Meet DG

My dad taught me that “Business proceeds at the speed of trust.” Let me tell you about one of the partners I trust most.

His name is Davis Glen — aka DG.

With a background in data product management, he’s the rare person who’s the technical expert in the room and the one keeping delivery on track.

Listen to this post on Substack.

That’s a milestone for me: in 2026, McCandless Consulting has run multiple projects with associates (aka contractors). My clients got faster, more cost-effective delivery because I stopped being the only pair of hands.

(I’m actually building something to make finding experts like this easier at scale — more coming soon.)

DG’s a man of many talents, but his expertise is banking: helping community and regional banks turn their data into decisions they can stand behind.

So if you lead a community or regional bank, meet DG.

I’ve introduced DG to people like this: “He’s brilliant — literally perfect score on the ACT. But more importantly, he’s a man of integrity I trust. He fears God.”

I’ve lived in Ruston five years and met DG in my first year here. But this friendship and the trust run three generations deep.

One of my wife’s most formative teachers was Mrs. White, her first-grade teacher. That’s DG’s grandmother. I never got to meet her — cancer took her young. I look forward to thanking her in heaven for the mark she left on my wife, and through my wife, on me and every one of our descendants.

But I’ve had the privilege of being neighbors with Mrs. White’s daughter — DG’s mother. One day DG’s mother said, “I think you and my son would enjoy meeting.” She was right. She told me later, “I was praying for DG, and I just felt like I should connect you two.”

When I look back at the pivotal connections in this business, I can’t take credit for a single one.

The timing of leaving Amazon. Meeting mentors like Ben Rogojan. Finding amazing clients who then lead to referrals. Finding associates like DG — trust handed to me three generations deep, from a first-grade teacher to a praying mother to a friend who now has my back. I could go on and on.

Sure, I work hard. I follow the playbooks and the conventional wisdom on consulting. But my best wins? I can’t say they’re just because I outhustled or outsmarted the rest.

They were gifts. Thanks be to God.

(Photo - proof I’ve known DG for years. Scroll back through my recent LinkedIn posts, and you’ll see those two girls have roughly doubled in size since this photo!)