Speaking coaches for professionals
Compare 151 speaking coaches. Besides their main focus, the most common focus areas are public speaking, executive communication, presentation skills and interpersonal communication. They most often work with professionals, executives and managers. Most charge $80 to $250 per hour or session.
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Deborah Ogden
Deborah Ogden is a personal brand and impact mentor for business owners, professional services staff and people who want to step up in their roles. She trained as a solicitor, then spent years as a Media Manager in professional sport. She teaches a method called The Impact Method. It covers clarity, communication, connection and capitalising. Her work focuses on visibility, winning contracts, and pitching and presenting with confidence.
Aileen Pincus
Aileen Pincus is a communication and public speaking coach who also does executive coaching. She helps professionals and thought leaders make their communication as strong as their ideas. Before coaching, she was a national reporter, worked in global PR, and served as communications director for a US Senator. She has trained Fortune 500 clients around the world. She runs The Pincus Group and can fit new clients in on short notice, including in other time zones.
Anne Skelly
Anne Skelly is a communication and public speaking coach who helps executives and professionals get their message across. She has more than 20 years of experience in communications. She wrote speeches for top leaders at Chevron and the U.S. Department of Defense. At Chevron she also coached senior executives, produced executive videos and ran executive events. She has coached 18 people and offers help with persuasion, influence and presentations.
College of Public Speaking
College of Public Speaking is a London training firm that teaches public speaking, presentation skills and train the trainer skills. It offers courses and online one-to-one coaching for professionals from all fields. The team works from King's Cross. Founder Vince Stevenson, known as The Fear Doctor, serves as Education Director. The firm's classes are accredited by CIMA and the Institute of Leadership and Management. Courses cover fear of public speaking, executive presentations, storytelling and leadership.
Dawn McFarland
Dawn McFarland is an English language coach who helps non-native speakers improve their English and grow in their careers. She is a native English speaker with over ten years of teaching experience. She has taught in Spain, Colombia and the U.S., and taught international students at Rutgers University. Her private ESL practice grew to over 40 students. She also taught group classes at major companies in Barcelona. She works from New Jersey.
Digby Kerr
Digby Kerr is a business and executive coach who helps sales professionals, marketers, founders and executives communicate better. He also teaches Business English. He founded a global logistics company in 2007 and ran it for 15 years. He now serves as a vice president of another company. He has written 15 books and founded Kerr University in 2021. He has mentored professionals on six continents, one hour a week.
Dina Schmid
Dina Schmid is a public speaking and etiquette coach in Ohio. She helps career focused people feel confident when they present at work, from quick team talks to large crowds. She spent years as a chemical engineer at a Fortune 50 company before she became a coach. She has lived overseas and works with non-native English speakers. Her clients include executives, entrepreneurs and STEM professionals. She has coached hundreds of people over the past 5 years.
Gina Clear
Gina Clear is a communication, executive and life coach based in Lyon, France. She helps leaders, managers and young adults think, speak and act with more clarity and confidence. She runs Hearsay, a coaching and training firm for individuals, teams and companies. She coaches in English and French. She has also worked with politicians. Her training includes transactional analysis and NLP, and she holds an ICF Associate Certified Coach credential.
Joel Schwartzberg
Joel Schwartzberg is a communication and public speaking coach who works with teams and individuals. He teaches them to find and sharpen their most essential points. From 2013 to 2024 he was Senior Director of Executive and Strategic Communications at a major national nonprofit. He also held senior communications roles at Nickelodeon, PBS, and Time Inc. He wrote the bestseller "Get to the Point!" and is a former state and national champion public speaker.
Julia Kraft
Julia Kraft is a public speaking and accent coach who helps professional women get past speaking anxiety. She founded Speak To Inspire in 2014. The company has trained 1000's of entrepreneurs and professionals, plus 100's of companies. Julia works with shy and introverted women who know their field well but freeze when the spotlight turns to them. She built the Fully Expressed program, which teaches speaking without scripts or heavy rehearsal.
Kate Gladdin
Kate Gladdin is a resilience keynote speaker who works with teams and leaders on how to respond to change and pressure. She teaches a method called the 3R Strategy, which moves people from reacting to responding with purpose. She has spoken to more than 300,000 people and wrote 4 books. Her talks draw on the loss of her sister and her mum, both killed by reckless drivers, and on the question "What good can I create?"
