Who is Grace Cirocco?
Grace Cirocco is a best-selling author and one of Canada's most gifted and sought-after inspirational speakers. She empowers and motivates people to make choices that support excellence, personal effectiveness and wellness and to live a truly spirited life. Her trademark is inspiration and passion. With her stories, personal anecdotes and compelling delivery, she lights up a room and inspires people to take action. She believes that when the heart is ignited, the imagination soars and endless possibilities are created for growth and development.

Grace is the author of the National bestseller, Take the Step, the Bridge Will be There (HarperCollins 2001 & Xephor Press 2003) available in several languages around the world. She has also authored Journey to the Self: Finding Meaning in a World of Change, a four-hour audio program focusing on self-empowerment and purposeful living, as well as Take the Step… a 90-minute motivational lecture on video.

A celebrated entrepreneur and free Spirit, Grace is President of GRACE CIROCCO INC., a company offering customized educational and therapy programs that generate intelligence and competence in three main areas: 1. Inter-personal Skills (your relationship with others), 2. Intra-personal Skills (your relationship with yourself), and 3. Wellness and Resilience (an inside-out approach to health and healing). Grace has addressed tens of thousands of people on three continents.

Grace is blessed with intuitive insight into human nature. She's warm, charismatic, compassionate and can build an immediate rapport with any audience. In her seminars, keynotes and corporate workshops, she challenges people to find meaning in their work and to awaken their potential for excellence. She engages the mind as well as the heart with her unique story telling ability and inspires people to wake up to their own Magnificence and take responsibility for the results in their lives. She offers wisdom coupled with practical advice that people can use right away. Corporate leaders love Grace's message because it motivates their staff to navigate change and achieve greater productivity and personal leadership.

Recent Corporate Clients & What They Say About Grace: Some of Grace's recent clients include Inuvialuit Regional Corporation, Health Canada, Home Builders Association, the Juravinski Cancer Centre, Guelph General Hospital, and the American Administrative Professionals Conference. For a complete list of clients click here. Grace combines her experience and enthusiasm to create a dynamic training experience for her clients. Participants in her sessions say she is "the best speaker they've ever heard", "extremely knowledgeable and credible", "beyond excellent", "a gifted communicator and leader", and "down-to-earth and personable ". For more testimonials click here. For a complete list of speaking topics click here.

Relationship Expert: Grace is an expert in Relationship Intervention and Mediation. Her Relationship Renewal Retreat is offered once per month in Niagara and attracts couples from all over North America. Grace has pioneered a unique healing process (Emotional Brain Therapy, EBT™) which allows negative feelings caused by betrayal, deception, infidelity, abandonment, abuse, or any other conflict become unblocked in the emotional brain and healed. Her approach is extremely effective in helping couples forgive and restore love, trust and respect, (just read her testimonials!) and her methods are now being supported by research! In what is being called "the new science of love" in major universities around the world, it has been found that relationship therapy centered around expressing and healing emotions is five times more effective for creating long lasting love than traditional cognitive or "talk" therapy. Her RRR program is recommended by marriage therapists and has attracted media attention from the US, Canada and the UK.

Authority on Women's Mental & Emotional Health: Grace's other area of expertise (and passion) is women's emotional, psychological and spiritual wellness. Grace uses the same therapy method (Emotional Brain Therapy, EBT™) to help women heal their past and reclaim their future with clarity and confidence at her Intensive women's Retreats. Her healing work has been endorsed by Health Canada and several Canadian hospitals who have paid for their female employees to attend. Just read some of Grace's amazing testimonials to see the difference she has made in the lives of so many women!

Many women's organizations have invited Grace to deliver her empowering keynotes and workshops at conferences, educational events or special celebrations in Canada and the United States. Some of these organizations include Athena International, Georgian Court University, Delta Kappa Gamma International, National Charity League, the Rosie Fund Board, Women in Action of Washington, Association of Administrative Assistants, Women in Motion, Women Entrepreneurs of Canada, Women with Vision, Canadian Women's Foundation, Canadian Association of Women Executives, Company of Women and Administrative Professionals Conference and many more.

