Testimonials

Candace is an amazing mentor. She has helped me with strengthening my time management and leadership skills. As an undergraduate student, it is my main goal to increase my chances of becoming successful when I get out of college. This consists of being a part of many activities. Candace helped me plan and set goals so that I can stay organized while also ensuring that I do not put much stress on my self. I did not know I was capable of doing so many things until Candace helped me realize that I could through setting goals and looking at the many different ways I could go about accomplishing them. She has helped me so much through my journey and continues to teach me many different skills that can be applied to any field I decide to go into. [University of California, Riverside - ORBITS Mentorship Program]

We are a non profit organization and met Candace at a meetup. We signed up for a Leadership Strength Session with Candace and found it to be very accurate and informative.

Vets365 recommends Candace for all your staff training needs! Thanks Candace for moving our non profit forward!

Sheila Cornett Cohen, President Vets365.com

I attended a Women's of Encouragement meeting where Candace was the guest speaker. Candace presented material about our identity and stepping up in faith to take authority with confidence and expect results through one's own action. Candace delivers a message from a different perspective or slant that really makes one think. Candace gives references and additional information to support her thoughts, her plans and her challenge for you to grow as a person, to have better life by not limiting oneself. I would strongly recommend Candace as a motivational speaker to encourage each one of us to strive to be a better person.

Candace is amazing! I was going through a time of big change in my life when I met her. She helped me untangle all the things I had going and clearly see what I had going on at the moment, the things I was attempting to add, and how they fit together. She led me to a breakthrough that allowed me to more easily shed the things I was holding on to in order to make room for the new. My life is happier, more relaxed, and more productive as a result! Candace is an inspiring coach to work with. She will help you gain awareness and level up your life, I guarantee it.

Ben, it was an honor walking through life with you during this transition. I am so pleased you were able to breakthrough the confusion holding you back and found a new paradigm, with clear priorities to embrace a new chapter in your life.

Candace's facilitation skills were warm and welcoming and at the same time we were challenged to be honest about or program strengths and deficits as well as our individual challenges and strengths. We were faced with opportunities for growth as a program and with process oriented work that brought us closer together and had our team appreciative of each other's contributions. We were also challenged and you engaged us in critical thinking about our team and how we can be stronger and more competent.



Other team members commented:

"Candace was a good facilitator and we had great feedback on our team building experience." (5-year employee)

"Candace gave us great support and feedback for our team. The Leadership Game was fun too!" (2-year employee)

"Thank you, Candace, for your work with our team. You are an excellent facilitator." (3-year employee)

Candace did an awesome job as my coach. She was vital in helping me pinpoint my purpose, gain clarity, set goals, and create an action plan. She encouraged me to change my mindset when I was stuck with old ways of thinking. As a result of working with Candace, I have been inspired to to start my own business. I now have more confidence and boldness.

It is with great pleasure that I recommend Candace Gruber as speaker/trainer. Candace brought her enthusiastic communication skills to our Inland Empire Chapter launch held at the University of Redlands for the Association of Professionals and Students. Her impact in delivering her workshop was beyond impressive. Candace's knowledge and expertise on the given subject of "Emotional Intelligence: Why it works", was evident and contagious. Our attendees have expressed the desire to have Candace return for more. We look forward to having her at our next event!

I have had the enjoyable opportunity to work with Candace Bywater-Gruber where she has been both a client of mine as well as my direct supervisor. Candace is always detail-oriented, professional, and sees all projects through to the end while meeting her deadlines. I have learned so much from her that I continue to carry with me at my job and through life.

I would like to endorse Candace Gruber for her skills in facilitation, training, and development. During our time spent together, I had the opportunity to watch her skills in action. She was a trailblazer in our Organizational Excellence Initiative by promoting the OE opportunities across campus, and becoming one of our first certified facilitators. Candace had to go through a rigorous process to become certified including co-facilitating with a lead facilitator, teaching to a live class, and passing all areas of our facilitation rubric. She was a valued certified facilitator and supported our other facilitators in the certification process. Candace was the first person I reached out to when needing feedback on content updates. She brings a personable approach to the classroom and has a unique way of connecting the content to the mission and goals of the University. As a result, learners walked out of her classroom understanding the relevance in what they were learning and how what we do every day is connected to the University as a whole. If I had to tap into a specific strength that Candace brings to the classroom, it would be her passion for learning and development and how that passion inspired the classroom as a whole. Candace deeply believes in the professional development process and conveys her message to learners in an exciting way. The learners were highly engaged and ready to leave the classroom and take action. In addition to transferring learning, Candace is a lifelong learner herself. She invests in her development journey and constantly strives to be the best version of herself. I enjoyed my partnership with her because she sought out feedback regularly and was striving to do her best work whether she was in the classroom, or working on other responsibilities including (but not limited to) grant writing in an effort to bring more opportunities to our campus. Candace will impress you with her skills and openness as she has impressed me. Please reach out if you have any questions. Thank you. Michelle Elrod

Candace was a very capable Manager. She was extremely organized at both a high level and a detail level. That is I think her greatest asset. She managed from a high level but she could pull up the details at anytime. We often spoke with technical people on the phone together. She was very good at collecting large amounts of information from any experience and relating it immediately to a project task or problem. She could often find relevant information from many sources on the fly and produce a detailed document She was easy to communicate with and she allowed flexibility in my approach for solutions.