Grace Training

PAULA GRACE BIO

Paula Grace, President
Grace Training, Inc., San Francisco, CA, USA

Paula Grace brings extensive experience in development, education and human behavior to all areas of workplace and academic achievement. Since founding Grace Training, Inc., she has designed, produced and directed instructional experiences that are rich in content and application, quick-paced, inspiring, and fun for employees, managers and trainers throughout the world. She has written, spoken about, and conducted training in performance consulting, communication, presentation, international business, and training trainers, and her articles on training, sales and management have been published in the US and Europe.

Background

Grace has had numerous opportunities to interact with a wide variety of organizations. After eight years in sales and sales management, she was put in charge of Sales, Marketing and Customer Service Training for ComputerLand Corporation, where she designed and delivered ComputerLand's national franchisee, store manager, and sales training courses. From there she moved to DHL Worldwide Express as Training Manager. She continued to design and facilitate training classes, this time to an international audience.

After two years based in London, England, where she traveled throughout the world consulting with DHL managers and conducting training programs, she returned to DHL in the US where she was promoted to Director of Human Resource Development. She left DHL in 1990 to start her own consulting business.

Since founding Grace Training, Paula Grace has created and managed educational, change management, and training projects for various audiences; written, produced, and directed hundreds of training programs and performance interventions for a diverse array of clients; and served on the Board of Directors for the Professional Society of Sales and Marketing Trainers.

Throughout the 1990's she taught courses in training and development at the University of California, Berkeley Extension, in addition to graduate courses in international human resource management at Golden Gate University Graduate School of International Management, and spent five years on the faculty of the Marketing Department at San Francisco State University School of Business. She is a well-respected keynote speaker, and has delivered addresses to the Lakewood Publications "Best Of Training" Conferences, the Annual Meetings of the Professional Society of Sales and Marketing Trainers, the Czechoslovakian Business Women's Conference in Prague, and the annual Women in World Trade Conferences in Los Angeles and Orange County.

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