Lisa Flynn
Lisa Flynn is a communication and leadership coach who helps introverted professionals build deeper connections and speak with confidence. She uses somatic practices and a program called the Authentic Connection Method. Her main offer is a 4-month private program with 12 weekly video sessions. She has more than 10 years in communication, emotional intelligence and leadership coaching. She once led retreats for 50 people while still feeling anxious at dinner parties, and that shapes her work.
Michale Gabriel
Michale Gabriel is a communication and leadership coach who helps leaders tell stories with more power and purpose. Michale works under the name Story by Design and is based in Costa Rica. For more than 20 years, Michale was a consultant and strategic communications partner to Boeing. Michale has led workshops, coached executives and given keynotes on the power of story to over 10,000 executives, managers and professionals worldwide.
Natalie Ihrman
Natalie Ihrman coaches communication and public speaking. She also helps people find jobs on Capitol Hill and in federal agencies. She has worked as a Senate press secretary and handled press for two federal agencies. She also worked on a presidential campaign and in the White House Office of Speechwriting. She overcame a fear of public speaking in high school and went on to win at the national level. She now coaches professionals on speaking with authority.
Turpin Communication
Turpin Communication is a business communication training and coaching firm. It helps leaders, managers and professionals speak, present and sell more clearly. The firm started in 1992 and works only on business communication. Its method comes from its own book, which treats presentations as Orderly Conversations. Clients get skill-building workshops, webinars and one-on-one coaching. Topics include presentations, meetings, leadership, B2B sales and virtual communication.
Alita van Zyl
Alita van Zyl is a communication and couples coach in South Africa. She helps leaders, teams, couples and individuals who keep having the same conversations with no change. She spent more than 30 years in corporate IT and leadership before coaching. She trained at Stellenbosch Business School and is a certified Neethling Brain Indicator practitioner. She runs her practice as AZ Ingenuity and uses the ADKAR change framework.
Ashley Boroda
Ashley Boroda is a public speaking and communication trainer in London. Ashley works with executives, leaders, sales teams and business owners on presentations, pitching and negotiation. Training mixes original business thinking with performing arts techniques. Ashley created the iMA Method, a communication system with three courses. One pitching course bans PowerPoint and Keynote slides so speakers focus on real interaction with the audience. Ashley also holds an ILM Level 7 Business Growth Coach qualification.
Chelsea Peitz
Chelsea Peitz is a keynote speaker, author and social media coach who helps professionals build personal brands people trust. She spent more than a decade as a REALTOR before moving into speaking, training and coaching. For nearly two decades she has worked with real estate, title insurance and mortgage professionals. She has written three books and has trained tens of thousands of professionals at Fortune 250 companies, national associations and industry conferences.
Commanding Presence
Commanding Presence is a Canadian firm that trains professionals, managers, executives and teams in communication and presentation skills. It has worked for more than 25 years and has trained more than 48,000 people from Fortune 500 companies and other organizations. Sessions use instructor-led lessons, video recording and review, targeted practice and group coaching. The firm runs two-day in-person workshops for individuals and customized onsite training across Canada. It also offers live virtual training.
Herman Otten
Herman Otten is a public speaking coach in New York City. He teaches speaking skills to individuals, executives, and company teams. He runs small group classes in Midtown Manhattan and live on Zoom. He also offers private coaching and corporate training. His classes cover the fear behind speaking, then give each person time to practice new skills in front of the group and get feedback.
London Speech Workshop
London Speech Workshop is a team of communication coaches in London. They help professionals and companies speak with clarity and confidence. Courses cover public speaking, accent softening, interview skills, elocution, storytelling and handling conflict. Their Head Coach is a professional actor with more than 27 years of coaching experience. One client team used their coaching to prepare a pitch to the International Olympic Committee. They serve individuals and organisations.
Tod Brown
Tod Brown is a communication and confidence coach who works with individuals and couples. Tod helps clients speak clearly, handle conflict, and feel steadier in hard conversations. Tod has over 20 years of experience in teaching, public speaking and coaching. Tod also has a psychology and counseling degree and a mediation and arbitration credential. Sessions end with a clear plan the client can use right away.
