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, is a network of BEID (Belonging, Equity Inclusion and Diversity) practitioners who inspire organizational and community culture change. With over 30 years’ experience, Madeline is an interdisciplinary and multi-sector professional in non-profit, business and government settings. Her areas of expertise include trust, leadership embodiment (how the brain and body support transformation), organizational development, team building, facilitation, supervision/management, collaboration, women in leadership, executive leadership, executive transitions and career coaching.
Weaving BEID organizational culture change principles and practices throughout her work, Madeline inspires clients to think outside the box about alternative leadership models, how to overcome racial and other identity-based disparities and undo patterns of dominant culture so she and her clients can promote equity and belonging.
As a thought leader, Madeline has co-designed White Women and the Power Paradox, a body of work designed for white women to unlearn the patterns that hold us back and harm those we care about. WWPP is rooted in personal healing and social transformation by exploring how patterns of sexism get in the way of leading racial justice organizational and community change.
Madeline is a coach’s coach. She loves coaching because she knows the “soft stuff is the hard stuff.” Her work is rooted in trauma and restorative approaches making embodied leadership more possible for all. Supporting clients to think in innovative ways and develop new habits to solve their most vexing people, organizational and network challenges is her sweet spot. Madeline has lived and worked in both Kenya and Senegal integrating a cross-cultural and global perspective about leadership. She has coached hundreds of leaders, teams and communities of practice ranging from youth workers, nonprofit professionals, doctors to C-suite corporate executives. Nonprofit clients include City Year, Community Foundation of Western MA, Jumpstart, Mass General Brigham, Newton Public Schools and dozens more. Corporate clients include Wellington Management, CarGurus and Panasonic to name a few.
At Harvard Extension School, Madeline teaches Non-Profit leadership and Community Engagement, Leadership Coaching Strategies and Executive Leadership Coaching: Mastery Session. She has been a Coach, Facilitator and Coach Recruiter for Harvard Business School. She is published in Forbes.com and co-authored Millennials in Wonderland about coaching millennials. Madeline is a certified coach and trainer in Conversational Intelligence (C-IQ), Positive Intelligence (PQ), Leadership Embodiment and is also a certified Integral yoga teacher. Madeline’s BA from Lewis & Clark College is in International Development, and she has an M Ed from Temple University. Madeline grew up in Boston and currently resides in Newton, MA with her daughter. Madeline is most proud of raising a racially conscious white child who understands power, privilege, and white supremacy. Her vegetable and perennial gardens are a salve in these turbulent times.
She is an urbanite from Boston, but lives in Newton, MA and is most proud of raising a racial conscious white child who understands white supremacy and power dynamics. Finally, Madeline’s vegetable garden is a source of great comfort in these turbulent times.