Maria Ross

Maria Ross is a brand strategist, speaker and author who believes cash flow, creativity, and compassion are not mutually exclusive. She is the founder of Red Slice, a brand consultancy that helps entrepreneurs, startups and fast-growth businesses craft irresistible brand strategies that attract and engage their ideal customers. Maria inspires clients and audiences to use their platform or business, regardless of size, as a force for conscious business. She has expertise in branding, marketing, entrepreneurship, empathy and soft skills as leadership and brand advantages, and, on the personal side as a brain aneurysm survivor and speaker on patient advocacy and healthcare literacy.

Maria has appeared in numerous media, including MSNBC, ABC News, Forbes.com and Entrepreneur and regularly contributes to Entrepreneur.com. She is also the author of several books including Branding Basics for Small Business, Rebooting My Brain and The Empathy Edge: Harnessing the Value of Compassion as an Engine for Success (October 22, 2019, Page Two).

Maria lives with her husband, son and feisty Black Lab in the San Francisco Bay Area and works with clients all over the world.