Doug Moran

Award-winning and best-selling author Doug Moran founded If You Will Lead, LLC in 2009, to foster leadership development and growth through executive coaching, consulting, training, and motivational speaking. Doug believes fervently that everyone has the capacity to be a leader. He is passionate about helping those who choose to lead by fostering the skills and competencies necessary to do so powerfully and effectively. Doug has helped leaders around the world achieve their goals and recognize their leadership potential.

Doug is the co-founder of The Cohero Institute, the creator and provider of the Cohero Collaborative Leadership Profile Assessments. The Cohero assessments help leaders understand their unique strengths within the context of an organization's overall requirements for learning, management, and leadership. They provide a way for individuals and organizations to assess their leadership competencies so they can understand how to leverage their strengths and compensate for their weaknesses.

Doug's approach to coaching starts with the leader and moves outward. By focusing on self-awareness, Doug helps leaders see the connections between who they are and how they lead. He then uses this self-awareness to help his clients lead more powerfully by creating a compelling vision, developing behaviors that attract others, and promoting actions that build and maintain trust and respect. Doug uses a variety of tools and exercises to enable his clients to understand themselves and to reach their fullest potential.

Doug speaks, writes and teaches on a variety of topics related to leadership and change. Doug's bestselling book, If You Will Lead: Enduring Wisdom for 21st-Century Leaders, was named one of LeadershipNow.com's "Best Leadership Books of 2011." His articles and interviews have appeared in a variety of national magazines, including Investor's Business Daily, CIO Insight, LeadershipNow, Leadership Edge, Inside Business, Leadership Excellence, Training Magazine and Enterprise Leadership.

Doug has more than 30 years of hands-on executive leadership experience. His clients include Fortune 500 corporations, start-ups, government agencies, and non-profits. His professional leadership experience gives him the ability to truly appreciate the challenges his clients are confronting and to meet them where they are. He has led organizations of all sizes, from a complex enterprise of more than 16,000 employees to small teams of individual contributors. Before starting If You Will Lead, Doug spent ten years with Capital One Financial Services in a variety of executive roles. Most recently, he was CIO for Capital One's Financial Services Division, providing technology leadership for domestic and international business units. Doug also oversaw the company's Merger and Acquisition IT team.

Doug served Virginia's Governor as Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Resources, COO of the Department of Social Services, and Director of Telecommunications. Under his leadership, Virginia revolutionized its welfare system, putting more than 50,000 unemployed citizens to work. He was recognized by both the National Association of State Telecommunications Directors and the National Public-Private Partnership Association for outstanding leadership and innovation. Doug started his career with Verizon, where he led two new product launches and patented three inventions.

Doug is a graduate of Georgetown University's Leadership Coaching Program, and he is designated as an Associate Certified Coach by the International Coach Federation. Doug holds a Bachelor of Science degree from James Madison University. His community involvement centers on ethical leadership, student leadership, education, affordable housing, veterans support and children's healthcare.