Experience & Credentials

The story behind
the work

Where leadership intelligence meets real-world complexity.

Modern leadership is breaking down under three forces…

The world has become non-linear, leadership development remains static, and the psychological load of complexity is being pushed onto unprepared human nervous systems.

Leaders are being trained for a predictable world (that is less than ever) using tools that cannot adapt in real time, while being asked to carry levels of uncertainty, volatility, and emotional regulation that prior generations never faced.

The result?

  • Distorted decision-making
  • Performative certainty
  • Chronic internal fragmentation
  • Systemic burnout disguised as success

Leadership has entered a non-linear era…

Yet, most leadership development remains static, episodic, and near blind to the real-time psychological and systemic conditions leaders are operating inside.

As complexity accelerates, the primary constraint on leadership is no longer skill or strategy, but internal coherence under continuous change.

Background

Training & Credentials

Thomas is Hudson Institute trained, holds professional coaching certifications from the ICF, and in NLP, Leadership Circle, and Collective Leadership assessment, and continues training from the Neuroleadership Institute while pursuing his masters in behavioral decision sciences at UPenn.

Thomas served in the US Marine Corps, studied at Loyola and DePaul Universities, is a three-time founder, and has served as a Chief Strategy Officer for global tech/media company WPP.

Founder

  • ThomasMarc & Co.

Former

  • CSO, SVP
  • Media & Tech
  • NYSE, NASDAQ, PE/PC

Featured In

  • Huffington Post
  • Contagious
  • Venture Beat
  • Adage
  • Digiday
  • The Next Web
  • Campaign US
  • The Drum

Author

  • Drift
  • Signal

Speaker

  • Seattle Interactive Conference
  • OMMA
  • CA World Technology Conference

"We're building intelligent systems faster than we're building intelligent selves."

I've spent the last several years inside conversations that rarely make it into public discourse. Coaching leaders. Partnering with founders. Sitting with teams at the edges of ambition, possibility, and uncertainty.

The deeper I get into the worlds of human leadership, systems, and AI, the more I see these truths surface:

AI doesn't reveal what you want. It reveals what you've been optimizing for.

The organizations struggling with AI aren't behind on technology. They're behind on organizational clarity.

AI makes implicit beliefs explicit. Most organizations aren't ready for what that reveals.

You can double your compute overnight. You can't double your self-knowledge. That's the asymmetry defining this era.

This is the work I'm here for. Not the technology itself, but the human and organizational foundation that determines whether AI accelerates value or compounds chaos.

The work is still relational and introspective. Still hard. And increasingly urgent.

Learn. Build. Share.

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 and behavioral sciences 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 know how we reach understanding, clarity, and connection, and what it is that holds us back from reaching our highest potential.

How people might see difficult challenges in a new light I've found useful for 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.

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What Clients Say

"Working with you over the past two years was a critical source of grounding and growth in my executive role. I especially appreciated your deep, challenging questions that never stayed surface-level, leaving me with fresh insights and actionable ideas to experiment with after every session. You helped me shift long-standing patterns that no longer served me into more sustainable, process-based approaches. I'm deeply grateful for the way you combined compassion, challenge, and practicality in our partnership."

Betsy S.

Betsy S.

Head of Practice Operations

"Thomas's coaching was invaluable for my career. His outside perspective helped me identify and get over the barriers of communication that were holding me back. His experiences and thoughtful perspectives helped challenge me to become a much more effective leader."

Cooper T.

Cooper T.

CFO

"Working with Thomas has been incredible. I came to him as a bit of a disaster. Confidence and self-esteem shot. Imposter syndrome prevailing. Thomas helped me regain a foundation of self-trust and self-love. He helped me turn my anxiety into my secret weapon. This journey of growth led to a transformation personally, professionally and even physically. I can't thank him enough."

Christian L.

Christian L.

CEO, Founder

"Partnering with you has been transformative. You created space that helped me understand what I truly value and guided me to pursue life from intention and not fear. The tools, reflections and conversation helped me shape the future I am working towards which I am genuinely excited about. I feel more aligned than I have ever been in my life."

Max H.

Max H.

Tech Leader

"I keep saying this, but it's so damn true... you're the best and thank you a million times over."

Steve W.

Steve W.

Executive Creative Director

"Thomas stayed with me, every step of the way, creating a safe space for me to open up, question where I needed the push to face my blockers, and acknowledge my progress where necessary to fuel me to keep going. Thomas' calm presence allowed me the time and space to unravel what I was battling and what I needed to do next to overcome my own obstacles."

Maya S.

Maya S.

Advisory Consultant

"Thomas literally changed my life. I cannot thank him enough for his compassion, patience, motivation and guidance. He allowed me to explore areas of my consciousness that I had not tapped into for a while, shifting my sense of disconnection to optimistically developing new habits that have helped me evolve into who I was born to be."

Joshua S.

Joshua S.

2x Tech Founder