SpinDrift Advisors provides executive coaching to leaders looking to transcend limitations

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A skill to be nurtured

In a mission-driven organization, leadership is the essential factor that determines success or failure. Every day, leaders are called upon to make decisions that that can have a ripple effect on teams and individuals as well as throughout the organization itself.

For decades, executives operated under the assumption that leadership is an innate skill and that only “certain types” of people can be leaders. The reality is that leadership is a skill, and like any other skill it needs to be developed and nurtured over time, solidified with experience, and honed with feedback and practice. The executive who is sent out alone and asked to propel their organization to success from within a bubble is set up to fail.

Executive coaching is an invaluable partnership that standardizes the honest feedback and fine-tuning every leader needs. Unlike a board member, direct report, a friend, or former colleague, an executive coach has one singular focus: shaping you to be a better leader.

Everyone has their own definition of what a leader is.
Here’s ours:

A leader is anyone who others look to for their development and success.

How can we help?

SpinDrift Advisors focuses on developing real-world leaders. We work with leaders in transition: be it a promotion, a new job or a global event challenging your business. We work with leaders looking to accelerate their own personal leadership development skills and journey.
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About SpinDrift Advisors

SpinDrift Advisors is dedicated to supporting, enabling and developing high performing and high potential leaders. Our name originates from the ocean where we are located that gives us daily inspiration and perspective.

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Brigid McCormack

Brigid McCormack is an evangelist for exceptional leadership. Brigid believes leadership is a skill that can be developed, cultivated, and honed over time. Brigid founded SpinDrift Advisors in 2022 to support and develop leaders seeking to transform their leadership, their careers and their lives. For the prior 24 years, Brigid worked inside mission driven organizations. As an executive and leader, her passion has been to identify and develop strong leaders, create inclusive cultures and enable employees to not just have meaningful careers but also to flourish.

Her journey began with a love of the natural world. At a young age, her father took her birding in California’s Sierra mountains, and Brigid quickly learned the names and sounds of all her favorites: the pileated woodpecker, the cedar waxwing, and the red-winged blackbird. Serving in the Peace Corps, she confronted the polluted legacy of a century of an extractive economy in Ukraine.

After eight years as a major gifts fundraiser—first at the Wharton School at the University of California and then at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business—her passion for protecting nature drew her to senior leadership roles at ClimateWorks and Audubon California. Then spent five years advising high net-worth clients entering the climate philanthropy space.

The drive for coaching

Herself the beneficiary of terrific mentors and executive coaches over the course of her career, Brigid always placed a premium on building the leadership skills of the team around her—from the early career managers to seasoned directors to C-suite. Among her proudest accomplishments is empowering some of California’s rising conservation leaders, working with leaders in the climate, conversation, philanthropic, tech, healthcare and many other fields.

Qualified and inspired

In addition to her own executive experience, Brigid is Hudson Institute trained executive coach, a Dare to Lead trained facilitator, and a Tara Mohr Playing Big Facilitator.  She is certified IEQ9 Enneagram Accredited Practitioner (level 1) and as an Advanced Enneagram and Team Dynamics Practitioner (level 2).  She hodls her ACC from the Internal Coaching Federation. She has a BA in History and BS in Biology from Santa Clara University and a MS in Environmental Management from University of San Francisco.

Brigid still takes time to get outside and listen to the birds of Northern California, while hiking, running, or backpacking with her family. The peaceful moments are important, fuel for her work with the people and organizations working hard to stop the climate crisis and conserve natural places.