Speaking coaches for women
Compare 61 speaking coaches. Besides their main focus, the most common focus areas are public speaking, interpersonal communication, presentation skills and executive communication. They most often work with women, founders and business owners and professionals. 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.
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.
Dana Dragomirescu
Dana Dragomirescu is a relational communication counsellor and trainer in Romania. Dana works with women, men and couples on relationships, boundaries and how they speak with others. Dana uses the ESPERE Method, created by French psycho-sociologist Jacques Salome, and classical psychodrama. Dana also brings in work with plants and earth. Dana sees clients one-on-one, as couples and in groups, in Brasov, Bucharest and online.
Renea Skelton
Renea Skelton is a communication and life coach who helps women, and people of all ages, know what to say in hard conversations. She holds a PhD in Leadership and Emotional Intelligence. She speaks at conferences and to teams, and she is an author. Every Sunday she sends a newsletter that breaks down one real communication problem and gives the exact words to use. More than 1K people read it. She coaches online.
Lee Donald
Lee Donald is an online fat loss and habit coach who works with women. Lee has worked in health and fitness since 2011 and founded the Conquer Your Everest coaching program. Lee is also a motivational public speaker and a multi award-winning fitness entrepreneur. In 2024, Lee reached the summit of Mount Everest. The coaching focuses on lasting fat loss, stronger bodies and habits that hold up in real life, without extreme diets.
Christi Alicea
Christi Alicea is a life coach in Ohio who helps women caring for adult loved ones with mental health or substance use struggles. She has 20 years of experience, including work with NAMI and SMART Recovery. Her clients learn to set healthy boundaries, talk more clearly with their loved one, and make time for self-care. She offers one-on-one sessions and a small group program for women.
Eleanor Beaton
Eleanor Beaton is a leadership and business growth coach for women entrepreneurs. She founded SafiMedia, an education and coaching company that aims to double the number of women who scale past $1M in revenue by 2030. She hosts the Power + Presence + Position podcast. Her team has run 1000+ growth consults, and she has spoken at conferences across North America, Latin America and Europe. She works with startups and businesses earning multiple seven figures.
Elizabeth Pampalone
Elizabeth Pampalone is a business coach, decluttering coach and public speaking coach. She helps entrepreneurs, small business owners, startups and overwhelmed women with marketing and simpler ways of working. She has been an entrepreneur for 15 years and has worked with hundreds of business owners and executives. She teaches methods that turn 1 year of marketing content into a 5 day project. She is also a former professional organizer who worked with the TV show Hoarders.
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.
Jessie Mahoney
Jessie Mahoney is a physician coach who works with women in medicine. She blends mindfulness, coaching, and nervous system healing to help clients stop over-functioning and over-giving. She is a pediatrician who left her practice in 2020 to coach full-time. She began work in physician wellness in 2002 and coached physicians from 2018. She offers virtual coaching, retreats in California, keynote talks, and team programs for health systems.
Jill Rhodes Harvey
Jill Rhodes Harvey is a relationship and dating coach who works with women over 50. She helps women who are divorced, widowed or single and facing big life changes. Her sessions cover emotional intimacy, communication skills, family dynamics and friendships. She trained in counselling and emotional intelligence in 2013. In 2015 she was named one of the top ten UK relationship coaches for the over 40s. She coaches by phone, email, Skype or Zoom, so she works with women worldwide.
Kim Kimball
Kim Kimball is a somatic and embodiment coach who helps women through identity transitions such as motherhood, midlife, career change and faith deconstruction. She worked for 13 years as a Doctor of Physical Therapy before she became a coach. She has guided more than 500 clients and has coached for over 8 years. Her work blends somatics, nervous system tools and parts work (IFS). She works from Virginia and offers a one-day Voxer format.
Lynn Goodacre
Lynn Goodacre is a life and communication coach who helps women 50 and older build a full, active life. She also coaches public speaking, confidence and conversation skills. Lynn began coach training in 2010 and is certified in singles coaching. She has trained in couples coaching too. She is also a Registered Massage Therapist and a Toastmaster of over 12 years. She lives on the west coast of Canada and coaches clients online worldwide.
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.
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.
