About Dr. Madeline Nold

Dr. Madeline Nold, Director of CREATIVE ACTION ASSOCIATES, a consulting practice for executive development, offers an innovative synthesis of interdisciplinary approaches. Much more than merely a "coach," Dr. Nold is a transformational workshop facilitator who leads participants to a new, higher level of performance.

Dr. Nold has over two decades of experience as an organizational consultant and corporate and individual counselor, as well as a nationally recognized transformational workshop leader. Clients range from high level management teams in corporations to individual entrepreneurs and leaders of family owned businesses. Confidentiality of client names and content from sessions is observed.


Dr. Nold's CV

Dr. Nold's CV

Dr. Nold was on the faculties of Boston University, Wellesley College in Massachusetts. She has been a dissertation reader for Saybrook Insitute in San Francisco. She was also on the faculties of Brooklyn College, Finch College, Julliard School and Upsala College. She has led at Oxford University in the UK and has given talks at Emerson College, Brandeis University and Tufts University in Massachusetts.

COLLEGE TEACHING

Boston University. Created and taught semester course on Coaching for High Performance, as Adjunct Faculty in “Graduate Studies in Human Resource Education: Developing Leaders Focused on Performance and Change.”

Wellesley College. Social psychology orientation: psychology and philosophy of non-western religions. Developed multi-media introductory courses: Religion 108 - A historical survey of Asian Religions: Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism; courses in indigenous cultures, Native American traditions.

Boston University. Weekly radio show-discussion group and presentations as course companion to Dr. Nold’s weekly radio show on WBUR.
Brooklyn College. Contemporary Civilization: Survey of Social Sciences. Taught three sections of course, including economics, sociology, anthropology and psychology.

Finch College and Upsala College. Taught courses in the Psychology of non-Western cultural systems, asian religions.

The Juilliard School. Anthropology, Psychology
Emerson College. Guest lecture - interdepartmental program produced and hosted by Dr.

New Rochelle Academy. Taught college level introductory courses in Psychology, Eastern Religions, and Anthropology.

Marymount College. Co-led weekly seminar with Joseph Campbell, Ford Foundation Grant for Interdisciplinary studies.
Oxford University, U.K. Lectured at Magdalen College on "Nag Hammadi Gnosticism," based on original research on origins of scrolls. Boston University. "On the Path to Higher Consciousness" - course companion to Dr. Nold's weekly WBUR radio show-discussion group and presentations. Presented at Brandeis University, Tufts University, Emerson College.
 

Education

    Columbia University, Ph.D., Sarah Lawrence College, M.A., Sarah Lawrence College, B.A

Publications, Articles, and Interviews

  • In process of publication for SoL Reflections Magazine: article on A Compatitive View of Carnival Tradition as applied to Bahamian Festival Origins, and co-wrote companion piece, for Festival in the Workplace,an article co-written with Roosevelt Finlayson of MDR, Nassau. 2009.
  • Nold, Madeline, "The Persephone Paradigm: Dying to be Reborn” (ed. Stanley Krippner), in Healing Stories, vol .I, to be published by Puente Publications. 2008.
  • Nold, Madeline, " Tale of Several Cities," in Soul Moments (ed., P. Cousineau), 1997
  • "Personal Mythology" reviewed by Madeline Nold in Lucidity Letter, v. 9, #1, Chicago, IL, June, 1990.
  • Nold, Myth in a Group Process", in Working Transformation, edited by Harrison Owen, Washington, D.C., 1984.
  • Nold, M.,"The Influences of Nag Hammadi Gnosticism on Second Century Alexandrian Thought," in Texte und Untersuchungen, etc., v.7, 1975, and abstracted in "Journal des Etudes Patristiques," based on lecture given at Oxford University, 1971. University of Strasbourg, 1974.
  • Nold, M., " Alternative Healing", and "The Dalai Lama in Boston," New Age Journal", 1974, 1976.
  • Quoted in "A Fire in the Mind: The Life of Joseph Campbell", by Stephen and Robin Larsen, Doubleday, 1991; pages: 484-486; 515; 614.
  • Quoted extensively in "Boston Herald", Sunday Magazine Section, February 12-14, 1993, on "Romance Nouveau".
  • Quoted in "People Magazine", November 27, 1990, "Utne Reader", March-April, 1990, "New Age Journal", January-February, 1990.
  • "The Buddhist Principles of the Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path in Relation to Organizational Learning," WEBCAST and interactive World Café between San Francisco
  • Guest expert, twice on "The Oprah Winfrey Show", Chicago, IL
  • Hosted her own weekly TV show, Madeline Nold's "What is This Thing Called Love?". Continental Cable T.V, Boston
  • Produced and hosted her own weekly radio talk show, "On the Path", WBUR, Boston
  • Panel discussion about Joseph Campbell on "The Eleventh Hour", PBS-TV., New York
  • Guest expert four times on "The Good Day Show", WCVB TV, Boston
  • "Chronicle", a TV News Magazine, Boston, interviewed seven times, appeared nine times (two re-runs)
  • Interviewed for"Who's Who" on The Real Deal, Channel 7 TV News, Boston
  • Communicating Successfully: An Upbeat Approach"- Radio Talk Show Guest on Advice and Counsel, WNTN and WBET numerous times
  • Associate producer and interviewer for a T.V. Documentary, Albuquerque, NM
  • Brookline Cable T.V., Guest on regular talk show; interviewed on many subjects
  • Participated in a series of interviews on Eyewitness News, WBZ-T.V., Boston
  • Guest co-hosted "In the Spirit", WBAI, New York, on several occasions
    Interviewed R.D. Laing in a BBC documentary
  • Participant on morning NPR talk show, "The Connection" reviewing popular book
  • Co-produced and hosted radio talk show, "On the Path to Higher Consciousness", WBUR
  • Guest co-hosted "In the Spirit", WBAI, New York, on several occasions

Sample Consultant Participation Activities at the Society for Organizational Learning

  • Youth and Education, a Special Interest Group at SoL Annual Conference, a workshop co-facilitated with Dr. Micah Fierstein,  Origin Stories™, and Global Leadership, SoL Conference 
  • Consultant Member of the Society for Organizational Learning, facilitated major portion of “Consultants’ Convergence” at annual SoL Sustainability Greenhouse Conference 
  • Member of design team for Consultant’s Convergence, at SoL Greenhouse
  • Member of Design Team for Consultant’s Convergence at annual SoL conference 
  • Member of newly formed SoL team, “Learning Labs. For Capacity Building”
  • Member of core Study Team for Marketing Organizational Learning and on workshop design team, and member of workshop leadership group
  • Finland Global SoL meeting,
       Three workshop modules, created and facilitated by Dr. Nold:
                  -- Myth and Personal Integrity in Organizations 
                  -- Reviving Compasion, a Comparative Approach to  
                  -- Conflict Resolution--- with Basic Buddhist Principals
                            as applied to Learning Organizations 
                  -- Co-facilitated, The Call of Integrity: Exploring the 
                     Inner Landscape of Ethical Leadership    ;
  • Participant in numerous past and ongoing virtual meetings and conference calls for SoL
  • First tier participant in two trainings on New Models of Systems Thinking, adjunct community of practice workshop, Virginia,USA 
  • Vienna Global SoL meeting
        Lead two workshop modules on Leadership: 
                   -- Lead Women's Forum Sustainability,  
                   -- Co-led Characteristics of Transformative Questions


“Healthy Organizations are the doorway to the future. They provide the pathway for others, beginning with individuals, extending to relationships, and eventually providing a context for impacting the global market place.”



© Madeline Nold, Boston 2004-2009