Alison Moore
CEO of Chief | Authority on Modern Leadership, Power, and the AI + Human Intelligence Era
Alison Moore
CEO of Chief | Authority on Modern Leadership, Power, and the AI + Human Intelligence Era
Biography
Alison Moore is the CEO of Chief, the largest membership and community platform for senior women leaders in the U.S. whose members represent 10,000 organizations, including 77% of the Fortune 100. Through her work with senior women leaders, Alison brings a rare, real-time view into how women’s leadership, power, and ambition are being redefined in today’s fast-changing, AI-accelerated workplace.
At a moment when organizations are navigating unprecedented complexity — from generational shifts to rapid advances in technology — Alison is known for translating change into clear, practical leadership frameworks. Her work focuses on how leaders build influence, strengthen decision quality, and design cultures grounded in trust, accountability, and long-term performance.
Alison’s perspective is informed by proprietary research, including Chief’s ongoing partnership with Harris Poll, as well as daily insights from senior leaders operating at the highest levels. She helps organizations move beyond outdated leadership models to understand how authority is earned today, how credibility is built, and how power increasingly flows across teams, functions, and generations.
Throughout her career, Alison has had the privilege of leading many beloved brands and her work has been consistently driven by her ability to evolve businesses through bold, creative and transformative ideas.
Prior to becoming CEO of Chief, Alison served as CEO of Comic Relief U.S., the nonprofit behind Red Nose Day, where she helped expand the organization’s impact through large-scale media partnerships and global philanthropic initiatives. Earlier in her career, she held senior leadership roles across media and entertainment, including positions at HBO and NBCUniversal, where she built and led high-performing teams across marketing, brand strategy, and digital innovation.
A sought-after speaker for executive teams, boards, and global conferences, Alison brings a grounded, pragmatic approach to leadership in high-stakes environments. Audiences value her ability to connect data, real-world experience, and human judgment — offering leaders actionable ways to lead with clarity, resilience, and impact in a world defined by constant change. Her insights also reach a growing audience with more than 20,000 business professionals actively engaging with her perspectives on LinkedIn.
Speaker Videos
Is There Actually An Ambition Gap Between Women And Men?
Speech Topics
Ambition, Redefined: How Senior Women Are Rewriting the Rules of Power, Influence & Impact
At a moment when headlines are focused on women “stepping back,” Alison and Chief, in partnership with The Harris Poll, are reshaping the conversation with a groundbreaking study that reveals a very different reality. The data shows that senior women are not disengaging from ambition — they’re redefining it. Rather than measuring success primarily by titles, linear advancement, or traditional power markers, today’s senior women leaders are prioritizing influence, agency, and long-term impact.
This shift reflects a deeper change in how power is built in modern organizations. The research shows that ambition today is less about climbing a single ladder and more about building authority that travels across roles, organizations, and inflection points. Senior women are focusing on judgment, trust, and strategic visibility — assets that compound over time and create durable influence, even as careers become less linear and more dynamic. For corporate leaders, this represents a fundamental talent and leadership opportunity. Alison shows how outdated models of ambition, career paths, and advancement no longer match how top performers build value today. Organizations that modernize how they recognize, reward, and nurture ambition will be better positioned to retain senior talent, strengthen leadership pipelines, and unlock performance and impact across the enterprise.
Leading in the AI + Human Intelligence Era
The conversation around AI has entered a new phase. The question is no longer whether organizations will adopt AI, or how quickly they can deploy new tools. The real leadership challenge now is integration: how to combine artificial intelligence with human intelligence in ways that strengthen judgment, decision-making, and organizational performance.
In this keynote, Alison Moore challenges the way leaders are thinking about the future of work — not as a race to automate more tasks, but as a leadership opportunity to orchestrate how humans and machines work together. As CEO of Chief Alison offers a first-hand view into how senior leaders across industries are navigating this shift and what it means for leadership in the AI era.
Her talk will introduce a new leadership archetype for the next era: : the orchestrator — leaders who understand when to lean into technology and when to invest in. Human capacity. She explores the growing pressure on senior leaders caught between rising expectations for AI-driven productivity and teams that can generate with AI but still need guidance to interpret, evaluate, and apply it responsively. . At the center of the keynote is a clear message: the organizations that will outperform will not be the ones that maximize what AI can do alone. They will be the ones that intentionally integrate AI with human intelligence — strengthening creativity, judgment, collaboration and talent development.
Alison will also highlight how women leaders are helping define this next chapter of leadership. Rather than standing on the sidelines of technological change, many are shaping how AI is implemented, governed, and scaled — ensuring that technology amplifies human capability rather than replacing it.
Leading Across Generations: The New Leadership Advantage
For the first time in modern history, four generations are working side by side, marking a fundamental shift in how leadership, ambition, and power operate at work. Today, organizations have environments where teams span wide differences in age, experience, communication styles, and relationships to technology and authority. While headlines often frame this as generational tension, leaders are experiencing something more structural: a reset in how influence is earned, how knowledge flows, and how decisions get made across teams and organizations. Alison offers a real-time view into how this shift is reshaping leadership at the highest levels. She explores why the most effective leaders are moving beyond traditional hierarchies to build environments where experience and new perspectives work in tandem. As authority becomes less tied to tenure and more connected to expertise, digital fluency, and cultural awareness, leaders must learn to translate across generations — aligning expectations, building trust, and unlocking the full potential of multigenerational teams.
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