Today we’d like to introduce you to Dr. Lucille Maddalena

Hi Dr. Lucille, we’d love for you to start by introducing yourself.

As the first woman accepted into the Rutgers Labor Education program, I was immersed in labor history and had the opportunity to travel to different work sites and labor unions. Inspired by the drive of workers to improve their skills, and work place experience I created a workshop to provide team building and management skills. One company at a time embraced the concept which grew into several iterations for leadership development. Now, twenty years later, it has reached more than 6,000 executives globally and is the basis for my work as an Executive Coach.

Life has many sides, of course. During this time became involved in mushing, building a dog team to enjoy the cold winter behind a sled in a quiet forest. What I learned from the dog team and my experiences on the trail provided an unbelievable opportunity to experience teamwork and leadership first-hand.

I gained an understanding of teamwork and leadership, challenge, risk, love, and joy on those trails that provided a unique understanding of instinct and teamwork. We can be instinctual leaders and reach our goals by listening to our analytical brains as well as our natural intuition.

I share tales from the trail as well as leadership case studies in my book MOVING ‘ON BY!’ “On By!” is the dog sledding command to pass the obstacle blocking your trail. I now share those experiences coaching successful leaders to take that next step in their career, to accept the risk and the joy of leading and to embrace that inspiration as they seek work/life harmony.

I’m sure it wasn’t obstacle-free, but would you say the journey has been fairly smooth so far?

I am often described as a trailblazer; the first woman management trainer, the first female coach…the first woman to stand alongside talented men at work and in the community.

My first job was as a radio news reporter and eventually a newscaster. Initially, the station advertised my unique role as the first woman drive-time newscaster in the state. When the management changed, a new station director determined that a female voice was not what ‘men wanted to hear read the news on their way home from work’. I was removed from broadcasting. I turned to the National Organization for Women who filed the first ‘sex discrimination’ suit against the FCC. Six months later the FCC issued an edict recommending women be assigned to the news desk. Twenty years later by happenstance, I was in the audience when one of the top NYC newscasters was speaking. She described how at that exact time in history she was called in to move from her job as a weather girl to become a newscaster.

It wasn’t until several years later that I met and coached the new President of the International Sled Dog Racing Association, a successful businessman named Johnn [sic] Molburg. During that time my husband and I had begun to learn the skill of mushing. We trained our pet Alaskan Malamutes and joined our local sled dog clubs. My husband drove the dogs, I would go for rides. when his wife became pregnant she asked if I would run her dogs for the season to keep them healthy and in good condition. This was a big ask, but I accepted. What I learned from those dogs on a sled in sub-zero weather is beyond what I could learn in a classroom about relationships, learning, instinct, teamwork, and leadership. My coaching clients have benefited. I wrote MOVING “ON BY!”, the dog sledding command to pass the team blocking your trail, to share the inspirational gift I received with others.

Great, so let’s talk business. Can you tell our readers more about what you do and what you think sets you apart from others?

I work with successful leaders who are in transition. When you achieve your goals, when you are at the point where you can appreciate your accomplishments, it can often be a point of change leading to transition. Successful people want a challenge and appreciate that the companies they work for rely on them as the standard-bearers. Whether the leader is assigned new responsibilities, relocated or has been asked to build a new team, we all need to be reminded of and appreciated for our strengths.

As a successful former management consultant and trainer, I have the experience to share and the collected wisdom of those I coached in the past to offer to leaders in transition. Our intuitive decisions come from our gut–from history and the shared experiences of others gathered in storytelling and case studies. the Tales from the Trail and Leadership Case Studies in MOVING ‘ON BY!’ are real — add them to your repertoire of experiences to to consider as you make intuitive decisions.

I wrote MOVING ‘ON BY’ with my coaching clients in mind, to help them develop their leadership legacy by developing their employees. You can call upon your history and experiences to be Instinctual Leaders and decision-makers. Be successful as a MENTOR who builds a leadership legacy by developing others and a ROLE MODEL who inspires by seeking new trails for team success.

What’s next?

I intend to continue to learn and share, to research how our instinct and intuition help us to reveal our talent: to be inspiring and to inspire others.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://www.mtmcoach.com
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@lucillemaddalena4770