About

For years as a corporate employee and then entrepreneur, I was a chronic overachiever who majored in grinding and held an honorary degree from Team No Sleep University. I knew how to deliver results, but it came with a cost I couldn’t keep paying.

A series of radical encounters with the Father, Jesus, and Holy Spirit turned my life and leadership right side up. I discovered what it meant to partner with God—not just believe in Him—and began learning how to work by the power (and at the pace) of His grace.

That revelation changed everything. Since then, I've been helping business owners and leaders build lives, businesses, and cultures that truly flourish by grace, not grind.

Whether your faith is the foundation of everything you do or you’re simply hungry for a different way to lead — one that’s sustainable, purposeful, and actually life-giving — you’re in the right place. 

The beautiful thing about grace is that it's not bound by religion and is available to everyone who wants it. 

Some fun facts about me:

• I've been with my husband Phil since the age of 16 and we've been married for over two decades. Yes, we were high school sweethearts...and yes, it's just as sweet as it sounds.
• I’m the mother of 3 daughters from 3 different generations (they are 7 and 9 years apart), which means I have basically been parenting forever and I wouldn't change a thing.
• I'm a rare native Floridian who still actually lives in Florida — Fort Lauderdale area, to be specific. Sunshine is not optional for me.
• I have a healthy addiction to sunshine, water, and majestic mountain views. Cape Town, South Africa has all three, which is probably why it feels like my second home. I dream of periodic 3-month stays there, and I'm slowly making that dream a reality through the work of our Kingdom Driven Entrepreneur Foundation Inc.)
• In 2012, I founded Kingdom Driven Entrepreneur — a global movement that has since reached millions of entrepreneurs around the world. Phil now serves as CEO, with me as Executive Advisor, and witnessing what God does through a community of Kingdom-driven entrepreneurs has truly been a blessing. 
• My Top 5 Clifton Strengths are: Relator, Activator, Communication, Connectedness, and Strategic...which explains a lot about how I ended up doing what I do.

The Official Bio

Grace is the most powerful and underestimated transformational force in life and business. Shae Bynes has built her work around that conviction.

She is working toward a world where grace is the operating system, shaping whole leaders, liberating teams, and producing results organizations couldn’t orchestrate on their own.

She is the creator of The Grace Effect, a leadership framework challenging how organizations think about culture, performance, and what it actually takes for both people and results to flourish.

Shae has impacted over one million people globally since 2012 through her books, courses, podcasts, and speaking. She is the author of several works, including the bestselling Grace Over Grind and her latest release, Grace Under Pressure: A Story About Leadership and the Hidden Cost of Ambition.

With 25 years of experience spanning Fortune 50 leadership and 15 years as a founder, Shae advises entrepreneurs and executives with both business depth and a perspective that goes well beyond strategy.

Whether speaking on global stages or advising leaders privately, Shae is known for her ability to stir hearts, shift mindsets, and ignite action — with love, truth, and contagious joy.

Shae holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of South Florida and an Executive MBA from the University of Florida.