Michelle Moore
Senior leaders are being asked to hold composure, build credibility, and make inclusive decisions under conditions that punish hesitation and reward signalling. Most leadership development still teaches frameworks, not the inner discipline that makes those frameworks survive contact with pressure. The gap shows up in how leaders behave when values cost them something.
Michelle Moore is a conscious leadership expert and executive coach who helps senior leaders build the self-awareness, resilience, and values discipline that hold up under pressure.
Full Profile
Why organisations work with Michelle Moore
- Her conscious leadership course on LinkedIn Learning has reached more than 25,000 learners, giving her a teaching method that has been tested at scale before it reaches a client’s leadership team.
- She has sat on a national regulatory commission (the Independent Commission for Equity in Cricket) whose findings forced the ECB into a public reckoning, which means she speaks about inclusion from the inside of governance, not from the outside.
- Her book Real Wins, published by Hachette and shortlisted for the CMI Management Book of the Year, gives leaders a vocabulary for connecting identity, resilience, and performance without reducing any of the three to a slogan.
- She works across business, sport, government, and education, with named clients including the Premier League, UNICEF, the University of Cambridge, and BAFTA, so her examples translate across sectors instead of staying locked inside one.
Biography highlights
- Author of Real Wins: Race, Leadership and How to Redefine Success (Nicholas Brealey, Hachette UK), shortlisted for the Chartered Management Institute Book of the Year and the Business Book Awards.
- LinkedIn Learning instructor on Conscious Leadership, 25,000+ learners.
- Former commissioner, Independent Commission for Equity in Cricket, whose 2023 report led to the ECB’s public apology.
- Trustee, SportsAid; member, Sport England Talent Inclusion Advisory Board; advisor, Women’s Sport Trust.
- Senior honorary associate lecturer, University of Worcester; former instructor, The Guardian Masterclasses.
- Winner of the 2016 PRECIOUS Award for Outstanding Woman in Sport and a national Changemaker award.
Biography
Conscious leadership is often misread as a softer register of the same management language. In Moore’s hands it is a working discipline: how leaders relate to themselves, how they hold values under pressure, and how they make decisions that survive scrutiny. Her LinkedIn Learning course on the subject has reached more than 25,000 learners, which is a rare evidence base for any one speaker’s framework.
The credibility behind the framework comes from where Moore has used it. She served as a commissioner on the Independent Commission for Equity in Cricket, the body whose 2023 report compelled the England and Wales Cricket Board to issue an unreserved apology over racism, sexism, and class exclusion in the English game. She holds board roles with SportsAid, Sport England’s Talent Inclusion Advisory Board, and the Women’s Sport Trust.
Real Wins, published by Nicholas Brealey at Hachette UK, was shortlisted for the Chartered Management Institute Book of the Year and the Business Book Awards. The book argues that resilience, identity, and performance are linked, and that leaders who try to separate them tend to manage all three badly. The same argument shapes her keynotes for the Premier League, UNICEF, the University of Cambridge, and BAFTA.
What makes her useful to a boardroom is the combination of governance-grade experience and a teaching practice that has been pressure-tested at scale. She talks about inclusion as something senior leaders do under cost, not something they declare without one.
Key speaking topics
- Conscious leadership
- Values-based and inclusive leadership
- Executive presence and credibility
- Resilience under sustained pressure
- Identity, performance, and self-leadership
- Inclusion as a leadership capability
- Changemaking in regulated and high-scrutiny environments
Ideal for
- CEOs, CHROs, and senior leadership teams navigating inclusion as a governance question rather than a communications one
- Boards and executive committees in sport, media, and regulated industries facing public scrutiny on culture and equity
- Leadership development programmes for newly senior leaders building presence, values clarity, and resilience
- ERG sponsors, transformation leads, and inclusion councils that want a speaker with governance credibility, not bureau polish
Audience outcomes
- A working definition of conscious leadership that leaders can apply to their own decisions, not an abstract model
- Language for connecting identity, resilience, and performance in ways that hold up in performance reviews and board conversations
- A clearer view of where inclusion becomes a leadership behaviour and where it stops being one
- Reference points drawn from elite sport governance, regulatory work, and corporate leadership development that tr
Talks
A keynote that frames conscious leadership as a working discipline of self-awareness, values, and judgement for senior leaders.
Key takeaways:
- What conscious leadership requires of leaders in practice, beyond the language
- How self-awareness changes the quality of senior decision-making under pressure
- Where leaders most commonly lose composure, and what restores it
A talk on resilience as a leadership capability that holds up across sustained pressure, not a personal coping strategy.
Key takeaways:
- How resilience operates differently for leaders who carry visibility and scrutiny
- The link between identity, recovery, and decision quality
- Practical disciplines leaders can use without turning resilience into another performance metric
A keynote on the inner work of leading change, drawn from Moore’s own experience across sport governance, business, and public life.
Key takeaways:
- Why confidence and identity are leadership questions, not personal development ones
- How leaders sustain change agendas when the political weather turns
- What changemakers do differently when their values cost them something