Ariana Monell
Ariana Monell is a communication and confidence coach in Arizona. She helps business owners, high achievers, professionals, and creators speak with more confidence. She holds the ICF Professional Certified Coach credential and works as both a life coach and an executive coach. Her coaching draws on Ontology, mindfulness, and CBT principles. Her focus areas include public speaking, presence on video, executive communication, and brand storytelling.
Elke Framson
Elke Framson is a communication and public speaking coach. She helps international professionals and students who work in a language that is not their first. She moved from Austria to the US more than 30 years ago and holds a doctoral degree on the role of language in business. She has worked with hundreds of university students in Europe and the US, and with professionals from startups and large organizations.
Inès Schinazi
Inès Schinazi is a communication and public speaking coach who helps leaders and professionals tell their own story. She also worked at Google Brazil and Bank of New York. She coaches leaders from Google, Meta, Waze, Cargill and Brazil's Paralympic Committee. Her work centers on interviews, leadership moments and career pivots.
Mindful Presenter
Mindful Presenter is a public speaking and presentation skills practice in London. It coaches professionals and leaders one-to-one and trains teams across the UK and abroad. The work covers nerves, pace, structure and how a person comes across in high-stakes moments like pitches and senior meetings. The practice has helped thousands of professionals build communication skills online. It also runs open one-day public speaking courses and bespoke team training.
Benjamin Ball
Benjamin Ball runs Benjamin Ball Associates, a communication coaching firm in London. He coaches executives and business leaders on investor pitches, presentations and public speaking. His firm has worked with blue chip companies and private equity firms for 15 years and has trained over 7000 presentation delegates. Sessions use role-play and follow a set method called the PitchPoint Process. The firm also helps write pitch decks and speeches, and runs in-house team training.
Illens Dort
Illens Dort is a communication, public speaking and facilitation coach in Provo, Utah. He helps professionals become confident and engaging speakers. His clients include speakers, educators, business trainers and workshop facilitators. He teaches a six-session coaching program built around the Four Areas of Connection and the Four Ps of Great Communication. He holds an MBA and is certified through The John Maxwell Team.
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.
Michele Trent
Michele Trent is a public speaking confidence coach who helps high-achieving introverts speak with ease. Her clients are business owners and professionals who want to grow a business, get promoted, or take on leadership roles. She holds a certification as a speaking skills and mindset coach. She spent years in Toastmasters. She is an introvert herself. Her work follows three steps: Mindset, speaking skills, and practice.
Cristóbal Colón
Cristóbal Colón is a communication coach and public speaking mentor based in Puerto Rico. Cristóbal also mentors podcasters. Cristóbal works in both Spanish and English. Cristóbal created The K.E.Y. Method, which helps clients find their inner fire, shape a unique message and share it in person and online. Cristóbal is a Distinguished Toastmaster. Cristóbal's podcast won the Self Improvement category at the Latin Podcast Awards in 2020 and 2021.
Jocelyn Chong
Jocelyn Chong is an executive mentor and corporate facilitator who develops senior managers, directors and new executives into stronger leaders. She spent over 20 years in banking at ANZ, Commonwealth Bank and Westpac, where she managed more than $100 million in revenue and led hundreds of direct reports. In 2019 she left banking to teach leadership. Since then she has run leadership programs for thousands of professionals in financial services, professional services, government and healthcare.
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.
Swati J.
Swati J. is a career coach in Singapore for product managers, managers of PMs, and strategy and operations managers. She is a former Principal Product Manager at Grab. She also mentors junior Product Managers, Data Scientists, and Program Managers. She has interviewed candidates from L4 to L6 and screened many resumes as a hiring manager. She has helped 20+ candidates build resumes. Her coaching covers job offers at top companies, promotions, and career moves.
Ahmed Zaeem
Ahmed Zaeem is a career coach for people who want to become a Chief of Staff. He is a Chief of Staff at Atomic AI, where he works in machine learning and structural biology. Before that he worked in consulting at Parthenon and in strategy at LinkedIn and Dropbox. He also founded an edtech company for trade schools. He has coached 20 people on networking, negotiation and finding the right roles, and has had more than 10 Chief of Staff clients.