Seven years ago, Grace founded the "Goddess Club", a monthly workshop and therapy group which meets in Oakville, Ontario to help support women's emotional and spiritual development and create community for busy career women and has attracted thousands of women over the years.

Grace is the only Canadian author invited to contribute an essay in the best selling book, If Women Ruled the World supported and endorsed by Marie C. Wilson of the White House Project. All profits from the sale of this book go to help women's charities. Grace is a mentor to her own daughter and women of all ages and sits on the board of several women's organizations.

Media Attention: Grace has been interviewed on national radio and television talk shows, including CBC TV, CBC Radio, CTV, City TV, CHCH TV, TLN, CFRB Radio 1010 and many private radio stations across Canada and the United States about her best selling book and her work. Grace has been a columnist for Business Woman Canada, and HEART: Women's Business Journal, as well as various trade journals. Grace's articles and ideas have appeared in national newspapers, magazines and many internet newsletters and sites. Her Touch of Grace Newsletter has subscribers from around the globe. Grace has also been featured on internet radio programs including Voice America.

Education & Affiliations: Grace holds a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) degree in Philosophy from Queen's University at Kingston (Canada) and has completed graduate studies in Philosophy and Ethics at the University of Western Ontario in London. Grace is well versed in a variety of psychological and healing modalities including Cognitive Therapy, NLP (Neuro-Linguistic-Programming), and Psycho-Neuro-Immunology. She is a graduate of the Certified Coach (CC) Training Intensive and has studied Organizational Change at Mount Vernon College in Washington, D.C. Grace has also studied Reiki, Hypnosis, Energy Medicine, Psych-K, and Epi-Genetics with it's founder, Dr. Bruce Lipton.

Grace is a faculty member with the Canadian Management Centre having participated as a special guest speaker for their Management and Leadership Courses as well as designing training courses and keynotes for their corporate clientele. Grace spent five years working as an International Seminar Leader with Fred Pryor Resources, the world's largest one-day seminar company. She delivered hundreds of seminars to business professionals in Canada, the U.S., Australia, New Zealand, and the UK. Grace was well loved by her attendees boasting one of the highest "satisfied customers" ratings in the company.

Former Life: Grace Cirocco is a former broadcast journalist with CBC Radio having worked as a reporter, editor and producer for CBC National News and Current Affairs programming in Toronto and Calgary. In 1988 she received an award of distinction in broadcasting for her coverage of the Calgary Winter Olympics. She also worked in private radio in San Diego, California where she produced a three-hour business and financial show whose listening market was estimated at 20 million people. She brought the show, "Money Matters" from #10 in the ratings to #1 in just a few months. She also spent three years as a public relations manager within the Canadian Federal Government. As the Director of Communications of a large regional office, she led her team during ministerial visits, press conferences, and other departmental initiatives.

Personal: Grace speaks English, Italian, and French fluently and has traveled extensively. For the past five years, she has been taking small groups of North Americans on "Vita Bella Vacations" to see a different kind of Italy. Most of the participants are her retreat graduates. Grace loves the history of ideas and evolution of cultures and her Italy trips are not only an opportunity to learn about ancient civilizations and celebrate the Italian culture but a way to inspire joy in others. Grace is passionate about trees, gardens and green spaces and loves to go on nature walks. She shares her home with her husband, two teenage children and their "love muffin" dog. After a twenty-five year absence, Grace is happy to be back "home" in her beloved Niagara amongst the fruit orchards, vineyards and closer to her family.

Mission: Grace Cirocco has been giving advice and inspiring people since she was a child. In university she was the "Dear Abbey" for her girlfriends. Today she is an outstanding communicator, leader, business woman and intuitive healer, whose mission is to empower minds, inspire spirits and heal as many hearts as she can. She encourages us to live life authentically, passionately, and courageously. She inspires us to reach for the luminous places not only within ourselves, but in others so that together we can create a better world.

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Grace is not associated with any speakers bureaus. To book her for an event, call her directly at 905-688-0868 or email her at grace@gracecirocco.com