Lead with Confidence. Build with Clarity.
Collins Coaching helps leaders and teams create meaningful change through personalized coaching, engaging facilitation, and transformative development programs.
Growth That Fits Your Journey
Whether you're stepping into a new leadership role, building a stronger team, or navigating your next career move, the path forward requires both clarity and courage. Collins Coaching partners with you to design experiences that meet you where you are and guide you toward where you want to be.
For Leaders & Professionals
One-on-one coaching tailored to your unique goals, challenges, and timeline. Create balance, build leadership presence, and make decisions with confidence.
For Teams & Organizations
Facilitation, workshops, and group coaching that strengthen communication, deepen trust, and align your team around shared purpose.
Why Collins Coaching?
Collins Coaching delivers executive coaching, group programs, and retreats that strengthen communication, accountability, and leadership identity. With a proven framework and an engaging, practical approach, we help leaders, teams, and organizations grow with confidence and clarity—equipping clients to build stronger teams, align culture, and achieve lasting impact.
Personalized Approach
No pre-packaged solutions. Every engagement is co-created to reflect your culture, priorities, and real challenges.
Proven Experience
With a background in higher education leadership and years coaching professionals at organizations like Google, UCLA, and Baylor University, I bring both warmth and strategic insight to every conversation.
Lasting Results
Clients report making unprecedented moves in their careers while maintaining balance in their personal lives. This work creates change that endures.
Meet Shelia Collins
Coach. Facilitator. Partner in Transformation.
I help individuals and organizations grow through coaching experiences designed to fit their unique journey. My clients describe me as both grounding and inspiring. I create space for deep reflection while guiding people toward purposeful action. At the heart of my work is partnership. I don't believe in one-size-fits-all solutions. Instead, I co-create with you to design coaching and development experiences that honor where you are now and support where you want to go next.
Before founding Collins Coaching, I spent 20 years in higher education leadership, serving as Dean of Student Affairs and professor at universities including Marquette, Loyola, Texas Tech University, and Chicago State University. In this role, I created strategic visions, led teams, and partnered with diverse stakeholders to build supportive environments where students could thrive.
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​I'm certified through both the International Coach Federation (ICF) and Accomplishment Coaching, where I also serve as a trainer for new coaches in Chicago. My client roster includes leaders and professionals from organizations like Google, Eli Lilly, Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty, UCLA, Baylor University, and McMaster University.
What Our Clients Say
KAREN | NY
Shelia held me accountable for what I wanted to accomplish, and it really boosted my confidence which is one of many reasons why I chose her as my coach. I needed someone to give me a push and Shelia did that for me. Today, I feel whole again, and I am embracing the evolved professional I have become while being a new mother. I have been able to bring my personal values to my work which is steadily making an impact …
TIM | NC
Most people care about their own lives. Fewer people care about the lives of others. It is rare for someone to care about your life the way they care about their own life. Shelia Collins is one of those rare people.
TAMMY | IL
She always knows exactly what to say, and I think 'resourceful' is Ms. Shelia's middle name! After every session I always felt uplifted and encouraged, that I was on the right path to doing great things and bettering myself! I am grateful to have worked with her.