Running on Purpose: Winning Olympic Gold, Advancing Corporate Leadership and Creating Sustainable Value - Hardcover

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Charles Moore currently serves as Chairman of the Institute for Sustainable Value Creation, having served as executive director of the Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy (CECP) since the organization's founding in 1999, until February 2013. From 1994-1999, he was Director of Athletics at Cornell University. Prior to that, Charles was president and CEO of a number of multinational manufacturing companies, served as managing director of Peers & Co. (investment banking), CEO of Peers Management Resources, Inc. (management consulting) and vice chairman of Advisory Capital Partners, Inc. (investment advising). Charles is a former member of the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports and a National Board alumni member of the Smithsonian Institution. From 1992-2000, he was Public Sector Director of the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) and chairman of that organization's audit committee. He also served as chairman of the USOC's 2012 Bid City Evaluation Task Force.CR Magazine recognized him as the Non-Profit & NGO CEO of the Year in 2008 and with its Lifetime Achievement in Philanthropy award in 2013. Charles won a gold medal and set the record in the 400m hurdles in the 1952 Summer Olympics. He finished second in Sullivan Award balloting for top U.S. amateur athlete in 1952, and was selected as one of "100 Golden Olympians" in 1996. He is a 1947 graduate of Mercersburg Academy and a 1951 BME graduate of Cornell University.

James Cockerille is an identity consultant with more than twenty years of worldwide experience. Stressing a principles-first approach, he works regularly with executive leaders on issues of integration, organizing for action, and defining the purpose of their organizations. He has held strategy leadership roles with Landor, Interbrand, and most recently as global strategic lead at FutureBrand. James is based in New York City, where he worked with Charles Moore, Jr., to reposition CECP and develop the Institute for Sustainable Value Creation. He holds a BFA with honors in design with a minor in ethics from Carnegie Mellon University.