If I get a row in before work and spend the day engaging with my team, it’s a good day.

Adrienne Moore
Police Lieutenant, Director of Security
‌‌UCSF Police Dept

Adrienne's Best Day at Work

As a Police Lieutenant and Director of Security with UCPD, Adrienne Moore leads the security division for UCSF, including all the medical center facilities. Having grown up all over the world, including Iran, Pakistan, India and Thailand, she considers the Bay Area home. “Attitude is contagious,” Adrienne shares with a warm smile. She talked with us about her best day at work, how she inspires her team and life as a master rower.

What would your “best day at work” look like?

Seven months in, I have to say I haven’t had a non-best day since I've been here. If I get a row in before work and spend the day engaging with my team, it’s a good day. I have a great group of security officers, supervisors and managers. On my best days, it’s just me and my team of 200 taking care of our community across 30 campus buildings (and growing) plus all the clinics and hospitals.

You can approach leadership in two ways. One is by telling people what to do. I chose a different path. I learn so much about my team by being out with them in the field. I connect with them about life, leadership and whatever makes them tick. When I can learn about my team and what they need to be happy at work, it helps them open up. I don’t even like to say I’m supervising them. My view of leadership is to work with them to make sure their goals and objectives are met.

Another thing that makes a great day is to reflect on all the people – leaders, guest services, transportation, facilities – working together to make huge things happen at UCSF. Even on a bad day, we can we see where we aspire to be.

You are a master rower. What drew you to the sport?
 

It happened in my freshman year at the University of Southern California, just as Title IX was changing life for women in college sports. I was more focused on education than sports, but one day as I was walking across the quad, I saw the rowing team booth. At first, the coach thought I was too small for the position I had my eye on, but after he put me to a test on an old rower machine, I ended up in the bow seat of the varsity boat. I picked it up again twenty years later and never looked back. I row pretty much every morning, with a team or on my own. The thing about rowing is once you put your paddle in the water a few times, you are hooked.

Favorite Cookie Jar Treat?

Chocolate fudge cookie
 

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