Aikyna Finch
Dr. Aikyna Finch is a life and social media coach who also trains coaches. She helps people reach their goals and use technology to grow their business. She holds the ICF PCC credential and serves as Vice President of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging for the International Coaching Federation. She has worked as a professor and dean in higher education. She gave a TEDx talk in 2022 and has written or co-written 12 books. She works from Nashville, Tennessee.
Akhil H.
Akhil H. is a career coach for management consultants, product managers, and program managers. He is a senior product manager at Apple, working on internal products in operations and supply chain. Before that he spent 3 years as a management consultant at Bain. He helps consultants move into other industries, with a focus on product management and tech companies. He has coached 15+ people through career transitions and has run over 100 interviews.
Alison Verge
Alison Verge is a relationship and dating coach who helps busy professionals over 40 find lasting love. She runs Path2Love Coaching. She is a certified sexologist and co-author of "Radical Self Love." She also coaches couples who face a sudden shock, such as illness or disability, a challenge she knows from her own life. Her clients can meet a partner with or without dating apps.
Andy Lopata
Andy Lopata is a relationship strategist, speaker and mentor who helps leaders and organisations build stronger professional relationships. He created The Relationship Matrix, a framework for finding and strengthening the contacts that matter most to a goal. He has written six books, including The Financial Times Guide to Mentoring. He has worked with Google, PayPal, HSBC and the BBC. He was named to the 2026 Thinkers50 Coaches50 list.
Anna Chin
Anna Chin is a life, career and communication coach. She helps ambitious people find clarity, build confidence and move forward in their careers. She has 15 years of coaching experience and an MBA. She has lived and traveled in 15 countries, including the United States, Spain, China, Singapore and Hong Kong. She speaks 6 languages and understands how hard it is to thrive in a foreign place. She also holds CBT and NLP practitioner certifications.
Antoine Gamberini
Antoine Gamberini is an admissions consultant who helps people apply to master's programs and MBAs. He earned a place in the Stanford GSB MSx program, Class of 2025. Before that, he spent twelve years in telecom in Europe. He led large teams and turned around multimillion-euro businesses. He has coached dozens of applicants, first informally and then more intentionally. He now works in strategy and operations at Google. He also offers coaching in communication and public speaking.
Barbara Bouchet
Barbara Bouchet is a communication and conflict coach who works with executives, business owners, professionals and leaders. She is President of Contact Point Associates LLC and has run her own business since 1980. She has coached leaders at Amazon, Microsoft, Costco, Starbucks and other large companies. She also wrote a leadership book and created a board game and training called The Contact-Zone. Her work covers executive presence, conflict, influence and negotiation.
Caolan Hunter
Caolan Hunter is a career and executive coach who helps high-performing professionals and teams handle international transitions. Clients work on communicating across cultures, leading in global companies, and making major moves. Caolan has coached executives at Netflix Korea, Woven by Toyota and Banco Santander. Before coaching, Caolan was Global Head of Content at On, where he built the brand team across three continents and led the story through a $10B IPO.
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.
Cynthia Johnson
Cynthia Johnson is a career and communication coach who helps professionals shape their career story and plan their next move. She spent more than 20 years in recruiting, talent enablement and leadership at Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Nordstrom. She has recruited for technical, sales, marketing and operations roles, so she knows how hiring decisions get made behind the scenes. She also coaches clients through layoffs and job changes.
DW Performance
DW Performance is an interview and executive coach based in the UK who works with clients online. The focus is helping people perform better in job interviews and speak with clarity and confidence. The coach spent 20 years in finance and banking, rising from a call centre role to Head of Credit Analysis at Barclays. That inside view of hiring decisions shapes every mock interview. Sessions are one on one and centre on emotional intelligence.
Damien P.
Damien P. is a career and interview coach for product managers, founders and real estate finance professionals. He is a former Product Manager at Meta and an adjunct professor in the Master's of Product Management at the University of Maryland. He has coached over 5000 people through his network, /dev/color and Black PMs. He focuses on insider interview tips for people with a solid base who want to reach a consistent strong hire result.
