If there’s anything greater than successfully establishing your own business, it’s probably teaching others how to do it. There are countless entrepreneurs out there who make us wonder how did they achieve their success and what they did differently to get rich or famous. Well, if you are also searching for those answers, you have come to just the right place.
With this article, we will be introducing you to 20 such business coaches who are not only successful in their own respective fields but are also teaching other aspiring entrepreneurs to do the same.
Rachel Paige
Founder & CEO of The Beauty Lounge in Houston, Texas, Global educator for Laced Hair Extensions, and 7 figure Business Coach for salon owners. Rachel continually teaches other stylists how to be successful artists as well as how to start their own luxury salon from the ground up. Her educational course, BABES IN BUSINESS, a Salon Ownership Coaching program, is a visionary blueprint to successful salon ownership. Rachel attends advanced education classes across the globe, elevating herself and her career so she can continue advancing her coaching students with all the knowledge they need to cultivate successful businesses. Her program has helped change the stereotype of salon ownership, leading by example through her own empire, she has shown how to be a successful salon owner! If you are already or an aspiring salon owner Rachel will help you elevate your business to success for years to come.
Lara Augusta
As an alchemist of being, Lara Augusta is a Life & Leadership Coach focused on guiding clients towards fulfilling their highest potential while going through transitions in life. Working collaboratively, Lara uncovers the deepest layer of awareness, noticing energy patterns for clients and helping them unlock barriers, expand choices, and move steadily towards self-fulfillment and success.
Lara is a specialist in Core Energy Leadership Coaching, Social-Emotional Learning and Positive Intelligence (PQ). She utilizes both breakthrough neuroscience and psychology practices in her work with clients. Through the use of distilled techniques and acute energy shifting, she helps her clients identify their inner knowing and develop actionable plans to advance their lives.
Lara embraces a multicultural, multi-passionate approach to coaching, and offers a fresh, unique perspective. She has lived, studied, and worked in Brazil, Canada, China, Switzerland, Russia, South Korea, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Her travels have taken her to 53+ countries. It is from this expansive and varied experiences that she is able to provide a deep and rich coaching experience.
Brigitte Ayoub
Brigitte Ayoub is a business and marketing coach as well as the managing director of an all women’s international connection organization. She helps established female business owners amplify their brand and authority, take their confidence to new heights, and elevate a profitable business while managing life events.
Brigitte is first-generation Arab American born to Palestinian immigrants. She faced extensive adversity in her personal life while growing a successful business in the last three years. Within four months of leaving her corporate job, her father passed away following her Mom leukemia’s cancer diagnosis (right before COVID-19 global pandemic hit).
She has a Bachelor in Marketing alongside a Master in Organization Development Leadership specializing in Adult Learning Styles. Further, she has over a decade of consumer behaviorism & adult learning dynamics experience that allows her to bring a unique client raving experience.
Corey Wright
Corey Wright is a lifelong entrepreneur and the founder of XYG Coaching. Since 2004, he has launched, scaled, and sold more than a half dozen 7-figure and 8-figure businesses across SaaS, e-commerce, and service brands.
In 2019, he launched XYG Coaching so he could amplify his skill and passion of systemizing success by focusing on businesses that have already established product-market fit, but have hit a plateau or have lost passion for the business due to complexity, lack of accountability, and poor systems.
Corey’s ability to build consensus among even the most fragmented leadership teams, install a culture of accountability, systemize success, and do it all while making it fun, make him an ideal coach for growing businesses looking to break through the $25M milestone.
You can also get access to his passionate energy and inspiration on YouTube and Instagram with his weekly coaching videos.
Stefany Nieto
Stefany has built multiple international ventures with long-lasting social impact. She co-founded Gwella, a mushroom company building the most accessible and original over-the-counter portfolio of mushroom products that amplify individual and community wellness for today’s modern era. As COO, she architects the execution of strategic goals while fostering a collaborative team culture and building customer-centric partnerships.
Previous to Gwella, Stefany founded Green Iglu, an award-winning food-sovereignty start-up that builds food production facilities in remote communities across Canada, including the Arctic. As Executive Director within Green Iglu, she oversaw operations and led corporate partnerships including Google, Ernst and Young, and the Government of Canada.
