Dr. Michele Nealon

Executive Coach & Consultant

Dr. Michele Nealon is the founder and CEO of The Nealon Group, a premier leadership coaching and consulting practice focused on partnering with C-Suite and High-Impact Executives to accelerate their personal and professional impact. Dr. Nealon has over 15 years of experience in strategic and tactical planning, new market penetration, product development and launch, resource allocation, and change management. Dr. Nealon is a certified professional Executive Coach and Consultant through the Center of Executive Coaching. 

As a CEO herself, Dr. Nealon is an expert in creating vision, leading multi-regional teams, enhancing workplace culture, developing organizational strategy and structure, and executing business initiatives to support corporate objectives. She has spent her career helping corporate executives effectively lead their teams to success.

Dr. Nealon serves as President of The Chicago School of Professional Psychology (TCSPP), where she oversees one of the most successful non-profit professional graduate and undergraduate Universities in the nation, with almost 6,000 students from more than 30 countries in the fields of psychology, behavioral health sciences, and nursing.

Area of Expertise:
Personal Leadership

One to One coaching

Executive Development

Management Training

Women's Leadership

President Nealon spearheaded The Chicago School of Psychology's expansion, from a single campus to now eight locations, which includes: Chicago; Southern California (Los Angeles, Irvine, and San Diego); Washington, D.C.; Dallas; TCSPP at Xavier University of Louisiana, and a robust Online Campus. Under her strategic leadership, TCSPP has enjoyed unprecedented success in enrollment growth and student outcomes, increased new and innovative program offerings at multiple degree levels, and significantly increased global presence, placing the institution at the forefront of advancing a curriculum that is interprofessional and transdisciplinary in nature.

Dr. Nealon also spearheaded the development of a road map for the future of the University, which includes creation of the new College of Nursing and Advanced Health Professions to advance The Chicago School as a leader in the area of health sciences and preparation of a new generation of nursing and mental health experts positioned for practice and leadership in integrated healthcare. Dr. Nealon’s distinguished career reflects her dedication to ensuring that underserved populations receive the mental healthcare they need and deserve. She is licensed clinical psychologist with clinical experience in a variety of settings with diverse groups of people including inpatient, outpatient, community mental health, and forensic settings.

In order to impact more leaders, Dr. Nealon founded The Nealon Group in 2020 and serves as its CEO. The Nealon Group is an Executive Coaching company focused on senior level leadership development and coaching. She is an accomplished writer and speaker on a wide range of psychology-related and leadership topics.