AJ Maddeny

MS, MBA, CCF, JDR, GDC

AJ Maddeny helps people take back control when the system tries to manage them. His work exposes the forces behind conflict — power, structure, narrative — and gives people the tools to respond with strategy, not just emotion.

With graduate degrees in Conflict Analysis and Decision Science, AJ builds frameworks for understanding how people interact — and how those interactions are shaped, distorted, or coerced by the systems they live within.

His thinking blends structural analysis with practical design. Maddeny has mediated, facilitated, and arbitrated disputes at every level — from federal agencies to neighborhood tables — and now devotes his work to building tools that help individuals reclaim coherence and clarity in a disordered world.

He is the author of Divorce Emergency Protocol and the upcoming Becoming a Cognitore, a framework for navigating power, institutional force, psychological control, and narrative collapse. His signature lens brings together power mapping, decision logic, conflict fluency, and role theory into a unified approach for those who refuse to be managed by the systems around them.

Whether in writing, teaching, or consulting, AJ’s work is defined by one through-line: Read the system. Master power. Move with clarity.