Madeleine Blanchard

Atheist, Blogger, Business mentor, Entrepreneur, Foodie, Life mentor, Parent, Scientist, Writer/Editor

Current: Based in San Diego, CA, Madeleine is the co-creator for The Ken Blanchard Companies’ online leadership development solution Blanchard Online Learning (Blearn), and the do-founder of Blanchard Coaching Services. She coaches senior leaders in global organizations and TED Fellows, and has recently completed a Masters of Science the Neuroscience of Leadership at University of Middlesex, UK. She is a regular contributor to The Ken Blanchard Companies blog www.leaderchat.org where she has a Saturday column devoted to the well intentioned manager. Past: Madeleine is Founder of Coaching Services for The Ken Blanchard Companies. She is was a co-founder of Coaching.com, which was acquired by the Ken Blanchard Companies in 2002 and co-creator of the Internet platform (the Coaching Management System) used to support large scale coaching initiatives. A coach since 1989 and a pioneer in the coaching profession, Madeleine was instrumental in developing the core curriculum for Coach University where she was a founding advisory board member and Sr. Trainer. She is the designer and facilitator of The Manager as Coach, which was the core-coaching curriculum for several companies worldwide (Boston Consulting Group and Capital One) from 1995-2003. She is also an author of The Ken Blanchard Companies coaching skills program: Coaching Essentials for Leaders. Madeleine was a founding board member of the International Coach Federation where she served on the board for six years. In the 90’s Madeleine founded Straightline Coaching, a coaching service firm devoted to life and work satisfaction for creative geniuses and spent two years as the Program Director for a coaching program that rolled out to 2100 individuals globally for the IT division of a New York based global investment firm. Madeleine lives with her husband, two of four children still at home and two hideously spoiled labs. Books: Leverage Your Best: Ditch the Rest; the Coaching Secrets Executives Depend On with co-author Scott Blanchard; William Morrow, 2004. Coaching in Organizations with Linda Miller; Wiley, 2008. Leading at a Higher Level, by Ken Blanchard et al; contributor; FT Press, 2009. Coaching for Leadership, 3rd. Edition, by Marshall Goldsmith et al; contributor; Pfeiffer, 2012.

My children and husband and dogs, my sisters and girlfriends, coaching, food, science, fighting fundamentalism, stories (novels, This American Life, The Moth).

There is no path to happiness. Happiness is the path. (The Buddha) Love is the answer.

Coaching on a large scale in organizations, Cooking and Paleo Diet baking, Executive Coaching for Leadership Development, Extreme Self Care, Neuroscience - applications to leadership and management, Public Speaking - Coaching and Leadership, Radical self acceptance

I get to coach TED Fellows. I have had the amazingly insanely good fortune to attend the first 3 the Collaboratorium which is a 3 day event during which TED Fellows do intense work on their goals with the support and input from facilitators, coaches, business experts, PR and Marketing gurus. I have attended 1 Ted x, in San Diego. I am on the committee for the client Summit at my organization and have spearheaded the adoption of the sharpened, shorter speech for our event to rave reviews.

Synthesizing ideas. Coaching speakers to be more TED like. Singing - I was a performer in my first career, and played Eva Peron in Evita on National Tour.