Investment

An investment in the person, not the hour.

Coaching programs, pricing, and what your investment returns.

Pathony does not sell sessions by the clock. We design relationships around a single outcome: the founder or executive you become over the course of the work, and the company that becomes possible because of it. The figures in this guide reflect complete engagements, with assessment, applied practice, between-session access, and measurement folded in rather than billed apart.

Our pricing sits in the band serious buyers expect from boutique executive coaching. Across the market in 2026, senior-leader engagements run from roughly the high teens to fifty thousand dollars and beyond, with premium founder and C-suite work priced for transformation and experience, rather than time.

The Founder Program

Our complete founder pathway moves through four phases (Discovery, Core Development, Applied Mastery, and Integration) across fourteen transformative modules. Choose the depth that matches your stage. Each tier is a full engagement, not a package of hours.

Ascent

$5,750
One-time · 4-month engagement
Modules coveredCore 4
1:1 sessions8
Session cadenceBiweekly
360° assessmentFoundational
Between-sessionEmail
Applied assignmentsYes
Project Elevate creditNone
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Signature

$42,000
Installments available · 12-month engagement
Modules coveredAll 14 + bespoke
1:1 sessions30
Session cadenceWeekly + on-call
360° assessmentFull + stakeholder interviews
Between-sessionAlways-on
Applied assignmentsYes
Project Elevate creditFoundation tier
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Validation

$1,500
3 session trial period
Modules coveredBased on need
1:1 sessions3
Session cadenceWeekly
360° assessmentStarter assessment
Between-sessionNo
Applied assignmentsYes
Project Elevate creditNo

Program for Founders unsure if coaching is a good fit for their needs.

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All tiers include the Deep Discovery intake, a personalized coaching blueprint, applied real-world assignments, and entry into the Pathony alumni network. Payment plans are interest-free across the engagement.

For Leaders at an Inflection Point.

A confidential partnership for senior leaders working on purpose, direction, and alignment, the version of themselves the role is now asking them to grow into. Engagements are bespoke; the structures below are our most common starting points.

The Reset

6 sessions over 3 months. One focused challenge, a 360° read, and a clear path forward.

$15,000

The Recalibration

12 sessions over 6 months. Full assessment, stakeholder input, and between-session access.

$32,000

Strategic Partnership

Ongoing retainer. Recurring 1:1s, always-on access, and quarterly altitude reviews.

Starting from $3,500 Per month

Retainer engagements are quarterly minimum. Team and board-level mandates are scoped on request.

Own the Narrative.

Our white-glove program for founders ready to step into the spotlight. Project Elevate works across three dimensions (Image, Narrative, and Brand) through four senior-led service pillars. Begin with the Foundation, then commission individual pillars as your platform grows.

Elevate Foundation

Narrative development and origin-story crafting. The throughline everything else builds on.

Starting from$10,000

Speech Refinement

Keynote development, pitch coaching, and panel or media preparation.

Starting from$6,000

Ghostwriting & Publishing

Thought-leadership articles through full-length book, with publication strategy.

Starting from$2,000

Events & Experiences

Signature event design, speaking placements, and brand-aligned experiences.

Starting from$28,000

Project Elevate is offered only to active or alumni coaching clients. Ghostwriting and event figures vary with scope and are confirmed after a scoping conversation.

More Than Sessions.

Roughly a third of the work behind any engagement happens outside the room: preparation, assessment design, and the thinking that makes each session land. Every Pathony program carries the full architecture.

i

Deep Discovery & 360°

A candid intake and 360° read of strengths, blind spots, and growth edges.

ii

Coaching Blueprint

A personalized plan built with you, grounded in radical honesty.

iii

Applied Assignments

Work that turns insight into embodied capability between sessions.

iv

Between-Session Access

For the moments that will not keep, before the board meeting, during the negotiation.

v

Milestone Measurement

Progress you can see and defend, not just feel.

vi

Lifetime Community

Membership in a curated network of founders who elevate each other.

3–7×

The return independent studies of executive coaching consistently report.

What the investment gives back.

Independent studies of executive coaching consistently report a return of three to seven times the investment†, with the strongest results when the work removes a specific constraint: a delegation bottleneck, a misaligned leadership team, a fundraise that tests your resilience, a plateau you cannot think your way past alone. The relevant question is rarely whether coaching is expensive. It is whether the cost is small next to the decision it improves.

For a founder, one cleaner board conversation, one round raised with more conviction, or one hire you no longer need to redo can return the entire engagement. That is the math we are comfortable being measured against.

† Range synthesizes leading ROI studies: Manchester Inc.’s survey of 100 executives found an average 5.7x return (McGovern et al., The Manchester Review, 2001); the ICF/PwC Global Coaching Client Study (2009) reported a median 7x organizational return and 3.44x individual return; a single-company MetrixGlobal analysis reported 529–788%. Most figures are self-reported by participants who chose coaching. The strongest causal evidence comes from randomized controlled trials (de Haan & Nilsson, Academy of Management Learning & Education, 2023), which found a significant moderate positive effect across 39 randomized samples and 2,528 participants.

Your next chapter starts with a single conversation.

Every engagement begins with a thirty-minute discovery call. No pitch, no pressure. You tell us where you are; we listen for what is actually being asked. If we’re the right fit, we’ll show you what the next chapter could look like, and where your investment fits within it.

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All figures are quoted in USD for the 2026 program year and are confirmed in a written engagement agreement. Pathony works with a limited number of clients per coach to protect the depth of each relationship.