Grace Media Digital sits at the intersection of media, marketing, and technology. We work with founders, executives, and firm leaders in financial services, professional services, and adjacent industries where trust is the product and the leader's voice is the differentiator.
The new competitive advantage is not better copy. It is a recognizable voice and a trusted presence. We build the systems to create both.
Our roots are in financial services. With decades spent building technology and managing communications through a $22B acquisition while retaining client trust.
That depth of experience in one of the most trust-dependent, compliance-sensitive industries on earth is what we bring to every engagement.
Our work covers marketing and communications advisory, fractional CMO engagements, media and digital content development, and podcast production. Everything we do is designed to build brands and convert visibility into revenue through trust.
Moderator, keynote, and board advisory for trust-dependent firms.
Embedded marketing leadership at the executive table.
End-to-end production for LinkedIn, owned essays, video, and executive presence.
Concept through distribution for founder and executive shows.
Grace Media Digital was founded by Shana Ayabe after more than a decade inside one of the most trust-sensitive industries on earth. She works in the building every day.
Shana spent over a decade in asset management growing brands, communications, and growth marketing across a period of significant change in the industry.
Former Head of Marketing at a $100B asset management firm where she helped grow the firm $80 billion including a $20B+ M&A transaction, recognized by With Intelligence's Deal of the Year. That experience inside one of the most compliance-sensitive industries on earth is what she now brings to every engagement.
Most recognized for building innovative departments during rapid firm growth with high performing teams.
She founded Grace Media Digital to give the next generation of founders, executives, and firm leaders the same caliber of marketing infrastructure she built from the inside at a $100B asset manager, this time delivered by a lean bench of senior operators and AI systems engineered for precision and cost discipline.
She co-hosts The Exit Interview | On Air with Kisha Imani Cameron, a long-form podcast interviewing founders, executives, actors and industry pioneers who have successfully navigated non-linear career paths. The podcast has reached nearly 10,000 senior professionals.
A twenty-minute conversation. We learn what you are working on, what is on the floor, and whether we are the right team to build with. Honest either way.