Maria Ross on The Secrets of Success

Think Like an Entrepreneur Series: Maria Ross’s mission is to engage, inform and delight audiences and keep them coming back for more. A born storyteller, she has over 16 years experience building brands, crafting marketing strategies and coaching businesses on how to tell the right story to the right people at the right time. Maria is founder and Chief Strategist at Red Slice, a branding and marketing consultancy, and has worked with large companies such as Accenture, Business Objects, Discovery Networks, Monster.com and Microsoft as well as technology start-ups and small businesses like CRAVE and Mudbay in Seattle. She is the author of Branding Basics for Small Business (2010, Norlights Press). In her free time, Maria is a volunteer, a published lifestyle writer and an actress. Maria received a B.S in Marketing, with a minor in Spanish from Indiana University, Bloomington. She lives with her husband Paul and their black Lab mix, Eddie, in Seattle, Washington