DeMarcus is a Senior Consultant and Faculty Member at Contemporary Leadership Advisors (CLA) where he consults with Fortune 100 organizations around strategy, business culture, and leadership. 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 with a genuine passion for talent and leadership development as well as efforts geared towards diversity, inclusion, and belonging. 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.
Before joining CLA, DeMarcus 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, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), athenahealth, Bayer, Cisco, Columbia University in the City of New York, Danone, Discovery Inc., the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), Nike, Tiffany & Co., the United Nations, KPMG, the US Department of Labor, GlaxoSmithKline, OppenheimerFunds Inc., UCB, and the City University of New York (CUNY).
DeMarcus earned an undergraduate degree in psychology with honors from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, and a Ph.D. in social-organizational psychology from Columbia University in the City of New York. 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.
