Brand Strategist, Author, Entrepreneur
Maria Ross Biography
Maria Ross is a storyteller: She's a brand strategist, author, and speaker who believes cash flow, compassion, and creativity are not mutually exclusive.
Maria helps your audience understand the art and science of branding, the keys to irresistible storytelling, the mindset of customer delight...and uses her own harrowing health experiences to share how they can overcome adversity, stay focused and reignite passion. All with actionable advice, humor, and inspiration.
A champion for small businesses, startups, fast-growth businesses, and entrepreneurs. Maria is the author of "Branding Basics for Small Business: How to Create an Irresistible Brand on Any Budget, 2nd Edition" (Norlights Press), which shows organizations and entrepreneurs a proven process to align on strategy, articulate a unique brand story and accelerate growth. She is also the author of the personal memoir, "Rebooting My Brain: How a Freak Aneurysm Reframed My Life."
Her latest book, "THE EMPATHY EDGE: Harnessing the Value of Compassion as an Engine for Success" (Page Two Publishing) has been available since fall 2019.
As the founder and chief strategist of Red Slice, a branding and marketing consultancy, Maria Ross revels in helping small businesses, startups, and entrepreneurs translate captivating stories into irresistible brands that stand out. With focused listening and vigorous research, Maria ferrets out the features that make each of her clients "irresistible" - and then translates those qualities into messaging, positioning, and strategies that stick.
Prior to founding Red Slice, she crafted brand and marketing strategies for Silicon Valley start-ups, global software firms, Internet companies, entertainment powerhouses, and consumer businesses -- including Business Objects (an SAP company), Discovery Networks, and Monster.com - and created communication and training strategies for Fortune 1000 clients at Accenture.
In addition, Maria is a unique entrepreneur because she is a survivor. In 2008, a mere six months after starting her own consulting firm, she nearly died from a ruptured brain aneurysm. Against the odds, she made it through recovery, got back on her feet, relaunched her business, and today successfully advises clients, blogs weekly, and speaks on both business and inspirational topics. Maria now shares valuable lessons full of humor and heart on how others can also overcome adversity and get back on their feet, speaking about her experience at large healthcare and medical conferences, survivor groups, and business events.
She serves on The Schurig Center for Brain Injury Recovery's advisory board (SF Bay Area), as well as being a patient advisor for University of Washington Medicine. In this capacity, she has spoken to new hires, departmental clinicians, symposia attendees, and more than 500 medical leaders at a leadership training event. Maria speaks about the patient experience and health literacy, and inspires by sharing the key ingredients she used to get back on her feet: patience, acceptance, and humor.
Maria has been featured in numerous media outlets, including MSNBC, ABC News, NPR, Entrepreneur Magazine, Seattle Business, Columbus CEO and countless podcasts and talk radio shows. She currently writes for Entrepreneur.com and The Huffington Post.
When she's not speaking or helping clients boldly tell their stories, Maria is a wife and mom who enjoys Crossfit, red wine, trivia games, romping with her dog, football, and crime dramas. Her mission is simple: Engage, inform, and delight.
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Maria Ross Speaking Topics
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REBOOTING MY BRAIN: SEVEN LESSONS A FREAK ANEURYSM CAN TEACH YOU ABOUT BOUNCING BACK FROM CRISIS
Come hear Maria's inspirational- and humorous
• journey back to strength and success, and get inspired by her hard-won insights into life balance, work stress, gratitude, time management and focus. Her story will have you laughing and crying as she offers practical lessons you can apply to your own everyday adversities right now....rather than waiting for a life-threatening crisis to hit.
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THE 7 DEADLY SINS OF BRANDING: HOW TO AVOID ETERNAL STAGNATION
Discover and learn how to avoid the Seven Deadly Branding Sins that most organizations commit so you can engage, inform, and delight more clients and customers
• and keep them coming back for more.
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Maria Ross is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics such as REBOOTING MY BRAIN: SEVEN LESSONS A FREAK ANEURYSM CAN TEACH YOU ABOUT BOUNCING BACK FROM CRISIS, THE 7 DEADLY SINS OF BRANDING: HOW TO AVOID ETERNAL STAGNATION, STAND OUT: 3 KEYS FOR DIFFERENTIATING YOUR BRAND FROM THE PACK, REBOOT + REFRAME: HOW A FREAK ANEURYSM FLIPPED MY ENTREPRENEURIAL SWITCH, BRANDING BASICS: HOW TO CREATE AN IRRESISTIBLE BRAND ON ANY BUDGET and THE EMPATHY EDGE: HOW LEADERS + BRANDS CAN HARNESS THE POWER OF COMPASSION AS AN ENGINE FOR SUCCESS. The estimated speaking fee range to book Maria Ross for your event is $20,000 - $30,000. Maria Ross generally travels from San Francisco, CA, USA and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. Similar motivational celebrity speakers are Dr. Michael Time, Melissa Agnes, Mark Victor Hansen, Dr. Kevin Freiberg and Amy Shoenthal. Contact All American Speakers for ratings, reviews, videos and information on scheduling Maria Ross for an upcoming live or virtual event.
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