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 belonging, equity, inclusion, and diversity (BEID) practitioners who inspire organizational and community culture change. With over 30 years of experience, McNeely is an interdisciplinary and multi-sector professional in nonprofit, business, and government settings. 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. Weaving BEID organizational culture change principles and practices throughout her work, McNeely 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, McNeely has co-designed White Women and the Power Paradox (WWPP), a body of work designed for white women to unlearn the patterns that harm those we care about and hold us back. WWPP supports personal healing and social transformation by exploring how patterns of sexism gets in the way of leading racial justice organizational and community change. McNeely 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 Massachusetts, Jumpstart, Mass General Brigham, and Newton Public Schools. Corporate clients include Wellington Management, CarGurus, and Panasonic. She has been a coach, facilitator, and coach recruiter for Harvard Business School.

Harry Harding is an experienced non-profit leader, facilitator, and writer who has worked in several capacities with youth and families for two decades in the Boston community and surrounding areas. He is the Vice President of Innovation and Strategic Partnerships at Children's Services of Roxbury (CSR), a social services non-profit in Boston that serves more than 6,000 individuals across Massachusetts annually. Harding oversees CSR's Youth, Purpose & Partnership (YPP), a life-skills and career development program for young adults centered on leadership, community engagement, and digital storytelling. He shares his community expertise as an active board member for Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative, the Caribbean Foundation of Boston, and the Institute on Crime, Race, and Justice at Northeastern University. A Lead Boston alum, Harding has served as a student coach at Harvard Business School and has been an instructor at Harvard Extension School since 2018. With more than 1,000 hours of instruction logged, Harding specializes in facilitating dialogues on anti-racism and topics related to diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB). Harding has earned a bachelor's degree in human services from Springfield College with a concentration in community and youth development leadership. He earned a master's degree in journalism and a professional certification in organizational behavior from the Harvard Extension School in 2017. In 2022, Harding formed his own consulting firm, LeaderFULL Life Works, LLC, to support organizations build leadership capacity and strengthen work culture. A published author of two books of poetry, Perspectives in Progress (2017) and The Audacity (2018), in addition to his professional roles in the community, Harding is also a dedicated father to his teenage child.