Marc Weigum

About Marc Weigum

Most organizational change efforts fail not because the strategy was wrong, but because the human systems underneath it were never part of the design. I\'ve spent 20 years learning that the hard way, and the productive way, inside large, complex organizations.My career has taken me through significant transformation work at Microsoft, Starbucks, Twilio, and now Cumming Group, where I serve as Senior Director. Across industries and organizational contexts, the throughline has been the same: how do you actually move an institution? Not on paper, not in a deck but in the way people work, lead, and make sense of change together?That question eventually sent me back to the academy. I hold a doctorate in Organizational Change and Leadership from USC Rossier (2026), with research focused on corporate DEI & B initiatives. The doctoral work hasn\'t changed what I believe about transformation, it\'s sharpened why I believe it. It\'s given rigorous language to patterns I observed operationally for years, and it\'s connected me to a research community asking the same questions organizations are paying consultants to answer.What I do, and what I\'m increasingly focused on building toward, sits at the intersection of three things that rarely appear together in one person: executive practitioner experience, applied doctoral research, and original framework development. I\'ve built models like HEAL not because frameworks are what organizations need, but because they\'re how I think, and thinking clearly is where transformation actually starts.I\'m interested in conversations with people building organizations that take change seriously; whether that\'s a company navigating genuine transformation complexity, a university building out its scholar-practitioner faculty, or a mission-driven organization trying to make DEI & B something more than a program. If that describes where you are, I\'d welcome the connection. My dissertation, Navigating Faith and Inclusion: Evangelical Christianity\'s Impact on DEI & B Engagement, is approved and deposited in the USC Libraries and ProQuest.

Experience

1. Senior Director - Pmo

   Cumming Group

   Sep 2023 — Present · Seattle, WA, US

   Architected and led an enterprise-wide organizational transformation program, redesigning PMO governance, operating model, and talent strategy improving program engagement rates by 40% and stakeholder alignment by 33%.• Designed a skills-based talent development system that reduced onboarding time by two weeks, increased team retention by 25%, and created sustainable internal promotion pipelines aligned with strategic capability needs.• Built and deployed an integrated knowledge management and cross-functional collaboration platform, increasing skill-sharing efficiency by 33% and developed robust critical thinking capabilities.• Led change communications and executive engagement strategy across transformation initiatives, achieving consistent buy-in from senior leadership and measurable adoption across business units.• Oversees a $125M CAPEX and $60M OPEX portfolio across 220 North American locations, leading a team of 16 professionals across 9 concurrent programs. • Stewards a global design and construction knowledge base that standardizes delivery capability and institutional learning across the enterprise.

Education

• University of Washington - Runstad Center for Real Estate Studies

  Master's degree, Real Estate

  2008 — 2011

• Minnesota State Moorhead

  Bachelor's degree, Pre-Medicine/Pre-Medical Studies

• University of Southern California

  Doctor of Education - EdD, Organizational Change and Leadership

• UW Foster School of Business

  Master of Business Administration - MBA, Business

  2007 — 2010