Hunter Ambrose & Co. is a coaching and consulting firm. Founded in 2006 by Nicole Barbano.
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Building what comes next. There is nothing but opportunity.
Hunter Ambrose & Co. is a founder-led coaching and consulting firm led by Nicole Barbano, working with leaders, professionals, founders and organizations navigating growth, change and opportunity.
Executive coaching, career and brand strategy, leadership development and business advisory—shaped around what you are building, strengthening or preparing to pursue.
Meet Nicole
Experience that reaches beyond coaching.
Nicole Barbano brings more than 20 years of experience advising leaders, professionals, founders and organizations.
Founder of Hunter Ambrose, established in 2006
Built a nationally recognized recruitment and leadership advisory firm
Ranked the nation’s #21 largest healthcare executive search firm by Modern Healthcare in 2022
Completed more than 1,000 professional and leadership placements
Experience spanning healthcare, finance, hiring, leadership and business
Author of The HIRE
Run your job search like the valuable project it is.
The Hunter Ambrose & Co. Job Search Accelerator gives you a complete system for professional positioning, networking, outreach, interviews and follow-up.
Professional brand and résumé strategy
Complete job-search dashboard
Networking beyond job boards
AI prompts for research and outreach
Interview preparation
Follow-up frameworks
Nine daily practices for building momentum
Presale Price: $47
Price increases to $97 after Friday, July 31.
JOB SEARCH ACCELERATOR
The HIRE.
Understand how humans hire—and get hired.
5 million people start a new job every month in America. Most of them never clicked a major job board to find it.
From Leonardo da Vinci’s résumé and the guilds of the Middle Ages to the Manhattan Project, applicant tracking systems and AI, The HIRE explores how opportunity has been created across centuries—and how today’s hiring process became so complicated.
Written for those who hire and those hoping to be hired.
Ways to work with Nicole.
Whether you are strengthening your organization’s leadership, building a business around your expertise, navigating a career transition or refining how you are positioned in the market, the work begins with greater clarity about what comes next.
Private coaching and strategic advisory with Nicole are shaped around your goals—bringing greater intention to how you lead, work, communicate, build and earn. Together, we turn experience and ideas into clear direction, credible positioning and meaningful forward movement.
Because professional success should support a life well lived—one that reflects your values, priorities and vision for the future.
Summer Coaching Connection
End summer with a forward plan.
Four private coaching and strategy sessions focused on your leadership, career, brand, business or next professional chapter.
Your first 90-minute session establishes where you are, what better looks like and what needs to happen next. Three additional sessions build the strategy and momentum to move forward over eight weeks.
One 90-minute opening session
Three 60-minute private sessions
Email access to Nicole between sessions
Secure client portal
Signed copy of The HIRE
Eight weeks to complete the package
Investment: $1,150
Limited seats available
Webinar: The Rise of the One-Person Company
How AI, Expertise and a Credible Brand Are Changing Entrepreneurship
Wednesday, August 19, 2026
Noon Central Time
45 minutes plus Q&A | Complimentary
AI is making it possible to launch, market and operate a company without immediately building a team. But access to technology alone does not create a viable business.
In this complimentary webinar, Nicole Barbano examines the rise of the one-person company and what it takes to turn professional experience into a focused, credible business.