​​​​​​​​2. Taki Moore, Agency Growth Coach

 

Best for: Coaches and consultants looking to build scaleable client acquisition systems

Taki Moore is one of the most well-known names in the coaching-for-coaches space, but his frameworks for building consistent client pipelines are equally valuable for agency owners struggling with unpredictable revenue. His "Black Belt" community and programmes focus on lead generation, packaging, and converting conversations — the business development fundamentals that many creative founders avoid.

 

3. Jason Swenk, Digital Agency Coach

 

Best for: Established digital agencies looking to scale from six to seven figures

Jason Swenk built and sold a multi-million dollar digital agency before pivoting to coaching. His content and programmes are specifically designed for agency growth — covering niching, hiring, systems, and the CEO mindset shift that agency owners need to make to scale past the founder-dependency bottleneck. His podcast and community are excellent free resources before committing to paid coaching.

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4. Jenny Judova, Creative Agency Consultant

 

Best for: Founders of independent creative and design agencies

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Jenny Judova has spent years in the independent creative agency world and brings a nuanced understanding of the specific culture, pricing pressures, and client dynamics that creative founders face. Her consulting is particularly well-regarded for helping small agencies articulate their positioning and stop competing on price — a challenge that resonates deeply with founders who know their work is worth more than they're charging.

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5. Adrienne Richardson, Facebook Ads & Agency Scaling Expert

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Best for: Performance marketing agency founders

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For agency owners whose growth is tied to paid media and client acquisition, Adrienne Richardson has built a strong reputation helping agencies systematise their own marketing and scale their client base predictably. Her work focuses on the intersection of lead generation and agency operations — useful for founders who are brilliant at getting results for clients but struggle to apply the same rigour to their own business development.

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6. Karl Sakas, Agency Advisor

 

Best for: Agency owners who want operational clarity and work-life balance

Karl Sakas bills himself as the "agency advisor who helps you work less and earn more," and it's a promise he backs with substance. His coaching is focused on agency operations, delegation, client management, and building sustainable business models — particularly relevant for founders who are doing everything themselves and can't see a way out of the bottleneck. His book and podcast are a useful entry point to his thinking.

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7. Claire Pelletreau, Paid Advertising & Business Coach

 

Best for: Female founders in the online business and marketing space

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Claire Pelletreau is refreshingly direct — she shares her own revenue figures, talks openly about what has and hasn't worked, and applies the same transparency to her coaching. For female founders in the marketing and online business space, her focus on sustainable profitability rather than vanity metrics makes her stand out in a coaching landscape that can sometimes prioritise optics over outcomes.

 

8. Natalie Bacon, Life Design & Business Coach

 

Best for: Founders navigating the intersection of personal identity and professional growth

Natalie Bacon's coaching sits at the intersection of mindset work and business strategy — particularly relevant for founders who know intellectually what they need to do but keep getting in their own way.

 

Her background in financial planning and law gives her business conversations a level of rigour that pure mindset coaches often lack, and her work is well suited to ambitious women building businesses around a life they actually want.

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9. Mike Michalowicz, Author and Business Growth Strategist

Best for: Small business owners and agency founders wanting to fix their financial foundations

Mike Michalowicz, author of *Profit First* and *Clockwork*, is technically better known as a business author than a coach, but his frameworks have become cornerstones of agency coaching conversations everywhere. *Profit First* in particular has transformed how thousands of agency owners manage cash flow and build financial stability — required reading for anyone whose revenue feels strong on paper but somehow never translates into actual profit.

10. Seth Godin - Strategic Thinking and Positioning

Best for: Founders ready to think differently about how they show up in the market

Seth Godin's altMBA and coaching-adjacent work sits in a different category from most on this list — less tactical, more philosophical. But for agency founders who are stuck because their positioning is vague, their offer is undifferentiated, or they're afraid to make the bold choices that would actually set them apart, his thinking is genuinely transformative. His daily blog alone is one of the most consistently useful resources in business.

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What to look for in a growth strategy coach:

The coaching industry is unregulated and crowded, which means the difference between a transformative coaching relationship and a waste of money often comes down to a few key factors. Look for a coach who has genuinely built what you're trying to build - not just studied it. Look for specificity: a coach who works with people in your exact situation will always outperform a generalist. And look for someone who combines commercial rigour with genuine care - strategy without empathy rarely sticks, and empathy without strategy rarely moves the needle.

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For female agency founders in particular, the combination of lived experience, sector-specific knowledge, and a coaching relationship that treats you as the capable CEO you already are - rather than a project to be fixed - makes all the difference.

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Stephanie Melodia's coaching programme for female agency owners delivers exactly that. If you're ready to build the business behind your brilliant work, the conversation starts here.