# Allegrow

> Allegrow is a St. Petersburg consultancy that works with middle-market and private-equity-backed organizations, especially in healthcare, on the human and commercial work around mergers and acquisitions. Its services span integration planning, brand roll-ups, stakeholder communication, employee retention, recruitment, market penetration, and strategic cybersecurity. The firm grew out of The Symphony Agency, founded by Lauren Davenport Fernandez in 2009, and adopted the Allegrow name in 2023 as its work moved beyond digital marketing into business modernization and M&A execution.

- **Founded:** 2009
- **Headquarters:** St. Petersburg, United States
- **Founders:** Lauren Davenport Fernandez (Founder and CEO)
- **Team size:** Approximately 15 people in supplied company data; LinkedIn places the firm in the 11-50 employee band
- **Products:** Integration Planning, Brand Roll-Ups, Stakeholder Communications, Employee Retention, Talent Recruitment
- **Notable:** Allegrow's featured Sonas Home Health Care case reports 266% EBITDA growth and 71% sales growth at the time of exit., The predecessor Symphony Agency was a 2019 Greater Tampa Chamber Small Business of the Year finalist in the 20-50 employee category., The predecessor agency won the Tampa Bay Business Journal's 2017 Best in the Biz readers' choice recognition for advertising and marketing agencies.

## Products & services

- **Integration Planning** — Discovery, assessment, roadmapping, and guided implementation across strategy, culture, customer transition, teams, partners, and performance metrics.
- **Brand Roll-Ups** — Portfolio analysis, brand architecture, identity development, launch support, and post-launch monitoring for consolidated businesses.
- **Stakeholder Communications** — Messaging frameworks, audience-specific communication plans, and change support for executives, employees, customers, and partners.
- **Employee Retention** — Retention-driver analysis, tailored plans, implementation support, feedback channels, recognition, and ongoing measurement.
- **Talent Recruitment** — Hiring-process reviews, market strategy, candidate messaging, multi-channel campaigns, onboarding design, and recruitment analytics; the firm explicitly does not perform hiring, compliance, or new-hire training.
- **Market Penetration** — Market assessment, growth roadmaps, market-fit refinement, campaign implementation, and performance monitoring tied to revenue or EBITDA goals.
- **Strategic Cybersecurity** — M&A-focused security integration planning, threat-response alignment, communication strategy, identity and access review, technology-stack consolidation, and governance alignment.
- **The Healthcare CEO Show** — An interview series hosted by Daniel Fernandez about scaling, leadership, transactions, talent, and patient experience in healthcare.

## Achievements

- Allegrow's featured Sonas Home Health Care case reports 266% EBITDA growth and 71% sales growth at the time of exit.
- The predecessor Symphony Agency was a 2019 Greater Tampa Chamber Small Business of the Year finalist in the 20-50 employee category.
- The predecessor agency won the Tampa Bay Business Journal's 2017 Best in the Biz readers' choice recognition for advertising and marketing agencies.
- Built a national client footprint from its St. Petersburg headquarters.
- Created The Healthcare CEO Show, an interview series focused on growth and leadership in healthcare.

## Latest updates

- **2025-09** — Expanded its public M&A guidance into AI literacy, AI-assisted due diligence, cybersecurity risk assessment, and cybersecurity culture.
- **2025-09** — Published a Healthcare CEO Show episode with Allegrow adviser Chris Davenport on healthcare cyber risk, governance, medical-device exposure, and M&A diligence.
- **2025-06** — Published new healthcare M&A material on cultural integration, post-merger integration teams, and synergy capture.
- **2025-01** — Released a 25-item post-acquisition integration checklist covering talent, operations, finance, legal work, and customer continuity.

## Links

- Website: https://allegrow.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/allegrowagency
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@AllegrowAgency
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/allegrowagency/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AllegrowAgency

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Last updated: 2026-09-19