Daphna Gale
Daphna Gale is an executive and leadership coach and expert facilitator. She helps leaders and teams grow through assessments and action plans. She has coached and led learning in the corporate world for more than 20 years, across many industries. She has worked with more than 250 clients and logged over 3,000 coaching hours. She also trains other coaches in group facilitation. Her practice, Whole 4 Coaching, is built on four leadership dimensions: Doing, Being, Feeling and Creating.
Dave Miles
Dave Miles is an executive and team coach in Virginia who helps CEOs and executives build strong teams. He holds a Ph.D. in Organizational Leadership and is a certified executive and team coach through Marshall Goldsmith's Stakeholder Centered Coaching. He is also a professional speaker and author. His clients include hotel chains, manufacturers, non-profits and healthcare systems, among them Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He uses his own set of tools called the Insights Suite.
Deborah Ivanoff
Deborah Ivanoff is a business and communication coach in Oregon. She helps professionals, leaders and salespeople get past the resistance that shows up during change. She has coached since 1999 and has worked with over 4000 professionals worldwide. Her work targets overwhelm, procrastination, anxiety and doubt. She is a certified mediator and a certified master coach. She also speaks to organizations about the messy middle of change.
Ellen Crafts
Ellen Crafts is a life, executive and speaker coach who helps women through career reinvention, leadership challenges and high-stakes speaking moments. She founded Life Crafts Coaching in 2019 and works with clients online across the United States. Before coaching, she worked in social work, corporate marketing and events, and film production. She won an Emmy for the documentary Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street. She has more than 30 years of experience across boardrooms, production sets and nonprofits.
Emily W.
Emily W. is a career coach who helps students and young professionals land roles in management consulting, corporate strategy and business operations. She is a Senior Manager leading Strategy at eBay. Before that she worked in consulting at Boston Consulting Group and in corporate strategy at LinkedIn. She also sits on interview panels for several companies, so she sees hiring decisions from the inside. She coaches candidates targeting roles in the US and Asia.
Erica Berejnoi
Erica Berejnoi is a life coach who works with highly sensitive people and empaths. She holds a Ph.D. in Sustainability and is a Board Certified Coach. She has coached for more than 5 years. Erica uses psychosynthesis, a branch of psychology that includes the higher Self, in her one-on-one sessions. She is based in Phoenix, Arizona, and coaches clients online around the world in English and Spanish.
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.
Ihssane Z.
Ihssane Z. coaches management consultants and other professionals on interviews and career growth. She is a former McKinsey manager and interviewer. She has interviewed and coached hundreds of candidates for MBB firms. She also reviews resumes and helps clients handle new jobs, promotions, and tough stakeholders. She has served on selection committees and personally hired dozens of people into competitive roles. She is based in Paris, France.
Jacqueline Connors
Jacqueline Connors is a mindset and mental performance coach and licensed psychotherapist in Napa. She helps professionals and people in life transitions deal with anxiety, self-doubt, and self-sabotage. She runs Discovery 2.0, her private practice. Before that, she led international projects overseas and held leadership roles in public and private mental health. She has trained and supervised other therapists. Her method works with the subconscious mind to change deep beliefs.
Jared James
Jared James is a real estate coach, trainer and keynote speaker. He helps agents, team leaders, brokers and entrepreneurs grow their businesses. He is a former top-producing Realtor and the founder and CEO of Jared James Enterprises. He has trained tens of thousands of real estate professionals. His training covers lead generation, conversion, social media and AI. He also hosts the podcast Today with Jared James.
Jeff Gothelf
Jeff Gothelf trains and coaches product leaders, executives and teams in product management, product discovery and OKRs. He is a five time author and a keynote speaker. He also gave a TEDx talk on storytelling. His newest book covers customer-centric OKRs. He teaches teams at organizations of every size. His current focus is helping teams build AI products that connect to customer value.
Jennifer Powers
Jennifer Powers is a life coach and mentor coach who helps professionals build confidence and skill. She holds the ICF Master Certified Coach credential and wrote the book Oh, Shift! She has been a mentor coach for the Coach Training Alliance since 2007 and has trained and certified thousands of coaches. She has given keynotes to over 250,000 people and has clients on five continents. She works from Portland, Oregon.
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.
