Biographie
The lovechild of social responsibility and social butterfly, Kelley Moore is a lifestyle expert with a simple mission: to inspire and empower people. Unlike other experts who focus solely on formulaic designs and solutions, Kelley combines her years of experience helping others as a social worker with her passion for design and entertaining. The results? She connects quickly with people, creating an instant level of trust and the ability to inspire. Kelley's core ideal is to empower people to use design and entertaining as tools to build stronger relationships and share who they are through the environment they create.
Since childhood, Kelley has had a passion for helping people and set her sights on working within social services, studying at Arizona State University Upon graduation, Kelley spent seven years as a social worker, working particularly on behalf of abused children. Because of and in spite of limited government resources, Kelley discovered the little things that she personally could do outside the scope of her position to enrich the lives of her clients. These moments became precious and would drive her passion to expand her work with others.
For years, Kelley planned successful parties for herself and friends and so in 1999, she left social services to found Red Letter Day, a Seattle event planning and design firm. She has produced and designed signature events in locations around the world. Her clients include Microsoft, Getty Images, Lexus, Ronald McDonald Children's Charities, Hollywood celebrities and a diverse array of private clientele.
After establishing herself as the city's events planner, Kelley Moore began styling and producing distinctly Northwest entertaining stories for Seattle magazine and Northwest Home in 2003. Since then, Kelley has become Seattle's lifestyle and entertaining expert who regularly appears on KING 5 News and KONG TV, with design, style, and entertainment tips. Her television show, "Moore to Life," debuted in 2008 on Seattle's NBC affiliate, KING 5 TV. In the fall of 2009, Kelley cast a spell on HGTV's "Halloween Block Party." Elsewhere on television, Kelley has appeared as an entertaining and lifestyle expert on Ellen, The Today Show, The View, Rachael Ray, Tyra Banks, A&E, and The Style Network.
Kelley has a proven capability to garner and nurture relationships with retailers and advertisers in the television world. She partnered with Ikea to develop the pilot of "Moore to Life" and completed a broadcast project for Lexus promoting the launch of the Lexus Hybrid SUV. She has served as Office Max's spokesperson for their Back to School campaign, and is currently working with Proctor & Gamble, Anheuser-Busch and Simon Malls, capitalizing on her talents to expand the reach of their brand.
In the publishing world, Kelley's recent book, "Cube Chic: Take Your Office Space from Drab to Fab," illustrates how to create fun environments out of dreary office spaces. She is at work on her second book to be released in 2010. Online, Kelley's "Welcome Home with Kelley Moore" is a daily column featured on the Lifestyle homepage of MSN.com. She is also a contributing blogger for Rachael Ray.
Kelley's creative passion, combined with her gregarious personality, wins her clients and fans on a growing national basis. She is a dynamic well of talents both on and off-screen, not only concepting, creative directing and writing for books, magazines and television; but also scripting, producing and starring in her own broadcast projects. Utilizing these talents and reaching an ever broadening audience, Kelley Moore is achieving her goal a little bit more each day of empowering people to build stronger relationships and express who they are through design and entertaining. Kelley Moore. Doing Good : Having Fun.