Ruby Evans Leak
Ruby Evans Leak is a Christian life coach who helps women renew their minds and live on purpose. She is an ordained minister and an author of personal development books. She has spoken at churches, women's conferences and nonprofits. She holds a Master Life Coach certification and runs a certified women-owned business south of Atlanta. She also offers document preparation for LLC and nonprofit formation.
Sarah Lakhani
Sarah Lakhani is a business and executive coach in the United Arab Emirates. She helps women who lead organizations, women moving up in corporate, and women building their own businesses. She spent 13 years as an internal strategist at Emirates and started her own consultancy in 2020. Her clients include Dubai Media Office, Dubai Women's Establishment and Nakheel. She uses a Brand-First Methodology that ties brand, strategy and customer experience together.
Serenity Lesley
Serenity Lesley is a life and accountability coach who helps people work through fear, anxiety and past trauma. He founded Manifesting Serenity, a hub that mixes coaching with travel guides, events and group trips. He has held over 800 coaching and peer support sessions and hosted 50+ events. He also speaks at company meetings and webinars. His own path went from complex PTSD to running a business while traveling the world.
Vineetha Kumar
Vineetha Kumar is an executive and transition coach in Dubai. She helps mid to senior professionals, high-potential talent and C-suite leaders with career moves, leadership growth and career strategy. She spent over 19 years in KPMG audits, healthcare and international school operations in the UAE. She has delivered more than 700 coaching hours across pharmaceuticals, technology, healthcare and education. She has lived in the UAE since 2003.
Alex Stark
Alex Stark is an executive and burnout coach who helps high-achieving women and leaders recover from burnout without leaving their careers. Alex is also a licensed therapist. Coaching is offered worldwide, and therapy is offered by video in Florida, Ohio and North Carolina. Alex also runs beach therapy sessions in Carteret County, NC. Alex has a coaching method called The Executive Reset Method and gives talks on burnout.
Arudia
Arudia is a leadership and executive coaching firm led by Anne Collier. It coaches first-time managers, mid-level leaders, senior leaders and professionals such as doctors and lawyers. The firm has over 20 years of experience. It starts each client with an intake package and chosen leadership assessments, then builds a focused development plan. It also runs workshops, keynotes and an online academy, and has expertise in law, associations, behavioral health and nonprofits.
Elizabeth Hagen
Elizabeth Hagen is a Christian life coach and confidence coach who helps women who feel stuck and overwhelmed. She works from South Dakota. She also speaks at events, with keynotes on clarity, organization and moving into a next chapter. She draws on 26 years of experience and her own life story. She has spoken to a crowd of more than 650 people, and she keynoted a Women in Ag Conference.
Gretchen Skalka
Gretchen Skalka is a career and leadership development coach who works with purpose-driven women. She is a former corporate Marketing Director with a background in leadership and employee development. She helps women lead with authenticity, raise their income and widen their professional influence. She uses an exercise called Mine Your Mind to find transferable skills and better career options. She also builds leadership and team programs based on Positive Intelligence and gives talks to businesses.
Laura Jacobson
Laura Jacobson is a coach who helps employees in stressful work settings, especially professional staff in law firms. She worked in law firms for more than 30 years as a legal assistant and office manager. She holds a master's degree in Industrial-Organizational Psychology with a focus on burnout research. Her practice, BASK Coaching & Consulting, is based in Oregon. She uses mindfulness, strengths work, and clear communication to build calm and focus.
Marci Almond
Marci Almond is a life coach and speaker who helps women in a life transition or healing from trauma. Her own 6 year recovery after a surgical mistake shaped her work. She coaches on confidence, career changes, and relationships. She meets clients in person, by phone, or by Zoom. She also speaks at events and offers a free first session.
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.
Topaz Zafrir
Topaz Zafrir is a life and business coach who helps self-employed women and entrepreneurs show up with more confidence. She holds a Master's degree in Organizational Consulting and has over 14 years of experience facilitating processes for individuals and groups. Her focus is marketing confidence, clear communication, and mindset. She works with women held back by self-doubt, imposter syndrome, or fear of being seen.
Wil Gravely-Strayhorn
Wil Gravely-Strayhorn is a Virginia coach who works with professionals, entrepreneurs and emerging leaders on personal branding, image and life coaching. Wil runs L.F.I Coaching & Development and holds certifications in life, financial and marriage coaching plus personal styling. Sessions cover style, grooming, communication and mindset. Wil built the P.O.I.S.E. approach, which ties perception, identity and confidence to how clients show up at work.
