Madeline McNeely

Madeline McNeely’s mission is to condition leaders and organizations to do meaningful work for decades. Conditioning Leaders, the company she founded in 1994, works with organizational leaders to produce high-quality results, design collaborative processes, and cultivate and sustain trusting relationships. McNeely is a multi-sector, interdisciplinary leader who uses an outcomes-based approach to promote organizational and individual growth and sustainability.

For more than 25 years, McNeely has been a coach, consultant, facilitator, and trainer to leaders in business and nonprofit settings. She is a master-level coach who develops other coaches. Her areas of expertise include leadership and neuroscience, Conversational Intelligence, trust building, organizational development, culture change, team building and group dynamics, facilitation, supervision and management, meeting management, diversity, equity and inclusion, partnerships/collaboration, women in leadership, and executive and career coaching.

She has designed and taught classes on leadership mastery, cultivating presence, and embodied leadership. McNeely loves coaching because she knows the “soft stuff is the hard stuff.” Supporting clients to shift their context and apply behaviors that promote leadership, social equity and business success is her sweet spot.

She has worked with over 100 leaders and teams ranging from youth workers to nonprofit professionals, doctors to C-suite executives. McNeely is affiliated with the Skyline Group, Interaction Associates, and Interaction Institute for Social Change. Her corporate clients include Exelon, Medidata Solutions, Putnam Investments, PwC, and Shire Plc., while her nonprofit clients include City Year, Justice Resource Institute Inc., and Abt Associates Inc. In addition, McNeely teaches Non-Profit leadership and Community Engagement at Harvard Extension School.

She is certified as a coach and trainer in both Conversational Intelligence (C-IQ) and Leadership Embodiment. She is also a certified Integral yoga teacher. McNeely earned her bachelor's degree in development studies from Lewis & Clark College and master of education degree from Temple University.