Career, Business & Leadership
Executive Coach workflow
One-to-one work with senior leaders, often paid for by their company.
Executive coaching is often bought by the company, not the client. Credentials and visible progress matter to the person approving the invoice.
I coach
First clients — keep costs near zero
First clients — keep costs near zero
9 tools · 6 free or with a free plan · 3 paid
Attract Clients
Get found and get leads
Everything that happens before someone becomes a client: showing up online, publishing content, and looking credible enough to be worth a message.
See all 6 resources
Buffer
Marketing
A plain, reliable cross-platform post scheduler — less visual than Later, cheaper to start, and easier if you post to several networks at once.
Schedule LinkedIn posts in one sitting instead of posting when you remember.
Onboard Clients
Turn a lead into a client
The paperwork and the first conversations. Intake forms, waivers, welcome emails — the part clients judge you on before you have coached them once.
See all 6 resources
Kit (formerly ConvertKit)
Client Communication
Email marketing built for creators — welcome sequences, tagging and broadcasts, which covers both your onboarding emails and your newsletter.
A newsletter is how most career and business coaches stay visible between referrals.
Assess
Understand who you are coaching
Baselines, screens, and questionnaires. Whatever you use to find out where a client actually is before writing them a plan.
See all 3 resources
Truity
Assessment
Personality and DISC-style assessments with reports written for professional use, plus accounts built for coaches administering tests to clients.
DISC-style and career assessments with reports written for professional settings.
Plan & Deliver
Do the actual coaching
Programming, nutrition, habits, and the tools you use to deliver all of it week after week.
See all 16 resources
Notion
Coaching Tools
A flexible docs-and-databases tool coaches use to build client dashboards, goal planners and session notes without paying for a purpose-built platform.
Shared session notes and action items your client can see between calls.
Loom
Client Communication
Quick screen-and-camera recordings shared by link — ideal for form feedback, weekly check-in videos and explaining a programme without a live call.
Async feedback on a CV, a deck or a strategy doc without booking another call.
Run the Business
Get paid and stay organised
Scheduling, payments, client records, pricing. The unglamorous layer that decides whether coaching is a job or a business.
See all 20 resources
Paperbell
Software
An all-in-one back office for solo coaches — sell packages, take bookings and payments, sign contracts and keep client notes behind one link.
Professional packages and contracts from the first engagement, without building a back office.
Zoom
Software
The default video call for coaching sessions — reliable on bad connections, and the one tool your clients already know how to open.
The default for calls with busy senior clients.
Grow Yourself
Keep getting better
Certifications, books, podcasts, and the rooms where other coaches talk honestly about what is working.
See all 11 resources
ICF Credentials
Education
The International Coaching Federation's ACC, PCC and MCC credentials — the most widely recognised signal of coach training for corporate clients.
HR and procurement teams often ask for an ICF credential before they sign off on a coach.
Co-Active Coaching
Education
The book behind one of the best-known coach training models — how to hold a client-led conversation built on curiosity and accountability.
A rigorous model for coaching senior people without slipping into advice.
8 tools · 6 free or with a free plan · 2 paid
Attract Clients
Get found and get leads
Everything that happens before someone becomes a client: showing up online, publishing content, and looking credible enough to be worth a message.
See all 6 resourcesBuffer
Marketing
A plain, reliable cross-platform post scheduler — less visual than Later, cheaper to start, and easier if you post to several networks at once.
Schedule LinkedIn posts in one sitting instead of posting when you remember.
Onboard Clients
Turn a lead into a client
The paperwork and the first conversations. Intake forms, waivers, welcome emails — the part clients judge you on before you have coached them once.
See all 6 resourcesKit (formerly ConvertKit)
Client Communication
Email marketing built for creators — welcome sequences, tagging and broadcasts, which covers both your onboarding emails and your newsletter.
A newsletter is how most career and business coaches stay visible between referrals.
Assess
Understand who you are coaching
Baselines, screens, and questionnaires. Whatever you use to find out where a client actually is before writing them a plan.
See all 3 resourcesTruity
Assessment
Personality and DISC-style assessments with reports written for professional use, plus accounts built for coaches administering tests to clients.
DISC-style and career assessments with reports written for professional settings.
Plan & Deliver
Do the actual coaching
Programming, nutrition, habits, and the tools you use to deliver all of it week after week.
See all 16 resourcesNotion
Coaching Tools
A flexible docs-and-databases tool coaches use to build client dashboards, goal planners and session notes without paying for a purpose-built platform.
Shared session notes and action items your client can see between calls.
Loom
Client Communication
Quick screen-and-camera recordings shared by link — ideal for form feedback, weekly check-in videos and explaining a programme without a live call.
Async feedback on a CV, a deck or a strategy doc without booking another call.
Run the Business
Get paid and stay organised
Scheduling, payments, client records, pricing. The unglamorous layer that decides whether coaching is a job or a business.
See all 20 resources
CoachAccountable
Software
Client management built around accountability between sessions — action items, metrics, worksheets and reminders that clients actually see.
Track the actions leaders commit to, and show the sponsor that the work is happening.
Zoom
Software
The default video call for coaching sessions — reliable on bad connections, and the one tool your clients already know how to open.
The default for calls with busy senior clients.
Grow Yourself
Keep getting better
Certifications, books, podcasts, and the rooms where other coaches talk honestly about what is working.
See all 11 resourcesICF Credentials
Education
The International Coaching Federation's ACC, PCC and MCC credentials — the most widely recognised signal of coach training for corporate clients.
HR and procurement teams often ask for an ICF credential before they sign off on a coach.
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