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Support for leadership sparring, strategy workshops, sales coaching, and change processes. Find a business coach who fits your brief, your team, and your schedule, with fast and precise matching of vetted, available freelancers.
About the role
What they do
A business coach helps founders, managers, and teams work on performance, direction, and decision-making. Typical assignments include leadership sparring, role clarity, team alignment, and support during growth or change. Some clients need an executive coach for one leader; others bring in a leadership coach for a wider team.
Typical outcomes
- Clearer goals, priorities, and accountability
- Stronger leadership behavior and communication
- Better conflict handling and team dynamics
- Support in change, scale-up, or restructuring
- Focused action plans after workshops or sessions
A strong business coach does not just ask questions. They help clients turn reflection into concrete decisions and follow-up steps.
Skills and methods
The best freelancers combine coaching skill with real business understanding. They listen well, challenge directly, and stay calm in difficult conversations. Many work with frameworks from leadership development, OKR work, team facilitation, sales coaching, or transformation support.
- Active listening and sharp questioning
- Goal setting and structured session design
- Conflict moderation and feedback methods
- Workshop facilitation for leadership teams
- Experience with change, growth, or turnaround situations
Tools and formats
Business coaching is usually delivered through one-to-one sessions, team workshops, and leadership offsites. In Germany, many projects run remotely, but on-site work still matters for sensitive topics, team reset sessions, and executive sparring. Common formats include short sprints, regular coaching cycles, and support tied to a specific business challenge.
When companies bring one in
Companies hire a freelance business coach when they need outside perspective without adding a permanent role. This is common after a promotion, during rapid growth, before a reorganization, or when a leadership team is stuck. It also makes sense when the task is time-bound and needs a trusted external voice instead of internal reporting lines.
What strong coaches stand for
- Clear scope and measurable coaching goals
- Trusted presence with senior stakeholders
- Honest feedback without unnecessary theory
- Good fit for the company culture and language
- Ability to work with leaders, teams, and founders
The strongest coaches are not generic motivators. They understand business pressure, keep sessions focused, and help people act on what they learn. For German companies, that often means direct communication, reliable follow-through, and a practical view of how work actually gets done.
Meet FRATCH Business Coaches
Carolyn Shwash
Senior Business Development Manager
Last position:
VP of Business Development at VendueTech
Led business development across DACH for a PropTech platform digitising distressed real estate and NPL asset sales — unlocking liquidity for illiquid assets through structured digital bidding processes for brokers, investors and insolvency administrators.
Developed and managed enterprise relationships with real estate agencies, banks, servicers and PropTech platforms — driving pipeline generation, commercial negotiations and partnership development across Germany and Europe.
Replaced opaque one-to-one negotiations with transparent multi-bidder environments — supporting distressed real estate sales, NPL/REO asset disposals, portfolio sales and high-demand residential listings with speed, compliance and auditability.
Malte Lohrberg
Product Owner, Product Developer, AI Manager & Organizational Consultant
Last position:
Product Owner, Change Management Coach and Organizational Consultant & Founder and Product Architect at Freelance + Resilience Bakery
The combined experience from recent project years shows that two hearts beat in my chest: on the one hand, working in and for organizations to develop new, innovative products, ideally as part of a digitization strategy or business development – and the closely related change and transformation process expertise as part of holistic organizational consulting. For this, I have established the Change Bakery and Product Validators offerings.
On the other hand, my heart and mind are fired up to find my own products, evaluate markets and potentials, and test ideas. Currently, I am proactively and part-time, in addition to ongoing projects, working on a product idea in the mental health area and have founded Therapymate.
Andreas Metzen
Senior Business Excellence Consultant | Senior Leadership Coach
Last position:
Senior Business Excellence Consultant | Senior Leadership Coach at Independent Consulting & Leadership Coaching
Founded and grew two distinct brands: Carpe Momentum Advisory™ for business excellence consulting and Aware Leadership™ for executive coaching and leadership development.
Authored & launched a leadership framework by developing the Aware Leadership™ Body of Knowledge, a comprehensive methodology captured in a globally published book series (2024 and 2025), and launched accompanying masterclasses and online resources to drive adoption.
Guided an International Trading Group (Germany, 2023) through market entry by developing its business plan, branding, supplier strategies, and sales channels.
Led a full website redesign and migration for an organizational coaching firm (Germany, 2023), implementing a multilingual platform and empowering the client with content management capabilities, resulting in significant cost savings.
Provided comprehensive management consulting to a FinTech start-up (Caribbean, 2021–2022), resolving technical issues, redesigning a multilingual website, and implementing operational improvements to enhance customer satisfaction and reduce costs.
Acted as a key advisor for a change management consultancy (UK, 2023), providing expert feedback to refine a Neuroscience of Leadership training program.
Facilitated B2B opportunities and German market entry for a Chinese opto-electronic company (Germany, 2017) by advising on corporate culture, branding, and establishing a multilingual digital presence.
