Madelyn Blair is a speaker, author, and senior consultant to management. Her emphasis is in working with individuals and groups to build capacity for resilience and agility. Her specialty is organizational learning and the approaches that support it. She has particular experience in narrative intelligence, knowledge management, knowledge retention, and information management from strategic planning to competency definition and career planning. She is the author of the Riding the Current ™ program for building resilience. Her clients include Huawei Technologies of Shenzhen, Bank of Canada, NASA, Aberje of Sao Paulo, Brookings Institute, the Regional Chamber of Cincinnati, Transamerica Reinsurance, USDA, PricewaterhouseCoopers, and the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Dr. Blair is a Taos Institute Associate and a member of the Associates Council to the Board. She is a founding member of Goldenfleece, and co-moderator of Worldwide Story Work. Dr. Blair received her doctorate in organizational psychology from the University of Tilburg, The Netherlands, and holds an MBA from The Wharton School.

She is the author of Riding the Current: How to Deal with the Daily Deluge of Data, Riding the Current Workbook, and Essays in Two Voices. She is a contributing author of Lessons from the Field, Wake Me Up When the Data Is Over, Making it Real: Sustaining Knowledge Management, Smarter Innovation: How Interactive Processes Drive Business Results. Her blog is ridingthecurrent.com.