Understanding.
Clarity.
Connection.
Partner to C-level leaders navigating big transitions, strengthening clarity in decision-making and deepening connection with self and teams. Strategic counsel to businesses leaders experiencing turbulent growth, and program designs that deliver enduring change and measurable results.
Story
Adversity. Resistance. Uncertainty.
Challenging parts of the human experience. The struggles and hardships — physical, mental, spiritual, intellectual, or emotional — are what teach us the most about ourselves and how to navigate life, and how our ability to make meaningful, enduring change determines our experience.
From the clients and companies I serve, to the businesses I've founded or partnered with, I've found the key to progress is not in having all the answers, but in knowing how to ask the right questions.
My StoryPractice
Leadership Development
Partner to executives, leadership teams, entrepreneurs and athletes. ThomasMarc & Co. strives to further understand what drives individual and team growth, resilience to adversity, and creates personalized approaches and development programs to improve performance, manage change successfully, and realize each client's full potential.
ThomasMarc.com
Next Generation
My passion project — Leadership Motion — inspired by interactions with emerging leaders and teams, the Leadership Motion movement aims to close the growing gap between leadership development and the critical nature of leading through the challenges technological acceleration increasingly creates.
LeadershipMotion.com
New Ventures Partner
For nearly 30 years I've been part of start-ups and global enterprises, alongside founders, leaders and teams. The gap between output and throughput. The unlock? A support structure around team alignment with the value they create, and shaping a mindset focused on value creation vs. delivery systems.
Testimonials
What people are saying
"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. Working with Thomas is a 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
Global Corporate Partnerships & Strategy, Amazon
"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
Principal, Brand Innovation Lab, Amazon
"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
Co-founder & Board Member, M2SYS Technologies
Personal
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.
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.
The struggles and hardships — physical, mental, spiritual, intellectual, or emotional — are what teach us the most about ourselves and how to navigate life.
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.
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.
That's just about everyone, including me.
