Executive in Residence
Kenny Moore is co-author of The CEO and the Monk: One Company's Journey to Profit and Purpose (John Wiley and Sons), rated as one of the top ten best selling business books on Amazon.com. He has over 20 years experience in managing change, developing leaders and healing the corporate community.
Prior to coming to corporate life, Moore spent 15 years in a monastic community as a Catholic priest. Oddly enough, both jobs have proven to be quite similar - except the incentive Plans vary greatly. Kenny left the monastery because he wanted to get married. Now that he's married and has two teenagers ... he would like to go back.
The media once asked Pope John XXIII how many people worked at the Vatican. "About half of them..." he said. Moore has discovered that there are common operating principles in effect whenever you're dealing with large hierarchical institutions, sacred or secular.
Kenny's survived "incurable" cancer and open-heart surgery, largely due to luck and divine playfulness. Having dealt with both God and death, he now finds himself eminently qualified to work with senior management on corporate change efforts.
Kenny is a watercolor artist, poet and photographer. He is Founding Director of Art for the Anawim, a not-for-profit charity which works with the art community in supporting the needs of terminally ill children and the inner city poor. His poems have been published in several anthologies; one was selected as a semi-finalist in the North American Open Poetry Contest. Kenny lives in northern New Jersey and is married to the "fair and beautiful" Cynthia. Together, they are fighting a losing battle of maintaining their mental stability while raising two teenage boys.
Kenny has recently expanded his work to include stand-up comedy. This is driven largely by the sneaking suspicion that when the divine returns, She will find a more receptive audience in bars and comedy clubs than in our houses of worship.
Moore is President of Kenny Moore Consulting, LLC. He's a well-regarded keynote speaker, executive coach and business consultant for leadership development, change management and employee engagement. Learn more at his website.
