04 Sep September 5, 2025 – Science of Leadership Margaret Moore and Famous Prankster Alan Abel
Margaret Moore – Executive Coach and Co-Author of The Science of Leadership: Nine Ways to Expand Your Impact
Conscious leadership is really about setting aside the mental and emotional human stuff… and actually, like in Taoism, it’s called the mountain – you see, you’re still, you’re calm, you’re clear, you move deliberately, you know where to go, you see things clearly.
Margaret Moore
Margaret Moore/Coach Meg, MBA, is an executive coach, coach trainer, and coaching thought leader. Following 17 years in the biotech industry, in 2000, Margaret founded Wellcoaches Corporation, a center of coaching excellence for health professionals which has trained 16,000 coaches in 50 countries. She is co-founder (2009) and former chair of the Institute of Coaching at McLean Hospital and a course director of the Coaching in Leadership & Healthcare conference co-led by IOC, McLean, and Harvard Medical School from 2008-2024. In 2010 Margaret co-founded the National Board for Health and Wellness Coaching, a nonprofit subsidiary of the National Board of Medical Examiners, establishing national coaching standards, coach certification. She is co-leading national healthcare reimbursement pathways for coaching services in medical practices in the US since 2019. Margaret coaches leaders in the healthcare and biotech sectors, applying the science of coaching and leadership. She co-authored 28 peer-reviewed articles and 10 book chapters on coaching, and five books – the peer-reviewed Coaching Psychology Manual published by Wolters Kluwer, Harvard Health books Organize Your Mind, Organize Your Life (now Train Your Brain), and Organize Your Emotions, Optimize Your Life, a co-editor and chapter author of the American Medical Association’s Coaching in Medical Education published by Elsevier, and a co-author of a 2025 Berrett Koehler book titled “The Science of Good Leadership: Nine ways to expand your impact.”
Alan Abel – Professional Media Prankster
I believe in using, again, the mind is the last frontier of exploration… and I have the satisfaction and the pleasure of taking this idea from scratch and making it happen all with just imagination. And that’s the key to everything.
Alan Abel
Alan Abel is a man of many talents. Though he has impressed many with talents such as drum soloing, acting, filmaking, writing, and speaking, he is most famous, or should I say infamous for his pranks. Following the Watergate scandal, Abel hired an actor to pose as Deep Throat before 150 reporters. The actor was offered $100,000 to sell the rights to his story, began quarreling with his purported wife, then fainted and was whisked away in a waiting ambulance. Among his most famous is his S.I.N.A hoax, a fake organization created to convince people that there was an organization whose sole purpose was to clothe animals in the name of modesty. In truth, it was a satirical allegory making a statement on the issue of censorship. As with most of his work, his pranks carry a deeper meaning that, much like their comedic value, can only truly be appreciated from an arms length. For his library (and it’s a good one), check here!