Moe Carrick

Moe Carrick champions bringing humanity back to workplace through cultures valuing people as whole humans not just productive units. As CEO of Moementum Inc and bestselling author she speaks on healthy workplace cultures and inclusive leadership and creating environments where people thrive. Moe work addresses the costs of dehumanizing workplaces including burnout and turnover and diminished performance when people feel like interchangeable cogs. She shows how treating employees as complex humans with lives beyond work actually improves business outcomes rather than hindering them. Organizations value Moe emphasis on leader vulnerability and authentic connection. She demonstrates how leaders sharing struggles and admitting uncertainty builds trust that polished perfection never achieves and how psychological safety enables innovation because people feel safe taking risks. Her presentations address difficult workplace conversations including giving feedback and addressing performance issues and navigating conflicts. Moe provides frameworks for having these conversations with both directness and compassion rather than choosing between being nice and being effective. Moe discusses inclusive leadership beyond diversity metrics focusing on daily behaviors that make diverse employees feel genuinely welcomed. She shows how inclusion requires listening deeply and sharing power and acknowledging when leaders do not have all answers especially on experiences they have not lived. Beyond individual leadership development Moe addresses systemic culture change. She provides tools for assessing current culture honestly and identifying gaps between espoused and actual values and implementing changes that shift culture meaningfully not superficially. Moe message about bringing your whole self to work challenges assumptions that professionalism requires hiding personal struggles. She argues that authenticity at work creates stronger relationships and better collaboration than maintaining artificial separation between work self and real self. Companies recognizing that employee wellbeing affects performance and leaders seeking to build more human workplaces and organizations tired of surface-level culture initiatives find Moe humanity-centered approach transformative for creating cultures where people want to contribute rather than just showing up for paychecks.

Moe Carrick is Principal and Founder of Moementum, Inc., a Certified BCorp and consulting firm dedicated to the vision of creating a world that works for everyone, using business as a force for good. Her diverse client portfolio includes Prudential Financial, REI, The Nature Conservancy, TechSoft3D, Hydroflask, and Nintendo of America, among others.

Moe is a Certified Daring Way™ Facilitator, a highly-experiential methodology based on the research of Dr. Brené Brown. Moe is also a Certified Coach, an authorized distributor for the Wiley Suite of products (DiSC, Five Behaviors of a Cohesive Team, Leadership Practices Inventory) a Certified Benchmarks Facilitator with the Center for Creative Leadership, and a standing member of the Denison Culture Roundtable.

She is a frequent contributor to the Work Smart Blog and Conscious Company and Success magazines. Moe has presented on a variety of topics at numerous organizations including South by Southwest (SXSW), Women’s Center for Leadership, University of Michigan, TEDx San Juan Island and TEDxPeachtreeCircle, American Public Works Association, Northwest Human Resource Management Association, and others.

Moe describes what she does simply: help people do their best work. Moe has a rich background of Fortune 100 consulting, academic and institutional learning, keynote addresses, authorship, strategic partnering, and masterful facilitation. She grounds her approach in a unifying and undeniable truth: successful work is dependent upon human relationships. Moe’s varied contributions to people and organizations have consistently stimulated positive ripple effects with direct and favorable impact to the bottom line.

Having worked for many years in the outdoor education arena as an instructor for Outward Bound and the National Outdoor Leadership school, she continues to bring adventure into her client engagements in big and small ways.

Moe enjoys both traveling the world and being outside in her home town of Central Oregon: running, riding horses, working in the garden, or just strolling.

She earned a B.A. from the University of New Hampshire and an M.S. in Organizational Management from Antioch University.

Bravespace Workplace: A Call to Leaders

Exploring what people need from work and the five Levers for Change every leader needs to make their workplace fit for human life

Dare to Lead: Building Your Courage Practice for Leaders

Integrating the groundbreaking work of Dr. Brene’ Brown

Real Partnership: Inclusion and Diversity Practices for Women and Work

Practical ways women can lead for inclusion with men and each other.

Loving Men: Women’s Role in Healthy Masculinity

Exploring toxic masculinity and women’s part in shifting it as co-workers, mothers, daughters, sisters, and friends.

Finding and Keeping a Job You Love

How to assess work fit from the outside in and find your perfect place to land for now.