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Madeline McNeely, MEd

Madeline McNeely works with social leaders, guiding them into the kind of condition required to do meaningful work for decades. She helps clients to integrate five kinds of fitness (emotional, mental, spiritual, physical, and civic) with greater ease and sustainability. Madeline works with leaders, groups, and organizations as a coach, consultant, facilitator, trainer, and educator. As a leadership coach, she trains clients to practice and embody theories, methodologies, and strategies that guide them toward what they care about and want most deeply for themselves as leaders, as well as for their organizations, their communities, and the world.

Madeline’s leadership style is interactive, embodied, and innovative. Her work is holistic and multidisciplinary. For organizations that includes strategic and organizational development, community development and organizing, presentation and movement arts, and cross-cultural education. For individuals, it includes professional focus, leadership development, management accountability, personal power, body image, and roles and relationship skills.

Prior to starting her own business in 1994, Madeline was at the forefront of the National Service movement. She helped City Year grow in Boston from 100 to 300 corps members and expand to other cities. She was one of the first staff to lead City Year’s National Staff Training Academy. Her clients include YouthBuild USA, The Social Innovation Forum, The Mary Baker Eddy Library for the Betterment of Humanity, and more than 50 other organizations, as well as social leaders and other individuals.

Madeline is currently the President of The Rutland Corner Foundation and a member of the Coordinating Council for the Diversity Leadership Forum. She received her M.Ed. from the Temple University Dance Department, where she studied dance, culture, and social justice education. Her master’s project, Creating Cultural Democracy, addresses the relationship between dance and social justice education. She also has a BA in Development Studies from Lewis and Clark College. Madeline has taught dance, culture, and movement classes to children and adults of all ages, including people with disabilities. She has performed in Philadelphia and Boston and has accumulated over fifteen years of experience teaching, leading classes, and conducting workshops locally and nationally. She is certified as an Integral Yoga instructor and partner yoga teacher.