Joanna Wiebe
Joanna Wiebe is a messaging strategist and copywriting trainer who helps marketing teams, startup founders and freelancers write copy that sells. She created the idea of conversion copywriting and founded Copyhackers in 2011. She has trained 10,000 copywriters. Her clients range from a one-person medical SMS startup to AWS. She runs brand voice and messaging workshops for whole teams, not just the writers.
Joe Sanok
Joe Sanok is a private practice consultant who helps counselors and therapists start, grow, and scale their practices. He started Practice of the Practice in 2012 to write about business and marketing for counselors. He sold his own counseling practice in 2019. He is a keynote and TEDx speaker and hosts a podcast for counselors. He also wrote the book Thursday is the New Friday.
John Sonmez
John Sonmez coaches software developers who want to build a career through visibility and a personal brand. He created Rockstar Developer University and is a two-time best-selling author with 400K subscribers. His Rockstar System uses YouTube, podcasts, LinkedIn, writing and speaking to build authority. Clients have won promotions, grown audiences, started consulting and landed conference talks. One client grew a Unity channel from 1,000 to 30,000 subscribers under his coaching.
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.
Katherine Kuhn
Katherine Kuhn is an HR coach and speaker who helps HR professionals and leaders stay calm and clear under pressure. She spent 25+ years in executive HR, handling employee relations, executive advising, and workforce transitions. She created Regulated Presence, a framework built on stress science, and the RP4 Method. She also gives keynotes on calm leadership, burnout, and high-stakes conversations.
Keshawn Hughes
Keshawn Hughes is a neurocoach and NeuroLeadership consultant who coaches leaders on burnout, confidence and influence. She founded NeuroSavvy, a brain-based framework for leadership growth. Keshawn has helped hundreds of leaders reach their goals. She also consults for HR and DEI teams in tech and for government agencies. Her speaking clients include Intuit, Fullscript, Georgia Tech and Purdue University. She holds a Master's degree in Strategic Communication.
Kimberly Lai
Kimberly Lai is a leadership coach and trainer who helps professionals grow as leaders and communicate with impact. She has trained and coached people at Google, Netflix and BlackRock since she was 24. She has worked with 5,000+ professionals and led 1,000+ workshops at LifeLabs Learning. She now runs Origin Co., where she teaches both leadership tools and the principles behind them.
Kristina Krizic
Kristina Krizic is an executive communication coach who works one on one with trusted professionals, especially internationals and expats. Her clients do strong work and still get overlooked. She helps them state their value clearly, build executive presence, and get noticed for promotion. She has built her career in Croatia, Italy, and Germany, in PR, journalism, TV hosting, and internal communications. She coaches online across Europe in four languages.
ML Leadership
ML Leadership is a leadership and communication coaching practice that helps organizations build strong leaders and high-performing teams. The founder worked for over 20 years as a journalist at CNN, Thomson Reuters and Al Jazeera. That work shapes the storytelling and stage presence used in sessions. The practice offers coaching, communication training and keynotes. Work is remote-friendly and runs in English, Spanish, Italian, French and Portuguese.
Mantasha Lakdawala
Mantasha Lakdawala is a career coach who helps college graduates and aspiring product managers break into tech. She began her career at Salesforce as an engineer and moved into product management. She now works as a Senior Product Manager at Palo Alto Networks and mentors at Pathrise. She has a special focus on graduates from minority backgrounds. She also gives talks on the challenges of entering the tech industry.
Marissa McCourry
Marissa McCourry is an executive and leadership coach who works with high-performing professionals. She holds an International Coach Federation certification. Her coaching is open to any industry, with deep experience in finance, fintech, technology and academia. She currently directs global leadership development at Visa. Before that she worked at Vanguard, at the consultancy BTS, and in executive education at Thunderbird and the University of Arizona. She has 27 years of work experience, 12 of them in executive and leadership development.
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.
Melanie S.
Melanie S. coaches people who want to break into or move up in management consulting and program management. She is a former Associate at BCG in Dubai. Before that she worked at the U.S. Department of State. Since 2020 she has worked as a freelance strategy manager and consultant, mostly in healthcare with global pharmaceutical firms. She has coached over 40 people on case interviews and related topics, and she knows the path for non-traditional applicants well.
