Speaking coaches for students
Compare 40 speaking coaches. Besides their main focus, the most common focus areas are public speaking, interpersonal communication, executive communication and presentation skills. They most often work with students, professionals and parents. Most charge $80 to $250 per hour or session.
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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.
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.
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.
Robbie Fear
Robbie Fear is a conscious communication coach in New Zealand. Robbie helps people handle conflict and hard conversations in romantic relationships, friendships, work and family. Sessions mix narrative therapy with somatic tools that connect body and mind. Robbie holds a Bachelor of Communications and is finishing a Masters of Counselling in narrative therapy. Robbie also leads a 5 day somatic immersion in Ubud, Bali, built around movement.
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.
Brandon Mack
Brandon Mack is an independent college admissions consultant in Houston, Texas. He helps students, parents, and organizations through the admissions process. He worked in admissions for 13 years, including as Associate Director of Admission and Coordinator of Transfer Admission at Rice University. He later served as Interim Director of Operations at the International Association for College Admission Counseling. He also offers equity, inclusion, and diversity consulting and meeting facilitation through B. Mack Strategies.
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.
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.
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.
Rachel League
Rachel League is an MBA admissions consultant and career coach. She helps people who want to enter investment banking, private equity, venture capital, business school, or early-stage startups. She also coaches public speaking, pitch delivery, and storytelling. Rachel worked at Citi, Morgan Stanley, a multibillion-dollar private equity fund, and a VC firm. She earned her MBA at Wharton and founded a startup that was accepted into eight accelerator programs.
Samar Fahmy
Samar Fahmy is an admissions consultant who helps students apply to PhD programs, master's programs, and college. She spent 15 years at Stanford University supporting graduate students in Electrical Engineering, the Biosciences, and the Center for Entrepreneurial Studies. She has over 20 years in higher education. Her students have gained admission to schools such as UCLA, UC Berkeley, Stanford, Swarthmore, and Northeastern. She also worked at InGenius Prep.
Tom Vosburgh
Tom Vosburgh is an MBA admissions consultant and public speaking coach. He helps applicants plan their strategy, write essays, prepare for interviews and negotiate financial aid. Tom earned an MBA/MPH at Berkeley Haas and worked at Deloitte. He has worked with more than 20 MBA clients. As a student, he was an official admissions ambassador and met hundreds of applicants. His own applications led to scholarships at multiple top 15 schools.
Wendy Perlin
Wendy Perlin is an independent educational consultant and communication trainer. She helps high school, college and graduate students, and working professionals. She is president of Perlin Consulting and a speech language pathologist with over 20 years of experience. She spent more than a decade at the Shirley Ryan Abilitylab in Chicago. She also edited and researched the K & W Guide to Colleges for Students with Learning Differences. She is based in Kildeer, Illinois.
Alex Olsen
Alex Olsen is a management consulting coach who helps people prepare for consulting jobs and top programs. Alex is a former Bain manager who led consulting teams on growth strategy, tech transformation, go-to-market strategy, and automation projects. At Bain, Alex interviewed 30+ candidates and reviewed 100+ resumes. Alex is also an Air Force veteran with a Harvard master's degree. Coaching covers management consulting, college, communication and public speaking, and master's programs.
Imbert Fung
Imbert Fung is an independent college consultant and education coach who helps teenagers and young adults with university applications, career preparation and presentation skills. Imbert founded Future Reach Education in the Toronto area. Imbert is an MIT and UPenn alumnus and a HECA member. Imbert brings experience from hiring and leading hundreds of employees across industries. Imbert's office is in Downtown Markham, Ontario.
Jane Wolery
Jane Wolery is a life coach and speaker who helps rural teens, young professionals, families, and adults. She works with people facing school stress, career uncertainty, self-doubt, anxiety, and pressure. Jane grew up on a farm and ranch in northern Montana. She has more than 30 years of experience as an educator and is also a certified school counselor and certified life coach. She also gives talks and workshops for rural communities, schools, and organizations.
Management Consulted
Management Consulted is a team of coaches who prepare students and professionals for consulting jobs. They focus on case interviews, consulting resumes, and recruiting. They have served over 15,000 clients in 18 years. Their clients have gotten jobs at 170+ companies. They report that 80% of premium coaching clients receive offers. They also run live events, a case prep course, and corporate training on executive communication and project management.
Brian Swan
Brian Swan is an independent college admissions consultant and the owner of Greatland College Consulting in Anchorage, Alaska. He helps students and parents find a college that fits on academics, social life and cost. He wrote The Savvy Guide to the 4-Year WUE Colleges, a book on the Western Undergraduate Exchange program. He also offers help with Common App essays, transfer students and public speaking.