Advised on the establishment of a Chinese-German educational initiative (Germany, 2019), leading market analysis and developing a strategic framework and business plan.
Improved team culture and communication for a global financial institution (Germany, 2017–2018) through targeted workshops, identified significant cost-saving opportunities, and enhanced operational efficiency by facilitating an Open Space Technology conference.
Doris T.
HR, HR-IT and Transformation
Last position:
HR restructuring (voluntary program)
- Evaluated technical implementation options, including system selection (SAP SF, in-house development)
- Translated HR processes into IT requirements
- Coordinated the international project work streams
Achim Klein
Portfolio Manager, Consultant, Leadership Coach
Last position:
Portfolio Manager, Consultant, Leadership Coach at Abbvie Deutschland GmbH &Co. KG
- Management and optimization of a portfolio of about 100 projects (launches, in-field solutions, data & analytics, digital solutions, digital products)
- Optimization of the existing project standard (playbook) and alignment with the European and global organization (USA)
- Coaching project managers on setup, planning, cooperation with business, GDPR, GxP, data security and launches
- Preparing projects for works council information and project closeout communication
- Optimization of resource management (tracking, allocation, prioritization)
- Taking over individual project leads (off-/transboarding, event management, checking whether WhatsApp is allowed on a business smartphone)
- Supporting the hiring of external project managers
- Optimization of meeting structure, project controlling (KPIs), change and demand management
- Optimization of risk, issue, dependency and quality management and support during internal audits (GxP)
- Optimization of the portfolio steering tool (Smartsheet) on national, European and global level
- Design and implementation of a Business Value Complexity Scoring
- Building a strategic PMO with a sister department and optimizing cross-functional teams
- Reporting, communication and escalation at management level
- Leadership coaching for several future leaders (short-time assignment)
- Development of the concepts "PPM as a Service" and "Internal Customer Approach"
- Development and review of a concept "AI Data Governance" including roles and processes
- Selection and onboarding of the successor
Philipp Eleftheriadis
Founder & Head of Executive Search & Business Coaching
Last position:
Founder & Head of Executive Search & Business Coaching at PT – People Topics GmbH
- Executive Search & Recruiting projects
- Recruiter on Demand / Interim Talent Acquisition
- Interim HR Business Partner / HR Leadership
- Leadership & Business Coaching
- Workshops on recruiting, employer branding, and HR digitalization
- Outplacement and career coaching
Andrea Menzel
Systemic Coach & Trainer, Senior MarTech Specialist & Digital Project Manager
Last position:
Senior MarTech Specialist & Digital Project Manager at Redact Kommunikation AG
- Evaluation, implementation and rollout of a new work management tool
- Organizational development in the area of MarTech & marketing automation
- Creating digital workflows & processes
- Project lead and technical responsibility for digital projects
- Developing and running workshops, trainings & webinars for internal and external stakeholders
Dino Cardiano
Management Consultant, Mentor & Facilitator for Your Future, Innovation & Transformation Projects
Last position:
Certified Coach (ICI) - Business Coach at Future Pioneers Collective
Internationally certified Master Coach, International Association of Coaching Institutes (ICI)
Future Pioneer. Future architect & bridge builder for leaders & teams - business coach for future-ready, values-based transformation in organizations.
I enable leaders, teams, and organizations to increase their future readiness in a self-determined way, master complex change, and connect value creation with purpose, responsibility, and humanity.
One-to-one coaching for leaders
Team and leadership team coaching
Conflict coaching and conflict facilitation
Process-supporting systemic coaching in transformation programs
Business coaching for transformation and change projects (innovation, culture change, New Work, intrapreneurship, agile work, leadership development), with a focus on leadership, team dynamics, conflict culture, and organizational systems.
Certified coach for non-violent communication (NVC)
Certified hypnosystemic coach
Certified conflict coach
Certified team coach
Certified career coach
Certified leadership coach
More than 6,000 hours of mentoring and coaching in the last 12 years
Natascha Sauer
Expert Program Management and Coach
Last position:
Expert Program Management and Coach
- Program management (Cloudification, One IT) - Driving the global cloudification initiative, specializing in the migration of file servers to the cloud
- Enterprise Telephony Transformation - Leading the global rollout of Microsoft Teams telephony across all companies, including planning, implementation and optimization of the cloud-based communication solution
- Teaching project management methods
- Stakeholder communication optimization
- Career coaching
Karl-Wilhelm Lagemann
Interim Global Talent Acquisition Manager
Last position:
PharmaHera Service GmbH
Mail-order pharmacy
- Steering and execution of all recruiting activities during strong growth
- Sparring and advising the management and HR leadership
Christian Reschke
Founder and Managing Director
Last position:
Founder and Managing Director - Management Consulting, Digitalization, Organizational Development, Customer Experience at schrift52 GmbH
We are a consulting company for digitalization in the B2B mid-market.
