Principals/Owners/Key Leadership Team

Liz Allen Fey is CEO of Strategy and Leadership, LLC, located in Nashville, Tennessee. Her work with corporations, organizations and communities builds on her 20 years of being a manager and leader as well as her 19 years of consulting and coaching work in construction, associations, health care, music, hospitality, 

finance, manufacturing, food service, education, government, retail, technology, non-profits, as well as with 

communities.

Her work ranges from helping organizations create sound strategy through good assessment and planning to 

coaching both established and emerging leaders, along with providing skill development in leadership areas.  

Liz has helped hundreds of companies and organizations create and implement strategic plans. She understands process, the human side of companies and the need to have actionable plans. She has coached hundreds of leaders to become stronger leaders and managers. She brings her sense of humor and sound 

facilitation and coaching skills to every engagement.  

Her formal training is in social work and she received her BA in Sociology from Miami University in Oxford, OH and her Masters in Social Work from the University of Tennessee. She is a mentor trainer in the facilitation tools from the Institute of Cultural Affairs and is a certified NLP coach. Liz serves on the board of The Girl 

Scouts and is a past Trustee of the United Way of Nashville. She is a past President of All About Women and of Book EM!. She serves on the board of the Nashville Downtown Rotary, the Advisory Board of First Tennessee Bank and the Middle Tennessee Workforce Investment Board. She was a member of the 2005 class of Leadership Nashville and is a founder of Nashville Emerging Leaders and still facilitates that annual program.  

She was given the inaugural Sage Award of the Nashville Emerging Leader Awards from the Young 

Professionals of Nashville.

Strategy and Leadership, LLC provides group facilitation, consultation

and training to businesses and organizations. Strategic and project

planning, organizational development, team building and leadership

effectiveness are common topics of client engagements. The

company has offices in Nashville TN and San Antonio TX.

Mary’s work with Strategy and Leadership (then known as

Management Solutions) began in 2003 and builds on 25 years

experience in planning, project development, fund raising, coalition

building, board governance, leadership development and

management in the nonprofit arena. Her list of clients includes the

University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, Rack

Space, The San Antonio Symphony, Texas Public Radio, United Way,

Our Lady of the Lake University, Trinity University, UTSA, Charity Ball Association, San

Antonio Area Foundation, Girl Scouts of Southwest Texas, Valero Energy Corporation,

City of San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas Nurses Association and more. With every

client, she helps groups clarify the issues/challenges they need to address, and helps

them create working solutions they believe in.

The common denominator in all of Peg’s endeavors has been communication. For 20 years she was a 

psychotherapist helping individuals and couples find their voice and communicate that voice effectively.   

Over the past 35 years Peg has designed and led workshops and seminars focused on developing effective 

communication and relationship skills.

As a communication coach Peg works with individuals and groups to enhance and shape their presentation 

skills and style with in-person events (speeches, workshops, employment interviews) and with media events 

(interviews, broadcast speeches, teleconferencing, panels).  

Her work with clients results in higher close rates on sales presentations, reduced friction among staff, and 

customer service that creates customers for life. After working with Peg, Cracker Barrel store managers are 

better equipped to resolve everyday conflict and retain valued employees and customers.