Team Members
Lori Brewer Collins Founder + CEO
Lori Brewer Collins
Founder + CEO
As a leadership coach and consultant, Lori helps senior executives develop the mindsets and skills necessary to navigate complexity, drive innovation, and lead system-wide transformation. Through her global consultancy, Brewer Collins Leadership LLC, Lori focuses on strategic team development and culture transformation, equipping leaders to elevate both individual and collective capacity for success.
With over 30 years of experience, Lori is a recognized thought leader in vertical development, polarity management, and global leadership agility. Her work spans Fortune 100 companies, government agencies, and organizations in more than 30 countries. As a certified executive coach, leadership development expert, and facilitator, she provides leaders with the tools to foster collaboration, tackle complex challenges, and drive sustainable growth.
In 2016, Lori founded Cultivate the Karass (CtK), a 501(c)(3) inspired by the life and legacy of my late son, Jake Brewer. CtK partners with policy change-makers to bridge ideological divides, reduce hyper-partisanship, and elevate public discourse. She's had the privilege of delivering keynotes at major events, including the White House Open Data Summit, Personal Democracy Forum, Code for America, Harvard Kennedy School’s Institute of Politics, and Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy.
Lori also serve as a Global Solutions faculty member for the Center for Creative Leadership. Previously, she was a Senior Principal at Cambria Consulting and Axialent Consulting, and led Leadership and Corporate Culture at Saturn Corporation. She began her career as an operations analyst at General Motors.
Lori holds a Master of Education in Human Resource Development from Vanderbilt University and pursued a Master of Theological Studies at the Vanderbilt Divinity School. Additionally, she earned a B.A. in Business Administration from Michigan State University and holds accreditations in multiple tools, including Trauma-Informed Coaching & Consulting, MyWorldView, Vertical Mindset, MBTI, FIRO-B, DiSC, the Global Leadership Profile, and the Hogan Suite.
Lori splits her time between Virginia and Brussels with her husband, Craig. When she's not working, she loves immersing herself in new cultures, creating art, and learning life lessons from her dog, Siggy.
Britt Brewer Coach + Director of Operations
Britt Brewer
Coach + Director of Operations
Britt is a coach, strategist and creative leader helping professionals and teams navigate growth, change, and reinvention with clarity and momentum. With 15+ years in marketing, creative strategy, and leadership development, she partners with individuals, teams, and creative professionals to align their work with what truly drives them.
Blending strategic insight with real-world experience, Britt helps professionals unlock possibilities, refine their vision, and take intentional action. Whether coaching leaders through transitions, strengthening team collaboration, or shaping compelling brand narratives, she brings a thoughtful, adaptable, and results-driven approach. Britt believes real impact starts with the courage to evolve.
Britt also has what some might call strong feelings about music—she goes to a lot of concerts and finds live music electrifying. Outside of work, she loves hiking, spending time in nature, and walkabouting Washington, DC, where she finds clarity and inspiration in the city’s rhythm.
Leila Hadduck Executive Assistant
Leila Hadduck
Executive Assistant
Leila enjoys bringing calm and clarity to busy, fast-moving days. Since mid-2024, she has supported Lori as her executive assistant, managing a full calendar of client sessions, coordinating communications, and keeping both business and life logistics on track. Before joining Lori’s team, she spent several years at home with her young children, after building a career in IT and management consulting and later serving in senior roles in the education sector. Known for her strong organizational skills, resourcefulness, and get-it-done mindset, she brings a thoughtful, solutions-oriented approach to every detail—and takes pride in making things work smoothly, even behind the scene
Craig Collins Facilitator + Coach
Craig Collins
Facilitator + Coach
Craig has 20+ years of experience in leadership development as a workshop facilitator and program designer. He began his career as a United States naval officer and, after graduate business school, joined John Deere for assignments in the US, Europe and the Middle East. Craig continued to build his international leadership experience during six years as Associate Director of the Middle East Management Centre. In 1992, Craig established Orion International, a network of learning professionals based in Europe and the US. Craig is an associate member of the European faculty of the Center for Creative Leadership, as well as Arizona State University’s Thunderbird Educators Network. His working languages are English, German and Spanish, and he holds dual US and Belgian nationality.
Kris McMenamin Facilitator + Coach
Kris McMenamin
Facilitator + Coach
As Founder and Managing Principal of the McMenamin Consulting Group, Kris provides consulting services to both public and private sector clients. She has over 25 years of experience consulting in: business process analysis and improvement, strategic planning, change management and organizational analysis, human capital planning and analysis, training development and delivery, and facilitation. Kris is a serial entrepreneur: she previously co- founded The Legacy Network in 2004 and led that award-winning, Virginia-based consulting firm to great success until 2015. The early career of this Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR) included associate partner-level experience at PwC and IBM (Business Consulting Services).
Bill Potapchuk Facilitator + Coach
Bill Potapchuck
Facilitator + Coach
Bill works in situations where there are deep rifts and a need to focus on both healing and results. For 25+ years, he has helped organizations and communities realign around strategy, build high-performing teams, and work collaboratively, both internally and externally. He has helped communities reach collaborative agreements and make progress on critical issues like youth violence prevention, education policy, economic development, and landscape conservation. The drive is always toward collective impact, finding impactful harmony among competing initiatives, building consensus on contentious policy issues, developing outcome-focused strategic plans, and building effective coalitions. Bill is currently president and founder of the Community Building Institute, and serves as an adjunct professor in the School of Conflict Analysis and Resolution and as senior fellow in the Center for Peacemaking Practice at George Mason University.
Patrick Broom Digital Presence + Graphic Design
Patrick Broom
Digital Presence + Graphic Design
For 25+ years, Patrick has guided digital products from concept through development to production as a website developer, graphic artist and mobile app developer. A certified Transformation and Leadership graduate and Big Leap Coach (both with the Hendricks Institute). He is the technical talent behind Lori’s online presence and a creative force in bringing On Leading to a growing audience.