Amanda Howard
Amanda Howard, owner and CEO of Amanda Howard Sotheby’s International Realty, is known for her success in the real estate industry and being a passionate advocate for the community. Amanda spent the last 14 years building her team that has served more than 7,000 families, equaling $1.2 billion in sales and counting! While leading her real estate team, she also joined the ranks of a top coaching firm, as ‘CEO Coach’ to share advice and help other real estate teams and firms across the country. Amanda enjoys sharing and inspiring other real estate entrepreneurs and has helped many teams grow in size and dollar volume. She has seen her protegees grow as much as 600 percent in sales, and reach top level accolades in their States. As a successful female entrepreneur, Amanda has often been asked to speak about her strategies and her path to achievement and enjoys sharing her stories with audiences small and large.
Joey Drolshagen
As a powerhouse within the coaching industry, Joey Drolshagen is known for leading professionals, feeling stuck and unfulfilled in their works, to experience FREEDOM, beyond what a JOB can offer, and not have to wait until they retire to do so.
After decades of studies on the subconscious mind, multiple certifications, and a 28+ year career in Corporate America, up to Vice President of Sales over multiple corporations, Joey resigned from his highly successful career with only 3 clients to his name, to follow his passion. As the CEO & Founder of IFGT Life Coaching, he has since been able to lead countless individuals, to move beyond their JOB, into a life they don’t need a vacation from!
Using his innovative, Subconscious Mindset Training™ process, Joey’s clients repeatedly achieve beyond what they’ve experienced prior; taking their business/professional goals and ideas to new heights, and do so in weeks, not years!
Kevin Wessels
Kevin Wessels is the Founder of RevSherpas, a boutique business growth advisory firm for small to mid-sized businesses. Based in Houston, he has over 10 years of revenue growth acceleration and customer experience strategy consulting experience scaling global companies using his internationally proven and proprietary Client Connect!™ formula. Consistently delivering rapid results backed by a 200% ROI guarantee for his client family members, his specialties are revitalizing underperforming marketing strategies, boosting staff productivity, improving sales conversions, and increasing client retention to significantly grow profits. A multi-published author, his work has appeared in Entrepreneur, Business 2 Community, CustomerThink, SmallBizClub, True Hollywood Talk, and several other media outlets. He is also a mentor to many new entrepreneurs and digital agency owners looking to recession-proof their business and create more consistent cash flow quickly, inexpensively, and with less effort.
Steph Shinabery
Steph Shinabery is an author/speaker/nurse anesthesiologist and creative business strategist. She is a best selling author in Women Who BossUp and a recent speaker for season 4 of SPEAKUP on Amazon Prime Video.
After spending much of her life in a career that lacked the inspiration and fulfillment Steph knew was available to her, she began a journey to answer the question: “what is it I truly desire?”
Her journey led to creation of the Genius Identity Code™, a process for unlocking your gift, purpose and path; the foundation for creating a soul aligned business and brand. She uses her own code to help others fully express their message and execute their mission.
Steph works with creative entrepreneurs and coaches to help them embrace their authenticity, create their unique brand vibe to cut through the noise to stand out online, so they can increase their impact, influence and income.
Megan Mallory Ritz
Megan is a John Maxwell Certified Business Coach. Her clients are entrepreneurs in the food industry who are reclaiming financial and time freedom while growing their businesses. Clients include those working to grow their business, start a new business or develop a succession plan. She currently has clients across the US. Empowering people to change their lives is why she became a coach. “This industry can be brutal, and I am fortunate to be surrounded by incredibly talented people whom I can learn from. I am honored to be able to share what I know to help other business owners rebuild their foundations and rediscover their passions. Together we can redefine what it means to run a business in this industry and build a community built on values and collaboration.”
She also owns a bakery. Classic Cakes, her award-winning custom cake shop is currently celebrating 26 years, in Carmel Indiana.
