Meet Grace.
Meet Grace.
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Grace Marshall is an award-winning author and speaker who specialises in transforming how organisations approach work, change, and challenge. With over a decade of experience training 10,000+ professionals across industries, Grace has become a trusted advisor for leaders seeking to build resilient, future-ready teams.
Wondering how I got here?
Here’s my story:
I’ve always been fascinated by how we humans do our best work – not just in an ideal world, but in real, messy, changing and challenging times.
For over a decade, I’ve worked with tens of thousands of people – from startup founders to corporate managers, artists to engineers, students and CEOs, with clients including Boots, BT, Sky Media, Sage, NHS, NSPCC and Teenage Cancer Trust.
Naturally Disorganised Productivity Ninja
I started off helping entrepreneurial parents juggle business and family, and my first book, 21 Ways to Manage the Stuff that Sucks Up Your Time, was borne out of raising two young children alongside running my ‘middle-child’ business. Being naturally disorganised gave me what many of my clients call a “refreshingly human” approach to productivity.
Then I joined forces with fellow productivity author Graham Allcott to become Think Productive’s first female Productivity Ninja, delivering practical workshops to organisations of all shapes and sizes, giving people the skills to take control of their workflow, priorities, inboxes, meetings, collaboration and wellbeing.
Award-winning author
My second book, How to be Really Productive was named CMI Management Book of the Year’s Best Commuters Read, where judges called it “a breath of fresh air… a book I’ll be returning to again and again. It’s full of positive, practical thinking and ideas on how to get more done with ease when the rest of the world seems to conspire against it.”
And my third book, Struggle, shortlisted in as a Business Book Awards Work Life finalist, is an invitation to engage with change, challenge, disruptions and disappointments in a fundamentally different way – one that shifts us out of survival mode, to discover the surprising truth, beauty and opportunity hidden in life’s sh*ttier moments.
Chief Encourager
I care about doing work in a way that does us good (as well as the good we’re doing out there in the world), and love working with creative, compassionate, talented people who care about being world changers, rather than world beaters.
100% Human
I live in Stafford in the middle of the UK, with my husband, our two teenage kids and a perpetually bouncy puppy, continually working on being a good-enough parent, most of the time, with intermittent lapses into hopelessness and brilliance. I’m always learning – from authors, speakers, clients, colleagues, children, and my own mistakes – and I love sharing what I discover along the way. I can’t sew, rarely iron, my kitchen is always messy but my food tastes good!
Other random facts:
Proud daughter of immigrants. Grew up between Leeds and Hong Kong, married a Brummie with English, Welsh & Eastern European heritage, who I met in Stuttgart. I’ve moved around so much that my accent is a bit of a mash-up which often leads people to wonder if I’m Australian.
An extrovert at heart, I considered myself an introvert for much of my childhood. I’ve never really fitted in one place, but I’ve come to find that between worlds is where life is most interesting.
Graduated with a degree in International Management, prepped and primed to climb the corporate ladder. Had my mid-life crisis in my mid-20s and ended up starting a new career, business and family at the same time. (Impatience has always been my driver for getting things done!)
I love reading. At school I was the tiny girl in thick glasses with an even thicker book in my hand, dodging footballs at the edge of the playground. You’ll find me quoting from social scientists like Brene Brown and Adam Grant, activists like Glennon Doyle and Rebecca Solnit, economists like Minouche Shafik and Caroline Webb, thinkers like Margaret Heffernan and Rutger Bregman as well as films like X-Men!
Word geek. I love playing with words, because our words shape our world. That’s why some of my most popular tips are not tech tools but language shifts like these two and a half words that will improve your productivity.
“I know you’re busy…” is the worst way to start a message to me! Here’s why. While we’re at it, I’m no guru. No pedestals please! While I’m short (5’1″) I’m far happier on the ground, getting stuck in with fellow humans, make real change happen.
Teetotal. While I’m a big advocate of champagne moments, I can’t actually drink alcohol! If you give me a bottle of wine, it’s likely to end up in a damn good bolognese.
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