prepare for coding and behavioral interviews, drawing on 75+ L3 and L4 interviews she ran.
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.
Josh B.
Josh is a career and leadership coach for tech and customer success professionals. He has 20+ years in product management and customer success leadership at companies including Tripadvisor, Experian, StyleSeat and Vui. He has interviewed hundreds of Product Managers and Customer Success Managers as a hiring manager. He has coached 100+ students through hundreds of interviews. He helps clients prepare for interviews, negotiate offers, and step into senior roles.
Mary A.
Mary A. is a cybersecurity mentor who helps security analysts, security engineers and security leaders with their careers. She has more than 10 years of hands-on work in incident response and digital forensics. She has handled ransomware containment and insider threat cases for enterprise clients. She has led over 100 cybersecurity interviews as a hiring interviewer. She has helped 40+ job seekers improve their resumes. She works with clients from Europe.
Rupesh T.
Rupesh T. coaches tech professionals on interviews, resumes, leadership and career growth. He is a Senior Customer Solutions Manager at AWS and works with senior engineers, architects, engineering managers, directors and VP-level leaders. He has run over 100 interviews and sits on AWS hiring panels. He also screened 100+ resumes for roles at Amazon, Google, DraftKings and Red Hat. He is a drummer and singer, and he draws on that performing background in his sessions.
Shalini G.
Shalini G. is a career coach for software engineers, engineering managers and solutions architects. She helps them prepare for tech interviews, move into new roles and grow as leaders. She has 20+ years in AI, software engineering and product development, with roles at Amazon, J.P. Morgan, Optum and TCS. She has interviewed over 500 candidates and screened over 500 resumes. She also wrote the book Awesome Tech Interviews.
Sunny W.
Sunny W. is a career coach for product managers and data scientists. She is a Product Manager at Microsoft in Vancouver and used to work as a data scientist. She has coached over 100 people. She helps with interview practice, resume review and moves from engineering into product management. She has worked in the US, Canada and China, so she also coaches on bicultural and bilingual communication. She works with candidates at all levels.
Tangus K.
Tangus K. is a career coach for people in technical business roles. He helps product managers, technical program managers, data scientists, sales engineers, solutions architects and technical account managers. He spent 7 years at Google and YouTube in London and Emerging Markets, working with partners up to C-level. He is a qualified Google interviewer and has interviewed candidates for TAM, partner technology manager and sales engineer roles. He coaches on interviews and resumes.
Chandra C.
Chandra C. coaches product managers, engineering managers and other tech professionals on interviews, career moves and leadership. He has 30 years in product and engineering at Meta, Google, Netflix and Salesforce. At Meta he was a senior IC product leader who ran many interview loops. He has interviewed 150+ candidates from L4 to L7 levels. He also works as a product leader at Calix.
Logan Sackley
Logan Sackley coaches people who want to build a career in site reliability engineering. He works as a Technical Account Manager at AWS, where he covers Enterprise Support customers and leads talks on EKS, ECS, containers and Karpenter. He also worked at Oracle and Nike. He won the Amazon All Star Award in Q4 2023. He has coached 5 people so far, and he focuses on interview prep and LinkedIn reviews.
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.
Jossie Haines
Jossie Haines is an executive and engineering leadership coach. She helps engineering directors, VPs, and CTOs manage with empathy and build inclusive teams. She spent over 22 years in tech, with management roles at Apple, Tile, Zynga, and American Express. At Tile she was VP of Software Engineering and Head of DEI, and she grew the engineering team from 29 to 55 in 5 months. At Apple she led the Siri music team during HomePod development.
Lena Reinhard
Lena Reinhard is an engineering leadership coach and organizational advisor in Berlin, Germany. She helps executives, senior managers and technical leaders grow in their roles. She also coaches people on public speaking. Before coaching, she was a SaaS co-founder and CEO, and a VP Engineering at startups and scale-ups. She also runs offsite workshops, team development and group training for newer leaders and people managers.
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.
Brian Branagan
Brian Branagan is a communication and leadership coach for busy leaders and high-potential employees. He teaches people to speak up, be heard, and get results. Before coaching, he spent more than 25 years as a technology manager at Adobe, Getty Images, RealNetworks and F5 Networks. He is a certified Conversational Intelligence coach and an ECHO Listening Intelligence practitioner. He also works with global teams to close communication gaps caused by virtual distance.
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.
People Storming
People Storming is a coaching and training practice for leaders and teams. It offers one-on-one coaching for engineering leaders, engineers, product managers and executive leaders. It also runs live, interactive virtual workshops. The team has worked with Kinship, StreamSets, Discord and Movement Strategy. Its offers include leadership programs, meeting fixes, team chartering, retreats and offsites, and 360-degree reviews. Every client starts with a free introduction call.
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.
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.
Side by side
| Coach | Focus | Hourly rate range |
|---|---|---|
| Ivy Naistadt | Public Speaking and Presentation Skills | $90 to $175 an hour |
| Michelle Brenner | Public speaking | $90 to $175 an hour |
| Priyanka | Career coach for product managers and software engineers | $90 to $175 an hour |
| Cesar V. | Public speaking and Presentation skills | $90 to $175 an hour |
| Himanshi J. | Public speaking and Presentation skills | $90 to $175 an hour |
| Jeff Doering | Interpersonal communication | $145 to $275 an hour |
| Josh B. | Presentation skills and Executive communication | $100 to $175 an hour |
| Mary A. | Cybersecurity career mentor for analysts, engineers and security leaders | $90 to $175 an hour |
| Rupesh T. | Executive communication | $75 to $150 an hour |
| Shalini G. | Public speaking and Presentation skills | $75 to $150 an hour |
| Sunny W. | Presentation skills and Interpersonal communication | $100 to $180 an hour |
| Tangus K. | Presentation skills and Public speaking | $85 to $160 an hour |
| Chandra C. | Interview and leadership coach for product and tech professionals | $75 to $150 an hour |
| Logan Sackley | Site reliability engineering interview and career coach | $75 to $150 an hour |
| Jim Hodapp | Career coach for software engineers and engineering managers | $125 to $200 an hour |
Common questions
How much does a speaking coach cost?
Most speaking coaches charge $80 to $250 per hour or session.
What else do these speaking coaches help with?
Common focus areas include public speaking, presentation skills, interpersonal communication and executive communication.
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Last updated September 2026.