Dan Moore | Source | retired President at Southwestern Family of Companies
Dan Moore
Dan Moore is the author of the upcoming book "Control, Influence, Accept (For Now): Coping with a Future No One Can Predict" releasing October 31, 2023. During his 49-year tenure with Southwestern Family of Companies, Moore trained more than 100,000 people how to sell, how to lead and how to get on the path to achieving their goals in life. He’s been involved in the creation and growth of businesses and influenced many future entrepreneurs. Moore has researched and honed his C-I-A(fn) expertise through his many years mentoring students at Southwestern Advantage and working alongside executives across Southwestern Family of Companies.
A Los Alamos, New Mexico native, he began his career in 1974 with the Southwestern Advantage sales and leadership program. Moore attended Harvard University, where he graduated with honors at age 20. He also holds an MBA from the Owen Graduate School of Management, where he was an honors graduate and Class Speaker.
Moore paid his tuition at Harvard by selling Southwestern Advantage products door-to-door and was promoted to District Sales Manager upon graduation. Among other roles with Southwestern Family of Companies, Moore served as SWA Vice President of Marketing for many years and was credited with modernizing the company’s sales school. In 2007, he was named President of Southwestern Advantage, where he served until retiring at the end of 2022. He was also the host of The Action Catalyst podcast until his retirement. Moore's biggest advice for students is “have a why that’s focused on a cause that’s bigger than ourselves.”
Moore is a frequent lecturer at colleges and universities across North America and Europe and has traveled to 59 countries. He has served as an adjunct faculty member at Vanderbilt University’s Owen Graduate School of Business, and been the host of TEDx Nashville.
In his spare time, Moore plays guitar and piano, and prioritizes health, fitness, and yoga. He completed 24 half-marathons after the age of 51, and completed the New York City Marathon when he was 56, finishing in the top half of 46,000 runners. Dan and his wife Maria currently live in Nashville, TN.
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Southwestern Family of Companies (https://southwestern.com/)
retired President
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Forward to Better, with Dan Moore – Episode 435 of The Action Catalyst
Dan Moore shares his wisdom from spending half a century with the same company, bringing a 150+ year old institution into the modern age, some of the most impactful lessons learned from 5 years in the host chair of The Action Catalyst, the value of wearing emotional blinders, and digging for acres of diamonds.
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The Amazon Way, with John Rossman – Episode 433 of The Action Catalyst Podcast
Business strategist and former Amazon executive John Rossman explains some of the principles essential to how Amazon became the consumer and media giant they are today, including customer obsession, keeping a broad vision, keeping an eye on OKR's (objectives and key results), setting the right incentives to create movement, making sure leaders are never done learning, and always taking the next best available action.
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Dan Moore on the Insumo “Habit Talks” Podcast
Our very own Dan Moore recently joined Insumo's Habit Talks podcast, exploring different aspects of finding and maintaining inspiration. Among the topics he discussed were practicing gratitude and grounding techniques such as box breathing, as well as some advice around adapting to the pandemic. Habit Talks host, Ceylan Ersoy, discusses how she seeks meaning and inspiration, how to leave a mark, pivots, and how to balance life. It's a great talk!
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[CIA(FN)] is structured as a guidebook, or manual, to help us all on the road toward betterness, not bitterness. There are exercises at the end of each chapter that can help you begin to internalize key traits for coping with a future no one can predict.
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Leaders and managers in particular have told us [CIA(FN)] helps them direct and focus the precious resource called attention and minimizes flailing around trying to do everything all at once.
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