DFW RIMS
Supporting the risk management profession and professional connection across the Dallas–Fort Worth community.
How I Think About Leadership
Leadership should make the room better.
For DeMarcus, leadership is less about occupying the most important seat and more about understanding what the room needs from you. Sometimes that means bringing expertise. Sometimes it means listening. Sometimes it means creating the connection that helps someone else succeed.
The standard is contribution. Can you learn here? Can you add value here? Those questions shape where DeMarcus invests his time, relationships, and leadership energy.
Board Service
Service across professional communities.
Board involvement has provided a practical way to contribute to professional education, strengthen relationships, support the risk community, and help create rooms where more people can participate and grow.
Central Oklahoma RIMS
Contributing to professional education, community, and connection for risk professionals across Central Oklahoma.
ELITE Dallas
Helping develop inclusive leaders, expand access, and strengthen the next generation of executives and professionals.
Leadership in Practice
Learn. Contribute. Connect. Grow.
DeMarcus’s leadership philosophy is grounded in curiosity and usefulness—not performing authority.
Learn the room.
Listen before assuming. Understand the people, priorities, and context before deciding what value looks like.
Add something useful.
Bring knowledge, perspective, energy, connection, or execution that moves the work forward.
Strengthen the network.
Connect people, expertise, and opportunity rather than treating relationships as transactions.
Keep growing.
Confidence should expand curiosity, not replace it. Strong leaders still need rooms that challenge them.
Community in Practice
Leadership happens around people.
Professional community is where ideas, trust, sponsorship, opportunity, and growth often begin. The photographs are intentionally real moments—not staged leadership imagery.
“If you’re the smartest person in the room, teach. If you’re always the smartest person in the room, find another room.”DeMarcus Strange
Board & Advisory Conversations
Looking for a thoughtful contributor?
DeMarcus is open to conversations around board service, advisory opportunities, leadership, risk, culture, professional development, and strategic connection.