Margaret Moore "Coach Meg"
Executive Coach. Entrepreneur. Leader. Inventor. Author. Speaker.
Coach Meg
Margaret Moore, aka Coach Meg, founded Wellcoaches Corporation in 2000, the first School of Coaching for health professionals and a global standard-bearer for science-based coaching and professional coaches in healthcare and well-being. The Wellcoaches School of Coaching has trained more than 15,500 coaches in over 50 countries. Margaret is a 17-year veteran of the biotechnology industry in the US, UK, Canada, and France. She served in executive roles at three companies which later joined Sanofi, and served as COO and CEO of two biotech companies. Read about Coach Meg's 20-year journey at Wellcoaches.
Executive Coach
Leading in our challenging and uncertain world carries us to our growth edges on many days. A growth edge is a stressful place where the demands of the moment get ahead of today’s level of self-mastery. The stress is our call to grow. As Margaret coaches, she draws on the latest in coaching science and her continuous innovations in coaching models. She is a role model first, coaching herself daily beyond her own growth edges as a leader. The outcome for you is a whole new level of impact as a transformational leader and collaborative innovator.
Social Entrepreneur
Margaret Moore is co-founder (2009) and chair of the Institute of Coaching at McLean Hospital, an affiliate of Harvard Medical School, and co-founder (2008) and course director of the Coaching in Leadership & Healthcare conference, organized by the Institute of Coaching and delivered by Harvard Medical School.
Margaret is a co-founder (2010) and was a board member of the National Board for Health & Wellness Coaching (NBHWC) from 2019-2023. She spearheaded the formation of a strategic partnership with the National Board of Medical Examiners (2016). NBHWC and NBME have established national standards and certification for health and wellness coaches.
Prolific Writer
As a student of biology, neuroscience, psychology, and philosophy, Margaret Moore is skilled in synthesizing theory and cultivating new hypotheses of human behavior. Transforming complexity into interesting and accessible tools, Margaret enables readers to apply novel content immediately in books, book chapters, articles, and blogs. Her second Harvard Health book: Organize Your Emotions, Optimize Your Life, an iBooks bestseller, posits that multiplicity of mind is natural and normal, extending the Pixar movie, Inside Out, to an adult model. Margaret is co-author or co-editor of four books, 9 book chapters and 21 peer-reviewed journal articles.
Engaging Speaker
Whether in front of 10 or 5,000, Margaret Moore's dynamic and flexible presentation style on coaching, thriving, and transformational leadership, leaves the audience both in awe of her knowledge and professionalism, while also feeling deeply connected to her authentic and engaging approach. Her thought leadership is presented at wellcoaches habits in 70+ habit videos on coaching, emotional balance, burnout prevention, and transformational leadership.
Personal
Margaret Moore, a dual Canadian and US citizen, was born on a dairy farm northeast of Toronto where she attended a two-room school and learned to drive a tractor. She is a member of the Board of Overseers of the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra. Margaret lives in Wellesley, Massachusetts with her husband, Paul Clark, a prominent biotechnology patent attorney at Clark & Elbing. She is stepmom to three adult Clarks and grandmom to their five children.
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B.S. Biology, Western University, 1978
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M.B.A., Ivey School of Business, Western University, 1983; last term at London Business School under an international scholarship