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Karl Moore (academic)

Karl Moore
Academic career
InstitutionMcGill University
Alma materAmbassador University, University of Southern California, York University

Karl Moore is an associate professor at McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He holds a joint appointment in the Department of Strategy and Organization at the Desautels Faculty of Management and the Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery at McGill's Faculty of Medicine, however, he is not a medical professional, he does leadership teaching and coaching.[1] Moore was previously on the faculty of Templeton College at Oxford University for five years, where he remains an Associate Fellow.[2] Before joining academia, he worked 12 years in sales and marketing management positions with IBM, Bull and Hitachi.[3] Other schools he has taught at on MBA or executive programs include: Harvard Business School, Stanford, Duke, USC, Oxford, Cambridge, LBS, INSEAD, IMD, Skolkovo, Renmin, IIM Bangalore, NUS, and Keio University.

In 2005, Business Strategy Review, published by the London Business School, identified Moore among a group of the world's greatest business thinkers.[4] A 2011 article in The Globe and Mail listed him as one of the four top business professors in Canada.[5]

Moore's most recent research projects are on introverted/ambiverted/extroverted leaders in the C-Suite; it was discussed in The Economist's Schumpeter column in 2016[6] and in the Financial Times Management column[7] in 2019. He has written a number of articles on the idea in Changeboard, the Globe and Mail.[8] In March 2011 he started a weekly column for Forbes.com, Rethinking Leadership. Moore also hosts his own hour-long one on one weekly radio show with CEOs and other leaders, The CEO Series,[9] which airs on CJAD800. He has interviewed Justin Trudeau, Muhammad Yunus, Sir Richard Branson, and countless others. These interviews also appear in a weekly column in The National Post[10] and is translated intro French for Les Affaires.[11]

In June 2002 Moore received the Faculty Teaching Award for MBA Teaching.[12] In May 2012, Moore received the 2012 Faculty Award for Excellence in Alumni Activities.[13] In August 2017, he was nominated for one of Thinkers50's Distinguished Achievement Awards.[14] In 2019 he received McGill's, The Principal’s Prize for Public Engagement Through Media.[15]

In November 2020 Moore with Wahiakatste Diome-Deer, an Indigenous Graduate student in Education at McGill, started a bi-weekly column for the Globe and Mail, Indigenous Leaders.[16] His research on introverts/ambiverts/extroverts in the C Suite was published in an article, We Are All Ambiverts Now, in Duke University's Dialogue [17] was discussed in the Bartleby column in the Economist in March 2021[18] and BBC Worklife.[19]

In May 2023 his latest book Generation Why: How Boomers Can Lead and Learn from Millenials and GenZ came out from the McGill-Queens University Press, it was reviewed in Policy Magazine.

  1. ^ McGill Department of Neurology
  2. ^ "Home Page".
  3. ^ "Karl Moore".
  4. ^ [Business Strategy Review, Volume 17, issue 4, Winter 2005, p. 5]
  5. ^ Peters, Diane (3 November 2011). "Getting face time with star MBA profs". The Globe and Mail.
  6. ^ "Shhhh!". The Economist. 2016-09-10. ISSN 0013-0613. Retrieved 2019-08-08.
  7. ^ Hill, Andrew (3 June 2019). "Bashful bosses have what it takes to forge successful deals". Financial Times. Retrieved 2019-08-08.
  8. ^ Moore, Karl (15 March 2016). "How introverts can successfully manage extroverts". The Globe and Mail.
  9. ^ "The CEO Series". SoundCloud. Retrieved 2019-08-08.
  10. ^ "Karl Moore | Financial Post".
  11. ^ "karl-moore - LesAffaires.com". www.lesaffaires.com. Retrieved 2019-08-09.
  12. ^ "Karl Moore".
  13. ^ "Annual General Meeting and Honours & Awards Banquet". 9 November 2021.
  14. ^ "Home Page".
  15. ^ "Professor Moore recognized at Bravo 2018".
  16. ^ Moore, Karl (8 November 2020). "Pause, think, listen: National Bank Financial's Sean St. John on using Indigenous approaches to leadership - The Globe and Mail". The Globe and Mail.
  17. ^ "We are all ambiverts now". March 2021.
  18. ^ "The link between personality and success". The Economist. 18 March 2021.
  19. ^ "Why ambiverts are better leaders".