Eleanor Allen
Eleanor Allen is an executive coach in Denver. She helps CEOs, C-suite leaders, and people aiming for the C-suite. She held a CEO role for 10 years before she began coaching. She holds the ICF Master Certified Coach credential. Her work centers on interpersonal communication and on organizations that face hard operational and strategic problems. She pays special attention to women and underrepresented leaders.
Elizabeth K
Elizabeth K is a dating, relationship and life coach based in Italy who runs That's Amore Coaching. She helps singles, dating app users and people in relationships. She has taught English for over 10 years and holds a double degree in Law and Commerce. She used dating apps daily for 7 years, so she knows the process first hand. She also offers dating profile makeovers with photo feedback.
Julie Vogler
Julie Vogler is a certified relationship coach who helps women in one-sided relationships. She works with women who feel alone in a partnership with an emotionally distant man. She also coaches single women, newly broken up women and heartbroken women. Her sessions use a present centered model to build new awareness and practices. Her own site also offers couple's dance, communication work and writing and editing services. She calls herself a Connection Specialist.
LaDema Cummings
LaDema Cummings is a life and confidence coach in Indiana who works mainly with women. She spent over 30 years in mental health and psychiatric care as an Advanced Practice Nurse. She coaches on mindset, emotional boundaries and life changes like divorce, empty nesting and retirement. She also hosts a podcast called Embrace the Wrestle, built around facing your struggles head on.
Laurel Alper
Laurel Alper is a business and communication coach who helps small businesses, start-ups and social media creators with networking, marketing and social media. She runs 6 Facebook business networking groups with over 40K members. She also owns Laurel Leaf Networking, a business directory that hosts networking events. Clients learn to build their own Facebook group community, make content in Canva and run Facebook ads. She has over 9 years of experience across major social platforms.
Mieke Stapelberg
Mieke Stapelberg is a communication and confidence coach in Connecticut. She helps clients with life transitions, self esteem, relationships, career, divorce and parenting. She holds a master's degree in clinical mental health counseling and is a licensed counselor in Connecticut. She began her career as an actor in New York City, with a few small TV parts, before moving into one-on-one coaching. She also teaches meditation and works with clients from their own homes.
Monica Wisdom
Monica Wisdom is a life and business coach who works with women. She helps them get clear on their vision, share their stories and build ventures from their skills and life experience. She also creates and hosts the Black Women Amplified podcast, which has 8 seasons and 180 episodes. She brings more than thirty-five years of work with women, plus a background in media, education and publishing. She is based in Missouri.
Paolina Jacobi
Paolina Jacobi is a life and health coach who helps women rebuild their lives and move forward. She is based in Italy. Before coaching, she worked on Wall Street. She then left that career to care for her mother in Europe. After her mother died, she worked through her grief and became a certified health, life and walking coach. Her work centers on two ideas, Reframe and Reclaim and Evolve with Love.
Susan Winter
Susan Winter is a relationship coach in New York City who helps people find and keep love. She works on dating problems, relationship challenges and inner confidence. She has coached since 2000. Before that she worked as an opera singer, a TV anchor and a corporate spokeswoman. She wrote the bestselling book Older Women/Younger Men and also wrote Breakup Triage. She speaks at events and appears often in national media.
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.
Ali Jackson
Ali Jackson is a dating and relationship coach who helps women with their love lives. She runs the Finding Mr. Height brand and hosts a podcast of the same name. Her coaching covers dating app profiles, dating anxiety, and clear communication of needs. She offers one-on-one coaching, monthly programs, and small group programs on topics like dating app revamps and anxious attachment. She builds her advice on her own time spent dating.
Christine Malek
Christine Malek is a coach in Knoxville, Tennessee who helps abuse survivors rebuild their lives. She founded SASSI Coach and Christine Consulting. She is a survivor herself, and she also works as an author, podcaster and speaker on abuse. Her SASSI Program helps clients answer the question of who they are and what comes next after abuse. She also runs programs for toxic and narcissistic relationships and for drug and alcohol addiction. She works with both women and men.
