Madeline McNeely, Founder

Madeline McNeely’s (white, cis, she/her) 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 BJEID (Belonging, Justice, Equity, Inclusion and Diversity) 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 supporting clients as a Leadership and Executive Coach, Facilitator, Consultant, and Trainer/Instructor. She is a master-level coach who develops other coaches. Areas of expertise include BJEID principles and practices, somatic intelligence, trust, organizational development, team building, facilitation, meeting management, collaboration, supervision, women in leadership, executive leadership, and executive and career transitions. As the co-creator of White Women and the Power Paradox WWPP a body of work designed with white women in mind, she supports clients to unlearn thought patterns and behaviors so they can be effective belonging and inclusion practitioners.

McNeely loves coaching because she knows the “soft stuff is the hard stuff.” Madeline is rooted in restorative and trauma-informed methods. 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 and 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 Boston Water and Sewer Commission and Massachusetts Housing Authorities to name a few.

With a background in the performing arts and interest in the body’s role in leadership, Madeline became an Integral Yoga teacher and a Somatic Coach. Certifications include AI-Powered Coaching™, Leadership Embodiment, Conversational Intelligence (C-IQ), Positive Intelligence (PQ). McNeely earned her bachelor’s degree in international development from Lewis & Clark College and an M.Ed. from Temple University. Her vegetable and perennial gardens are a salve in these turbulent times.