I enjoy working in spiritual direction with business people.
There is no more powerful combination than someone who is spiritually focused and outwardly motivated to achieve goals in a thoughtful, reflective fashion.
These are people who understand that the work world is not alien to spiritual values. It is an arena in which we hammer out our values in sharp contention with a world that is often indifferent, if not hostile to them.
They also understand that the sharp contention cannot be avoided. It endlessly reinvents itself. Looking for institutions and structures in which we are completely at home is a lost cause. Even apparently spiritual institutions are governed by motives and values that are alien to the spiritual commitments that they are designed to promote. That is life in the world.
Business people are just less likely to labor under the illusion that the world in which they work is that complicated.
Spiritual direction is not for people hiding from life, its challenges, or its complexities. People who are hiding from life need to work on their denial first, then they can begin to look for direction.
Spiritual direction is for people who understand that we are here to seek God in the middle of the complexity.