Colette Summerland
Colette Summerland is a mindset coach and public speaking coach who works with women at a turning point. She helps clients who feel overwhelmed, stuck or unsure what comes next. She uses a structured Life Design approach that pairs clear insight with practical strategy. Her work covers career, relationships, identity and purpose. She is also an author and calls herself a life path designer. Clients leave sessions with a defined next step.
Irina Ogsta
Irina Ogsta is an accountability and anxiety coach in Latvia. She helps people move through life transitions with clarity. Her work is built on brain neurobiology. She has over 500 hours of coaching experience and holds a mentor coach credential with L-Con Global. On her own site she works with women who feel unsteady inside while doing well outside. She focuses on calming the nervous system and building steady decision making.
Kari Ginsburg
Kari Ginsburg is an executive and life coach in Virginia. She coaches executive women and femmes and also works as an accent coach. She founded Uproar Coaching, LLC. Kari is a trauma-informed Professional Certified Coach through the International Coaching Federation. She was one of the first 500 people to earn the Certified Change Management Professional credential. She supports people through personal change and organizational change, and she helps clients own what makes them different.
Katy Rushton
Katy Rushton is a Christian life coach and communication coach. She helps people in relationships improve how they talk to each other so they are happier together. She also runs a program for women who want to work on their beliefs and let go of what no longer fits them. She is a Board Certified Coach and a cognitive behavioral therapist. Her practice is Aspen Family Wellness Center, which serves individuals and families.
Laurie Swanson
Laurie Swanson is a career and business coach for women in tech. She runs InspiHER Tech in Illinois. She helps women who feel burnt out or stuck in their careers. Some want to change roles, go part-time, or leave and start their own business. She offers private one-on-one coaching, the Career Alchemy Academy community, and the Career Reset program. She also gave a TEDx talk called Why People Hate Their Jobs.
Shelley Clifford
Shelley Clifford is an accountability and communication coach in Alabama who helps stressed moms find more joy in motherhood. She comes to coaching as an educator with specialized knowledge of child development. She teaches sensory strategies and the value of play. She also teaches parents how to raise a secure child and build a stronger bond with them. Her work pairs these tools with a self care practice of tuning into your own mind.
Mia Carr
Mia Carr is a relationship and anxiety coach who helps women stop self-defeating behaviors so they can build fulfilling relationships. She covers romantic, platonic, family and other interpersonal bonds. She is a licensed clinical professional counselor with 13 years of experience in several states and more than 6,000 hours of direct client contact. She holds a doctorate in counseling psychology. Of 121 one-on-one coaching sessions, all were rated useful by clients.
Stacey Hagen
Stacey Hagen is a business and marketing coach for female entrepreneurs. She works with coaches, creatives and healers who want to be more visible in their work. She holds an MBA and a trauma informed certification. Stacey helps clients work through imposter syndrome and perfectionism. Together they build a personal marketing strategy based on the client's strengths. She is an introvert and highly sensitive person, and she uses that view to coach clients who find visibility hard.
Suzy Putelli
Suzy Putelli is an intuition-based coach, trainer and animal communicator. She helps leaders and dog moms build leadership, communication and connection skills. She teaches through her own BARK method. Her work uses the bond between people and their animals as a way to learn about themselves. Clients can do the work alongside their animal companion. She also offers grief coaching and draws on tools such as Reiki, EFT, NLP and astrology.
Jasmine Star
Jasmine Star is a business coach, speaker and podcast host who helps entrepreneurs and small business owners grow their brands, marketing and sales. She left law school in 2005 and built a photography career with rented gear and a free blog. She later launched online courses and a membership. Her first membership week brought in 2,444 entrepreneurs. She has served 40,000+ business owners and now speaks at corporate events and large conferences.
Sigrun
Sigrun is a business coach and mentor who helps ambitious women build online businesses. She now teaches them to build AI-first companies. She generated 22 million euros in revenue and has helped more than 10,000 clients grow online businesses. She then closed all her programs and rebuilt her business with AI at its core. She is also a TEDx speaker, podcaster and author, and she works from Zurich.
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.
