Philip E. Moore, Founder & CEO

Philip Moore is founder and CEO of Moore & Associates. 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 with specialities in leadership, change management, executive retreats, and organizational transformation. This expansion occurred primarily through referrals garnered from his senior executive coaching clientele.

Philip's practice areas include comprehensive change management and leadership development expertise with emphasis on culture and the people side of process adaptation to new technology in mid to large-scale IT and organizational transformation projects.

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 part of his career in executive leadership positions with IBM, and was an investment banker specializing in capital formation in the high-tech, medical electronics, and entertainment industries. Prior to founding Moore & Associates, Philip was in management positions for ten years with Roche Medical and General Electric Medical Systems. His primary area of responsibility included sales, project management, and change management of large-scale IT projects in the healthcare industry.

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.

Philip is a certified facilitator of Management Research Group's Strategic Directions (SD) and Leadership Effectiveness Analysis (LEA), an integrated suite of research-based leadership assessment tools to help senior management teams: map a strategic course in response to - or ahead of - changing external factors including markets, technology, economics, or competition; and establish a customized set of executive leadership behaviors that will deliver results in leading and implementing strategically directed change. He is also a certified facilitator of Management Research Group's Personal Directions (PD), a powerful tool helping executives align personal strengths and motivations with professional roles and responsibilities to increase leadership and change management effectiveness  personally, professionally, and organizationally.

Philip uses SD, LEA and PD assessment tools with his clients in multiple consulting applications including large-scale change management and change leadership; strategic change communication coaching; performance management; restructuring, reorganization, and merger integration; executive coaching; and executive retreats and intensives.

Through Moore & Associates's signature imprint TeddyShark, Philip uses allegories, symbols, humor, and storytelling in his executive coaching work, and in his executive retreats and intensives 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.

Clayton J. Gridley, Vice President Consulting Services

Clayton brings 25 years of corporate, government, and nonprofit organization development and change consulting experience to the firm. His client experience covers a variety of business and organizational environments: food services manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, financial services, telecommunications, entertainment programming, energy, software services, educational settings, and state agencies. Clayton's practice areas include large-scale change and transformation, leadership development, executive coaching, team development, and organization development.

Clayton's real passion is coaching leaders and creating employee engagement that aligns to support a large-scale organizational change. He has a profound belief that change creates a wonderful window of opportunity for leaders to explore their own adaptive challenges in implementing business strategies in service to shareholders, employees, and key constituencies that all play a role in ensuring a healthy and sustainable change.

Clayton has served in a variety of corporate leadership roles including VP of Learning & Development for MTV Networks, Management Development Consultant for Microsoft, and Regional Director for Viacom. Prior to joining Moore & Associates, he had his own change consulting practice for 10 years focusing on team and organizational effectiveness, leadership development, and talent management.

With his extensive background in the design, facilitation, and consultation on large and small group interventions, Clayton has successfully coached leaders through a wide variety of complex change initiatives. Typical changes include team development challenges, developing new operating structures and processes, merger integration consulting, new leader assimilation, new talent strategies, and change communications.

His integrated approach helps clients be more effective as change leaders and deliver results well beyond their own expectations. Clayton is most noted for is creative coaching and ability to grasp the "essence" of a complex change.

Clayton services on the Board of Directors of the Pacific Northwest Organizational Development Network. He is a member of the Sound ConneXions Leadership Team - a local network of social innovators and entrepreneurs focused on community asset development. Clayton received his Masters degree in OD/Systems Change and Organizational Renewal from Antioch University, and post-graduate studies at Seattle University in Designing and Leading Emergent Change. He has designed and led large-scale change projects using state of the art change methodoligies including: Whole-scale Change, Real-time Strategic Change, William Bridges's Leading Organizationl Transition, and Large-scale Future Search Conferences.