Julia Byrd
Julia Byrd is a communication and teens coach in Houston who helps college applicants write their admissions essays. She is an essay specialist with 20 years in writing, editing, and storytelling. She also holds a master's degree in counseling psychology. She works one-on-one or in small groups, in person and online. Her focus is helping students find their own stories and voices so their essays stand out to admission officers.
Angela Lewonczyk
Angela Lewonczyk is a tutor who prepares students for verbal admissions exams, including the GMAT, GRE, SAT, TOEFL and IELTS. She has tutored since 2013 in Manhattan, Paris and online. Before that she trained as an actor and spent 10 years in New York City. She also teaches English to professionals, edits academic essays, and has written test content for TOEFL speaking and writing.
Erika Desmond
Erika Desmond is an admissions consultant who helps students apply to private high schools, colleges and MBA programs. She went through the boarding school process herself at age 13 and attended Phillips Exeter Academy. She later earned an English degree at Hamilton College and an MBA at MIT Sloan. Her English background shapes her essay help, and she works to make each student's own story come through in their writing.
Grant Stierwalt
Grant Stierwalt is a management consulting coach who helps students and early-career candidates prepare for consulting jobs and MBA programs. He also coaches on communication, public speaking and startup founder topics. Grant worked at Bain & Co and served as a Bain recruiter who prepared students for interviews. He later led wholesale at birddogs, where he grew the business from $0 to $4M. He is now an MBA student at Stanford GSB.
Kyla Cofer
Kyla Cofer is a leadership and self care coach who helps people recover from burnout and anxiety. She is also a podcaster and keynote speaker based in Nashville, Tennessee. She built her work on decades of training in social work, nonprofits and life coaching. She has shared her story with audiences of all sizes since she was 15, from Oregon to South Africa. Her talks cover burnout, self care and learning from failure.
Pete Rosos
Pete Rosos is a certified life coach in Prescott, Arizona. He helps people set goals, find purpose and build a life that fits them. He also offers creativity coaching and relational coaching. Before coaching, Pete spent over twenty years as a photojournalist, portrait and event photographer, musician and educator. He practices at Sunstone, a small private practice in downtown Prescott. He coaches online and in person, and he speaks German and English.
Svetlana Banks
Svetlana Banks is a certified life coach and communication coach who also works from a Christian perspective. She helps people build confidence, find authentic relationships and take action toward the life they want. She has over 100 hours of motivational speech experience and has spoken in several countries. She wrote the book "Descent into Heaven." She has worked with students, teachers, women and parents of children with disabilities.
Libero Antonio Di Zinno
Libero Antonio Di Zinno, known as Tony, is a photography expert and coach who works with college students and others who want clear direction in life and work. He is a professor emeritus with a career of more than 30 years. He worked as a photojournalist in over 88 countries. His subjects ranged from the Dalai Lama to Air Jordan. He also has ties to ArtCenter College of Design and Nike.
Noted Careers
Noted Careers is an Australian career management firm that coaches professionals on job search, career change and long term career plans. It also offers executive coaching and communication workshops. The firm started in 2004 and serves clients in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth and Hobart. Its nine career management programs each keep working with the client until they win a job offer and finish 3 months of their probation period.
Sadrail Saint-Ulysse
Dr. Sadrail Saint-Ulysse is an independent college consultant in New Jersey who helps students and parents with college admissions. He runs SSU Educational Consulting, LLC. The practice puts college fit and affordability first. It also covers SAT and ACT prep, career counseling, and college transfer. He is a speaker who gives talks on education and civic involvement to schools, churches, community groups and corporations.
Sue Zhong
Sue Zhong is an independent educational consultant who helps students and parents with college admissions. She runs Aurorae Young Speech & Debate Academy in Bellevue, Washington. The academy trains middle and high school students in speech and debate, in person and online. Students take part in debate tournaments. She also offers education planning, school and college application help, and one-on-one tutoring or small class learning.
Sulaiman Jenkins
Sulaiman Jenkins is an academic success coach who helps students and academics with their school and career goals. He is the Director of Career and Professional Development at Yale University. Before that, he was Director of Programs at Johns Hopkins University, where he ran research training programs for students. He has coached over 100 clients. His work covers academic advising, higher education administration, and recruiting for jobs in higher education.
Terry Friedrichs
Dr. Terry Friedrichs runs Friedrichs Education in Mendota Heights, Minnesota. Terry is an independent educational consultant and tutor who helps students and parents with test prep, school subjects and school selection. Terry prepares students for the PSAT, SAT, SAT II, ACT and GRE. Terry is a teacher who grew up in Mendota Heights and also presents around the world on testing and gifted education. Terry also offers senior services.
