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 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.