Michael Bernard Allen is an entrepreneur, business professional, author, human rights consultant, and founder of Surrender Your Hate, LLC and Let Life Live, Inc. Surrender Your Hate is a God-inspired spiritual and social movement with a primary mission of helping people learn to let go of hate, anger, and differences that often times leads to violence. Surrender Your Hate seeks to help stop the killing of all humanity. Let Life Live, Inc. is a 501c3 nonprofit organization whose mission is to take a stand by standing down on gun violence. Surrender Your Hate, a global love initiative, and Let Life Live, Inc., a parent and youth focused violence prevention program, believes that love conquers all forms of hate and that we can live together without killing each other! Both organizations function to educate parents and at-risk youth on how to resolve conflict, de-escalate violent situations and build better human relationships. Michael resigned from a successful career in the pharmaceutical industry, in 2021 after 30 plus years of service as a salesperson, sales trainer, manager, marketer, sales director, diversity equity and inclusion champion and a senior sales operations leader.

Michael Allen is a 1985 graduate of Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University in Tallahassee Florida. He earned a bachelor's degree in journalism & public relations. Michael is a Christian and a devoted worker for Jesus Christ.