Our People
Our advisors and implementers are executives, entrepreneurs, visionaries, and logisticians, who are also members of foreign service and military families serving domestically and overseas.* They are strategists whose expertise, determination, creativity, and ingenuity allow them to #GetItHandled®.


Lauren Pickle, MBA
Lauren Pickle has nearly 20 years of experience in private equity, finance, business research, program leadership, and public affairs. Her background includes evaluating companies, co-authoring MBA and Executive Education case studies at Harvard Business School, and managing multimillion-dollar programs and communications strategies in international settings. At LVL-Up Strategies, she applies her expertise in finance, research, public affairs, and organizational leadership to help clients streamline operations, scale their businesses, and strengthen their voice in the marketplace. Lauren holds an MBA in Finance and Real Estate from the University of Florida and a BBA in Finance from the University of Georgia.
Being part of a military family has allowed Lauren to work and travel around the world. Currently stationed in the U.S., she has also lived and worked in Romania, Russia, and Germany. Lauren earned her MBA in Finance and Real Estate from the University of Florida’s Hough Graduate School of Business and her BBA in Finance from the University of Georgia’s Terry College of Business.