Top 10 Female Executive Coaches

An editorial ranking of women coaching at C-suite level, curated on published evidence.

Ranked #6 in the Q3 2026 edition of Top 10 Female Executive Coaches. Assessed against the published methodology.

Jennifer Garvey Berger

France

Co-founder and CEO, Cultivating Leadership; author of five books with Stanford University Press

Co-founder and CEO of Cultivating Leadership, working with senior leaders on complexity, adult development and decision-making under uncertainty. Author of five books published by Stanford University Press.

Why this placement

Five books with Stanford University Press is the most rigorous publication record on this list. A university press applies peer review and academic editorial standards that no trade publisher does, and under a rubric weighting published work at thirty per cent with recency and originality both counted, that is worth more than a larger stack of trade titles.

Her work on adult development and complexity is original scholarship applied to practice rather than practice dressed in borrowed theory — the distinction the thought-leadership markers are designed to detect.

Editorial notes and exclusions

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