The Executive Coach MBA: Executive Coaching and an Online MBA in One
Get a team of executive coaches and expert faculty. Earn MBA credit while they help you reach your goals.
You bring a goal: launch a startup, grow your family business, earn a promotion, or change careers. We build a team around it: multiple executive coaches and a faculty of expert professors, all working with you toward that one goal. They coach and teach you 1-on-1 and in small groups while you keep working.
Every coaching session and every project counts toward your degree. Earn a Graduate Certificate in Business Administration, then continue to a full master's degree. The Executive Coach MBA is 100% online.
Your Goal. Your Coaches. Your Faculty. Your Degree.
- No GMAT Required
- A Team of Executive Coaches
- Expert Faculty Built Around Your Goal
- 100% Remote & Flexible
- Start Immediately
- Risk-Free First Month
From Your Goal to Your Credential
Start with your goal
In your first week, your advisor asks where you are, where you want to be, and what is in your way.
Meet your coaches and faculty
We match you with executive coaches and professors who have done what you want to do. Together, they build your plan around your goal.
Learn and apply
Meet your coaches and professors 1-on-1 and in small groups, and apply each lesson right away in your own job or business.
Earn your credential
Earn a Graduate Certificate in Business Administration, then continue to a full master's.
Coaches and Faculty Chosen for Your Goals, Not Assigned by a Catalog
Most business programs give every student the same courses, the same professors, and the same schedule. We start with you. Your executive coaches, professors, and advisors are chosen for the goal you bring and the skills you need to build, and they work together as one team. Your coaches keep you focused, accountable, and growing as a leader. Your professors teach the business skills your goal demands. Your curriculum changes as you grow.
Every Executive Coach MBA student covers six domains: Business Systems, Business Strategy, Technology & AI, Marketing & Growth, Team Dynamics, and Personal Mastery. Within them, you study the core MBA topics: marketing, finance, accounting, strategy, operations, organizational behavior, analytics, technology, entrepreneurship, HR, ethics, and law. Your goal sets the sequence and emphasis.
You earn credit for demonstrated competence, not seat time: financial models for your business, AI tools in your workflow, marketing strategy tested with your customers.
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Choose Your Concentration
Every student earns the same credential: a Graduate Certificate in Business Administration, which you can continue into a full master's degree. Your concentration is the goal your team builds that credential around.
Each concentration below has its own page with the details. Not sure which fits? Your advisor helps you choose in your first week.
Startup MBA
Incubate or accelerate your startup. Your team works on your real company with you, from validating the idea to raising money and scaling. See the Startup MBA →
Small Business MBA
Grow a family company, franchise, agency, or practice. Build the finance, operations, hiring, and marketing skills that keep an established business growing. See the Small Business MBA →
Career MBA
Earn a promotion or change careers. Build the skills, visibility, and story your next role requires, and meet people in your target field. See the Career MBA →
Chief of Staff MBA
Become the right hand of a CEO or founder. Learn to run a company's operating cadence and drive cross-functional projects. See the Chief of Staff MBA →
AI MBA
Become a product manager for the AI era. Prototype with AI, ship AI-powered features, and roll out AI tools across your team. See the AI MBA →
Social Impact MBA
Lead mission-driven organizations, nonprofits, and B Corps that measure success by the good they do as well as the revenue they earn. See the Social Impact MBA →
Climate MBA
Learn the business of clean energy, sustainability, and climate tech, and use it to build or lead companies working on the climate crisis. See the Climate MBA →
Sustainable Innovation MBA
Build sustainability into every part of a business through ESG strategy, sustainable finance, the circular economy, and impact investing. See the Sustainable Innovation MBA →
Design Your Own
Bring a goal that is all your own. Past students have built concentrations in executive leadership, product management, global supply chain management, AI and digital transformation, film, healthcare, fintech, real estate, and more.
Executive Coaching, Without the Executive Price
Executive MBAs promise senior faculty and personal attention. We go further. Every student gets a team of executive coaches working alongside their professors: the kind of support most leaders pay for on top of a degree, if they get it at all.
Traditional MBAs charge $45,000–$200,000 for lectures and case studies written for someone else's industry. The Executive Coach MBA costs $22,000 with your coaching included, and most of our students also receive financial aid.
Your coaches and professors have built companies, led organizations, and faced the challenges you face now. They teach from experience and hold you accountable for results.
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No Lecture Halls. No Busywork. Just Progress.
In a traditional MBA, you sit in a lecture hall and hope the material applies to you. Here, every session is built around you. Your professors work with you individually and in small groups of up to three, push your thinking, and give you feedback on your actual work, not a generic exam.
It is how the best leaders have always learned, from Oxford tutorials to executive mentorship, and the research backs it up: personalized instruction, active practice, and fast feedback build real skills faster than lectures do. You learn more in less time, remember it, and walk into your next meeting with sharper judgment.
Your Business Is the Case Study
Most MBAs teach strategy through case studies about companies you will never work for. In the Executive Coach MBA, the case is yours: the product you are launching, the team you are scaling, the promotion you are working toward, or the business you are trying to grow.
Your coaches and professors help you diagnose the problem, choose a plan, and carry it out. You earn credit for the work, and you keep the results.
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An MBA That Fits Around Your Career
There is no GMAT to study for and no September start date to wait for. You can begin as soon as you enroll, and your first month is risk-free.
