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The Ten Most Influential Life Coaches to Follow in 2023 for Your Personal Development

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Life coaching is more essential than ever in today’s fast-paced environment. Life coaches are trained experts that aid their clients in setting and achieving both personal and professional objectives. They can help individuals by giving them the encouragement, direction, and backing they need to succeed in life. The International Coach Federation estimates that there are currently 53,300 coaches in the world, making the coaching profession a $2 billion market. Finding the proper coach among the abundance of options might be difficult.

This piece will provide readers with a list of the top ten life coaches that they should be following in 2023. 

  • Tony Robbins

Tony Robbins is widely recognized as a successful businessman, investor, philanthropist, and business and life coach. More than 50 million people in 100 countries have been helped by his audio programs, educational videos, and live seminars. Robbins has written six books that have become blockbusters all over the world. These books include MONEY: Master the Game and UNSHAKEABLE: Your Financial Freedom Playbook. He owns or controls over a hundred companies that together generate over $7 billion in annual revenue. 

Robbins is well-known for teaching celebrities, athletes, and CEOs, and he has been recognized as a top business leader, guru, and intellectual by several magazines. More than 850 million meals have been donated to the hungry thanks to his efforts as a major philanthropist.

 

  • Robin Sharma


Leadership expert and self-improvement guru Robin Sharma is a sought-after speaker all over the globe. Among the many prestigious organizations he has assisted are NASA, Microsoft, and Nike. Sharma has also written other books that have become international bestsellers. They include The 5 AM Club and The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari. His ability to offer novel and actionable ideas that boost the efficiency and effectiveness of individuals, groups, and businesses has earned him widespread respect. Around 600 million people worldwide see Sharma’s social media content each year, making him a true phenomenon in the field of self-improvement.

  • Julie Blackmer

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Julie Blackmer is a skilled Mediator, Life & NLP Coach, Business Coach and Family Law Consultant. She is a CMC-registered CCP as well as the Co- Director of 2 companies: Totally ADR Limited and Legally Forensic the first of which incorporates Totally Mediation. Julie routinely helps Litigant’s In Person within the Family Court’s She is a Paralegal and works as a Professional McKenzie Friend when working with the Children’s Act 1989 and Family Law Act 1996, when handling Domestic Abuse, Divorce, Financial Remedies, Child Arrangement Orders, Non-Molestation Orders, Occupancy Orders and Child Abduction cases. She has much experience of assisting Litigants in Court as well as representing them when needed, from the Local Courts right up to the Royal Courts of Justice.

She also handles Civil and Commercial work and is an SCMA Mediation Advocate a Mental Health first aider and has studied Forensic Psychology & Police Investigations.Julie has many specialties within her Family Law Practice and is ILSPA Advanced in both Civil Litigation, Family Law and Civil Advocacy.

At Totally ADR Ltd Julie serves as both a Business Partner and the head of Mediation. She has awards for 2022 Family Law Consultant of the year & 2022 & 2023 Family Lawyer of the year.

  • Amy Morgan
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Successful life coach Amy Morgan specializes in high achieving professional women mastering their emotions to connect to higher self & create love, money & abundance.  Amy specializes in releasing limited beliefs, anxiety and patterns that keep clients playing small in their business and their life. She focuses on unlocking their inner power to create wealth, love and inner power to create a limitless life Amy’s works with clients on soulful sales, marketing, business development, relationships, personal growth, happiness, and self-confidence. By intentionally creating her life and coaching practice, she has built love, health, and prosperity.

Amy established “Soulful Diva” and “Soulful Selling” to assist her clients to discover their superpowers, and to accept their divine abilities. The 90-day programs are designed to break free from the chains that keep one back, eliminate any uncertainty and barriers, and transform into CEO bosses. The programs assist one to align their message, purpose, and soul to attract dream customers and increase sales, impact, and income. Amy helps her clients gain inner confidence and a deep inner peace to feel abundant, energized in body, mind and spirit to align un apologetically to a life of love, prosperity and legacy they are here to create.

  • Lisa A. Romano
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Lisa A. Romano is a leading Coach in the mental wellness industry. She is also a bestselling author and one of the most listened-to meditations teachers on Insight Timer.  Her mission is to break the silence associated with childhood trauma so that adult children everywhere can heal the pain that is often the root of human suffering.  When Lisa’s first marriage fell apart, she learned that she was suffering from depression, anxiety, and codependency, as a result of being raised by two unrecovered adult children of alcoholics. 

