About

Galloway Gonzalez Consulting provides top tier strategic leadership and operational support to non-profits and creative businesses.

Our clientele range from emerging grassroots organizations to thriving community staples. Our consulting experts facilitate change with employees, board members, executives and stakeholders. 

No matter the mission, we assist in the sustainability of your organization with purpose driven mentorship and coaching.

GGC is guided by expert consultants in every aspect of non-profit work.

Together, we boast almost a century of shared experience in non-profit and educational management, fundraising business administration, collective impact initiatives, and social justice and services work.

At GGC, we curate ideas, perspectives and experiences. Every client receives direct and personalized access to Allison and Kristin as well as the added benefit of specialized support and mission-based consultation from our team of experts.

We look forward to building with you and introducing your organization to our network of professionals.

Over the past 20+ years Allison Galloway-Gonzalez has worked with creative non-profits, museums, universities, arts agencies, philanthropists, and artists serving communities through arts and culture. She holds an MA in art history from the University of Glasgow. At UCF she was the faculty director of a K-12 online literacy course for educators. In the early 2000’s, she was the Associate Director of the Austin Museum of Art, The Art School. 

Since moving to Jacksonville she has served in membership, development, educational program and advocacy leadership roles at the Museum of Contemporary Art and Cathedrals Arts Project. For seven years, she led a Collective Impact initiative for equity in arts education and served as an adjunct faculty member at the University of North Florida. She has served on the board and committees for American Association of Museums, The Ritz Theater and Museum, The Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens to name a few. She currently serves on Jacksonville University's Institutional Review Board and the Professional Women’s Council for the Jacksonville Chamber. Allison has received numerous professional awards for her work in advocacy including being recognized as one of Jacksonville's 40 under 40 professionals and was a 2021 Woman of Influence awardee.

Allison created and now runs a national consulting business, Galloway Gonzalez Consulting. She works full time with arts organizations, artists, and arts administrators across the US. She is passionate about helping non-profits increase and deepen their impact, individuals meet their own professional goals and communities celebrate their creativity.

Kristin holds a Bachelor of Arts from Florida State University and a Master of Public Administration with a focus in nonprofit management from the University of North Florida. With more than a decade of experience in arts education, she has worked for many arts organizations in Jacksonville, Florida including the Wilson Center for the Arts, Alhambra Dinner Theatre, Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra and Cathedral Arts Project.

In addition to her role at Galloway Gonzalez consulting, Kristin is a proud mother, Executive Director for Lumen Repertory Theatre and an adjunct faculty member for the Linda Berry Stein College of Fine Arts at Jacksonville University.

Kristin has served on the board of directors for The 5 & Dime, a Theatre Company and was a member of the 2018 ImpactJAX Hightower Emerging Leaders Fellowship class.

Janette Allen is a highly creative and result-driven non-profit management professional with more than 30 years of experience and expertise generating revenue and increasing philanthropic support.

Janette’s passion, drive and vision has enabled her to raise over 45 million dollars for Higher Education, Hospitals, Museums, and arts organizations. She is a member of the Association of Fundraising Professionals, the Planned Giving Council of Northeast Florida, and the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education. Her consulting work focused on creating and supporting new fundraising professionals through coaching and guiding young development professionals and organizational leaders.

At home, Janette is mother to four young adult children, her two dogs and wife to her loving husband Mark. Her hobbies include painting, car enthusiast activities and a keen interest in the metaphysical.

Born and raised in New York City, Suzie Becker studied archaeology in the Middle East then transferred and graduated from SUNY with a degree in Sociology. She discovered immediately that the ways in which ‘groups interact with and impact each other’ would become the cornerstone of her future journey. 

It was while managing a diverse portfolio of investment grade commercial and residential properties, that she took on the role of Director for several NYC Housing Authority homeless shelters- both adult and family services. Upon developing her expertise in building and facility operations, she was recruited as Project Manager by an investment group to lead the redevelopment of decommissioned United States Air Force base housing into the first “Active Adult” planned community in the Adirondacks. This role required primary research, strategic planning, lead generation and- most importantly- the ability to connect and collaborate with communities, municipalities, clients and vendors to obtain permitting, plan infrastructure and create revenue for the multi-phase development. Upon becoming a mother over a decade ago, Suzie entered the field of education- first as a teacher and then as Education Director. She was recruited as Executive Director to work on establishing the first Jewish high school in Northeast Florida, which was successfully absorbed by the local K-8, creating the intended opportunity for population growth for that target demographic. 

Suzie has worked cross functionally in small and large companies, alongside technical teams, customer service agents, academics, nonprofit administrators, as well as board members- both professionally and in positions of volunteer leadership. She has coached teams and boards to successful ambassadorship and welcomes the opportunity to create an engaging, inspired and meaningful environment wherever she is called to find innovative solutions. 

Suzie dedicates her free time to creating a positive impact on our community by volunteering for local nonprofit and community service agencies, facilitating workshops for teens and book clubs for adults on “Tools for Character Development," chairing the Social Action Committee of the Jewish Federation, on the JCA Cultural Arts Committee, as a member of the JFCS Speakers Bureau and as a multimedia and spoken word artist. She hosts a weekly podcast, “Schmooze with Suze,” where she discusses culture, values and global citizenship with thought leaders and change-makers. 

