Marcus Williams is the founder and president of Marcus Williams Coaching and Marcus Williams Training Academy which provide Title IX consultation, investigations consultation, and internal misconduct response training, coaching, and support. ​Marcus Williams began his investigative career as a private investigator, focusing on workman’s compensation fraud. Marcus became a sworn law enforcement officer with the Defense Protective Service (Pentagon Police) in 2001 and performed law enforcement and security functions at the Pentagon reservation in Arlington, VA: to include protecting Pentagon employees, rescuers, and investigators after the terrorist attack of Sep 11, 2001. Marcus joined the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) in 2002 as a Special Agent criminal investigator. He became an expert in family and sexual violence investigations and operations, protection, fraud, counter-intelligence, technology protection, force protection, property crimes, narcotics, and Internet based crimes. Marcus worked as a squad leader and Supervisory Special Agent. He led efforts involving local, state, federal, international, and military jurisdictions. In 2017, Marcus became the Deputy Title IX Coordinator for Students serving as the primary investigator of sexual misconduct at Brigham Young University. He was instrumental in building policies, procedures, and processes for the Title IX Office and his fellow investigators.  Marcus served with NCIS in Twentynine Palms, CA; Sigonella, Sicily; Norfolk, VA; Everett, WA; Yokosuka, Japan; and San Diego, CA. He currently resides in the Provo, Utah area. Marcus Williams graduated from Brigham Young University in 2000 with a BA in International Politics and minor in Latin American Studies. He earned an MA in Criminal Justice in 2006 from American Military University. Marcus opened the Marcus Williams Training Academy in 2020 to provide quality foundational training to corporate, education, and public sector investigators.