Choose the pace that fits your life: Accelerated in 10 months, Part Time in 12, or Spare Time in 18. Everything is 100% remote, so you keep your job, your income, and your momentum while you earn your degree.
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Hire an Executive Coach or Earn an MBA? Do Both.
An executive coach gives you advice. A traditional MBA gives you a degree. The Executive Coach MBA gives you a team of executive coaches, a faculty team, and a graduate credential, all in one program.
Hiring an Executive Coach
Gives you advice and accountability from one person, usually billed by the hour or month. You finish with progress on your goals and no degree.
A Traditional MBA
Gives you a degree through a fixed catalog of lectures and case studies. Most require the GMAT and start only in September or January.
The Executive Coach MBA
Gives you a team of executive coaches and a faculty chosen for your goal, all working with you, plus graduate credit for every step. You start immediately, keep working, and apply every lesson to your own goal.
Build the Network That Builds Your Career
Your coaches, professors, and advisors are active industry practitioners. They make introductions, connect you to our growing community of Industry Contacts (ICONs), and coach you on how to build and maintain a powerful professional network in your field.
Beyond your personal team, you join a community of ambitious peers — founders, executives, operators, and career changers — who become collaborators, partners, and allies long after graduation. Building your network is a core part of your curriculum.
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Meet Some Elton Graduates
Gary Bradley Burns
Gary Burns studied business administration at Elton while serving on the founding team of a company he helped build at the intersection of learning and business. His path reflects Elton's belief: real venture building and rigorous study reinforce each other. Gary applies each week's coursework directly to product decisions, team strategy, and growth challenges, turning classroom insight into immediate business results.
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Alois Barreras
Alois Barreras studied engineering management at Elton, building the skills to lead technical teams and the projects they deliver. He learned 1-on-1 with expert professors and applied each lesson to real-world projects, so his coursework turned directly into practice. His path reflects Elton's belief that leaders grow fastest when they learn by doing the work that matters to them.
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Megan Milstead
Megan Milstead completed the Graduate Certificate in Business Administration at Elton with a focus on B-corp management and entrepreneurship. A Miami University graduate based in Cincinnati, Megan built her career as a nonprofit storyteller and fundraiser, work that sharpened her instinct for mission-driven growth. She now channels that instinct into building companies that measure success by impact and profit together.
LinkedInWhere Are You Headed?
Our faculty have helped students land roles at these companies:
Meet Some of Our Coaches and Faculty
Owen Raisch
AI-native founder of a B2B SaaS company focused on training and operations for small businesses.
Jody Jacobson, PhD
Thomas Cox
Executive and governance advisor for more than 25 years.
Colin Lumsden, PhD, MSc
Higher education and education technology executive with nearly 30 years of experience in business.
Kai Adams, MBA
Drew Fitzsimmons, MBA
Myrtil Mitanga, MBA
Andrew Utter, MBA
Ready to Meet Your Team?
We accept students year-round. If you have a goal you refuse to put on hold and the drive to do real work toward it, you belong here.
No GMAT required. You need a bachelor's degree, or some college and 5 years of relevant work experience, or proof of your ability to engage in master's-level study.
Your coaches, professors, and advisors are ready. Are you?
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Eligibility
To enroll in a master's program or graduate certificate, you need one of the following:
- A bachelor's degree, or
- Some college and 5 years of relevant work experience, or
- Proof of your ability to engage in master's-level study.
No standardized tests are required: no GRE, no GMAT.
Tuition & Scholarships
The national average for an MBA in the USA is $55,000.
Your entire team of executive coaches and faculty is included in your tuition, at prices competitive with the best online MBA programs. Most of our students also receive financial aid. Complete our free 30-minute application, with no commitment, to see what financial aid you qualify for.
- No GMAT Required - Most traditional MBAs require the GMAT ($270). We do not.
- Start Immediately - Most traditional MBAs start only in September or January. You can start this week.
- Risk-Free First Month - If you or Elton decide in your first month that the program is not a fit, you receive a full refund.
- Stacking Credentials - Continue after your certificate to complete a full master's degree.
Program Tuition: $22,000
Save 10% when you pay in full at enrollment.
Spare Time
18 months
10 hours/week
- Access to the Elton community
- A team of executive coaches
- 1 professor
- Full-time work allowed if it aligns with your studies
Part Time
12 months
15 hours/week
- Access to the Elton community
- A team of executive coaches
- 2 professors
- Full-time work allowed if it aligns with your studies
- Part-time work allowed
Accelerated
10 months
25 hours/week
- Access to the Elton community
- A team of executive coaches
- 3 professors
- Full-time work allowed if it aligns with your studies
Graduate Certificate in Business Administration
Prefer a shorter commitment? Earn the graduate certificate on its own, with the same 1-on-1 professors and coaching as the master's.
- 12 credits, one third of the master's (about 300 hours of engagement)
- Typically about 2.5–6 months, depending on your pace
- Credits stack: continue any time to finish the full master's degree
Professional Development 1-on-1 MBA
Put your annual professional development funds to work. Spend them on 1-on-1 business coaching with us, and earn credit toward the Graduate Certificate in Business Administration as you grow in your current role.
- 1-on-1 business coaching built around your career and business goals
- Earn credit toward the Graduate Certificate in Business Administration or a full master's degree
- Continue at your own pace, year after year, with each year's professional development funds
Full refund during your first 30 days
