Michelle Moore has held a range of academic, vocational, and senior advisory roles in government and education where she led on managing Physical Education and school sport including the London 2012 Olympic Games. A former Assistant headteacher and head of service in local government Michelle is committed to the leadership development of people. She is currently a LinkedIn Learning Instructor on Conscious Leadership, with over 25,000 learners worldwide. The course equips learners with skills needed to lead consciously in a constantly evolving workplace whilst offering a global perspective to make a positive contribution to the world. She has also previously instructed for The Guardian Masterclasses. Michelle serves as an honorary associate lecturer at the University of Worcester
She has sat as a board member and equity advisor for Sports England, was an advisor for Women’s Sport Trust, and is a trustee for SportsAid, and the Runnymede Trust
Her influence has earned her national awards, including the Outstanding Woman in Sport Award, and three Changemaker Honours.
Michelle is the bestselling author of Real Wins: Race, Leadership, and How to Redefine Success (2021), which was longlisted for the CMI Management Book of the Year Award. Called “powerful and inspiring” by Dame Denise Lewis, the book provides practical strategies for self-awareness and resilience to run your own race. She also contributed the essay “Why Black British Athletes Matter” in the 2021 book Black British Lives Matter written by Lenny Henry and Marcus Ryder.
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Corporate
Michelle is a highly experienced keynote speaker, host, moderator, facilitator, panellist, and coach. She has presented to audiences of up to 3,000 people, and hosted the 2025 LinkedIn Talent Connect UK for over 1,000 delegates. She has chaired panels at the United Nations, presented at the Houses of Parliament and Lords, and has been featured by the BBC, Channel 4, The Guardian, and The Telegraph.
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Coaching
Through her coaching, Michelle has empowered hundreds of professionals to thrive, including those at the Premier League Charitable Trust, and Sky News. She has inspired hundreds of professionals and has become known for her energetic and impassioned coaching style.
Her unwavering confidence in people’s potential is rooted in her own journey, from overcoming early challenges and excelling as an athlete to becoming a senior executive and trusted advisor. Michelle’s athletic background instilled in her discipline, determination, and resilience, qualities that form the foundation of her coaching model for personal and professional growth. Michelle empowers leaders to embrace their authentic power by integrating leadership principles with sports mindset techniques.
She provides coaching for executives, managers, and teams, including specialist programmes for people of colour. She has worked with professionals, teachers, high-profile athletes, coaches, entrepreneurs, media executives, board members, chief executives, and pubic and corporate sector executives.
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Speaking
Michelle is a leading voice in her field and has chaired high-profile sports and leadership panels and been interviewed by top-tier media outlets. As a leadership speaker, she uses her own experience as a former 400m runner to apply the power of the sporting mindset for success in business and life.
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Speaking Topics
– Leadership
– Success
– Resilience
– Mindset
– Education
– Sport
– Health and Wellbeing
– Teamwork
– Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion
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Keynote Talks
The Rise of Conscious Leadership: Michelle reveals the ways we can all become more conscious, authentic, and self-aware leaders by taking responsibility for our leadership choices and actions.
The Power In You: Through her own story of strength and resilience, Michelle looks at how we can all unleash our inner power.
Building Resilience For High-Impact Leadership: Michelle draws on her years of experience in sport and business to examine the relationship between leadership, identity, and resilience, showing us how we can find our own ways to fulfil our leadership potential.
Mindset: Michelle looks at how organisational cultural growth and development is supported by the power of mindset, resilience, and finding the many different routes to success.
Confidence, Identity, and How To Be a Voice For Change: Using her experience and personal narratives, Michelle shows delegates how the power of difference enhances our personal and global worlds.
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Michelle’s talks are best suited to:
– Businesses and organisations seeking to improve leadership performance and employee retention by building conscious leaders, to facilitate behavioural change, and enhance organisational culture. This includes HR departments, learning and development teams, and talent development and leadership programmes.
– Organisations hosting conferences and events related to leadership, personal development, organisational culture, wellbeing, innovation, equity, and the future of work.
– Educational institutes that are aiming to empower and inspire students and staff with enhanced leadership skills.
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Sport Strategist
As a specialist in local government management of PE and school sport, Michelle played a key role in the London 2012 Olympic Games.
With her own background in competing, combined with her extensive experience in designing innovative sport and social change programmes in education, and in anti-discriminatory initiatives in sport and government, Michelle’s advocacy, campaigning, policy, and capacity building collaborations have been recognised all over the world.
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Clients
BAFTA, BBC, the Premier League, Sky Sports, Freemantle, News UK, LinkedIn, Loughborough University, the London Mayor’s Office, Shelter, Centre for Sport and Human Rights, the Commonwealth Games Federation, Fawcett, House of Lords, ITN, ITV, the NBA, Sky News, SXSW, Sport England, UNICEF, United Nations, University of Cambridge, University of East London, University of Texas, Premier League Charitable Trust, University of Worcester, Women’s Sport Trust, WOW Festival, Adidas, the Black Cultural Archives, Intermediate Capital Group.
To check fees and availability for Michelle Moore, contact Great Business Speakers on 0044 (0)1753 439289