Maria Agustina Ferrari
Maria Agustina Ferrari is an ontological and leadership coach in Argentina who works with women on personal and professional growth. She founded The Power of Inner Listening in 2020. Before that, she coordinated logistics for the Buenos Aires city government at the G20, WTO conferences, presidential summits and United Nations meetings. She has guided over 400 processes across 18 countries. Her focus is helping women move from pressure to coherence as they grow their work.
Melissa Fransky
Melissa Fransky is a burnout coach who helps female physicians who feel overwhelmed and worn out. She is also a rural family physician in Canada, so she knows the job from the inside. She went through her own burnout and now coaches other doctors. Her work draws on psychology, neuroscience and coaching. She also gives talks and workshops made for physicians.
Monique Russell
Monique Russell is an executive, business and leadership coach in Alpharetta, Georgia. She helps women leaders and their teams in IT, healthcare and tech. Her focus is communication. She teaches clients how to speak in ways that help them feel understood and appreciated at work and in personal life. She is a trained DiSC facilitator and a public speaking subject matter expert. She also writes articles on improving communication.
Elizabeth Azeizat
Elizabeth Azeizat is a certified mindset coach and the founder of In One Peace in West Haven. She helps clients build self-acceptance and self-trust. For ten years she has worked mostly with women from different parts of the world. She helps them handle life situations, find their voices, and speak their truth. Her coaching centers on letting go of negative beliefs about yourself and learning to treat yourself with compassion.
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.
Mira Parmar
Mira Parmar is a career confidence and leadership coach who works with women. She also calls herself a mindset mentor. Before coaching, she managed projects and helped people build confidence and speak up at work. She was overlooked for promotions early in her career and felt she had no voice at work. That experience led her to start her own coaching business. She helps women get better pay, better confidence and a better lifestyle.
Patty Gray
Patty Gray is an accountability coach and Christian life coach in Ohio. She runs PGray Professional Christian Life Coaching Services Inc., a nonprofit coaching service. Her coaching is based on the Bible. She helps women who have been battered or abused, survivors of domestic violence, married couples, and anyone who wants a new start in life. Her focus is called "A New Life In Christ." She also lists public speaking as a specialty.
Sarah Freburg-Carrasco
Sarah Freburg-Carrasco is a life, love and intimacy coach who works with LGBTQIA women and femmes. She runs a practice called Queer Life Coach. She came out as lesbian at age 43, and that shapes how she coaches. She holds certifications in LGBTQIA relationships, habit building, goal setting, confidence building, emotional intelligence and cognitive behavioral life coaching. She is also working toward a counseling degree.
Natalie Chalmers
Natalie Chalmers is a relationship coach who helps successful, driven women build a stronger relationship with the man they love. She works with women who already have a good relationship and want to take it from good to extraordinary. Her focus includes conscious parenting, co-parenting as a team, and rekindling romance in long-term partnerships. She also coaches on emotional intelligence and communication. She is neurodivergent and draws on her own 9+ year relationship.
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| Coach | Focus | Hourly rate range |
|---|---|---|
| Deborah Ogden | Presentation skills and Public speaking | $90 to $175 an hour |
| Julia Kraft | Public speaking and Fear of public speaking | $90 to $175 an hour |
| Dana Dragomirescu | Interpersonal communication | $90 to $175 an hour |
| Renea Skelton | Interpersonal communication and Presentation skills | $90 to $175 an hour |
| Lee Donald | Public speaking | $75 to $125 an hour |
| Christi Alicea | Life coach for women caring for adult loved ones in Ohio | $100 to $150 an hour |
| Eleanor Beaton | Business growth coach for women entrepreneurs and founders in Canada | $100 to $225 an hour |
| Elizabeth Pampalone | Public speaking | $75 to $160 an hour |
| Ellen Crafts | Presentation skills and Executive communication | $115 to $175 an hour |
| Jessie Mahoney | Coach and retreat leader for women physicians | $90 to $135 an hour |
| Jill Rhodes Harvey | Relationship and dating coach for women over 50 | $80 to $140 an hour |
| Kim Kimball | Somatic life transition coach for women in Virginia | $140 to $225 an hour |
| Lynn Goodacre | Public speaking and Presentation skills | $100 to $175 an hour |
| Mantasha Lakdawala | Public speaking | $75 to $170 an hour |
| Nadia De Ala | Executive communication and Interpersonal communication | $150 to $275 an hour |
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Last updated September 2026.