About Elevare Dynamics LLC
I help financial services leaders fix what's holding their organizations back.
Leadership development, culture change, and operational clarity — from someone who spent 40 years inside the institutions you're leading today.
The problem I built this firm to solve
Most financial services organizations don't fail because of strategy. They fail because the structure underneath the strategy is broken. Teams are siloed. Leadership pipelines are thin. Change initiatives get announced and then quietly die. And senior leaders are left managing the noise instead of driving results.
I saw this pattern up close for four decades, working at JPMorgan, Morgan Stanley, and Schroders. I led teams through major transformations, built client service operations from the ground up, and drove change in some of the most complex, regulated environments in the world. I know what it costs when those problems go unaddressed, and I know exactly how to fix them.
That's why I started Elevare Dynamics. Not to offer frameworks and reports, but to get inside your organization, diagnose what's actually broken, and drive real, lasting change.
Meet Rene Madden
“Make Chaos Optional"
I'm an executive coach and organizational consultant with over 40 years of experience in financial services leadership. My career spans JPMorgan, Morgan Stanley, and Schroders, where I held senior roles across client service, operations, and organizational transformation. I've led teams of all sizes through restructures, technology overhauls, cultural shifts, and high-growth scaling phases.
I hold an M.S. in Executive Coaching and Organizational Consulting from NYU and an ICF ACC credential. I'm a member of the Forbes Coaches Council and the author of Crush It! Conquer Workplace Challenges. I also host the Workplace Revamp podcast, where I talk candidly about the leadership and culture problems most organizations are too polite to name.
My clients are VPs, Directors, Managing Directors, and C-suite executives in asset management, banking, and financial services. They come to me when the org chart is misaligned, the culture is quietly toxic, or change keeps stalling out. Most see measurable improvement in team alignment and decision-making within the first 90 days.
Credential
ICF ACC | NYU M.S. Executive Coaching
Affiliations
FWA | Asset Ops | TSAM speaker
Experience
40+ years in financial services
Recognition
Forbes Coaches Council member
Institutions
JPMorgan, Morgan Stanley, Schroders
Author
Crush It! Conquer Workplace Challenges
I don't parachute in, deliver a deck, and disappear. Every engagement starts with a real diagnostic: what's broken, why it's broken, and what fixing it will actually take. From there, I work alongside your team to implement the change, not just design it.
Depending on what you need, that looks like executive coaching, organizational consulting, leadership training, or a combination of all three. All of it is built around your specific context, not a generic model repackaged with your logo.
I work with financial services firms at inflection points: rapid growth, leadership transitions, post-merger integration, culture repair, and operational overhaul. If your organization is stuck, I can help you figure out why, and what to do about it.
How I work
