Inspiration, Meaning, and Purpose.

I coach high-performance people and teams, provide strategic counsel to businesses leaders experiencing turbulent growth, and design programs that deliver enduring change and measurable results.

  • What I Love

    Help individuals and teams rethink ‘leading change’ at the personal, cultural, and operational level.

  • What I Do

    Senior leadership counsel and partner to clients who face a limiting barrier or navigate a unique challenge.

  • What Inspires Me

    Help teams align on the value they create, and shape a mindset focused on value creation vs. delivery systems.

What clients and partners call me about…

Leadership Development Coaching

I’m a partner to executives, leadership teams, emerging leaders, entrepreneurs and athletes through my leadership coaching and personal development company ThomasMarc & Co. Hudson Institute trained and professionally certified by the International Coaching Federation (ICF), I’m continually inspired to further understand what drives individual and team growth, resilience to adversity, and creating personalized approaches and development programs to improve performance, manage change successfully, and realize each clients full potential.

Learning & Development Programs

My passion project at ThomasMarc & Co. is the design, delivery, and facilitation of customizable leadership development programs with measurable impact. Each program is aligned with organizational goals, culture, and business strategy objectives. The aim is to be an adaptive partner who understands the shifting priorities and limited resources common in a smaller organization with high-growth.

Business Challenge Counsel

Throughout my career, I’ve worked with teams to help guide strategies for leaders of global brands including Ford, Microsoft, Aston Martin, and Amazon, in roles such as a chief strategy officer and global client solution partner for some of the worlds largest creative, media and technology transformation agencies (VML, Wunderman Thompson, POSSIBLE). My key learning across client challenges was the gap between output and throughput, which inspired me to launch Objective Strategy. An advisory helping clients develop an approach to address immediate challenges while setting the course for ongoing process and functional improvements.

Personal Meaning & Inspiration

There is so much more to each of us than a resume could hope to illustrate. Our resume helps depict what we’ve accomplished, but our journey is so much more interesting; we gather experiences that help define who we are and what purpose we aim to serve.

Some of us discover the path we want to pursue early, and some of us need to explore several paths to uncover our purpose. My experiences would suggest I am in the second group. Of those experiences, a few stand out for the influence they provided.

Like most, my life has had a fair amount of challenge and adversity. Some life-shaping victories and some incredibly depressing defeats. I’ve started small businesses that succeeded and failed, survived and rebuilt after a traumatic brain injury in the Cascade mountains, and served in the Marine Corps in hostile environments. I’ve run triathlons, worked in an emergency room as part of EMT training, and practice Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. To me, the experiences that mattered most also required a level of discomfort and hardship – sometimes known, sometimes unknown.

The struggles and hardships – physical, mental, spiritual, intellectual, or emotional – are what teach us the most about ourselves and how to navigate life.

It all begins with purpose.

My closest friends, colleagues, and mentors from various walks of life, all share one thing in common. They have dealt with adversity, they have new struggles, and for the most part they recognize each challenge life presents as an opportunity to improve. Adversity is simply a part of the human experience.  We strive to avoid struggle and adversity, and yet we recognize it also provides incredible value.

The reason I enjoy leadership coaching and strategic counsel so much today is due to the similarities of leveraging experiences to unpack problems and navigate challenges in collaboration with others.

As my journey continues, I am digging deeper into ways to build individual and team resilience to adversity, and better understand what it is that holds us back from reaching our highest potential. How people might see difficult challenges in a new light could be helpful to those who frequently struggle or avoid the challenges in life only to miss an opportunity to better themselves and help others.

That’s just about everyone, including me.

  • Thomas brings a rare balance of big picture strategic thinking and get-it-done execution chops. Never afraid to take on the sorely needed, but challenging assignments or to call a spade a spade (with uncommon empathy/tact). Working with Thomas is delight - always joyful, never flustered, he's one of those people you can always count on, that you get excited to go to work with, and that the team rallies behind.

    Laurent Burman

    Amazon
    Global Corporate Partnerships & Strategy

  • Thomas is the calm in the strategic and operational storm everyone wants around. Whether he's leading from the front or playing a supporting role, you can count on Thomas to be infinitely accountable.

    Brandon Geary

    Amazon
    Principal, Brand Innovation Lab

  • I can state unequivocally that Thomas is a gifted strategist with a sharp intellect and exceptional foresight. He also possesses a unique combination of business savvy and technical acumen. These characteristics, combined with an amiable and adaptive personality, make him an asset to any company or endeavor.

    Michael Trader

    M2SYS Technologies
    Co-founder & Board Member

Published frequently, speak occasionally, and love exploring human performance, adversity, and anything outdoors.

Speaking engagements include the Seattle Interactive Conference, OMMA, CA World Technology Conference, and advisory board member for the iMedia Commerce Summit, and have been published in various industry communications including The Huffington Post, Ad Age, The Drum, Contagious, Campaign, Digiday, VentureBeat, and The Next Web.