Ways to Partner

  • Three-, six-, and twelve-month coaching packages
  • Two sessions per month
  • Spot-coaching and unlimited emails included in all packages.
  • Packages may also include stakeholder engagement interviews, 360 assessment reviews, and personality assessments

We are committed to enabling access for all leaders who are ready and willing to make change in their lives.

Our Program

Five Steps to a your best leader

Executive Coaching

Your path to intentional leadership

Our definition of executive coaching is coaching for intentional leaders to enhance, develop and deepen their leadership capacity. If you are a leader looking to enhance, expand, evolve or grow your own leadership capacities, SpinDrift Advisors is here to support you.

“Brigid has been a phenomenal coach. When I started my work with Brigid, I didn’t even know I needed a leadership coach. Now I don’t think I could get by without her support.

Brigid helped me cultivate a leadership vision that I’m now living – becoming an effective, high-impact, and trusted leader in the process.

I’ve gone from a place where I struggled to let go of things, grappled with procrastination, and was constantly forgetting myself to a place where I feel comfortable and confident as a leader. Brigid gives me the space to step back and see the big picture, pulling me out of the day-to-day details and helping me understand how I can constantly improve as a leader and team member.”

Alex Doukas

Director, Polluters Pays Project

Transition Coaching

Your path to a new identity

Our definition of transition coaching is coaching that creates a structure and pathway when a leader is ready to make a change— a change in role, a change in job, a change in identity. If you are a leader who is looking to make a change or transition in jobs, roles, or identities, SpinDrift Advisors has both a process as well as a customizable program for you.

“I’m incredibly thankful for the insightful and adept coaching offered by Brigid McCormack. I began working with Brigid because I was unhappy with my current employment and knew that I was undervalued on that team. Brigid helped me recognize my strengths, realize my true career goals and helped me prepare for new career opportunities. As a result, I was able to move to a new job with a better team, better salary and now feel truly appreciated. I could not have done this without Brigid’s thoughtful support and work to help me realize my true potential.”

Chief Legal Officer

Social Sector

Enneagram Coaching

Your path to deep self-knowledge and to better understanding the people in your life

Our definition of transition coaching is coaching that creates a structure and pathway when a leader is ready to make a change— a change in role, a change in job, a change in identity. If you are a leader who is looking to make a change or transition in jobs, roles, or identities, SpinDrift Advisors has both a process as well as a customizable program for you.

“As Brigid’s executive coaching work with me deepens, she’s been able to bring more of her expertise with the Enneagram system into our conversations, delivering useful insights that have radically boosted my effectiveness as a manager and as an advocate for my organization’s mission.

The Enneagram framework had long been helpful to me as a tool for understanding, but Brigid’s mastery of applying it to everyday work challenges has been a true breakthrough.”

Drew Jones

Executive Director and Co-Founder, Climate Interactive

Customized Learning Journeys

SpinDrift Advisors can also craft customizable learning journeys through the lens of coaching. If you are a leader with a specific topic you want to develop or explore with a coach and collaborator, SpinDrift Advisors can support you. We create personalized learning journeys specific to the client’s needs and goals. Some examples of the learning journeys we have designed are:

  • Developing your leadership style, management style and brand
  • Developing a new leader (in a new leadership role or new organization)
  • Creating your third act
  • Understanding climate change and developing your role working towards solutions.
  • Changing your identity from one field or profession to a new one.
  • Personal, life and career vision and goals.

“I came to Brigid with a concern for the environment, but no clear sense of where to start or how to achieve my goals. Brigid helped me to expand my knowledge base through her extensive expertise in climate change. She worked with me to put together a plan and move to action. She helped me assess my priorities and reviewed my skills to identify opportunities to get started. Along the way I learned a lot! Most of all, I appreciate Brigid’s way of guiding me through a complex subject. I couldn’t have done it without her!”

Julie Schiller Makany

Technologist and UX Lead, Google

What to expect from our coaching relationship

Getting Started – Introductory Session

There is no charge for this introductory session where we can get to know each other a little, discuss what led you to consider coaching, and give you an opportunity to learn about our approach.

Design your Change

Once the collaborative relationship has been mutually agreed to, we will work with you to design a coaching plan. A typical plan lasts six months. Co-creating this plan can take several sessions. We will identify goals with tangible metrics, enabling you to see the results of your action.

Working Together

Hour-long sessions can be scheduled either weekly, bi-weekly (most common), or monthly. All coaching is remote. Phone, Teams, or Zoom are all options with their own distinct benefits. We will discuss what works best for you.

Check-ins

At agreed upon intervals, we will check in to see if the plan and coaching relationship are working for you. We will adjust as necessary if your goals or life have changed in the intervening months.

Closure / Creating a Path for Lasting Change

At the end of our agreed upon timeframe, we will review your goals, assess how you believe you have progressed towards achieving them, and discuss ways to make that change durable and sustainable.

Ready to start your executive coaching journey?

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. For the past 24 years, Brigid has 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. Brigid now works as an executive coach with leaders on an individual basis to accelerate or enhance their leadership skills.

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. She has spent the last 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.

While her passion for the natural world has never waned, Brigid has shifted her focus to working closely with the leaders who will propel mission-driven organizations to success.

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 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.