Will Peters
Will Peters is a college admissions counselor who also coaches career growth and communication. He worked in college admissions as a Territory Manager and managed the cycle for 2,000+ applicants across Nevada and Contra Costa County. He is a former middle school English teacher. Today he is a Program Manager at UC Davis, where he builds career development programs and trains groups of 6 to 100+ people.
Kris Safarova
Kris Safarova leads FIRMSconsulting, a Canadian practice with a team that coaches students and professionals on consulting case interviews and careers. The team also offers executive coaching and executive presence and communication coaching. The practice is run by management consultants. They built an AI strategy tool named Michael to support their own analysis, and they now offer it to clients. It scopes a business problem and produces a strategy study in under 2 hours.
Erika Smith
Erika Smith is an independent educational consultant in Lexington, Kentucky. She helps students and parents plan for college and get through the admissions process. She has worked in college admissions since 1998. She has been an admissions professional and a school counselor and college planner at a private high school. She also offers workshops, support for school counselors and teachers, and speaking events.
Kelli Murbach
Kelli Murbach is a coach who supports people who feel they do not fit the mold of normal. She works with trauma survivors, neurodiverse people, artists, engineers, scientists and people in life transitions. She founded Secular Shepherdess and holds a Master of Social Work. She coaches as a peer, not a clinician, and uses a seven domain model called the Life Support Paradigm. Sessions happen on Zoom, weekly or every other week.
Maryan Kang
Maryan Kang runs Vision to Reality, a tutoring and academic consulting group in Rancho Palos Verdes, California. The practice helps students and parents with college admissions. Kang has worked with over 500 students and helped them get into top 100 colleges. Students get help with essays, resumes, interviews, test plans and financial aid forms. The practice does not cap the number of sessions. Students have been accepted to schools such as MIT, Columbia and Princeton Theological Seminary.
Sarah Girolami
Sarah Girolami is an independent educational consultant with The Carnahan Group in New Orleans, Louisiana. She helps students and parents with college and boarding school admissions. The firm is the longest continuously running educational consultancy in Louisiana. Its team has 80+ years of combined admissions experience since the early 1990s. The group has worked with 1000+ students and serves families in person and online, with satellite offices that reach students around the world.
Jessica Frustere-Johnson
Jessica Frustere-Johnson is a mentor in climate tech and sustainability who helps people grow their leadership and communication skills. She has spent more than 12 years building new programs in corporate, nonprofit and public policy settings across the U.S. and Europe. She created the first CSR framework at a $100B aerospace company during a merger. She also built an ESG governance system at a multinational that spans hospitality, agriculture and pro sport. She works from Des Moines, Iowa, on Central Time.
Martha Sandven
Martha Sandven is an independent educational consultant in West Fork, Arkansas. She helps students and parents with college admissions, and she is a member of the IECA. She is also a National Board Certified teacher with degrees in speech, theatre and film, and secondary English. Her teaching work includes a course that is now required for future secondary teachers at the University of Arkansas. She also runs arts programs for youth in Northwest Arkansas.
Side by side
| Coach | Focus | Hourly rate range |
|---|---|---|
| Dawn McFarland | Executive communication and Voice and delivery | $90 to $175 an hour |
| Natalie Ihrman | Public speaking and Presentation skills | $90 to $175 an hour |
| Elke Framson | Public speaking and Executive communication | $90 to $175 an hour |
| Inès Schinazi | Public speaking and Storytelling | $90 to $175 an hour |
| Robbie Fear | Interpersonal communication | $90 to $175 an hour |
| Anna Chin | Presentation skills and Storytelling | $80 to $150 an hour |
| Brandon Mack | Public speaking | $130 to $300 an hour |
| DW Performance | Public speaking and Presentation skills | $85 to $160 an hour |
| Emily W. | Career coach for consulting, strategy and operations roles | $90 to $175 an hour |
| Mantasha Lakdawala | Public speaking | $75 to $170 an hour |
| Rachel League | Public speaking and Presentation skills | $70 to $145 an hour |
| Samar Fahmy | PhD and grad school admissions consultant with 15 years at Stanford | $70 to $130 an hour |
| Tom Vosburgh | Public speaking and Presentation skills | $70 to $145 an hour |
| Wendy Perlin | Executive communication and Interpersonal communication | $150 to $225 an hour |
| Alex Olsen | Interpersonal communication | $75 to $150 an hour |
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Most speaking coaches charge $80 to $250 per hour or session.
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Common focus areas include public speaking, interpersonal communication, executive communication and presentation skills.
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Last updated September 2026.