About Us - Our Advantage

BG & Company has been enabling ideas into action for over twelve years. Our hallmark is assessing current trends to foster new opportunities for our clients. We combine data and evidence-based practices to ensure our clients achieve a more significant competitive advantage, enable a healthier workplace culture, and secure sustainable success. We also make challenging business conversations and negotiations more accessible for everyone involved by providing expert support for navigating the human side of conflict resolution, customer experience, and business deal-making. The more than 150 clients we have worked with represent over $3 billion in combined corporate, academic, nonprofit, and government revenues.

BG & Company drives effective, productive, emotionally intelligent, agile, and non-toxic work cultures. We also enable excellent internal and external customer experience 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 of 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, 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 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, an executive education program in social impact strategy at the University of Pennsylvania, and 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 social impact national initiative.