Bio
America’s Top Authority on Internship Mastery & Early Career Achievement!
“Empowering ordinary young professionals to achieve EXTRAORDINARY success and happiness!”
As a nationally recognized resource in the fields of internships, early career achievement, leadership, and motivation; Dr. Moss has contributed to career and empowerment articles and stories for media outlets like The Plain Dealer Newspaper, Fox 8 TV News, and The Urban Business Roundtable. Most notably, he’s a weekly contributor for BlackEnterprise.com’s Career Section where he writes articles that help to advance the careers of thousands of students and young professionals across the country. Dr. Moss travels extensively to colleges, universities, and conferences as a professional speaker, trainer, and master of ceremonies to inspire the world’s next generation of leaders.
Over the years, Dr. Moss has been privileged to develop a powerful network of highly successful professionals. His network of high achievers is comprised of astronauts, millionaires, U.S. Congressional officials, FBI agents, famous celebrities, former NBA & NFL players, doctors, authors, senior executives, and national business moguls. Dr. Moss has had personal encounters with leading self-help gurus such as Dr. Wayne Dyer, Les Brown, John C. Maxwell, Farrah Gray, and George Fraser. From high-profile network, Dr. Moss has learned amazing success principles and he is committed to studying the attributes of high performance and happiness from the world’s top experts.
Not only does Dr. Moss study success as a social scientist, but he attains it as well. He began to put his knowledge into practice by achieving extraordinary success at a considerably young age. He wrote a dynamic career development book entitled Learn to Intern CEO Style to help students land jobs in this tough global economy. Through extensive research and professional experience from interning with NASA, the FBI, and in the U.S. Congress with the late-Congresswoman Stephanie Tubbs-Jones on Capitol Hill, Dr. Moss developed 71 amazing leadership principles. These principles have driven early career achievers and professionals alike, to succeed in their internships and professional endeavors. Due to his stellar performance and work ethic as an intern, NASA Glenn Research Center offered him a full-time position. At NASA Dr. Moss has excelled in various areas; namely, his involvement in designing an innovative leadership development program for NASA’s leaders.
Dr. Moss is also the CEO and Founder of CEO Style Consulting, LLC. The mission of this company is to empower professionals and organizations to reach their full potential. Through his company and memberships with the: Great Black Speakers Bureau, Inspiring Speakers Bureau, and NASA Speakers Bureau, Dr. Moss delivers empowerment keynote addresses, conducts training workshops, and offers consulting services.
Because Dr. Moss loves to volunteer and give back to his community, he became Founder and Executive Director of Community Healers Acknowledging Needs Goals and Expectations — C.H.A.N.G.E. Volunteers, Inc. in 2006. As a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, the mission of C.H.A.N.G.E. is to develop and empower its members and various community residents through consistent volunteer initiatives, professional workshops, educational conferences, and team building programs.
Dr. Moss obtained a Bachelor’s degree in Criminal Justice, with a minor in Psychology, from Baldwin Wallace University (2005). He subsequently earned a Master’s degree in Public Administration, with a focus on General Management, from Cleveland State University’s (CSU) Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs (2007). More recently, Dr. Moss graduated from CSU’s Urban Studies and Public Affairs Ph.D. program, with a concentration in Leadership (2011). He made history by being the youngest African-American male to complete this highly regarded program at Cleveland State University.
Over the last several years Dr. Moss has received the following honors and recognition: The Positive Plus Women’s Support Group Distinguished Gentlemen Award (2012), The National Technical Association Cleveland Chapter Nsoroma Star Leader Award (2011), featured by AT&T as 1 of their top 28 National Movers & Shakers for Black History Month (2010), and inducted into the Pi Alpha Alpha National Honor Society for Public Administration and Public Affairs (2009).
This brief biography of Dr. Moss provides only surface level insight into the ambition and passion that drive his desire to empower ordinary young professionals to achieve extraordinary success and happiness. He is definitely a notable community and professional leader who has reached and empowered thousands of students and professionals to move from the unemployment line to becoming the CEO of their dreams!
Career/Achievement Highlights (by the age of 30)
- Created a high performance C.E.O. Maximum Achievement System that empowers professionals to accelerate their personal achievement and happiness, career advancement, and leadership development through a 5-Step process.
- Featured on television, the radio, and newspapers as a community leader and high achievement expert.
- Author of Learn to Intern CEO Style: 71 Leadership Principles that Got Me and Now YOU Money, A Free Graduate Degree, and Respect!
- Completed 7 different internships as a college student. Most notably interned with NASA, the FBI and in the U.S. Congress with late-Congresswoman Stephanie Tubbs-Jones on Capitol Hill.
- As an intern, solved a federal law enforcement case that had gone unsolved for 10 years.
- Converted NASA internship into a full-time career placement and assumed a key leadership position within his department.
- The youngest African-American to graduate from Cleveland State University’s College of Urban Studies & Public Affairs doctorate program.
- Received Master’s and Doctorate degrees for free by earning tuition grants.
- Founder and Executive Director of a highly successful non-profit: C.H.A.N.G.E. Volunteers, Inc. (Community Healers Acknowledging Needs Goals & Expectations).
- Featured by AT&T as 1 of their top 28 “National Movers & Shakers” for Black History Month.
- Received “The Positive Plus Women’s Support Group Distinguished Gentlemen Award”.
- Honored with “The National Technical Association Cleveland Chapter Nsoroma Star Leader Award”.
- Inducted into the “Pi Alpha Alpha National Honor Society for Public Administration and Public Affairs”.
- Reached over 50,000 students and professionals with his “Witness This National Career Development Campaign.”
- Honored as “The Most Likely to Succeed” by High School graduating class.
- Played college football as a wide receiver.
- Featured in Who’s Who in Black Cleveland (8th Edition) publication for being an extraordinarily high achieving professional in Cleveland.
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