Expertise

Mary's faith-based keynotes range from her roller-coaster testimony to cinematic physical demonstrations, and powerful faith-fueled principles to integrating faith and work. Her most sought-after faith-based keynotes are: Scaling Faith (cinematic keynote) From Scaling Revenue to Scaling Faith: Embracing the Sacredness of Secular Work Additional topics: Entrepreneurship Scaling Revenue

Speaking Experience

Mary is an experienced global keynote speaker who has presented for corporate conferences, executive groups, entrepreneurial organizations, sales and revenue organizations, women's groups, and faith-based audiences.

Selected speaking platforms and organizations include HubSpot INBOUND, Vistage, eWomenNetwork, Top Sales World, Sales Hacker, RevOps events, and numerous corporate and private events.

She was named a Top 50 Keynote Speaker by Top Sales World in 2019.

Her presentations have covered entrepreneurship, sales and revenue growth, leadership, resilience, overcoming adversity, faith and work, personal transformation, and redefining success.

Mary's speaking style combines storytelling, practical teaching, humor, vulnerability, and, in some presentations, theatrical and multimedia elements

Publishing History

Destination; Remarkable. Surviving the Dark Side of Success (2023), Forbes Books A candid memoir exploring the hidden cost of achievement and Mary's journey from childhood poverty, abuse, and instability to extraordinary professional success, entrepreneurship, addiction and personal struggle, faith, healing, and a redefinition of what it means to succeed.

The book became a #1 bestseller and received national recognition in the 2025 Independent Publisher Book Awards and NYC Big Book Awards.

Extreme Business Building: From Concept to Profit in 60 Days (2012) An entrepreneurial business book based on Mary's early work helping startup founders turn ideas into viable businesses.

The book focuses on moving quickly from concept to execution, building the fundamentals of a business, generating revenue, and creating a path toward profitability.

Biography

Mary Grothe is a #1 bestselling author, Top 50 Keynote Speaker, three-time founder, and Founder & CEO of Sunday Salmon, a Colorado nonprofit serving thousands of meals to neighbors experiencing food insecurity and hardship.

After building a career as a top-performing sales executive, entrepreneur, and Chief Revenue Officer, Mary began using her personal story to explore the complicated relationship between achievement, identity, purpose, faith, and fulfillment.

Her memoir, Destination; Remarkable. Surviving the Dark Side of Success, was published by Forbes Books and received national book honors in 2025.

Through her writing and speaking, Mary shares an unfiltered story of overcoming adversity, building and losing, succeeding and struggling, and ultimately redefining what it means to live a remarkable life.

Awards

2025 Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPY) Bronze, 2025 NYC Big Book Award, #1 Bestseller 2023

2025 Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPY) Bronze, Non-Fiction Cover Design, Destination; Remarkable.

2025 NYC Big Book Award, Distinguished Favorite in Nonfiction Book Cover Design, Destination; Remarkable.

#1 Bestseller, Destination; Remarkable. (2023)