Moira ALLAN
Co-founder and International Coordinator at Pass It On Network
In 2015 Moira begins her fourth career as a solo entrepreneur — connecting program innovators and business investors, guiding encore careers, and coaching for business.
Born in South Africa, she learned journalism the passionate way on, a local weekly newspaper, The Springs Advertiser, where she became Senior Reporter after one month because the other reporter left. There, Moira learned her communications craft while studying at the same time. She went on to become the first Property Editor of The Star, South Africa’s largest daily newspaper, then moved into public relations as Managing Director of WD&F Promotions where she developed a strong French clientele– Guerlain, Cycles Peugeot, Télémecanique, CGR, Poclain… so when two of her clients offered her contracts, she moved to Paris.
Moira’s plan was to stay for two years, but two stretched to ten and more as a Public Relations Consultant. She continued writing, and assignments included writing the commercial newsletter for the South African Embassy.
Her next stage was running the Club Qualité 94, an association devoted to promoting ISO 9000 norms. From there, Moira joined the GIMAC Santé au Travail 1993 where, due to unforeseen changes within the company in 2002, she was asked to take over as the Director. At the end of 2014, she is retiring from this position and will then operate as an Encore Entrepreneur and spend more time developing her deep interest in positive aging, which she has been exploring passionately since 2007 when she attended the Too Young To Retire and first Positive Aging Conferences in St Petersburg, FL.. There she met Dr Jan Hively with whom she has gone on to co-founded The Pass It On Network, a global program exchange for positive aging with nodes on the six continents.