Michael McCormick

Michael McCormick is a social entrepreneur, and the Founder and President of Farallon Strategies, a certified B Corp focused on capacity building for community resilience. Michael works at the local, regional, state, federal levels, and in non-profit, business, and government. These perspectives allow him to see the interconnectedness of work across governance and organizations, and to help create the vision and strategy to affect change. Michael has piloted, tested, and scaled hundreds of initiatives, programs, and policies throughout his career that have created positive social change. Some of his recent efforts include supporting regional collaboratives like the Bay Area Climate Adaptation Network, the Central Coast Climate Collaborative, California Resilience Partnership, and Project 46, and others involve technical assistance (TA) and planning support including partnering on programs for the Governor's Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation, Strategic Growth Council, Ocean Protection Council, Housing Urban Development, Santa Cruz, Santa Clara County, and national service support including the development of climate and resilience Corps programs and America's Service Commissions. Michael is passionate about supporting a middle way for the ongoing evolution of consulting to help prioritize a community benefit mindset. He actively supports the evolution of the community of practice and is currently serving as a Yolo County Planning Commissioner, Regional Advisory Committee member at the UC Davis Center for Regional Change, Advisor to Bright Action, Board Member for Community Climate Solutions, Circle of Advisors at the Cool Davis Foundation, Senior Fellow of the American Leadership Forum: Mountain Valley Chapter, and a member of the American Planning Association (AICP certified in 2004), and in other capacities as outlined below.