
Do you have a long-held fear?
By Grace Ueng, CEO Savvy Growth In a commencement speech, I mention a lunch I had several years ago with a friend and mentor – a successful entrepreneur who climbed… read more →

What Future are you Speaking Now?
By Grace Ueng, CEO Savvy Growth In my entrepreneurial travels over the last two decades, I have seen that speaking of the future as being reality today is a necessary trait for… read more →

Grit: The power of deliberate practice. Over the long haul.
By Grace Ueng, CEO Savvy Growth Through my work with Elon University, last week I met Angela Duckworth, the author of Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance. Two years earlier, I’d written… read more →

What is your WHY?
by Grace W. Ueng, CEO Savvy Growth Eight years ago, my client and friend Ping Fu invited me to dinner at her home with Simon Sinek. Simon was speaking the next day… read more →

How Visualization Creates Champions
by Grace W. Ueng When I met Paige Nielsen, former captain of UNC women’s soccer team and current professional player, and told her about my Project Peak and positive psychology… read more →

Aiming for the top? CEOs offer advice
As published in the News & Observer Become an effective CEO Hone the life skill of learning how to learn. Plug away with on-the-job training. Seek life-long learning. Find mentors… read more →

Why Confidence is Contagious
By Grace Ueng, Savvy Growth On a flight a couple of years ago, I sat behind a young woman donned in UNC apparel. I immediately struck up a conversation as… read more →

Mr. Wonderful on Women Entrepreneurs
21 years ago, Kevin O’Leary, better known today as “Mr. Wonderful” of Shark Tank, contacted me in Minneapolis saying I was to appear in Boston the next morning. I asked… read more →