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Madeline Nold, Ph.D.
Madeline Nold has had twenty five years of experience as an organizational consultant, corporate counselor and transformational workshop leader. Her clients range from high-level management in corporations to entrepreneurs and leaders of family owned businesses. She is Director of Creative Action Associates, a strategic alliance partner of SYNOVATIONS®.

Her work as an executive coach has evolved over many years and ranges from family business owners, to corporate managers as well as upper level management. She has composed her own methods and style of high level coaching skills, assimilated from several disciplines and from her many years of coaching, workshop, and business counseling experience. Her customized leadership and coaching courses have been delivered to corporate, government and organizational leadership workshops in Canada and Malaysia. Dr. Nold has also developed and taught an academic doctoral level version of her Corporate Coaching program for Boston University’s Graduate Studies in Human Resource Education, entitled “Coaching for High Performance.” She led sections of two “Festival In the Workplace” International Dialogues in the Bahamas, and she is on the board of their International Institute.

Dr. Nold is a founding consultant member of the Society for Organizational Learning (SoL) and served as a Trustee on the SoL Council for two years.  She has developed and led leadership workshops for SoL corporate leaders and consultants at their global events in Finland and Vienna, and for their annual meetings in the U.S.

She was a faculty member of many colleges, including Wellesley College, and has lectured at a number of universities, including Oxford University in the U.K. She has published both in the U.S. and abroad on a variety of topics. She has also hosted her own television and radio shows, and has twice been a guest on the Oprah Winfrey Show, as well as repeated guest spots on other national programs.

Dr. Nold was also the first and primary protégé of the late mythologist and master of cross-cultural comparisons, Joseph Campbell, and she remained his student and then long-term colleague until his passing in 1987.  In her leadership and coaching workshops, she introduces cross-cultural analogies when appropriate, to set a particular issue in a broader context. She believes that in this increasingly globally interdependent environment, leaders who learn to understand the varying cultural contexts of their peers can better work together in teams and implement effective outcomes. This is especially true for cross-cultural coaching teams within a given organization.

She was in Dr. David Kantor’s highly specialized training program on family systems in her early years as a psychotherapist, whose theories that have long since been assimilated into the field of Organizational Learning. When indicated as an explanation of a given goal or challenge, she applies some of these specific techniques and analogies to parts of her leadership courses and coaching engagements.

Dr. Nold studied in New York where she received her Ph.D. from Columbia University, and her Master's and Bachelor of Arts degrees from Sarah Lawrence College.