Work With Me
Let's solve something hard together.
Marquis works with a small number of organizations and leaders at any given time, and deeply rather than broadly. If you're navigating a genuine challenge and want a partner who has been there before, here's how to engage.
Who This Page Is For
For the leaders who know something has to change.
If you're a founder trying to scale without breaking what makes you special. If you're a CEO who knows the strategy is right but can't figure out why execution keeps stalling. If you're a board looking for a director who brings both operating credibility and strategic horsepower.
Marquis brings 20+ years of hard-won experience across McKinsey, Indeed, Relativity, and Aon. He combines the analytical rigor of a trained strategist with the hands-on instincts of an operator who has built and led large, complex organizations.
He works with a limited number of partners at any time, is thoughtful about fit, and brings his full attention, not a packaged framework, to every engagement.
"The goal of every engagement is the same: your organization in a meaningfully better position than when we started, with the capabilities to sustain that progress on your own."
Ways to Work Together
Four ways to engage.
Chief Operating Officer · Chief Strategy Officer · Chief Transformation Officer
Not every organization needs (or can justify) a full-time C-suite hire. But every organization going through meaningful growth or transformation needs senior executive leadership. Marquis is available to step into a fractional COO, CSO, or CTO role: embedded, accountable, and fully committed to your outcomes for the duration of the engagement.
For-Profit Board Director
Marquis is available for for-profit board director roles where his background in strategy, operations, transformation, and technology creates meaningful value. He brings a practitioner's lens to board work, not just governance oversight, but the kind of strategic and operational insight that helps leadership teams make better decisions.
Advisory Board Member
Marquis has a long history of working with founders and early-stage companies, both as an advisor and as an investor. He understands what it's like to build from the ground up, and brings a rare combination of strategic clarity and operational depth to founders navigating the messy middle of building a company.
Strategy and Transformation
Sometimes what you need isn't an ongoing executive relationship; it's an intensive, focused engagement on a specific challenge. Marquis takes a limited number of project-based strategy and transformation engagements each year, working directly with leadership teams to solve high-stakes problems with urgency and rigor.
How I Work
Three things that are true of every engagement.
"I show up prepared and stay direct."
Hard questions, honest perspectives, and no telling people what they want to hear. The value is in the candor, not the comfort.
"I bring rigor and I've lived with the consequences."
Built on frameworks developed across McKinsey, Indeed, and Aon, grounded in business fundamentals from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, and applied with the pragmatism of someone who has had to execute his own recommendations.
"I'm done when you don't need me anymore."
The goal is your organization in a better position, with the capabilities to sustain that progress independently. Not dependency; capability transfer.
Also open to full-time opportunities.
Occasionally, the right full-time executive opportunity comes along, one where the mission, the team, and the moment are genuinely compelling. Marquis is thoughtful about where he deploys his full attention for the long haul, and he's selectively open to conversations about full-time COO, CSO, or CTO roles at growth-stage technology companies.
Start a conversation →Ready to Connect?
Engagements start with a conversation.
Reach out with a brief description of what you're working on and how you think Marquis might be able to help. Engagements are limited and evaluated on fit.