Molly Curry
Molly Curry is a leadership and communications coach who helps executives, corporate professionals and teams speak with confidence and lead with clarity. She spent more than 14 years in asset management, where she ran investor relations, business development and people operations teams. Before that, she worked as a professional stage, film and TV actor. She combines both careers in her coaching on public speaking, presentations and cross-cultural communication. She is based in Long Island City, New York.
Nadia De Ala
Nadia De Ala is a leadership and negotiation coach who runs Real You Leadership. She coaches women of color and BIPOC leaders on career moves, pay, and using their voice. Before coaching, she spent more than ten years in enterprise and startup tech, leading teams through fast growth. She also runs workshops for companies including Google, Airbnb, Amazon and Meta. Her stated mission is to close the pay and leadership gap for BIPOC professionals.
Pam Gibbons
Pam Gibbons is a life coach in Iowa who helps event marketers, executives and entrepreneurs build confidence, clarity and calm. She holds Life Coach School certification. Before coaching, she held senior roles in event and client marketing, including Director of Production at Tony Robbins, Director of Event Marketing at Infusionsoft and Senior Director of Client Marketing at ADP. She also worked as a corporate trainer at Franklin Covey and in employee development at John Deere.
Patrick Louden
Patrick Louden is an executive coach who helps professionals grow as leaders. He works on leadership, emotional intelligence, conflict, and high stakes conversations. He spent 34 years in the U.S. Government and reached the Senior Executive Service at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, where he oversaw nuclear facilities in the Midwest. He has led more than 3,500 coaching sessions with over 700 professionals, from individual contributors to C-Suite leaders.
Paul Becque
Paul Becque is a self-mastery coach, leadership trainer, speaker and author who helps individuals and organisations change how they act under pressure. He has coached clients since 2010 on confidence, self-esteem, careers, spirituality, health, relationships, public speaking and inner peace. He worked in television for two decades and has spoken to audiences around the world. He has also trained over 60 people at one client's family business. He holds several coaching and trainer certifications.
Paul Edelman
Paul Edelman is a coach and consultant who works with leaders, families and family enterprises facing big decisions. He holds a PhD in developmental psychology from Harvard. For over four decades he has worked with senior executives and family businesses. He has been an AT&T internal consultant, an executive search consultant, and a senior executive at a venture-backed company. He uses his own COImpAct model to work through hard choices step by step.
Pierre Sherrill
Pierre Sherrill is a life and executive coach who helps professionals, leaders and people facing change. He has over 15 years of experience coaching developing adults and professionals. His career runs from higher education to an executive role in the nonprofit sector. He runs EduLib Consulting, which also offers training, facilitation and keynote speaking. He created a coaching method called Soul Work, based on his own research into beliefs, feelings and actions.
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| Coach | Focus | Hourly rate range |
|---|---|---|
| Deborah Ogden | Presentation skills and Public speaking | $90 to $175 an hour |
| Aileen Pincus | Public speaking and Presentation skills | $90 to $175 an hour |
| Anne Skelly | Public speaking and Presentation skills | $90 to $175 an hour |
| College of Public Speaking | Public speaking and Presentation skills | $90 to $175 an hour |
| Dawn McFarland | Executive communication and Voice and delivery | $90 to $175 an hour |
| Digby Kerr | Executive communication and Presentation skills | $90 to $175 an hour |
| Dina Schmid | Public speaking and Presentation skills | $90 to $175 an hour |
| Gina Clear | Executive communication and Interpersonal communication | $90 to $175 an hour |
| Joel Schwartzberg | Public speaking and Presentation skills | $90 to $175 an hour |
| Julia Kraft | Public speaking and Fear of public speaking | $90 to $175 an hour |
| Kate Gladdin | Public speaking and Storytelling | $90 to $175 an hour |
| Lisa Flynn | Interpersonal communication and Executive communication | $90 to $175 an hour |
| Michale Gabriel | Storytelling and Presentation skills | $90 to $175 an hour |
| Natalie Ihrman | Public speaking and Presentation skills | $90 to $175 an hour |
| Turpin Communication | Presentation skills and Executive communication | $90 to $175 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, executive communication, presentation skills and interpersonal communication.
Prices and research
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- How Many Coaching Sessions Do I Need?
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Last updated September 2026.