About Us
We are a small team with a wide range of skills and experience, and we love what we do! It is a joy to be in a full-time practice helping good leaders be even better which results in healthier organizations and more engaged employees which then makes for healthier families and communities.
The five Core Values that guide our team in how we serve our clients and others are:
Honor God
Serve Others
Seek Wisdom
Pursue Excellence
Experience Joy
We look forward to serving you.
BG Allen
A people-centered leader with over 35 years of leadership experience as an US Army officer, a business executive, a nonprofit executive, and as an adjunct management and leadership professor at the graduate level. He has coached and consulted with business owners, senior executives, and non-profit leaders for over 15 years now – part-time at first and now full-time.
BG is also serving as the Chairman of the Board of Directors for Security Alarm Corporation of Southern Illinois, as an adjunct professor in the Masters of Science in Leadership program at Belhaven University, as a faculty member for Millsaps College’s Executive Education Program, and as a Business Mentor for Innovate Mississippi. He also is on the Board of Trustees for an international nonprofit and on the Advisory Council for another nonprofit.
BG graduated from Auburn University with a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration and has an MBA from Millsaps College.
Email BG at: bg@bgallen.com
Lauren Allen
Operations Manager / Research Assistant
Lauren has over 10 years of experience in Human Resources and Customer Service. As an amateur historian, she loves to research and learn new things including subjects ranging from Egyptology, Russian history, to how our brains work.
Lauren is a graduate of Southwestern Michigan College and attended Seattle Pacific University.
Email Lauren at: lauren@bgallen.com
Gina Hand
Executive Leadership Coach
Working with people in various capacities over the past 35 years has provided Gina with insight into the challenges that individuals, families, and businesses face. Gina was a career school administrator for almost 20 years, a counselor for 15 years helping families, couples, and individuals, as well as a pastor’s wife for 30 years. Gina has been an adjunct professor at Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond, LA, and New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary in New Orleans, LA.
In 2018 Gina and her husband purchased the career school where she had been working and currently oversees the daily business operations. She understands the complexities and challenges of running a successful business while complying with the burdensome and ever-changing government and accreditation regulations. She has experience in business, management, team building, finance, data management, conflict resolution, counseling/coaching, and teaching. She has a problem-solving approach - analyze the situation and find solutions.
Gina has a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Mississippi College in Clinton, MS, and a master’s degree in Marriage and Family Therapy from Reformed Theological Seminary in Jackson, MS.
