Partner Bios

Michelle joined Moore & Associates in 1992 and held positions as Controller and Managing Director of Corporate Outplacement before she was appointed President & COO in 1997. In her role she has P&L responsibility managing the firm's unique management consulting practice linking leadership, organization, and people development for improved performance. A graduate of Seattle University, she began her career as a certified public accountant at Deloitte & Touche.

For the last several years, Michelle's passion has been in working with senior management teams to address and resolve difficult issues that impede organizational and individual effectiveness. Her strength lies in her expertise in both business operations and behavioral sciences.  Combining the two, she quickly grasps areas of organizational systems that are misaligned or working at cross-purposes, and then identifying the root cause of problems, pinpoints high-leverage and practical areas for sustainable change, develops a customized scope of work to resolve the issues, and partners with her clients to implement solutions by coaching them on how to lead the change and manage the transition process. The firm's specialty since its formation is in individual and organizational change and transition, and Michelle leads client engagements ranging from multi-year large-scale organizational change and transformation, to coaching an executive team around organizational alignment strategies, and how they will need to change as leaders to get buy-in and make the performance improvement changes stick.

An experienced consultant, coach and facilitator, her ability to assess organizations holistically and systemically allows her to see the pieces required to make lasting and sustainable change. Michelle is frequently called upon to work closely with senior executives as an advisor on complex organizational performance issues, conflict management, and personalized coaching. Measurement of results, maximizing ROI, and transferring knowledge to clients are inherent in each of her engagements.

After her own midlife transition, Michelle founded WELL as a division of Moore & Associates in 2008 to share with other executive women a client-centered path through the complex challenges of change and transition to a level of self-awareness, personal depth, and resulting wisdom unsurpassed in leadership development programs today. Using the TeddyShark principles that helped her personally and professionally, and which the firm has used over the past decade in its management consulting practice, Michelle designed WELL  exclusively for successful female executives dealing with midlife challenges and opportunities, and in response to client organizations wishing to retain and re-engage their best leaders.

Michelle's clients - leaders and their management teams - consider her a trustworthy confidante, partnering with them to make lasting change personally, professionally, and organizationally.

Michelle is a certified facilitator of The Birkman Method, advanced Birkmantraining in Transformational Leadership & Development, Management Research Group's Strategic Leadership Development suite of assessment tools, William Bridges' Leading Organizational Transition, and Voice Dialogue. She has been interviewed by the media and has authored numerous articles in publications including The News Hour with Jim Lehrer, Washington CEO, and Puget Sound Business Journal among others, and is involved in several community and professional organizations including The International Society for Performance Improvement, Association for Humanistic Psychology, Board of Directors of Sound Mental Health, and The Institute for Executive Development.

Philip Moore is founder and CEO of Moore & Associates, and an advisor and coach to WELL. Helping leaders lead more effectively, he has grown Moore & Associates from its original roots in executive coaching and outplacement into a full service consulting firm specializing in executive retreats, change management, and organizational transformation. This expansion occurred primarily through referrals garnered from his senior executive coaching clientele.

A publisher author and an acknowledged changemaster, Philip created his methodologies using his TeddyShark signature imprint linking leadership, organization, and people development. His instruments, models, and software are interdependent parts of a holistic process that guarantee his clients the ability to successfully lead, plan, design, and implement sustainable change personally, professionally, and organizationally.

Possessing a blend of Fortune 10 business experience and a deep understanding of human consciousness, Philip spent the first decade of his career in executive leadership positions with IBM and GE. He was an investment banker for five subsequent years, specializing in capital formation in the high-tech, medical electronics, and entertainment industries.

His mid-career "inward turning" occurred over 20 years ago and led to a passionate study of some of the most conscious individuals in recorded history. Philip's blend of rock-solid business experience in the external world, coupled with a deep internal understanding of the psycho-dynamics of change, are unparalleled in the field of organizational consulting. He has the distinct gift of meeting clients wherever they are being challenged and facilitating them to their next level of growth.  Believing you can never take anyone further in their life's journey than you personally have traveled; he firmly embraces the dictum: Know Thyself.

Through Moore & Associates' signature imprint TeddyShark, Philip uses allegories, symbols, humor and storytelling in his executive coaching and executive retreat work to teach organization development, change leadership and team effectiveness as well as anyone in the field of organizational consulting.

An outstanding coach, mentor and leader, Philip is first and foremost a compassionate teacher and "Real life" executive coach.