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Allan James Moore Speaker Biography
Allan James Moore is a safety and motivational keynote speaker like no other. A storyteller and career keynote speaker, Moore got his start doing open mics at comedy clubs. He would go on to lead one of the most unique, off-beat careers imaginable, including being an exotic dancer, a professional soccer player, a Mandarin interpreter and translator, a kindergarten teacher and even a hand model among other unique experiences and occupations. He holds a Master of Arts in Leadership degree and has travelled to over fifty countries and worked on four different continents, managing diverse workforces in both English and Mandarin, and has held leadership positions in safety for more than twenty years at Fortune 500 companies such as Stanley Black and Decker and Wood Group.
Party Crash: How to Ignore Life’s Invite Only Signs
Party Crash Definition:
A metaphor and philosophy for finding a way into the spaces in your career and life that you feel you belong in but have not been invited to and probably never will.
How do we help our team members find their paths? How do we find our own paths? Are we even on the right path? Are we fulfilling our potential? Is there more to us that we are yet to discover? Some hidden talent?
In this keynote presentation, Al shares hilarious stories from his lifelong journey trying to figure what he’s meant to be in life. Through finding his way into jobs in professional soccer, Mandarin interpreting, kindergarten teaching, managing at fortune 500 companies, and even exotic dancing he learned the value of party crashing and found his true path as an inspirational keynote speaker.
Al teaches your audience how they too can harness the power of this party crashing philosophy to accelerate their own career paths, take on bigger challenges, and become inspiring leaders that don’t just buy into your organization’s vision, but help form it!
How to Tame your Elephant!: Leadership Lessons From Stampeding Elephants
Capitalizing on his background in standup comedy to give an interactive, on-the-edge-of-your-seat session, Allan shares a tension filled story about getting charged by elephants in Africa to set the context for an open discussion he holds with the audience about who they feel the Good, the Bad and the Ugly Leaders are within his story. This experiential keynote gets audience members to examine their attitudes and philosophies towards leadership and change. While interacting with the audience, Allan qualifies and builds on each audiences’ opinions by calling on his personal leadership experience/expertise from his Masters Degree in Leadership and working in large companies that have experienced constant change over the past 25 years.
Allan’s session helps aspiring leaders find their own leadership strengths to become the type of leader that models the way to create other leaders in your organization.
Communication for Leaders: Understanding and Being Understood!
Studies show that being a good communicator is the top attribute that every leader should possess and continually improve upon. This presentation is designed as an interactive keynote aimed at sharing some of the flaws in interpersonal communications and what techniques can be utilized to improve people’s relationships in the workplace. To set the context for audience interaction, Allan shares his personal struggles leading teams over his 25-year career through a hilarious, self-deprecating story he calls “Sisyphus Relationships”. This story explores the positive impact that contemporary “Interpersonal Communication Tools” can have on communication and relationships in the workplace. Tools such as emotional bank accounts, differentiated conversations, vulnerability-based trust and many more are discussed during this session.
Allan’s session helps aspiring leaders understand the importance good communication skills have on creating high performing teams powered by motivated individuals who feel
Safety’s Next Top Model: Human and Organizational Performance
For so long we have debated the best way to bring safety to our organizations. Well, this debate may not be over, but we are going to examine some different safety models and vote on which one we like best. In this fun, interactive session Allan discusses the pros and cons of previous safety models to the Human and Organizational Performance Model (HOP) or as it is often referred to as “Safety Differently” or the “New View of Safety”. This revolutionary HOP model developed by Sidney Dekker and James Reason focuses on the human element of safety assuming that human error is inevitable so therefore organizations should focus more on improving their systems, processes, planning, and operations to improve safety performance and culture.
Areas of expertise
• Safety (CRSP, W. Canadian HSSE Manager with WSP, 17 years experience)
• Leadership (Master of Arts in Leadership from Royal Roads University 2016)
• Motivation (former University and Semi-Professional Soccer Player in Scotland where individual and team motivational practices and approaches explored daily)
