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. With her stories, personal anecdotes and passionate 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). 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.

As a professional speaker with degrees in Philosophy and Ethics, Grace is blessed with intuitive insight into human nature. In her training seminars and lectures, she challenges people to re-evaluate their priorities and find meaning in what they do. As a spiritual teacher, she helps people connect to their authentic voice and live life with more passion and soul.

Grace is a leading authority on Women's leadership, emotional wellness and empowerment. Her TTS Intensive Retreat Weekend helps women heal their past; and re-focus their vision for the future. The retreat is offered four times per year and women come from all over North America to attend. www.gracecirocco.com/weekend.html Upon request, Grace takes her retreats across Canada and the US to various women's organizations.

A celebrated entrepreneur, Grace is President of Cirocco & Associates, a training company offering customized educational programs that generate intelligence and competence in three main areas: 1. Inter-personal Skills (your relationship with others) and 2. Intra-personal Skills (your relationship with yourself) and 3. Wellness and Resilience. Grace has addressed tens of thousands of people on three continents.

Grace is a regular guest on national radio and television talk shows and has appeared on CTV's Vickie Gabereau, CFRB Radio 1010 "The Mott's", CBC Radio's "Wild Rose Forum" and Telelatino's "Viva Domenica". She's a columnist for Business Woman Canada and Eye For the Future Magazines and she has been featured in many newspaper and magazine articles. She was selected as the cover story for Women With Vision magazine's summer 2003 issue.

Grace Cirocco is an outstanding communicator, leader and intuitive healer, whose mission is to empower minds, inspire spirits and heal hearts. 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.

Affiliations:
Grace is a faculty member with the Canadian Management Centre www.cmctraining.org having participated as a special guest speaker for their Management and Leadership Courses as well as joining their esteemed line-up of Breakfast Series speakers in 2003-2004. Grace is also a well-respected member of their Media Faculty.

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 as well as the most standing ovations.

Background:
Grace Cirocco is a former broadcast journalist with CBC Radio having worked as a reporter, editor and producer for 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.

Grace holds a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) degree in Philosophy from Queen's University and has completed graduate studies in Philosophy and Ethics at the University of Western Ontario. She has studied organizational change at Mount Vernon College in Washington, D.C., a variety of psychological and healing modalities including NLP (Neuro-Linguistic-Programming), Cognitive Psychology, and Psycho-Neuro-Immunology. She is certified with Self Esteem Seminars in California and a graduate of the Certified Coach (CC) Training Intensive.

Recent clients:
Some of Grace's recent clients include Department of National Defence, Public Service Commission, Canadian Blood Services, Ikea, Scotia Bank, Queen's University, Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board, and the Canadian Counselling Association. For more clients click here.

What people say:
Grace Cirocco combines experience with enthusiasm and expertise with practical tools to create a dynamic training experience for her clients. Participants of her training sessions say she is "the best story-teller they've heard", "extremely knowledgeable and credible", "beyond excellence", "a gifted communicator", "passionate", and "down-to-earth".

"Thank you for your wonderful presentation here at the Canadian Management Center last week. So much of what you said really resonated with me. To have one of our breakfast speakers reduce me to tears of emotion that early in the morning is quite something!!! Usually I can't remember anything that I have heard!! To top it all off, I am a very skeptical person not easily impressed. But I found myself spouting forth and quoting you at both the events I was at that evening! You are an extraordinary speaker." Tessa Scott, Client Solutions Specialist, Canadian Management Centre

"Grace was absolutely tremendous! She combined humour with insight, sadness with joy…You cannot help but be invigorated with her high energy. Grace is a dynamic and sincere speaker who captures her audience from the first moment and keeps them captive and participatory throughout the presentation…she is truly gifted." K. Morrison, Director of Client Services, Community Care Access Center (CCAC), Simcoe County

"Dear Grace, I recently read Power vs Force by David Hawkins. I was moved to tears reading about “grace” on pp. 193,194 as it absolutely describes you. “Grace is the expression of the power of aesthetic sensitivity, and power is always manifested with grace, whether in beauty of line, style, or expression.  We associate grace with elegance, refinement, and economy of effort…… Gracious power patterns acknowledge and support life, and respect and uphold the dignity of others.  In addition, grace is an aspect of unconditional love.  Graciousness also implies generosity – not merely material generosity, but generosity of spirit, such as the willingness to express thanks or acknowledge the importance of others in our lives.  Grace is associated with modesty and humility, for power doesn’t need to flaunt itself.” 
"This is how I feel about you and I am so blessed to have you in my life.  I love you and all the fantastic work you are doing helping others live their dash."   Kat Downey

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Personal:
Grace speaks English, Italian, and French fluently and has traveled around the world. She enjoys international cuisine, art, culture and reading good books. After a twenty-five year absence, she has returned "home" to live in her beloved Niagara Peninsula amongst the fruit orchards, wineries and lake views. She enjoys hiking on the Bruce trail with her husband, their two children, and Jessie, the "love muffin" dog. Grace volunteers her time to speak to many community groups including non-profit organizations, women's shelters and youth groups.

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To book Grace for an upcoming event call CIROCCO & ASSOCIATES at 905-688-0868 or email her at grace@gracecirocco.com