Darcy Lemons

Darcy Lemons, Senior Project Manager, Knowledge Management

Darcy Lemons is a senior project manager in APQC’s knowledge management (KM) practice area. Her job responsibilities include managing both custom knowledge management projects and consortium (multi-client) process benchmarking studies in KM. She also oversees the development and execution of APQC’s KM research agenda. This involves taking the KM consortium benchmarking studies from their initial idea and development through to delivery and completion.

Lemons has served as a project manager and client manager on a number of custom KM projects for APQC’s member organizations. She has worked in a number of industries: aerospace/defense, insurance, biotechnology, U.S. military, mining, pharmaceutical, oil and gas, and medical supply and devices. She has also led some of APQC’s largest research studies in the field and has served as the project manager on the majority of these studies. Her involvement in such research has allowed her to work with Fortune 1000 companies and learn successful practices firsthand from experts in the field.

Lemons earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Texas Tech University, graduating magna cum laude in 1988. She continued her education at Texas Tech for three more years, and in 1991 graduated with honors and a master of science degree in interdisciplinary studies (education psychology, family psychology, and psychology). She has also authored the book Capturing Critical Knowledge and is an APQC-certified trainer.