Madeline McNeely
Madeline’s mission is to condition leaders and organizations to do meaningful work for decades. Her company, Conditioning Leaders LLC, founded in 1994, is a network of Belonging, Justice, Equity, Inclusion, and Diversity (BJEID) practitioners who inspire individual, organizational, and community culture change. She has studied and worked in both Kenya and Senegal and brings a cross-cultural and global perspective to her work. She is an interdisciplinary professional as a Leadership and Executive Coach, Facilitator, Consultant, and Trainer/Instructor. As a master-level coach, she loves developing other coaches. Other areas of expertise include somatic intelligence, trust, organizational development, team building, facilitation, meeting management, collaboration, supervision, women in leadership, executive leadership, and career transitions.
McNeely loves coaching because she knows the “soft stuff is the hard stuff.” Madeline is rooted in restorative and trauma-informed practices. She is a keen observer of body language and communication styles and has designed and taught classes about leadership mastery, executive presence, and embodied leadership. Coaching clients to think in expansive ways and develop sustained habits to solve their most vexing people, organizational, and network challenges is her sweet spot.
Madeline also loves influencing people through the courses she teaches at Harvard’s Division of Continuing Education: Non-Profit Leadership and Community Engagement, Leadership Coaching Strategies, and Executive Leadership Coaching. She was a Coach, Facilitator, and Coach Recruiter at Harvard Business School. She has been published in Nonprofit Quarterly, Forbes.com, co-authored Millennials in Wonderland about coaching young adults in the first decade of their career, and is also featured in the Anti-Racist & Inclusive Leadership | The NAESP Principal Podcast.
As a multisector leader, she has worked with hundreds of teams and leaders, including youth workers, nonprofit executives, government leaders, donor advisors, doctors, and C-Suite Leaders. Corporate clients include Wellington Management, PwC, and Shire Pharmaceuticals. Nonprofit clients include City Year, Mass General Brigham Hospitals, and Northeastern University. Government organizations include the Boston Water and Sewer Commission and the Massachusetts Housing Authorities, to name a few.
With a background in the performing arts and an interest in the body’s role in leadership, she became an Integral Yoga teacher and then a Somatic Coach. Certifications include Leadership Embodiment, Conversational Intelligence (C-IQ), and Positive Intelligence (PQ). McNeely earned her bachelor’s degree in International Development from Lewis & Clark College and an M.Ed. from Temple University.
