Meet Kerry Grace
Turning conversations into action
Kerry Grace brings people together, creates clarity around what matters, and helps ideas move into action.
She works across communities, organisations and systems where progress depends on alignment, trust and shared direction.
Spiralling Up: A guide for accidental leaders
A practical reflection on leadership, change and what it takes to keep moving when there isn’t a clear path.
Written for people working in complex environments and community settings, the book introduces a simple three-step approach that now underpins Kerry’s work.
Services
Engage Kerry to work with your team, organisation or community to move from conversations into action.
speaking
Engage Kerry to work with your team, organisation or community to create clarity, alignment and momentum.
Her keynotes focus on helping people move from discussion into action, particularly in environments where progress feels stalled or unclear.
facilitation and advisory
Work with Kerry to bring people together, surface what matters, and move forward with shared direction.
This includes facilitated sessions, strategic conversations and advisory support.
Author / Writer
Through her writing, including Spiralling Up: A Guide for Accidental Leaders, Kerry explores leadership, change and how people move from conversations into action.
convening
Through Social Impact in the Regions, Kerry brings together practitioners and investors to support regional communities and create pathways for action.
About Kerry
Working across communities, organisations and systems
Kerry Grace has spent more than two decades working across regional Australia, with work in change and community spanning more than 30 years.
Her work spans economic development, social impact and community capability, with a strong grounding in how change happens in practice.
She works at the point where conversations turns into action.
Kerry brings people together, creates clarity around what matters, and helps people see possibility beyond their organisation’s or community’s current situation.
In recent years, her work has expanded to include building a national conference, investing in housing in regional communities, and writing to support leaders navigating change.
Talking is never enough. We need to do and keep doing to break through our bad habits and ruts.
Kerry Grace
Kerry Grace in Spiralling Up, a Guide for accidental leaders
What working with Kerry creates
Kerry works with organisations, communities and leaders where there is strong intent, but progress feels unclear or difficult to sustain.
Her role is to create clarity, alignment and momentum so that work can move forward.
Clarity on what actually matters
Kerry creates space for honest, grounded conversations so that what really matters can surface. She works with people to cut through complexity, competing priorities and noise, helping groups focus on what is most important.
Alignment across people, priorities and stakeholders
By building trust across diverse people and perspectives, Kerry helps groups find common ground. Her work supports alignment where there are different agendas, ensuring people are moving in the same direction.
Movement where things have previously stalled
Kerry understands how change plays out in real-world contexts. She works with groups to shift from discussion into action, particularly in environments where progress has slowed or feels difficult to sustain.
A practical pathway from conversations into action
Working flexibly across communities, government and organisations, Kerry helps translate ideas into clear next steps. Her focus is on creating momentum and supporting people to move forward with shared direction and confidence.
Connect
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Kerry works with organisations, communities and leaders to create clarity, alignment and momentum.
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Reviews
What clients say
Tracy Singleton
Over more than 20 years my observation of Kerry’s practice in regional communities has evolved into one grounded in humility, deep listening, and co-design. Kerry has seen the gaps, the lack of consistency and poor support people in regional Australia experience. She focuses on bridging them by building strong relationships and creating space for Regional voices to lead. Her work brings together community members, service providers, government and businesses to collaborate in ways that are purposeful and respectful, even when trust has been broken in the past.
Blog
The latest from Kerry
This year I became an empty nester. Well, for four teary months anyway. The short version is this… By design the Ready Communities program and our national conference, Social Impact in the Regions is based in a different community each …
Know that feeling when you find a model that describes your practice? I recently had this experience when I stumbled upon ‘Harmonic Principles’ designed by IA Interior Architects (shared below). For some time now I’ve known my approach to designing …
How producing a conference on my own dime changed my thoughts on speaker payments (and my behaviour as a speaker) Producing conferences and events is not a new thing for me, in fact, I pulled together my first band night …