Madeleine Blanchard

Madeleine Homan Blanchard, MCC, is on the Board of Directors and is Chief Coaching Architect for Blanchard®. She is also a co-founder of Blanchard Coaching Services. Madeleine has been a pioneer in the Coaching Profession since 1989 and has over 25 years of experience working with organizations to leverage professional coaching, teach coaching skills to leaders, and create a coaching culture.

Madeleine was a founding advisory board member of and senior trainer for Coach University and a founding board member of The International Coach Federation, where she served for six years.

Madeleine co-authored: Blanchard’s programs Blanchard Management Essentials® and Coaching Essentials, Leverage Your Best, Ditch the Rest: The Coaching Secrets Top Executives Depend On (William Morrow, 2004) Coaching in Organizations: Best Coaching Practices from Blanchard (Wiley, 2008) Leading at a Higher Level: Blanchard on Leadership and Creating High Performing Organizations, (FT Press, 2009) Coaching for Leadership: Writings on Leadership from the World’s Greatest Coaches, (3rd Edition, Pfeiffer, 2012). Madeleine’s advice column for well-intended managers, Ask Madeleine, posts every Saturday on Blanchard’s Leaderchat.

She is certified in the ECR, TruScore and SQ21. Madeleine holds a BA from Georgetown University and an MSc. NeuroLeadership from the University of Middlesex.