Hayley Bohan
With over twenty years in progressively senior marketing roles, this award-winning marketer has been at the heart of many beloved brands, including Canadian favorites Moose Light, Alexander Keith’s, and Swiss Chalet. She’s launched several brands and line extensions, re-positioned brands, localized international brands, and managed hundreds of promotions as well as multiple TV, radio, online, email, loyalty, and traditional media campaigns.
In late 2017, Hayley turned her marketing passion into a passion for entrepreneurship when she launched her company Marketing On Purpose where she’s already helped over 100 small business owners take their marketing to the next level. She describes her coaching approach as co-creation at its best where business owners who work with her end up with brands they are totally aligned with and passionate about, as well as the strategies they need to fuel growth and bring those brands to life. She is the mastermind behind the Marketing On Purpose Academy, the brand-worth-loving methodology, and the ACRE Growth System for small businesses.
She’s intuitive, creative, and experienced, and she brings her whole heart to each client. And, they feel it!
Eddie Parinas & Allison Seller
From transforming bodies to transforming bank accounts, this dynamic couple is making waves in the industry, teaching health entrepreneurs how to turn their coaching practice into a multi-six and seven-figure business.
Known for their success as Personal Trainers, Health & Nutrition Coaches, Eddie and Allie understand what it takes to thrive in the industry and how hard it can be to grow a business. Inspired by wanting more freedom in their own lives, they developed the 7-Figure Freedom Blueprint; streamlining systems, quickly and easily attracting your best clients, doubling incomes while cutting work hours back to their famous 4×4 (4 hours a day, 4 days a week). Since evolving their own business using this model, then quickly reaching five countries and hundreds of coaches in less than a year, is what has Eddie and Allie on the list of Top 30 Coaches to look out for in 2021
Maribel Ortega
Maribel Ortega is a professional coach, mentor, keynote speaker and podcaster. Her personal mission is to inspire, empower and motivate professional women to uncover their worth and be confident, so that they can use their voice, speak up, take new opportunities and ultimately lead fulfilled lives. She specializes in coaching and training high-level executives in navigating globalization and multicultural business environments. Maribel has a special interest in emotional and cultural intelligence. During the pandemic she decided to scale up her coaching practice to elevate the lifes of more women. With her flagship coaching program Unshakeable Confidence she is creating a movement of the new kind of leader that the world needs today: the woman who is confident in herself, who is comfortable in her own skin, wild, untamed, who raises her voice when the ocassion requires and takes the space she needs.
Marian Evans
Meet Marian Evans, who was recently awarded inspirational businesswoman of the decade. Marian, you might recognize from the media and press when news got out about the secret purchase of her childhood dream home Llansteffan castle. She is a UK business coach and advisor for top-tier executives and leaders and her reviews frequently mention her first-class results. Business coach Marian Evans is sought after for her ability to unlock people’s A-game and to set themselves higher goals whilst giving them a clear roadmap on how to get there.
Marian Evans attracts top-tier executives and leaders as a highly qualified coach with accredited services renowned for her exceptional business acumen and emotional quotient.
She wants to inspire executives to change the limits that they set themselves. She believes in creating opportunities for all. Marian is reputable for championing Women in business and women on boards.
Kelley Peake
Kelley Peake has spent 26 years designing a new model for the delivery of high-quality early childhood education. Known for her ability to nurture trusted and highly valued early childhood experiences into profitable businesses, she began her journey with the nation’s leading provider of childcare. A member of the senior management team, she put succession plans in place turning around troubled centers, as well as, developed curriculums, revenue channels, and partnerships that were launched in over 2000 centers.
In the last 16 years, she has expanded her ability to create high-value early childhood experiences with Peake Academy, boutique preschools and Play Boutique, family play cafes. Having become a successful member of the communities she serves; she has been able to leverage that community connection parents are so desperately seeking into a tangible blueprint that other early childhood business leaders can model with her Peake Creative framework as they grow their profitable early childhood business.
Kathy Walterhouse
Kathy Walterhouse is a force of nature and the founder of The Professional Rule Breaker. She is an ex-corporate sales expert having sold close to a billion dollars. Known as being a negotiation guru, sales strategist, and leader closing large and small deals easily she is continually asked about her process. Her love of working with outside-the-box thinkers led her to start The Professional Rule Breaker.
