Women Leaders Association Names Dr. Phyllis S. Quinlan New York Coaching Partner
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NEW YORK — November 12, 2026 — –REDPRESSWIRE– The Women Leaders Association, the largest publisher and events organization for women professionals with 43,000 members and more than 130 regional chapters, today announced Dr. Phyllis S. Quinlan, PhD, RN, NPD-BC, PCC, as a Coaching Partner of its New York chapter, where she joins Susan Roti and Deborah Donenfeld in giving New York-area members coaches screened for credentials, track record, and client results.
Coaching is one of the highest-impact investments a professional woman can make in her career, and one of the hardest to shop for. Titles are unregulated and quality varies enormously. Under Coaching Partners, the association does the screening on the member’s behalf, vetting every coach for recognized certifications, verifiable experience, and excellent client reviews, so members can book a consultation with confidence.
Quinlan helps leaders build the emotional intelligence, resilience, and character strengths that sustain a healthy, high-performing workplace. An executive, career, and personal coach for more than 20 years, she uses the principles of emotional intelligence, applied positive psychology, and appreciative inquiry to help clients see their blind spots and clear the obstacles standing between them and personal and professional success.
For women leading teams in New York, her best-known work addresses one of the hardest problems a leader can face: bullying and incivility at work. Quinlan helps leaders tell the difference between the two, address disruptive behavior directly, and build cultures where people treat each other well. She is the author of The Missing Piece of the Healthy Workplace Puzzle: Understanding & Effectively Managing Bullying and Incivility in Healthcare (2026).
Her own career runs from the front line to the leadership table. She began in emergency nursing, moved into professional education, and went on to administrative leadership roles across acute, subacute, and long-term care. In 1994 she founded MFW Consultants to Professionals, a New York firm providing one-on-one executive coaching, individual and group leadership development, team building, and programs that raise staff engagement.
Since 2016 she has served as an internal coach at Cohen Children’s Medical Center in New York, and her emotional intelligence coaching of nurse leaders was featured by HealthLeaders for raising practice environment scores. In 2026 she was recognized as a Top Leader by Northwell Health, after being nominated in 2025 for the Northwell President’s Award in Leadership, and she was a co-recipient of a 2017 Press Ganey Success Story Award. The National Association of Professional Women has honored her for outstanding excellence and dedication to her profession and the achievement of women.
Quinlan has coached members of the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses for 13 years and of ANA-New York for five, and she speaks nationally on leading change in times of persistent uncertainty, essential leadership competencies for the 21st century, and resilience, including keynotes at the 2026 HIMSS-NY Annual Summit and the 2025 AORN Expo, the AORN Nurse Executive Leadership Series in ten cities, and talks as a national speaker for 3M Healthcare on addressing disruptive behavior in the workplace. Her work has appeared in the American Journal of Nursing, Healthcare Executive and OR Manager.
She is an International Coaching Federation Professional Certified Coach and Certified Transformational Coach, a Professional Fellow of the Institute of Coaching, a Certified Professional Coach through Leadership that Works, and a certified emotional intelligence trainer through TalentSmartEQ, and holds the New York Certificate in Applied Positive Psychology. She earned a PhD in Health Care Administration, an M.S. in Health Care Administration and Urban Policy from The New School, and a B.S. in Nursing and a double B.A. in Psychology and Sociology from Molloy University.
“Skills and knowledge alone are no longer enough to lead well. How we treat each other is what sustains a team,” said Quinlan. “I help leaders grow the emotional intelligence and resilience to address difficult behavior head-on and build workplaces where people can do their best work. I’m glad to bring that work to the Women Leaders Association’s New York members.”
New York-area members can view Quinlan’s full profile, including her focus areas and credentials, or schedule a meeting with her through her page at
https://NewYorkWomenLeaders.org/CoachPhyllisQuinlan
“Every woman who leads a team eventually has to deal with behavior that undermines it,” said Lydia Price, 2026 Volunteer Chair of the Women Leaders Association. “Phyllis has spent three decades helping leaders handle exactly that, and building the kind of workplaces people want to stay in. Our New York members gain a seasoned, practical partner.”
Quinlan’s appointment is part of a national rollout extending Coaching Partners across the association’s network of more than 130 chapters, pairing each city’s members with coaches selected for that market.
Coaching Partners extends the association’s mission of giving professional women both structural transparency and individual support. Research from Pew and others estimates that women still earn roughly 15 percent less than men on average, and the association’s Glass Ceiling Score project scores most major U.S. employers on how fairly they promote women into management and executive roles. Coaching Partners adds the personal dimension: once a member sees the landscape clearly, a proven coach helps her move through it.
About Phyllis S. Quinlan
Dr. Phyllis S. Quinlan, PhD, RN, NPD-BC, PCC, is an executive and leadership coach, keynote speaker, and author, and the founder, President and CEO of MFW Consultants to Professionals in New York, established in 1994. An International Coaching Federation Professional Certified Coach and a Professional Fellow of the Institute of Coaching, she has served as an internal coach at Cohen Children’s Medical Center since 2016 and was named a 2026 Top Leader by Northwell Health. She is the author of The Missing Piece of the Healthy Workplace Puzzle.
About the Women Leaders Association
The Women Leaders Association is a non-profit committed to the development and advancement of women in the corporate arena. With 43,000 members and more than 130 chapters in major cities, it is the largest publisher and events organization serving women professionals, producing conferences, leadership programs, original research, and daily publications for its members. We also celebrate the top 50 business women in each city, publish a Glass Ceiling Score ranking how well most employers advance women, and then recognize the best women’s employers in each city from these rankings.
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