About Us - Our Advantage

BG & Company has been enabling ideas into action for over nine years. Our hallmark is assessing current trends to foster new opportunities for our clients. We combine data and use evidence-based practices to ensure our clients achieve a more significant competitive advantage, enable healthier workplace culture, and secure sustainable success. We also make challenging business conversations and negotiations easier for everyone involved by providing expert support for navigating the human side of conflict resolution and business deal-making. The more than 100 clients we have worked with represent more than $3 billion in combined revenues in the corporate, academic, nonprofit, and government sectors.

BG & Company drives effective, productive, emotionally intelligent, agile, and non-toxic work cultures. We also enable internal and external customer experience excellence by enhancing cognitive, social, and professional intelligence. In addition, we transform the collaborative attitude of individuals and teams to accelerate organizational growth.

Meet Our Founder

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Her mission is to make organizations and workplaces more productive, effective, inclusive, emotionally intelligent, and results-oriented.

As a psychologist, workplace culture shaper, and human capital strategist, Marta Michelle is an expert in inspiring, driving, and equipping leaders to lead with purpose, enable positive attitudes, embrace innovation, and shape the future of work. With two decades' experience leading organizational transformations, she takes leaders, teams, and organizations through applied experimentation, strategic planning, and capacity building.

Her commitment to social good has encouraged her to collaborate in developing dozens of social innovation and service programs and funding strategies that have raised over $50M. In addition, in her capacity as an advisor for businesses in the start-up phase, Colón co-founded the first multimarket accelerator for Latina entrepreneurs and is a Mentor at the Stanford Entrepreneurship Initiative.

As a dynamic and sought-after speaker, Marta Michelle recently collaborated in "Listening to Leaders," a book published by the George W. Bush Presidential Center, which discusses the values, vision, and practical lessons needed to lead organizations today. She also writes in diverse publications about effectiveness in the workplace, emotional intelligence, diversity and inclusion, process improvement, gentle power, and assertive leadership. Marta Michelle completed doctoral studies in Clinical Psychology and concluded an Executive Education Program of Social Impact Strategy at the University of Pennsylvania. She is currently pursuing an MS in Negotiation and Conflict Resolution at Columbia University. She is also a Presidential Leadership Scholar and a L'Oréal Woman of Worth 2020 for her national initiative to create awareness on the impact of the misuse of prescription opioids.