What impact do you want to have?
I have been fortunate to work with some incredible changemakers— brilliant, fierce, and wise enough to know that they always have someone in their corner if they need it— including me. Here’s what some of my clients have had to say about our work together.
“When people have problems, they come to us. When we have problems, we call Marquita.”
“I had the great blessing to be coached individually and as part of a team guided by Marquita. The skillful and grounded coaching has been critical for me in building clarity, focus and purpose and implementing an intentional leadership path grounded in my values and visions for justice. Marquita also helped me and my colleague lay the groundwork for a solid new partnership. I have much gratitude to Marquita for the coaching, thought partnership, support, encouragement and space for growth.”
“Marquita— thank you again for your magnificent work. I felt like it was the best staff retreat we’ve ever had—it was perfect in every way. Grateful to you for leading the day with such grace—especially given how difficult this moment is at StoryCorps. You have an enormous gift. Hope we get to work with you again.”
“Marquita has been a thoughtful, strategic collaborator to the National Women’s Law Center for several years, helping our staff to build meaningful, equitable practices around giving and receiving feedback, resolving conflict, and developing leaders… Marquita has designed custom workshops for staff, the leadership team, and an internal working group of staff focused on change management, all of which guided us to establish new ways of working together effectively as the organization transitioned from white to Black leadership, and from its co-founders to its next phase. The care and expertise that she brings to her work, grounded in deep listening and centering racial equity, has made a huge impact on us as an organization that fights for gender justice.”
“To all of her work, Marquita brings expertise and relational wisdom that are rare. It is an honor and pleasure to work with her, as well as learn from her, in support of social justice groups that are transforming themselves and our world. I especially appreciate her creativity in designing processes, her skillful attention to the emergent and her capacity to shift from very thoughtful plans to improvisation. She also brings a strong sense of connection with networks of leading-edge practitioners.”
“We selected Marquita to support our DEI work after an extensive search. Finding someone to not only push us individually and collectively but to do so while centering our mission and clients was no small task, and Marquita accomplished it marvelously! Marquita asked questions that made us not only think and reflect but also provided post-session advisement and individual counsel to ensure our lessons turned to actions and impact. We will continue working with Marquita and I recommend her without hesitation.”
“If you are considering working with Marquita, I strongly encourage you to move her to the top of your list. I learned quickly that Marquita understood the challenges before us, individually and collectively, and had an authentic commitment to impactful work. She quickly demonstrated her ability to support even the most challenging circumstances from a place of experience and care. Her sessions were meaningful and fun, and she focused on the learning styles and needs of the organization and participants. On an individual level, she coached and guided me through situations and thought processes that gave me more confidence in my decisions and improved my ability to lead and support others. I found a lifelong coach in Marquita!”
“My business partners and I asked Marquita to support our LLC dissolution process. We asked her for support because we knew that she would bring a variety of skills. Through our work together, those skills absolutely came to bear. She brought an ability to be present with the emotional and technical aspects of separation. She held a social justice perspective, meeting us in the complexities of financial agreements across the power-lines of race, class, gender, ability, and age. She lived out a nuanced understanding of how conflict transforms: progressively, but non-linearly. She showed compassion for all parties, while also holding each of us accountable for showing up as our higher selves. Finally, she had an incredible intuition about what questions to ask, what conversations to have, to bring us to a resolved endpoint. I’m so grateful for her work! ”