Executive Coaching
One-to-one work with leaders who are carrying more than they can say out loud. Honest, confidential, and focused on the decisions in front of you.
LeadershipStrategyTransformationImpact
Equipping people to lead with purpose.
Executive coaching, leadership development, mentoring, and speaking — built on four decades of leading, and forty years of learning how.
Nasdaq · Times SquareInsurance Business America Hot 100International Impact Book Awards · WinnerThe BookFest · Award WinnerLiterary Global Book Awards · Winner
About
Careers create success. Relationships create significance.
For more than four decades I built a career in leadership, risk management, mentoring, and organizational excellence within the insurance industry. Along the way I learned that the work that lasts is never really about the work. It is about the people you develop while you do it.
That belief became the foundation of everything I do now. Through Sonji K. Grandy Consultants, LLC, I help individuals and organizations build stronger leaders, healthier cultures, and more confident decision-makers.
- 40
- Years in leadership, risk management, and organizational excellence
- 20
- Years leading ministry and community initiatives across New Jersey
- 6
- Published books, each an international award winner
Services
Four ways forward.
Leadership is not a personality. It is a set of decisions, made repeatedly, under pressure. My work is helping people and organizations make those decisions better.
Leadership Development
Programs that build capable leaders at every level of an organization, not just at the top.
Mentoring Programs
Structured mentoring designed and delivered for teams, emerging leaders, and employee networks.
Organizational Transformation
Culture and strategy work for organizations that know something has to change and want a partner who will tell them the truth.
Speaking
Speaking
I have spent forty years in rooms where the real conversation happened after the meeting ended. My work on a stage is to have that conversation during it.
Sonji K. Grandy
Books
Award-winning author.
Books on leadership, family, mentorship, and the work of becoming who you were made to be.
Through Our Eyes
with Tyniece S. Gutzmore · Foreword by Dr. Angel Thompson
Winner, 2026 NYC Big Book Award — Relationships · BookFest Award Winner · Christlit Finalist
Out of the Woods
with Dr. Nicole B. Simpson, CFP
Winner, Business of Sustainable Practices and Environmental Leadership
Mentoring with Confidence
Sonji K. Grandy
Winner, Motivational
Beautifully Blended
Foreword by Dr. Nicole B. Simpson
Winner, Family · Readers’ Favorite, four stars
Recognition
Award-winning work.
Through Our Eyes won the 2026 NYC Big Book Award in Relationships. Also recognised by Insurance Business America (Hot 100) and featured on the Nasdaq billboard, Times Square. Read Alliant’s 2021 recognition of Sonji’s work.
The wider work
One mission, more ways to connect.
MentorHER Rising
Every woman deserves someone who sees the greatness within her, even before she sees it herself. A mentoring community, a mobile app, and a journey from uncertainty to leadership.
Visit MentorHER RisingIt’s A Battle
Life does not come with an instruction manual. It comes with battles. Honest conversations, practical wisdom, faith, and hope for people navigating everyday life.
Ask about It’s A BattleYour greatest chapters are still ahead of you.
Tell me what you are working on. I will tell you honestly whether I am the right person to help.