Victoria Canady-Anderson holds a bachelor's degree in fine arts with a focus in vocal music from Florida State University. She's spent the last five years working for Duval county public schools as an elementary music teacher at Jacksonville Heights elementary, where she also led as a teaching artist for the CAP chorus program. Outside of the school system, she is an all-around musician that performs in a band, as well as mixing, mastering, and writing for other up-and-coming artists. Victoria Canady-Anderson also worked with the Cathedral Arts Project in the past as a teaching assistant, a teaching artist, and the Program Manager. This gave her the opportunity to step into the nonprofit world and understand the administrative side to education and the arts in Jacksonville.

Victoria has always had a love for the performing arts. She grew up loving to sing and to perform. Victoria attended LaVilla SOTA and Douglas Anderson SOTA where she played the trumpet, sang in the chorale groups, participated in the FMEA All-State chorus, and won the Grady-Rayam female vocalist award/scholarship. She currently performs with The 7 Street Band as one of the lead vocalists. She still loves to attend local theater performances, and she loves producing and engineering new music.

Dance awakens the imagination. Movement is the medium of this awakening. And our bodies are the instrument through which this invisible nexus becomes visible. This philosophy is the epicenter of Paisley’s creative and pedagogical practice. As a dance educator, performer, choreographer, and activist, Paisley explores this professional web with creative zeal and passionate advocacy. A humble introduction to dance and theater studies as a youth growing up in Savannah, GA exposed her to the transformative power of participation in the arts. Committed to honing her artistic skills early on, Paisley attended Savannah Arts Academy, a local performing arts high school, and became an avid community theater performer. Beyond high school, pursuing a degree in dance was a no-brainer. Since graduating from Jacksonville University with a BFA in dance performance, Paisley has worked as a dance teaching artist and freelance choreographer for various organizations and school districts; and most recently, completed an MFA degree in choreography from JU. Her professional experience also includes more than a decade of teaching in public schools - designing and implementing arts integrated curriculum and after-school dance programs. In 2021, Paisley joined Crossroads Dance Indy, a modern dance company based in Indianapolis, where she performs and choreographs work for the stage. Paisley strives to be a change agent to bring about reform within the public education system- using creative advocacy to support equitable arts access in schools.

Wingard is a full-service marketing and communications firm focused on helping Northeast Florida companies realize their full potential. They specialize in providing clients with a deep understanding of the local market and the consumers they are trying to reach. Founded in 2008 by David Wingard, the agency began as a one-man design studio. Others joined the team, bringing their ideas, experiences, skills and perspectives. Wingard’s partners turn to them for brand development, copywriting, public relations, digital and social media marketing, and web design and development.

Ebony Payne-English is an author, performer, playwright, and educator from Duval County. She is the first woman to establish her own chapter of the international poetry organization, Black on Black Rhyme. Ebony is the 2017 Cultural Council of Greater Jacksonville’s Emerging Artist and recipient of the Spoken Word Gala’s 2017 William Bell Humanitarian Award. Ebony currently serves as Executive Director of The Performers Academy, a 501c3 arts education organization in Jacksonville, FL and is a founding member of the Board of Directors of Southern Fried Poetry, Inc. which produces the largest adult regional poetry slam in the nation. She has taught invitational workshops at venues such as the University of North Florida, the Tupac Amaru Shakur Center for the Arts, Morgan State University, HBO Brave New Voices, the National Afterschool Programming Conference and the Department of Juvenile Justice. As an educator, Ebony authored a K-12 STEAM curriculum that has been facilitated in over 48 school districts throughout the country.

As a ghostwriter for busy leaders, Chrissy is used to helping her clients find the right words to express themselves in front of high-stakes audiences. Whether presenting findings to a nonprofit board, or keynoting a conference, Chrissy specializes in crafting speeches that reflect your dedication and passion for the topic at hand. Rely on her to polish one of your existing speeches or write one from scratch.

Elyse Card Hegi is a professional coach working with individuals and organizations. The first two decades of her career centered around finance for small businesses and nonprofits. In 2017, she wanted to see what life was like outside of spreadsheets and lean into her people skills, becoming a Birkman Certified Professional, followed by a SHRM certification in 2020. She utilized the tools and strategies gained form both certifications across multiple levels of the organization where she worked as Chief Financial & Administrative Officer, from hiring, role restructuring, team building, leadership development and coaching her colleagues to achieve great results. She realized quickly how much she loved seeing the successes of her team and colleagues as a result of the work they were doing together. In 2022, Elyse resigned from her finance role and launched Card Hegi Coaching, where she provides coaching for multiple organizations utilizing the techniques above. In addition to coaching for businesses, Elyse also works 1:1 with high achieving women to help them overcome self-doubt and imposter syndrome, and turn their goals into a workable plan to uplevel their lives.

We love working with creative professionals everywhere! Our associates are located throughout the United States working in a number of fields specializing in every aspect of creative business. We are waiting to connect your project to new resources and ever higher goals!