Blue Collar. Professional.
Skill Gets You In the Door.
Professionalism Keeps You There.
Creating a professional culture for the blue collar worker.
Cory M. Moore welded for more than 20 years. Shipyards, refineries, pipe, boilers. Then he taught it as a welding instructor. Working the trade and training the next crew, he saw the same thing both places: the ones who last aren't always the best welders. They're the ones who show up right, own their work, and keep learning. He wrote the books nobody handed him coming up.
Plenty of Books Teach You to Weld.
Almost None Teach You to Be a Welder.
The trades have a professionalism gap. That's what these books are about.
Skill gets you hired. How you carry yourself is what keeps you working and gets you moved up. There's no shortage of books that teach you to run a bead or pass a cert.
What's missing is the straight talk about how to act once you're on the job. The stuff that gets a guy run off, and the stuff that keeps him working.
I've watched good welders wash out. Not because they couldn't run a bead. Because nobody ever talked to them straight about being a professional. That's not a skill problem. That's a culture problem.
Cory M. Moore
Welder. Pipefitter. Educator. Author. Still getting his hands dirty.
Cory M. Moore has spent more than 20 years in the welding and pipefitting trades. He did the work, he didn't write about it from a desk. He's worked shipyards, boats and barges, pharmaceutical plants, Caribbean oil refineries, and job sites around the world. He's been the new guy who didn't know what he didn't know. He's been the journeyman who got passed over and couldn't figure out why, because nobody ever spelled out what being a professional actually looks like.
When he started teaching welding, he saw the same thing in student after student. Plenty of skill. Nobody had ever told them how to actually carry themselves on a job. So he sat down and put 20 years of it on paper.
"Creating a professional culture for the blue collar worker — because you deserve a career, not just a paycheck."
He's a strong voice in conversation too. Hosts looking for a guest who talks straight about the trades can request Cory here.
Wherever You Are in the Trades,
There's a Book That Meets You There.
From first-day students to seasoned journeymen, plus the educators who send them into the field.
Do You Have the Keys of Professionalism?
These eight qualities are what managers look for. What companies promote. What careers are built on.
Book 2 walks each one with a straight self-assessment. Honest questions that show you where you really stand. Most welders have never been asked these questions. This book asks them.
Where do you actually stand on each one? The full self-assessment is waiting inside Book 2.
Take the Assessment →The Philosophy Behind the Books.
Cory's guiding influence is James F. Lincoln, who built Lincoln Electric into a world leader by betting on the people doing the work. That belief, treat workers as professionals and they'll act like professionals, runs through everything Cory writes.
"It is not necessary to make many things to succeed outstandingly well. It is only necessary to make something that is outstanding… It is only necessary to be the best in the field and continue to be so."
Pick Your Starting Point.
Every book is a straight shot. No filler, no fluff, no theory you can't use Monday morning.
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A Guest Who Gives Your
Audience Something Real.
Twenty years on the tools, a message the trades don't hear enough, and no interest in dancing around it.
Cory is at his best in conversation. He talks straight about professionalism, safety, and what actually builds a career in the trades, and he backs it with two decades of doing the work and years of teaching it. Hosts get a guest who shows up prepared and says something worth quoting.
Podcasts and remote interviews are where he fits best. He also takes select keynotes, trade school talks, and panels as the calendar allows.
- ✓ Podcast & remote interviews
- ✓ Keynotes & conference sessions
- ✓ Trade school & program guest talks
- ✓ Panels on trades culture & workforce development
You Deserve a Career.
Not Just a Paycheck.
First day holding a stinger, or twenty years in. There's a book here for where you're at right now.
Daily notes on professionalism, the trades, and building a career worth showing up for.
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