DeMarcus is a senior executive coach, facilitator and consultant with a genuine passion for talent and leadership development as well as efforts geared towards diversity, inclusion, and belonging. With over a decade of advanced training and applied experience in the field of organizational development, DeMarcus is a skilled research-practitioner, trusted advisor, and effective collaborator. Devoted to the development and ultimate transformation of his clients, DeMarcus helps individuals, teams and organizations learn and develop so they can more readily identify, pursue and achieve the positive and sustainable changes they desire.
DeMarcus has served as a strategic thought partner and trusted advisor to frontline-, mid- and senior-level leaders at numerous organizations across the technology, higher education, government, consumer products and retail, not-for-profit, pharmaceutical, and financial services industries. Most notably, he has had the distinct privilege of supporting leaders at reputable organizations such as AbbVie Inc., the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), athenahealth, Bayer, Columbia University in the City of New York, Danone, Discovery Inc., Tiffany & Co., the United Nations, KPMG, the US Department of Labor, GlaxoSmithKline, OppenheimerFunds Inc., UCB, and the City University of New York (CUNY).
In addition to his various consulting and coaching engagements, DeMarcus also devotes a significant portion of his time supporting and nurturing the next generation of leadership and team coaches through his work as an Adjunct Professor in the Social-Organizational Psychology Program at Columbia University in the City of New York.
DeMarcus thrives when working with individuals and teams in global and diverse environments, including senior executives who are challenged by new transitions and change in our ever-evolving world. He takes a collaborative and systemic approach to his work that is underpinned by the core value of client empowerment through joint-diagnosis and -problem solving, with a particularly keen focus on coaching the whole person and the various “parts” contained and represented therein.
DeMarcus’s background in social-organizational psychology with a focus on systems theory, in addition to his formal training in diagnosing and understanding covert processes and group dynamics, converge to inform his practical approach to working with teams and groups within business settings. As a response to the increasingly volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous (VUCA) world that we find ourselves in, DeMarcus’s work with teams is often focused on defying the prevailing idea of the “heroic leader” so that teams can better identify, and leverage, their collective strengths and intelligence to achieve goals and objectives that they otherwise would not be able to through their own individual efforts. This may include interventions regarding team formation and cohesion (e.g., purpose, mission, vision, strategy, norms, etc.) to team termination, as well as those aimed at establishing—and sustaining—effective performance and optimal engagement at various points throughout a team’s evolution and lifecycle (e.g., conflict resolution, process consultation, after-action review and reflection, etc.).