Marco Watson McMillian currently serves as Vice President for Leadership At Its Best, LLC, a Columbus, Ohio based company that provides Leadership and Development Training, Diversity Strategy Planning to Corporations and Businesses, Leadership and Development Training for College and University students, students in Public School Districts and Leadership and
Development Training and strategic planning for Non-Profit organizations. He is also the Assistant to the Vice President for Institutional Advancement at Jackson State University in Jackson, Mississippi

In his capacity as Vice President for Leadership At Its Best, LLC, McMillian is responsible for effectively designing, implementing, evaluating, and revising programs, instruction, syllabi, curricula, and objectives to ensure instructional and programmatic responsiveness. He is also responsible for providing leadership to the division’s consultants and clients. As the Assistant to the
Vice President for Institutional Advancement at Jackson State University, McMillian is responsible for maintaining the division’s tracking register, preparing and drafting grant proposals, supervising records' maintenance and tracking of allocations for staff positions; authorizing the processing of budget and position actions; supervising and monitoring expenditures, charge-back activity, travel, and work orders; serving as liaison on personnel actions between the Division of Institutional Advancement and the Office of Human Resources; reviewing, interpreting and recommending actions with regard to University policies and procedures; and serving as the primary support person for the Vice President for Institutional Advancement.

Prior to Leadership At Its Best and Jackson State University, McMillian served as a program coordinator and classroom instructor for Clarksdale Public School District and Noxubee School District, respectively. As a program coordinator, he supervised 20 classroom teachers and revised the district’s class size reduction program. McMillian also served as office manager for Coahoma Opportunities, Incorporated, a not-for-profit community action agency.

The Clarksdale, Mississippi native is a graduate of the W.E.B. DuBois Honors College at Jackson State University and is continuing graduate studies at Mississippi State University in Public Policy and Administration. McMillian is also a graduate of Youth Leadership Clarksdale, National Young Leaders Conference of Washington, D.C., and National Association of Student Affairs Professionals’ Leadership Program in Bowie, Maryland.

The junior executive is a member of the Rotary Club of Jackson, Mississippi; 100 Black Men of Columbus, Mississippi; Clarksdale Sunset Lions Club; National Forum for Black Public Administrators; American Society of Public Administrators; U.S. Jaycees; and New Jerusalem Missionary Baptist Church.

McMillian is a board member for the NAACP- Coahoma County Branch, Arms of Love National Project, Community Bridge Builders, Incorporated, and Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Incorporated- State of Mississippi. He is also a former Student Government Association president for Jackson State University and a former National Second Vice President for Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Incorporated.

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