Marta Michelle Colón

Marta Michelle Colón, CEO of BG & Company, is a psychologist, conflict-resolution specialist, negotiator, and entrepreneur who empowers individuals, teams, and organizations across the corporate, academic, nonprofit, and government sectors in the United States, Asia, Latin America, and Europe. She equips individuals, families, and workplaces with high-performance skills in emotional intelligence, executive function, and adaptive leadership, transforming environments into collaborative, conflict-resilient, internal and customer-focused, and innovation-driven cultures. By integrating evidence-based strategies, she helps clients achieve greater productivity, efficiency, and competitive advantage while fostering psychologically safe spaces that prevent escalation, facilitate constructive dialogue, and turn tension into mutually beneficial outcomes.

Her commitment to social impact is demonstrated by the outcomes of 10+ years of experience working in government developing programming geared towards low-income communities, by co-developing exit and growth strategies for dozens of innovative organizations across the health, technology, consumer products, retail, hospitality, finance, agriculture, and insurance sectors, and by designing funding strategies that have raised over $95 million. A dynamic speaker and thought leader, she collaborated on Listening to Leaders (George W. Bush Presidential Center) with practical insights on modern leadership, and regularly contributes articles on negotiation, conflict resolution, emotional intelligence, and assertive leadership to leading publications.

Marta is a 2017 Aspen Institute Scholar and Presidential Leadership Scholar (a program founded by Presidents Bush, Clinton, and Johnson). She was honored as a L'Oréal Women of Worth for creating an award-winning, evidence-based opioid prevention program. She holds a doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology, an executive education certificate in Social Impact Strategy from the University of Pennsylvania, and a master’s degree in Negotiation and Conflict Resolution from Columbia University.