Nonprofit Leadership and Community Engagement

Madeline McNeely's mission is to condition leaders and organizations to do meaningful work for decades. Her company, Conditioning Leaders LLC, is a network of justice, belonging, equity, inclusion, and diversity (JBEID) practitioners who inspire organizational and community culture change. With over 30 years of experience, her areas of expertise include trust, leadership embodiment, organizational development, team building, facilitation, supervision/management, collaboration, women in leadership, executive leadership, executive transitions, and career coaching. She is particularly passionate about guiding white leaders to develop a racial consciousness so they can support organizations and communities of belonging and justice. As a thought leader, she is published in Nonprofit Quarterly and Forbes and co-authored Millennials in Wonderland. McNeely has lived and worked in 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. She has been a coach, facilitator, and coach recruiter for Harvard Business School. McNeely draws on training in leadership embodiment, conversational intelligence, neuroscience, the performing and healing arts, and yoga. She has an MEd from Temple University and is a certified somatic coach. Clients include CarGurus, Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts, Mass General Brigham, Newton Public Schools, Northeastern University, Panasonic, and Wellington Management. McNeely teaches nonprofit leadership and community engagement, leadership coaching strategies, and executive leadership coaching at Harvard's Division of Continuing Education.

Harry Harding is a nonprofit executive, educator, and award-winning facilitator with more than two decades of experience advancing equity, leadership, and community transformation across Massachusetts. He serves as Vice President of Innovation and Strategic Partnerships at Children's Services of Roxbury, one of the state's largest Black-led social service organizations, where he leads strategic initiatives, legislative partnerships, and the Youth, Purpose and Partnership program supporting Boston teens of color. At Harvard University, Harding has been an instructor at the Harvard Extension School since 2018, teaching courses on nonprofit leadership and community engagement, and contributing to coursework that fulfills organizational behavior and the equity, diversity, inclusion, and belonging leadership certificates. He previously coached first-year MBA students at Harvard Business School and was selected as an Inclusive Practice Fellow by the Division of Continuing Education. His teaching has been featured at the Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teaching Annual Conference and the Instructor Symposium. Harding brings more than 1,000 hours of facilitation experience, specializing in transformative dialogues on anti-racism, psychological safety, and organizational culture. He has facilitated more than 40 diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) training sessions for Massachusetts General Brigham's United Against Racism initiative and served as a consultant for Boston Medical Center's Pathways Program. He is the founder of LeaderFULL Life Works, LLC, a consulting practice grounded in fearless, unconventional, logical, and loving leadership. Harding holds an ALM with a concentration in journalism and a certificate in organizational behavior from Harvard Extension School and a BS in human services from Springfield College. He is also a published poet and a dedicated father.