Ways to Partner
There are four ways to partner with SpinDrift Advisors
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
Enneagram coaching uses the wisdom of the Enneagram to help a leader better understand who they are, where and when they are at their best, and where and when they are not. SpinDrift Advisors uses the enneagram assessment to help people understand their motivations, core beliefs, and unconscious patterns. As a certified Enneagram practitioner, we can work together to identify your deeply held motivations, your reactions and habits and how these may impact your work and your broader life. The Enneagram is a rich and robust tool that is both more nuanced and actionable than other personality assessments in our experience. It offers deep insights and practical steps for leading a more healthy, purposeful and balanced life.
Spindrift Advisors is certified in individual and team enneagram coaching and also used the enneagram report with couples to deepen and strengthen relationships.
“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.
