Spindrift Advisors thrives on the wisdom, guidance, and expertise of our exceptional partners. We believe in the power of collaboration and partnership in all our endeavors. We encourage you to connect with these remarkable individuals who contribute to our success.
Fearless Finance’s mission is to bring money-happiness to absolutely everyone. Fearless Finance provides hourly financial planning advice for individuals, businesses and institutions. Lori works with founders, small business owners and institutions on their financial planning by bringing CFO skills and depth of analysis to businesses who do not have a full-time CFO. Lori provides business model and profitability analysis, pricing analysis and insights for hiring, salaries and growth strategies, for small and medium businesses, start-ups, founders with an idea, and everyone in between.
My passion is coaching leaders to grow into their best selves. In collaboration, we use personal reflection and insight to determine how you want to grow. Then, we develop new skills and habits to help you get there. Together, we’ll even have some fun along the way.
Helping leaders at all levels find the sweet spot of meaningful work and outstanding success.
You bring the drive, ambition, and experience that have served you well, and I’ll bring empathy, imagination, and humor, along with the right mix of conceptual frameworks and practical steps.
Together, we’ll accelerate your potential by aligning your actions with your purpose and crafting a practical plan to achieve your ambitions.
Offering a range of services designed to enhance leadership and team effectiveness, including leadership coaching and group and team coaching. My expertise in the Enneagram provides valuable insights into individual and team dynamics, fostering growth and understanding. We also specialize in facilitation for retreats, strategic planning, team building, and decision-making processes. Additionally, we provide custom trainings tailored to your specific needs and social impact consulting to help organizations drive meaningful change.
I help early and growth stage nonprofit grow their philanthropic funding base through fundraising strategy and implementation services. My clients find new success in building relationships with mission aligned donors and realize an average ROI of 10X.
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.
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.
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.