CEE MCDERMOTT
Strategic Advisor | Executive Consultant | Cultural Architect
Cee McDermott is a trusted advisor to leaders navigating complexity, high‑stakes decisions, and transformative change. With over two decades spanning federal intelligence, global investigations, and executive consulting, she brings a rare blend of precision, cultural insight, and human‑centered leadership.
Cee has thrived in environments where clarity, adaptability, and trust are essential. She now channels that experience into guiding executives, founders, and mission‑driven organizations through rapid growth, organizational redesign, and strategic inflection points.
Her approach fuses ancient wisdom traditions with modern insights in neuroscience, systems theory, and performance science. This allows her to help leaders see both the visible and the hidden forces shaping their organizations, aligning immediate action with long‑term vision.
Her clients span sectors from defense and national security to venture capital, healthcare, and technology. She has guided founders through venture scaling, advised on multi‑company investment strategies, and led cultural influence initiatives that reposition organizations as industry leaders.
At the heart of her work is the Japanese concept of Fudoshin—the “immovable mind.” It reflects her belief that great leaders hold composure and clarity in uncertainty, balancing decisive action with grounded presence.
Cee’s mission is simple: equip leaders with the insight, discipline, and cultural intelligence to succeed and to leave a legacy rooted in integrity, impact, and human connection. In every engagement, she brings the same qualities that defined her in the field—discretion, decisiveness, and the ability to see what others overlook.
