A believer in leaders, Lori is an upbeat strategic thinker, speaker, and Founder of The COO Team, an operations agency that specializes in helping companies and nonprofits get the strategy and systems they need to scale. Drawing from her experience at a Fortune 500 company and serving national and international nonprofits, she equips entrepreneurs who lead small to mid-sized businesses and nonprofit ventures to expand their capacity. She has worked with organizations such as Kumveka, Women Doing Well, Generous Giving, Urban Hope and the New Hill Development Foundation and the V3 Movement. She serves as Vice President of Entrepreneur Support Services with Kind Capital and lives in Richmond, VA with her husband and two daughters. Lori earned her undergraduate degree in Business from The University of Richmond and her MBA from Regent University’s School of Global Leadership and Entrepreneurship. She currently serves on the boards of Jobs RVA a jobs skills program for the unemployed and underemployed and Virginia Community Voice, a community development nonprofit that invests in community leaders and prepares institutions to equitably engage and make decisions regarding historically marginalized communities.
