Margaret Moore

Margaret Moore MBA, Co-Director

Margaret Moore/Coach Meg is an entrepreneur and 17-year veteran of the biotechnology industry in the UK, Canada, US, and France. She served in executive roles at three companies which later joined AstraZeneca or SanofiAventis. She served as CEO and COO of two early stage biotech companies.

In 2000, Margaret shifted her focus from the high-tech side of medicine to coaching, prevention, and well-being, and founded Wellcoaches Corporation - strategic partner of the American College of Sports Medicine, which is now a standard-bearer for science-based coach training and professional coaches in healthcare. The Wellcoaches coach training school has trained more than 3,500 physical and mental health professionals as health, fitness, or wellness coaches, and now trains more than 1,000 coaches each year.

In order to build an academic home for coaching which is focused on building a scientific foundation of coaching, Margaret is co-director of the Institute of Coaching at McLean Hospital, an affiliate of Harvard Medical School Institute of Coaching, and co-director of the annual Harvard Medical School coaching conference. Margaret’s collaboration with Edward Phillips, MD, to create a Harvard Medical School CME program to teach physicians basic coaching skills, led to the launch of the Institute of Lifestyle Medicine at Harvard Medical School, of which Margaret is an advisor.

Margaret is the lead or co-author of books and articles including:

Coaching Psychology Manual published by Lippincott, Williams, & Wilkins
Harvard Medical School online CME course: Prescribing Lifestyle Medicine for Weight Management
White paper: The obesity epidemic – a confidence crisis calling for professional coaches
Principles of Behavioral Psychology in Wellness Coaching; Coaching Research Proceedings, International Coach Federation
Relational Flow: Theoretical Model for the Intuitive Dance; Coaching Research Proceedings, International Coach Federation
Case Management Society of America article: Case Manager to Professional Coach
What it takes to change, Personal Fitness Professional
Flow to Health & Happiness, IDEA Fitness Journal
Climbing out of Negativity and up to the top of Mount Lasting Change, ACSM Health & Fitness Journal
Choosing a Great Wellness Coach, CDHC Solutions magazine
From Fitness Expert to Professional Coach – IHRSA Active Careers Digest
Coach Meg’s Blog (coaching podcasts and commentary)
Consumer book titled: The Realization of Rachel (the story of Coach Meg coaching an overweight and overwhelmed pediatrician)
Coaching News – quarterly column in ACSM Certified News

Margaret has delivered more than 50 workshops and presentations on coaching psychology and positive psychology including:

American College of Sports Medicine Summit (2005/6/9)
IDEA (2004/5/6/7/8)
IHRSA (2005/6/8/9)
International Coach Federation International Conference (2004/5/9)
National Wellness Conference (2005/9)
Consumer Health World (2006/7/8)
Institute of Health & Productivity Management (2007)
American Journal of Health Promotion (2007/8/9)
Case Management Society of America (2007/8/9)
Canadian Medical Association conference on physician health (2009)
Harvard Medical School Institute of Lifestyle Medicine (2008/9)
McLean Hospital/Harvard Medical School Coaching Conference (2008/9)
Medical Fitness Association (2008/9)
Positive Psychology Forum (2009)
ECA World Fitness (2009)
World Research Group Health Coaching conference (2008/9)
Human Dynamic coaching workshops, Sydney, Shanghai, Kuala Lumpur, Hong Kong (2008/9)

Education:

B.S. Biology, University of Western Ontario, 1978
M.B.A., Ivey School of Business, University of Western Ontario, 1983; last term at London Business School under an international scholarship

Margaret 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 board member of the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra. Margaret lives with her husband, Paul Clark, a prominent biotechnology patent attorney, in Wellesley, Massachusetts.

www.coachmeg.com
www.wellcoaches.com
www.instituteofcoaching.org