Sheila Markin Nielsen
Nielsen Career Consulting
Sheila Markin Nielsen is a coach for lawyers based in Chicago, IL, who works with associates and partners. Specialties: job search; business development; and 2 more.
Sheila specializes in executive coaching and career direction for lawyers and other business professionals.
In the coach’s own words, from nielsencareerconsulting.com
- Based in
- Chicago, IL [1]
- Meets clients
- Not confirmed
- First call
- Not confirmed
- Lowest price
- Not confirmed
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About this listing
- Status
- Not yet verified by the coach. We built this listing from the coach’s public pages.
- Facts
- 16, each quoted and linked
- Pages read
- 3
- Last checked
- October 15, 2026
Practice
- Meets clients
- Not confirmed from the coach’s pages
- First call
- Not confirmed from the coach’s pages
- Website
- nielsencareerconsulting.com
- LinkedIn profile, linked from the coach’s own site
Published prices
- Prices
- Not confirmed from the coach’s pages
Across the directory, among the 10 listings here that show a price per session or hour, prices run from $100 to $895, and the median is $300. More in What a lawyer coach costs.
Specialties and clients
- Specialties
- Job search and lateral moves [2] [3]
Put together an effective job search blueprint.
nielsencareerconsulting.com/servicesCraft the best resume for the type of search and type of job sought.
nielsencareerconsulting.com/services- Specialties
- Business development and rainmaking [4] [5]
Teach business development skills.
nielsencareerconsulting.com/servicesNetworking teaches attorneys to manage and build their own circles of contacts for both business development and image development in the legal community.
nielsencareerconsulting.com/services- Specialties
- Leadership and executive coaching [6] [7]
receive one-on-one support to improve their interpersonal and business development skills, leadership ability and workplace savvy, with special emphasis on identifying hidden issues at work
nielsencareerconsulting.com/servicesThe development of a more effective, collaborative communication or leadership style.
nielsencareerconsulting.com/services- Specialties
- Law students and new associates [8]
Understand how to start strong and excel as a new associate in a law firm.
nielsencareerconsulting.com/services- Works with lawyers
- In the coach’s own words [9]
Sheila specializes in executive coaching and career direction for lawyers and other business professionals.
nielsencareerconsulting.com- Career stages
- Associates [10] [11]
Nielsen offers her signature Strategies for Success coaching to associates and partners at all levels, creating fully customized personal development plans that address issues interfering with greater
nielsencareerconsulting.com/servicesMs. Nielsen also assists large and mid-sized law firms with outplacement and executive coaching needs for their partners and associates.
nielsencareerconsulting.com/about- Career stages
- Partners [12] [13]
Nielsen offers her signature Strategies for Success coaching to associates and partners at all levels, creating fully customized personal development plans that address issues interfering with greater
nielsencareerconsulting.com/servicesMs. Nielsen also assists large and mid-sized law firms with outplacement and executive coaching needs for their partners and associates.
nielsencareerconsulting.com/about
Credentials and background
- Credentials
- Not confirmed from the coach’s pages
- Background
- Government experience [14]
After law school she worked as a criminal prosecutor, first in state court as an Assistant District Attorney in Philadelphia and Chicago, and then in federal court as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in
nielsencareerconsulting.com/about
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Sources
The pages we read for this listing, last on October 15, 2026. Every quote on this page links to one of them.
- Name
- Sheila Markin Nielsen [15]
Sheila Markin Nielsen established Nielsen Career Consulting in 1990 and is a leader in the field of career counseling.
nielsencareerconsulting.com/about