Creative Action Associates

Superior Performance is Vital for Continued Success in Today’s Global Business Environment

CREATIVE ACTION ASSOCIATES offers Executive Coaching for current corporate and global challenges and Leadership workshops, seminars, and academic courses, designed for your institution or organization.

Dr. Madeline Nold, director and founder of Creative Action Associates, uses a variety approaches to her work, based upon decades of leadership in various business fields, using organizational transformation modalities. The uncertainty and complexity of today’s challenges require a deep understanding of individuals learning needs, goals and aspirations. Dr. Nold’s professional experience and learning are synthesized and applied selectively for individual and corporate programs. In her consulting practice, she addresses organizational issues with small groups and in problem-solving sessions for executives and key decision-makers.

Who will benefit:

·         CEO’s

·         Executive Teams

·         Managers

·         Individuals

What is offered:

·         Individual coaching

·         Team training

·         Conflict resolution

·         Goal Setting

·         Systems Thinking Training

·         Scenario Planning

About Dr. Nold:

Dr. Nold is a founding consultant member of Society Organization Learning (SoL) founded by Dr. Peter Senge, and she has served as a Trustee on the SoL Council for two years. She is a member of the SoL coaching services and community practice. 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.

Dr. Nold has led leadership workshops in the United States and internationally. She has taught her Corporate Coaching course in Malaysia; created and facilitated modules on Transformation, and Organizational Rights of Passage in the Bahamas, designed and co-facilitated a leadership program for selected members of the Canadian government.

Dr. Nold has been on the faculties of Boston University, Wellesley College amongst other institutions of higher learning in the U.S. as well as having lectured at Oxford University in the UK. She has developed and taught "Coaching for High Performance" on the graduate university level, an adaptation of her “Corporate Coaching Skills Seminar”. For the past three years, she has been the key member of the Design Team and a Presenter twice at the annual "International Dialogues for Festival in the Workplace" in the Bahamas, and is on the board of their International Institute.

Media

Dr. Nold hosted her own television and radio shows in Boston and has been a special guest, twice, on the Oprah Winfrey Show. She appeared as guest numerous times on other TV shows, including Chronicle and The Good Day Show in Boston.

Background in Family Systems and Transformational Learning

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.

Earlier in her career, Dr. Nold created and facilitated original transformational courses at The Esalen Institute (Big Sur, CA), Interface (Boston) and The Rowe Conference Center (Rowe, MA), The New York Open Center (NYC), and The Oasis Center (Chicago).

Background in Cross-Cultural Understandings

Dr. Nold received both her Bachelor's and Master's degrees from Sarah Lawrence College, and her doctoral degree from Columbia University. While at Sarah Lawrence and afterwards, she was Joseph Campbell's initial protégé and continued to be his colleague throughout his life. She spoke at of the Museum of Natural History Auditorium, in NYC, in a special program honoring the great mythologist. She also appeared as a panelist on the PBS TV program, The Eleventh Hour, which explored Campbell's voluminous work.

Dr. Nold was also the Curriculum Coordinator, at the outset of the joint US/Ugandan Learning team and created a specialized workshop on Successful Communication as a training program for the for the joint U.S. Ugandan project in the early 1980’s. Earlier, as a graduate anthropology student, she did fieldwork in a small community in Puerto Rico and studied a local Afro-religious group in Trinidad. Her proposal for a pilot study of comparative cultural myths in Dominica was initially accepted by UNESCO, and has not been implemented; however, it is in the process of being redeveloped for application in other cultural locations as well. In 2006 she gave a 2 day course "Comparative Cultural Stories: Mythological Histories - Ancient and Modern” at One Spirit and Learning Alliance in NYC.

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. In her consulting practice, Dr. Nold addresses organizational issues with small groups and in problem-solving sessions for executives and key decision-makers.

Dr. Nold's Executive Coaching design

“In today’s rapidly changing market place, organizational leaders often radically shift the environments in which they learn and grow. Superior performance is vital for continued success in today’s global business environment.”