Grace Vandecruze is an international best-selling author, business executive, thought leader, entrepreneur, financial advisor, and CPA who brings forth a tale of resilience and transformation after experiencing homelessness in a significant period of time. Over her extensive 30-year career, she has dedicated herself to aiding individuals, clients, and corporations in overcoming adversity, guiding them through her immense passion towards not just financial literacy but also empowerment beyond their ordeals.

Her narrative takes a dramatic turn when she became the first woman and African-American to sit on the board of a major financial services company in the US. Grace’s experience ignited a passion to share her story, inspiring others and navigating their path to perseverance, career development, and definitive success.

As Founder and Managing Director of Grace Capital Global LLC, she teaches proven strategies for valuation, M&A advisory, and regulatory services. Throughout her career, Grace has delivered advisory expertise on over $25 billion of insurance transactions by means of effective execution through growth strategy and managing capital.

Her expertise, which includes extensive hands-on approach in mergers, acquisitions, capital raisings, and most notably, providing expert testimony on the valuation of Conseco during the largest bankruptcy in the insurance industry as frequently featured in the financial press, including The American Banker, Insurance Journal,  SNL Financial, and AM Best TV and Journal.

Grace’s internationally best-selling book “Homeless to Millionaire, 6 Keys to Uplift Your Financial Abundance” which serves as the embodiment of her story up until now, that no mountain you face in life is impossible to climb as evidenced of her conquering Mt. Kilimanjaro, Mt. Everest, and the Himalayas