Margaret Moore
Wellesley, Massachusetts, USA
Founder, Wellcoaches Corporation; co-founder, Institute of Coaching and the National Board for Health and Wellness Coaching
Founder of Wellcoaches Corporation (2000), co-founder of the Institute of Coaching at McLean Hospital (2009) and of the National Board for Health and Wellness Coaching (2010). Seventeen years in biotechnology beforehand, including as CEO of Virogenetics.
Why this placement
Joint recipient of the Thinkers50 Distinguished Achievement Award for Coaching & Mentoring (2025) — externally conferred, panel-decided, and free of circularity since neither recipient holds a Thinkers50 role.
More durable than the award: she has co-founded two pieces of standing infrastructure for the profession, an institute and a national credentialing board. Building the body that certifies other people is a heavier contribution than most individual accolades. The Science of Leadership (Berrett-Koehler, 2025) and the Coaching Psychology Manual (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, two editions) are both substantial.
Editorial notes and exclusions
- She co-founded and chaired the Institute of Coaching, so nothing hosted on instituteofcoaching.org is treated as third-party recognition for her.
- Her 2025 award is shared with Jeffrey Hull at entry 10, who is also her co-author on The Science of Leadership. One award and one book therefore appear twice in this edition; readers should not read that as two separate honours.
- The publisher of Organize Your Mind, Organize Your Life is contradicted between sources and is not printed. Trainee and country counts are company self-reported.
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