Entrepreneurs gravitate to Kathy’s unique style. She has become obsessed with helping business owners find their authentic voice, tell their story and supercharge their sales. In a short time, she reached clients on an international level. In an effort to scale and help more entrepreneurs she has developed online courses to increase access to her knowledge and accelerate the sales growth of her clients. Part of Kathy’s formula is clients must have the philosophy of drawing outside the lines, not following what is expected. In essence, be a rule breaker so they can stand out of the crowded marketplace. She has always had the motto of “Just do it and don’t let anyone stop you” which has led to great success.
Vicki Goodfellow Duke
Vicki Goodfellow Duke is a recognized expert in oral communication, strategic message design, information management and persuasion. She is the founder of Outspoken Communications: the public speaking experts. Known for her success in bringing science to the practice of speaking, Vicki is the author of two public speaking books, Gab Lab and Street Smart Persuasion. Vicki anchors her training in cognitive science, neuroscience and psychology – training speakers to understand why particular choices are better than others. Disrupting an industry which focuses on public speaking as performance, Vicki encourages speakers to begin by developing clear, intentional thinking patterns. “Becoming a great conversationalist is the quickest and easiest way to become a comfortable, confident speaker. The real work begins with navigating the subtleties of purpose, data management, human psychology and strategy. “ An in-demand coach and trainer internationally, Vicki is leveraging Zoom to offer easy access – a silver lining of the pandemic.
Eddie Wilson
After 20 years of success in business, Eddie Wilson has owned and operated over 90 companies. He has owned businesses in the following areas – Advertising, Marketing, Media Production Technology, Coffee, Lending, Real Estate, Investing, Consulting, and Insurance. He has had over 70+ successful exits and is passionate about building sustainable businesses. Within the past 2 years, Eddie has taken his knowledge and built a successful Business Operating System for small to medium-size businesses to help them scale. The business operating system is called Empire.
Eddie now spends his days writing and helping others grow their companies, and speaking at well-known conferences on the topic of business growth and Leadership
Breanna Michel
Breanna Michel is the founder and creator of The Promotions Lab. She has a degree in Business, a love for Online Marketing, and has been a top leader in the direct sales industry for 10+ years.
Breanna has a background in public speaking, content creation, free-lance consulting, coaching, and event coordinating. She now develops new and unique promotions for leaders to 10X their team. For instance, one team promotion yielded 834 new customers in one week.
Her love for promotions began because she wanted to have fun and make money. Breanna has over 75 promotions she has developed and implemented that have contributed to $10M in annual sales.
During the global pandemic, Breanna scaled her promotions in the online marketplace and grew her business by 174% during an economic downturn.
She realized she wanted to give back by coaching direct sales leaders on promotions that generate massive team sales.
Robb Fahrion
Robb Fahrion is the Co-Founder and Partner of Flying V Group, a digital marketing and advertising company located in Orange County, CA. Robb and his team have experienced incredible growth over the past year mainly due to their ability to help businesses adapt their marketing and advertising strategies to the changing global landscape.
Flying V Group has helped businesses navigate the rollercoaster ride that was the year 2020 and helped them to come out on top. Robb’s team helps clients through the utilization of their digital marketing and advertising efforts to open new streams of revenue on a daily basis. Their team prides itself on being an extension of their client’s team in order to provide a true return on any marketing efforts. By placing themselves in their clients’ shoes, Flying V Group is able to coach businesses on how to capitalize on digital marketing efforts and strategy.
Since its inception in 2016, Flying V Group has supported clients throughout the globe and has now surpassed 300 clients served across all industries like SaaS, professional services, medical, e-commerce, and more.
Final Thoughts
Business Coaching is certainly a rewarding career, and it gives one satisfaction of believing that they are passing down their wisdom to other aspiring entrepreneurs and are guiding them towards a better tomorrow. These entrepreneurs are quite successful in their own careers and are fueling their students’ career growth with their expert guidance.