With more than 25 years of entrepreneurial experience in the areas of digitalization, strategy, and organizational development, we support you - pragmatically, in partnership, and always with a focus on your business goals.
More info about the company at [link]
Gabriele Caracausi
Startup Mentor and Technical Advisor (Volunteer)
Last position:
Startup Mentor and Technical Advisor (Volunteer) at Faros Accelerator
- Mentoring startups about technology trends and solutions, business models, market and competition research.
Martina Peukert
CEO / Producer
Last position:
CEO / Producer at Programmaker Filmproduktion
- As a producer, I bring emotions to the screen and showcase your company in an unparalleled way.
- With my creative eye and technical know-how, I make your vision shine.
- Show the world who you are and what you have to offer.
- Let your audience dive into the captivating story your brand tells.
- Turn prospects into customers and boost your success.
Aamruth Shankar
Head Product Manager
Last position:
Head Product Manager at GoShippo
- Led 5 cross-functional teams (Product, Engineering, Data, Operations, and Design) across the transportation domain, covering carrier integration, shipment tracking, PUDO, reconciliation, and automation.
- Defined and executed the end-to-end product and integration strategy for 15+ global carriers across Europe and the U.S., ensuring unified APIs.
- Owned the carrier onboarding framework, reducing integration time by 40% through standardization, automation, and improved developer tooling.
- Partnered with major platform customers like Shopify and Wix to analyze EU merchant needs and enhance the shipping and fulfillment experience.
- Led the reconciliation automation initiative, reducing billing discrepancies by 30% and improving invoice validation speed for finance and operations teams.
- Collaborated with data analytics and operations teams to build carrier performance dashboards that improved on-time delivery rates and merchant satisfaction.
- Fostered a strong culture of cross-functional ownership, ensuring seamless collaboration between engineering, product, and external carrier partners.
Marco Müller
Scrum Master & Executive Coach
Last position:
Scrum Master & Executive Coach at HUK Coburg
- Transformation from a traditional actuarial department to data science
- Use of machine learning and data science in developing new insurance rates
- Facilitated stand-up meetings, sprint planning sessions, and retrospectives to improve team collaboration and productivity
- Trained executives on agile principles and practices, leading to increased efficiency and shorter project delivery times
- Led cross-functional teams in implementing the Scrum framework, resulting in a more than 20% increase in delivery rate
- Mentored team members on best agile practices, significantly improving communication, transparency, and overall team satisfaction
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Business Coaches statistics
Typical experience
21 years
Average project duration
4.2 years
Certifications per freelancer
4
Top business areas
Strategy, Project Management, Human Resources
Top industries
Professional Services, Information Technology, Education
Most common languages
German, English, French
Bachelor's degree or higher
93%
Master's degree or higher
62%
Doctorate
13%
Salary / Daily Rate Distribution
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The median daily rate is the middle value of all daily rates — half of comparable freelancers charge less, half charge more. Unlike the average, it is barely affected by outliers.
Actual rates may vary depending on seniority level, experience, skill specialization, project complexity, and engagement length.
Frequently Asked Questions
Do you have questions? Here you can find further information about FRATCH
A Business Coach supports leaders, teams, or founders with clear business problems such as focus, communication, decision-making, or change. The work often includes one-to-one sparring, team sessions, and follow-up on concrete actions. The goal is not theory; it is better behavior and better outcomes at work.
A freelance business coach makes sense when the need is specific, time-bound, or tied to a transition. That includes a new leadership role, a team conflict, a growth phase, or a restructuring. You get focused support without building a permanent internal function.
These titles often overlap, but the focus changes a bit. A business coach may cover broader company topics, while a leadership coach works more on management behavior and team impact; an executive coach usually focuses on senior leaders. In practice, companies should choose based on the problem they want solved, not just the title.
A strong business coach needs listening skills, sharp questioning, and the ability to challenge people without creating resistance. They should understand leadership, team dynamics, and business context, not just coaching methods. Good coaches also turn conversations into clear next steps and follow-up.
Common projects include leadership development, founder sparring, team alignment, conflict resolution, sales coaching, and support during change. In Germany, companies also hire business coaches for workshop facilitation and for help after a reorganization or promotion. The best scope is clear before the first session starts.
Both work, but the best setup depends on the topic. Remote sessions are fine for regular coaching and confidential one-to-one work, while on-site meetings help with team dynamics, offsites, and sensitive alignment topics. Many German companies use a mix of both.
Look for a clear method, relevant business experience, and strong references from similar situations. A good leadership coach asks smart questions, defines the coaching contract clearly, and avoids vague promises. Quality shows up in how well the coach understands your context and how quickly the work turns into action.
Freelancers should show a clear niche, such as executive coaching, team coaching, or change support. They also need a professional way to work with sensitive topics, senior stakeholders, and confidential information. For German clients, direct communication, reliability, and a practical style matter a lot.
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