The Balais Group (TBG) was founded in 2009 as Maria Balais Consulting to serve for-profit, nonprofit, and political candidate campaigns during the recession when many organizations were downsizing teams. Maria Balais grew this small consulting business to 13 clients, and shuttered the firm in 2013 to become the Executive Director for Leadership DeKalb full time.

The Balais Group focuses on community engagement, communications, and strategy. Its strength is working with leaders on defining ambiguous projects and helping create a framework for strategy and implementation. We do this through a tried-and-true process, leveraging our community network, subject matter experts, and a consortium of vendor partners.

TBG clients are diverse and vary from individuals to nonprofits, government entities, and for-profits. Our work are predominantly from word-of-mouth, and we often prefer a referral.