Jennifer Neilson

I’m a purpose, mindset, and identity coach, HR consultant, speaker, and founder of My Lead Advantage and HR Made Simple.
Through My Lead Advantage, I help capable women who are exhausted from holding everything together quiet the noise in their heads, reconnect with who they are, and make decisions with greater clarity and confidence.
Through HR Made Simple, I help small and mid-sized businesses take the guesswork and unnecessary complexity out of HR with practical systems, clear guidance, and experienced support.

I bring more than 30 years of HR and leadership experience, including serving as a global HR executive. I’ve trained more than 30,000 leaders, coached hundreds of women, and supported more than 500 businesses.
At the heart of everything I do is something I’ve spent my career doing: taking what feels complicated, overwhelming, or uncertain and making it clear, practical, and doable. Whether I’m working with a woman, a leader, or a business, the goal is the same—less overwhelm, more clarity, and the confidence to move forward.

Through My Lead Advantage, I help capable women quiet the mental noise, stop second-guessing themselves, and reconnect with their strengths, values, voice, identity, and purpose.
My approach helps women move through a simple progression: Stop the Spin → Know Who You Are → Live Like Her. Together, we work on areas such as overthinking, confidence, self-trust, boundaries, people-pleasing, burnout, decision-making, finding your voice, purpose, and living more intentionally.

Through HR Made Simple, I help small and mid-sized businesses simplify HR. I provide practical systems, clear guidance, and experienced support so the people responsible for HR can confidently navigate employee issues and create processes that managers and employees can actually understand and use.
I also bring my experience in leadership development, speaking, facilitation, and training to organizations and groups that want practical, engaging education for their leaders and teams.

On the coaching side, I primarily work with capable working women who are good at what they do but are exhausted from holding everything together and tired of second-guessing themselves.
They may be stepping into bigger roles, struggling with overthinking or imposter syndrome, having difficulty saying no, replaying conversations, putting everyone else’s needs ahead of their own, or realizing they’ve become disconnected from what they actually want.

On the HR side, I work with small and mid-sized businesses where someone has become responsible for HR without necessarily having the training, tools, or support to feel confident doing it. That may be a business owner, CEO, office manager, controller, finance leader, or an HR leader of one.

Capable working women who look like they have it together on the outside but feel overwhelmed, stuck in their own heads, or tired of second-guessing themselves—and who want greater clarity, confidence, self-trust, and purpose.

I also work with small and mid-sized businesses that need experienced HR expertise, practical systems, and clear guidance without necessarily needing or being ready for a full internal HR department.

For my coaching work, I’d especially love to connect with career and executive coaches, recruiters, therapists, wellness professionals, divorce attorneys, women’s organizations, leadership consultants, corporate HR and L&D professionals, podcast hosts, and event organizers who support women through leadership, career, business, and life transitions.

For my HR work, I’d love to connect with accountants, bookkeepers, fractional CFOs, business attorneys, payroll providers, benefits professionals, insurance brokers, business coaches, operations consultants, PEO partners, and other professionals serving small and mid-sized businesses.

I’m also always interested in building relationships with speakers, coaches, consultants, and business owners whose work complements mine and creates opportunities for meaningful referrals, introductions, and collaborations.

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