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

Charlie Moore never broke his stride after winning an Olympic gold medal in Helsinki in 1952. His professional life achievements feature notable accomplishments in business as well as successful leadership roles in college athletics, the arts, and, ultimately, in corporate philanthropy. At every twist is a consummate change-agent enjoying the moving of mountains and celebrating a freedom that comes from personal conviction and belief in others.

In Running on Purpose, Moore has delivered a work that is not just a career memoir or an inspirational business book; it also champions family, resilience, persistence, the drive for results, strong communication, and other traits that can, and should, guide our personal and professional lives. Never one to stop moving, Moore further succeeds in elevating these experiences to a blueprint for societal change that pragmatically intertwines family, business, and the innovative spark that drives us all.

Here is a book passionately written for individuals willing to sprint to the finish line for things they believe in. It is a fitting companion to the principled person who leads with vision, perhaps moves among influential titans, and believes that traditional pathways must often be ignored in order to discover his or her truest potential.

Throughout are wonderful vignettes with notable figures of Olympics, business and culture including President Eisenhower, George Steinbrenner, Paul Newman and Roger Bannister.

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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.