At that time, Lisa committed her life to healing self abandoning beliefs associated with having to adapt to dysfunctional family dynamics as a child. She grew up shrouded in shame and under the guise of the don’t talk, and don’t feel rules, that are common in dysfunctional homes.  Her hopes of sparing her children from the fate of repeating familial trauma fueled the courage needed to transform her life, mind, body, and soul. In 2020, Lisa was voted the #1 Most Influential Person of the Year, and in 2022, she was voted one of the top mental health experts to follow. And in 2023, she has been voted the Global Leader in her industry. 

Today, she creates online courses, and personally mentors clients so they may learn to live above the veil of consciousness, shattering limiting conditioning caused by the invisible wounds of emotional neglect. Her tagline is, “It’s Not You — It’s Your Programming. Lisa’s flagship sacred-healing program, The 12-Week Breakthrough Coaching Program comes highly endorsed by psychologists who recommend their patients to Lisa’s work.

  • Dr. Lisa Leit
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Lisa Leit, Ph.D., MCC is an expert in the field of developmental psychology, and a Master Certified Coach. Recognized as one of the 2021 Top Visionaries in Healthcare by the IFAH, and featured on Yahoo Finance as the 2021 #1 Female Coach in the US, she has worked with individuals, couples, families, and leadership teams of organizations to overcome obstacles and live happy, whole lives for 18 years. In high impact executive coaching and management consulting, her unique HWH holistic wellness assessment program identifies and addresses underlying risk factors to health and fosters meaningful, measurable, and lasting results for individuals and teams in 45 days. 

By facilitating effective communication and providing results-based coaching and management consulting, her validated, research-based holistic wellness assessment program identifies and addresses hidden roadblocks to productivity and profit and unleashes the power of true collaboration. Lisa offers a DIY Happy Whole Human online program, and leadership, family, and team coaching. She also mentors and certifies coaches in a program offered by the Happy Whole Human Institute of Holistic Wellness accredited by the International Coaching Federation (ICF), Human Resource Certification Institute (HRCI), and American Council of Hypnotist Examiners (ACHE).

  • Joel Buckner
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Joel Buckner is a certified Strengths Champion Coach, teacher, and mentor with 15 years of life and elite-performance coaching. He is an expert in helping people improve their professional lives and their creative capacities. Joel’s method helps dedicated individuals and leaders maximize their potential to achieve important professional and personal goals on their terms. Joel promises accountability, motivation, and change. He will help you identify your talents, strengths, and calling. Joel wants you to understand your goals, motivations, and behaviors completely. Joel is a family man, singer/songwriter, photographer, and traveler who wants to see all 50 states and Africa.

  • Courtney Klop
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Courtney, a lifestyle coach, focuses on integration, stress management, and spiritual awakenings. Courtney thinks that everyone deserves a fulfilled and empowered life, regardless of background or experience. Her counseling is about developing a secure foundation in mind, body, and spirit that clients can return to and build from for the rest of their lives. Courtney helps high-achieving customers find calm and contentment during integration and transitions. Courtney coaches spiritually-minded people who are eager to take responsibility and grow.

  • Julie Reisler
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Julie Reisler, a board-certified master life & wellness coach, is an interior designer for your soul. She’s a mentor to hundreds of coaches, change-makers, and soulful entrepreneurs. Julie is the host of The You-est You® podcast, a global show in over 175 countries, and the author of Get a PhD in YOU, an Amazon top-pick. Julie has been featured in Forbes, MindBodyGreen, The Chopra Center, Bustle, and Thrive Global for her work as a coach, teacher, and conscious business leader. Julie is a multi-time TEDx speaker and has spoken on stages throughout North America. She is also a popular course creator on Insight Timer, the number-one ranked mindfulness app. Julie holds a master’s degree in Health & Wellness Coaching from the Maryland University of Integrative Health and is a professor at Georgetown University in their coaching program. Julie is the founder of the Life Designer® Coach Academy, a leading-edge certification program where she certifies spiritual life coaches from all over the world. 

  • Margaret Fields, LCSW
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Margaret Fields is a licensed clinical therapist, trauma informed approach, with over ten years in practice. Margaret is also a certified life coach. She thinks that happiness, authenticity, and a full existence can only be achieved by first loving oneself. Having successfully navigated the winding roads of life for nearly a decade, she is now dedicated to helping others become their best selves. She takes to heart the words of Thich Nhat Hanh, “I pledge to live fully in each moment and to look at all beings with the eyes of compassion,” and uses her experiences to help others and herself.

 

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