LEARN TO RUN THE ROOM


IF IT'S NOT MOVING, YOU HAVEN'T MADE IT EASY ENOUGH.

If your work keeps getting sidelined, the problem isn't the work.You haven't made it easy enough—for the right people, at the right moment, to say yes.We help leaders get in the room, run it, and change what happens after you leave.

THE WORK

Advisory

Support for senior leaders to move what matters.I work with coalitions, foundations, and institutions to:Get in the room.
Make your value impossible to miss—so the right people pull you in before you have to push.
Run it.
Make it easier for people to move than to stall—so the meeting ends with a decision, not another meeting.
Change what happens after you leave.
Design the conditions that make the new practice easier than the status quo—so adoption keeps moving without you in the room.

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About Madeleine

I've spent my career on one problem: why good ideas don't move — and how to fix that.As CEO of Community Health Impact Coalition, I've aligned 100+ organizations to embed community health workers into national health systems across 60 countries. Not through persuasion. Through design.Run the Room is where I teach those mechanics — from making your own value legible, to running rooms that produce real decisions, to architecting institutional adoption at scale.If it's not moving, we haven't made it easy enough yet.

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