I’m David Spinks, coach, founder, community builder, and someone who’s spent most of my life trying to figure out what it means to live and lead with integrity.

I started my first community when I was 14, running online gaming forums before I even understood what “community” really meant. That curiosity became a career. I went on to cofound CMX, one of the first and largest professional networks for community builders, which hosted global events and supported over 20,000 leaders. We were acquired by Bevy in 2019, where I joined the exec team and helped scale both the company and its community.

Along the way, I wrote The Business of Belonging, a practical guide for community-driven companies, which has become a go-to resource for thousands of founders, teams, and strategists building meaningful communities.

On paper, I had everything I thought I was supposed to want. But I was burnt out. Disconnected. Running on old definitions of success. So I stepped away to explore a deeper question: what’s left when the titles, the hustle, and the ego quiet down? That led me to meditation, therapy, coaching, and spiritual inquiry. I studied Internal Family Systems, Hakomi, and Zen. I trained as a coach. And I began supporting leaders, not just with their strategies and goals, but with the stories beneath them.

Today, I coach:

– Founders and executives who want to grow with clarity and integrity
– Community leaders navigating the complexity of belonging, conflict, and scale
– High-achieving professionals in transition, ready to redefine success on their own terms

My work is grounded in lived experience. I know what it’s like to lead at scale, to face public challenge, to question everything, to feel lost, and to rebuild. People come to me when they want someone who can meet them where they are: with depth, strategy, and presence. Someone who can help hold the complexity of leadership, growth, and being human.

If that’s you, I’d be honored to walk alongside you.

P.S. I’m also a proud dad of two (soon to be three) wild little humans, a husband, a nature lover, a meditator, a music lover (folk, electronic and hardcore are my go-tos), a pretty good cook (if you ask anyone other than my kids), and infinitely more. I contain multitudes, potentials, and contradictions. I am human.