Shermica Farquhar is an organizational strategist, cultural practitioner, and founder whose work explores how people build organizations, preserve culture, and create communities.

She is founder and CEO of Spring Forward Solutions, a human capital strategy and organizational development firm. Their work spans Fortune 500 companies, founder-led and growth-stage businesses, and complex mission-driven organizations, where they have restructured teams, strengthened leadership, and built the organizational systems needed to navigate growth and change.

Farquhar is also the founder of Soka Tribe, a Caribbean dance-fitness and cultural education organization rooted in the freedom, joy, and communal traditions of Carnival. A Trinidadian-American with family roots in Carnival mas-making, she has transformed cultural inheritance into a contemporary platform for movement, education, connection, and creative expression. Her cultural work has reached audiences in the United States and internationally, including performances and programming at the Kennedy Center and with Caribbean embassies in Washington, DC.

Across both her advisory and creative work, Farquhar’s work treats culture not simply as something to preserve, but as a living resource for community-building, leadership, identity, and institutional change.

A graduate of Georgetown University and the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Farquhar is pursuing a Ph.D. in cultural studies at the University of the West Indies. She is based in Washington, DC.