Her Story
About Grace
Grace Nowstrup is a Solution Engineer at Salesforce, where she joined in 2025 on the pre-sale side. She began her career in the software Salesforce industry in about 2015 on the consulting side, spending the majority of those years with PwC and Slalom performing Salesforce implementations. In her current role, she focuses on Sales Cloud as the technical counterpart to account directors for enterprise-level customers, with particular emphasis on AI and how customers leverage Salesforce products enterprise-wide. Grace earned her Bachelor's in Marketing from Texas A&M University business school. She is actively involved in the Women in Solution Engineering (WISE) internal organization at Salesforce. Outside of her professional work, she volunteers with the Food Bank of the Rockies, Project Angel Heart, Habitat for Humanity, 2 BABR foster rescue organization, and Experience Camps. Grace attributes her success to her support system, both personal and professional, along with her own work ethic and drive, noting the importance of surrounding herself with impressive people. She values building a strong personal brand and emphasizes that network and mentors are key for young women entering the industry. She highlights integrity and loyalty as core values and views the constant changes in technology and AI as both a challenge and an opportunity to better serve customers.
Her Interview
Ten minutes with Grace
01What do you attribute your success to?
I would say my support system, both personal and professional. I won't completely disregard my own work ethic and drive, but from a young age I've been surrounded by good people. Being surrounded by good people allows you to continue to choose good people to influence your life. A lot of the reason I've been successful is if you're looking up to and running side by side to impressive people doing impressive things.
02What’s the best career advice you’ve ever received?
I would say building a strong personal brand. People knowing who you are, not just your work output, is really important. I've never been at a company where my work output is the only thing I'm known for. I'm typically known as the social chair or community lead, the person that brings everyone together, and as community outreach and philanthropy arm, and then I'm known for doing great work.
03What advice would you give to young women entering your industry?
Your network and your mentors are massively important. People can get lost in the mix trying to keep up with the actual technology. If you are able to build a good network, whether through your current company or your community, actively seek mentors, and surround yourself with people that are above you, next to you, and below you, a 360 support system in that space, that is what's going to actually help pull you into new opportunities.
04What are the biggest challenges or opportunities in your field right now?
Everything's changing constantly, usually on a weekly basis with new messaging. Keeping up with your own knowledge and understanding is a never-ending impossible task, that's a massive challenge. But it's also an opportunity if we can stay ahead of the game and understand what our customers are going to need before they've even asked it. It creates an environment where we can serve them better and we're truly solutioning for them.
05What values are most important to you in your work and personal life?
Integrity and loyalty. Knowing you can count on people. Loyalty whether that's to your friends and family in your personal life or even just to your team professionally. Some of my truly worst experiences managing people is when I trust them and they say they'll do something and they don't show up to do it, and you lose that trust, it's so much more difficult to rebuild.
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