Grayce Belvedere Young

Grayce specializes in strategy and visioning; leadership development; organization design; change management; performance management; talent management and succession planning; team effectiveness; board governance and development; and culture revitalization.

She brings over twenty-five years of organization and strategic expertise in numerous industries as well as not-for-profits. She is also Six Sigma certified with proficiency in business process design and improvement, with deep root cause analysis to solve complex issues. Grayce is deeply passionate about building organizational capacity – developing leadership skills and competencies, team effectiveness, and organization-wide change.

Grayce is the Founder and CEO of Lily Pad Consulting, a firm specializing in Strategy, Organization Development, and Board of Director Governance. In her consulting business, Grayce partners with leaders to develop vision and strategy, drive alignment and implementation, coach and develop talent, and facilitate change. Prior to over ten years in the consulting realm, Grayce held leadership roles at UnitedHealth Group and Thomson-West Group (now Thomson-Reuters).

She is active in the Minneapolis / St. Paul community and serves on numerous nonprofit Boards and Committees. Grayce holds a B.A. and an M.A. in English Literature and an M.B.A. with a concentration in marketing. She has lived, worked or traveled in all 50 states, over 50 countries, and all 7 continents. She brings an inquisitive; thoughtful; big-picture, systems perspective; and global view to all her client engagements.