Madelanne Rust-D’Eye

Madelanne is a senior coach, consultant, and facilitator. A member of RISE since 2019, she has held directorial and leadership roles within RISE and headed up some of RISE’s largest client accounts. She has a strong reputation for engaging senior leadership teams to develop strategy, improve the quality and outcomes of their conversations, and transform their habits of connection and collaboration for enhanced performance. 

Equally, she has experience engaging across multiple levels, teams, and units of a business to host organisation-wide conversations and initiatives on key themes such as culture, strategy, and innovation. Madelanne is a practiced facilitator of the peer-learning and skill development that are essential ingredients for her work.  

Madelanne has a Master’s degree in counselling psychology (2012) and was a psychotherapist before organically shifting her focus to organisational work in 2016. Her training and experience enable her to operate in a psychologically informed way, bringing delicacy, strength, and sophistication to her engagement with individual and team dynamics. 

As an executive coach, Madelanne is known for her sensitively attuned presence, her ability to grasp the nuances, opportunities, and pitfalls of the most complex and dynamic scenarios, and to provide the insight, challenge, and encouragement her clients need to find their way through, step-by-step, and to evolve in their own leadership context. 

In her life outside of RISE, Madelanne is an active Trustee for two world-scale charitable organisations. She lives in Edinburgh with her husband and her small dog Lily. She enjoys walking the hills and coastal paths, singing in local choirs, and dancing the occasional ceilidh.

Sectors worked in

• Food Manufacturing
• Hospitality, Technology
• Civil Engineering
• Third Sector
• Organisational Development
• Renewable Energy 

What they bring to their work

• Experience, presence, commitment 

Qualifications & Skills 

• MA Counselling Psychology (Naropa University, 2012);
• 9 years experience facilitating small and large group processes (up to 250 people) over periods of one day to two years;
• 9 years experience supporting senior leadership teams across private and third sectors;
• Designing, facilitating, and project managing peer learning processes, both for single teams and cross-organisationally;
• Designing, facilitating, and project managing organisation-wide engagement initiatives on key topics such as culture, strategy, and innovation;
• 9 years experience executive coaching

What others say

“The techniques provided throughout the RISE process have been invaluable and also encouraged more effective dynamics within our departments.”

“I love that Madelanne keeps good control over the meeting and the content. Explanations are good and feedback always feels fair and thought through.”

“Madelanne creates a friendly environment, so we can all have very open/trusted conversations.”

“Madelanne really digs deep into the questions she asks, and asks the correct questions to make you think differently.”

“I really appreciated Madelanne’s knowledge and understanding of the challenges we faced with working with mixed groups and individuals across our organisation.”