A Compton, California native, Marcus “Goodie” Goodloe, Ph.D. is a leadership development professional. He mentors students and educators, business professionals, athletes and entertainers, and faith communities across the country on issues from cultural and interpersonal relationships to leadership, character formation, and faith. Goodie is on the pastoral care team of Flourishing Church, Los Angeles, and serves as one of the church’s elders. He has worked with NCAA teams at universities across the United States, as well as Fellowship of Christian Athletes at the national and state levels, and professional football teams from the United States Football League and the NFL. Goodie serves on the Community Engagement Board and as a department chaplain for the Redondo Beach Police Department. He continues to work with both law enforcement and community activists, to foster better understanding and education on cooperative policing and matters of fairness and justice with respect to the judicial system.Goodie is the author of three books: KingMaker: Applying Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Leadership Lessons in Working with Athletes and Entertainers (2015), co-author of Habits: Six Steps to the Art of Influence (2017), and The Next Level: Growing with God…in His Word, Your Walk, and Your Worship (2022). He is a Martin Luther King Jr. scholar and has served as an adjunct professor at Dallas Baptist University since 2012. He was a member of the inaugural cohort for Ph.D. studies at DBU (2005) and the first African American to graduate with a Ph.D. from that program (2011). In 2016, DBU established the Marcus Goodie Goodloe Scholarship in his honor, and in 2020, Goodie was selected to serve as Senior Fellow for Ethics and Justice at the DBU Institute for Global Engagement (IGE). In 2023, he was elected to the Board of Trustees for Westmont College in Santa Barbara, California. Goodie and his wife of twenty-six years, Lucy, live in the Los Angeles area and have two adult children.