That belief shapes everything I do, from the stories I help bring into the world to the rooms I step into as a speaker and guide.
My work is rooted in helping individuals and organizations communicate with clarity, lead with intention, and create work that matters.
– Jenn T. Grace | Author. Speaker. Publisher.
Jenn T. Grace (she/her/hers) is an award-winning author and founder and CEO of Publish Your Purpose (PYP), a respected hybrid publishing company for nonfiction authors. Over the past decade, Jenn and her team have helped bring nearly 300 books into the world, supporting thought leaders, entrepreneurs, professionals, and changemakers who want their ideas to have lasting impact.
She is also the founder of Author Growth & Impact (AGI), an educational platform designed to support authors at every stage of the journey, from idea development and writing through publishing, marketing, and long-term influence. Together, PYP and AGI reflect Jenn’s commitment to helping authors build sustainable, values-aligned paths for their work in the world.
Jenn’s work is grounded in two decades of experience helping organizations and individuals communicate with clarity and purpose. Before founding Publish Your Purpose, she spent years inside the national LGBTQ+ chamber network as the founding Executive Director of the Connecticut LGBTQ+ Chamber of Commerce and as Northeast Regional Chair for the National LGBT Chamber of Commerce, overseeing affiliated chambers from Maine to Virginia. She won both Rising Star Chamber of the Year and Chamber of the Year nationally. After leaving the chamber, she built a consulting practice teaching financial advisors and insurance agents how to authentically market to LGBTQ+ prospective clients—work that, over time, evolved into a broader storytelling methodology now applied to how any advisor or agent can build a website and content strategy centered on who they actually serve. That background in organizational leadership, board governance, and mission-driven communication shapes her approach as a speaker and facilitator today.
She is known for helping people articulate complex ideas, translate lived experience into leadership, and build credibility through thoughtful communication, whether that’s on a conference stage, in a boardroom, or inside the pages of a book.
Jenn is a nationally recognized speaker who brings storytelling, strategic insight, and a grounded, honest presence to conferences, retreats, boardrooms, and classrooms. Audiences leave with clarity, and the language to act on it.
A 90-minute working session for chamber and association boards navigating a rebrand, leadership transition, or high-stakes advocacy moment. Every board member leaves with a story they own and the confidence to tell it. [Learn more]
A working session for financial advisors and insurance agents ready to move beyond generic positioning. Every participant leaves with a client-centered story they can put to work—on their website, in conversations, and across their marketing.
Publishing, Writing, and Thought Leadership
A book isn’t the finish line. It’s the asset that keeps generating influence, credibility, and revenue for years after launch, if it’s built with that intention from the start. Jenn also speaks on what AI is changing about how books get written and discovered, and what no algorithm can replace.
Leadership, Communication, and Impact
Jenn speaks on empathy as a leadership strategy, on communicating across difference without losing clarity or care, and on how storytelling builds trust faster than a resume, especially when visibility has to hold up over years rather than a single moment.
Business, Purpose, and Strategy
Jenn also speaks on purpose-driven branding built to hold up under scrutiny, not just applause, and on what conscious capitalism looks like in practice, drawn from running a certified B Corp in an industry that rarely asks values-alignment questions.
Jenn customizes each session to the audience, goals, and context of the event.
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Your clients don’t remember your credentials. They remember how you made them feel when it mattered most.
Financial advisors and insurance agents work in an industry built on templated websites, stock photography, and messaging that could belong to anyone. Standing out while staying compliant feels like an impossible balance. Most marketing advice either ignores the regulatory realities of the industry or strips away everything that makes an advisor’s or agent’s story worth telling in the first place.
In Earning Trust Through Story, author and story-driven marketing strategist Jenn T. Grace offers a practical approach to marketing, adapted for professionals working within strict compliance requirements. Inside, you’ll learn how to:
If marketing feels like something you have to force, or something that compromises who you are as a professional, this book will change that. Earning Trust Through Story will help you build a business rooted in the same thing your clients have always trusted you for: showing up as yourself, when it counts most.
Promote Your Purpose: A Strategic Guide to Book Marketing for Nonfiction Authors Who Want to Grow Their Impact, Influence, and Income
You’ve written your book—now what?
Promote Your Purpose® shows you how to turn your book into a powerful catalyst for growth, visibility, and impact. Whether you’re building a business, expanding your platform, or sharing your story to create change, your book can open doors you never imagined—if you know how to use it strategically.
In this companion to Publish Your Purpose®, award-winning author and publishing strategist Jenn T. Grace shares a practical roadmap to help you move beyond simply launching a book to leveraging it as a long-term asset. Through her proven ASPEN Method—Assess, Strategize, Plan, Execute, Nurture—you’ll discover how to align your marketing efforts with your deeper purpose, connect authentically with your audience, and create sustainable momentum for your mission.
Inside, you’ll learn how to:
If the word “marketing” makes you squirm, you’re not alone—but when you view it as an act of service, everything changes. Promote Your Purpose® will help you confidently step into the next chapter of your author journey—and turn your book into the movement it was meant to inspire.
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Publish Your Purpose: A Step-By-Step Guide To Write, Publish, and Grow Your Big Idea
Strategic Advice from a Nonfiction Publishing Expert
How many times have you thought, “I should write a book,” but weren’t sure where to start or if anyone would read it? Perhaps you want to become a thought leader, boost your brand and career, inspire and empower others like you to feel seen or heard, or even change the world. Whether your reasons for writing a book are personal, professional, or a mix of both, getting your story out there can be transformational for you, your career, and your readers. Much like a degree from a reputable university, having a published book gives you credibility and positions you as the expert that you are.
In Publish Your Purpose, Grace presents a step-by-step guide to writing and publishing your book. Encouraging and supportive, she takes you through the writing and publishing process, from big idea to book launch. Learn how to clarify your purpose and vision, set achievable goals, gain confidence, and create a productive writing routine. Based on her experience as an author and publisher, you’ll uncover wisdom about the publishing industry, marketing strategies, and the pros and cons of different publishing options.
Writing a book is a journey that takes time and effort, but that doesn’t mean you need to do it alone. With these tools and guidance, you can start—and finish—the journey of publishing your purpose. Let Jenn T. Grace be your guide.
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Fire. While it appears destructive, it’s also a force of renewal.
Just as fire clears the way for new growth, so too can people transform their lives when they confront their worst fears and step into the sunlight of their purpose and truth.
House on Fire, a raw and riveting memoir by author and publisher Jenn T. Grace, explores her journey growing up as an adopted child in a chaotic household. Surviving a turbulent childhood marked by family conflict, mental illness and alcoholism, Grace promises herself that life will get better. But as an adult, Grace’s personal and professional successes belie her inner turmoil. When she bravely steps in to adopt her sister’s emotionally troubled daughter, she soon discovers that love and patience are not enough to meet the child’s needs.
Desperate to find help, Grace and her wife struggle for years to navigate a broken mental health system that too often fails families and their children, leaving them with a heart-wrenching decision to save their sanity.
How do we let certain things go once we realize we have choices? How do we come to a place of healing and forgiveness? Too often the outside world judges and criticizes without understanding the private challenges that many families face. Grace’s courage and honesty in telling her story is an inspiring message of hope and resilience for anyone suffering from trauma, adversity, and obstacles that seem insurmountable.
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Publish Your Purpose is a certified B Corporation™ and hybrid publisher for purpose-driven authors who believe their books can create change. We support authors who are using their stories, expertise, and lived experience to shift conversations, challenge the status quo, and contribute to something bigger than themselves.
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