Grace Harding is a visionary, combining the capacity for strong senior leadership with industry insight, infectious enthusiasm and over twenty years’ diverse experience ‘on the shop floor’.

Currently Managing Director of Actuate (formerly TMG), the internal marketing consultancy she founded in 1998, Grace spearheads long-term partnerships with clients to yield innovative and impactful internal marketing solutions.

After qualifying in the HR field in the late ‘80s, Grace headed straight for the corporate world. There she built brands the traditional way for 15 years, until she spotted a gap in the marketing field.

Grace realised that if major corporates spent half as much time, energy and money building brands internally as they did externally, the nature of marketing would change, the meaning of ‘human resources’ would expand and the achievement of profit would grow enormously.

After all, aligning staff behaviour with business objectives and fulfilling brand promises translate into business success. What better channel is there than inter-personal communication?

Grace Harding knows that conversations drive business success

Remember the accepted wisdom that ‘talk is cheap’? Forget it. In the modern business environment, poor communication yields inefficiency and poor productivity, resulting in the losses of millions of Rands.

Armed with knowledge and insight developed over twenty years in human resources, marketing and corporate training, Grace Harding has developed a suite of cutting-edge seminars on “business conversation skills” – and the response, across diverse industries and within the leadership structures of many of South Africa’s blue-chip companies, has been astounding.

Talks and workshops

Grace’s talks are innovative, thought-provoking and outcomes-based, with each session emphasising results and prioritising a measurable impact on business performance.

‘Business Conversations for Maximum Productivity’

Aimed at top-level executives and management, Grace Harding’s ground-breaking ‘Business Conversations’ talk and workshop inspires participants to communicate with purpose and get things done.

The core premise of the workshop is this: Just a few simple communication changes can maximise commitment, boost energy and impact hugely on performance.

‘Marketing Inside Out’

All major companies spend huge amounts of money on communication with customers. But businesses are only now beginning to realise that spending money on communication with staff is guaranteed to generate profits.

Join Grace Harding as she guides you through ‘Marketing Inside Out’ – using the principles of external marketing and human resources to direct the behaviours of your staff, and ultimately your bottom line.

Grace’s unique concepts, such as ‘The Rule of One’ and ‘Gagging Your Business’ have assisted top local and international companies in maximising their productivity. Now is the time to see what they can do for you.

Client Testimonials

Thanks for talking to our team yesterday; we are guilty as charged on many counts! You have the wonderful skill of telling it as it is – no beating around the bush – and our team loved it. We certainly needed to hear it! I am convinced that we will see a degree of improvement based on your talk

Antoinette Bender
Marketing Manager, Tsogo Sun

Thank you so much for talking to us today. Your presentation was insightful, illuminating and instructive. I will certainly use what you taught us!

Judy van Dam
Managing Director, JWT

" Grace gets it!  Her style is totally authentic; her audience hears her and hangs on the whole way.  I get the feeling that this talk is the tip of a hugely insightful iceberg.  More please!"

Robert Dennison
Managing Director, Trainiac