Lean in Alaska Blog

I am an Alaska Native (Tlingit & Aleut) who served as the Executive Director of Chugachmiut, Inc., an Alaska Native Tribal consortium serving the people of the Chugach, until September of 2012. I have been a licensed attorney in Alaska since 1978, although my license is currently inactive while I pursue my passion for improving services for Alaska Natives. I am also a board member for Sealaska Corporation, board member for the Alaska Native Justice Center, a commissioner for the Alaska Native Rural Justice and Law Enforcement Commission, and as an alternate member of the board of the Alaska Federation of Natives. I am also a National Pitching Associaion certified coach and was at one time pitching coach for the East Anchorage Thunderbird baseball team.

I always have to mention that I am the lucky father of three wonderful children and my life is greatly enriched by each of them. I graduated from the Princeton University Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs in 1975, and the University of Michigan Law School in 1978. I have been blessed with a great education and the many people who encouraged me as a boy and young man, especially my mother, the late Patricia Mallott Moore. I strive every day to live up to their expectations of me.

My current work involves consulting in the areas of Lean Management, Organizational Governance, Health Care (including reform) and as a Parliamentarian (I have been the long time Parliamentarian for the Alaska Federation of Natives and the National Congress of American Indians, and recently for the Central Council of Tlingit & Haida Indians of Alaska).