Margaret Moore, MBA (aka Coach Meg) is a co-founder and past chair (2021-2024) of the Institute of Coaching. She is an executive coach (mainly healthcare and biotech leaders), coach trainer, author, and coaching thought leader. Margaret co-founded and was a course director of the Coaching in Leadership & Healthcare conference organized by the Institute of Coaching, McLean, and Harvard Medical School from 2008-2024.

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 CEO and COO of two biotech companies. In 2000, Margaret shifted to coaching, founding Wellcoaches Corporation, a standard-bearer for professional coaches in healthcare and well-being. Wellcoaches has trained more than 16,000 health and wellness coaches in 50 countries.

She is a co-founder of the National Board for Health & Wellness Coaching, a nonprofit subsidiary of the National Board of Medical Examiners, that has launched national standards and certification of health and wellness coaches.

As IOC chair from 2021 to 2024, Margaret co-authored 95 IOC research doses, co-led an IOC study of leadership and coaching during the pandemic and was the lead editor and author of the report: Leading with Humanity: The Future of Coaching and Leadership. Next, she inspired and mentored forty-five leadership coaches, IOC professional fellows, to write a handbook on science-based leadership models and educate coaches on leadership science. In 2023, she raised a $500K grant from IOC sponsor AceUp to build a science-based model of human-centered leadership and coaching. She also led a $500K investment in 2022 by the International Coaching Federation to fund IOC coaching research grants.

For 25 years, Margaret has been a prolific translator of research into coaching, training, and leadership practice, and co-authored five books, 12 book chapters, and 30 scientific papers translating science into coaching.

Margaret, 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. Margaret lives with her husband, Paul Clark, a prominent biotechnology patent attorney who founded Clark Elbing, in Wellesley, Massachusetts. She is stepmom to three adult Clarks and grandmom to their five children.

Books 

1. The Science of Leadership: Nine ways to upgrade your impact. Berrett Koehler.
2. Coaching in Medical Education. An American Medical Association book. Elsevier (co-editor and chapter author).
3. Organize Your Emotions, Optimize Your Life. A Harvard Health book. William Morrow.
4. Organize Your Mind, Organize Your Life. A Harvard Health book. Harlequin.
5. Coaching Psychology Manual. Wolters Kluwer.