Maria Ross Email & Phone Number

Sacramento, Ca, Us

Pacifica, California, Us

I am a speaker, author, facilitator, and empathy advocate who shows progressive, people-centric organizations and leaders how to achieve radical success through empathy. My mission is to transform the outdated rules of business to prove how empathy fuels strong leaders, thriving cultures, and winning brands. Want to join my Empathy Army?! I do this through keynotes, leadership trainings, workshop, and strategic advisory services that help leaders, cultures, and brands find their Empathy Edge and WIN.My clients better connect and engage with internal and external audiences. They attract new customers, re-energize their employees, create winning cultures, penetrate new markets, streamline marketing efforts, accelerate sales and achieve phenomenal growth.Audiences large and small enjoy my business and inspirational keynotes, trainings, and workshops - perfect for CXO's, conferences, ERG's, customer events, associations, teams and strategic planning meetings. See more on this in the Author and Speaker section.I also offer online courses and workshops and - on a very limited basis - strategic advisory services at the leadership, culture, and brand strategy levels. All rooted in empathy to achieve success and fire up growth and engagement.Take a bite and sign up for The Juice, my monthly newsletter full of insights and inspiration on how to shore up your leadership, culture, and brand for today's world at www.red-slice.com

Pacifica, California, Us

Best-selling author and international speaker for both business and inspirational topics. Love presenting in-person or virtually to large conference crowds as well as small employee groups.BOOKS AND TOPICS:The Empathy Dilemma: How Successful Leaders Balance Performance, People, and Personal Boundaries. A post-pandemic guide to help leaders embrace five important foundational pillars for effective and empathetic leadership so they can balance empathy and accountability without burning themselves out.The Empathy Edge: Harnessing the Value of Compassion as an Engine for Success. Named a top 20 book to help you crush your 2020 and a top 11 book redefining leadership by Forbes. Named a top 12 inspirational business book by The CEO Magazine.Branding Basics for Small Business: How to Create an Irresistible Brand on Any BudgetRebooting My Brain: How a Freak Aneurysm Reframed My LifeSIGNATURE KEYNOTES AND TRAININGS NCLUDE:Empathy as a Competitive Advantage/Strengthening Your Personal Empathy* THE EMPATHY EDGE: Harnessing the Power of Compassion to Transform Leaders and Create a Winning Modern Organization.*THE ROI OF EMPATHY: How to Create an Empathetic Culture to Boost Innovation, Productivity, and Talent Attraction* THE EMPATHY EDGE: How to Create an Empathetic Brand in a Digital World to Boost Customer Engagement, Loyalty, and Revenue.Brand Strategy and Business Growth:* BRANDING BASICS: How to Build an Irresistible Brand on Any Budget* STAND OUT: Three Keys to Differentiate Your Brand from the Pack* THE 7 DEADLY SINS OF BRANDING: How to Avoid Eternal StagnationInspirational Talks, Overcoming Adversity:* REBOOTING MY BRAIN: How a Freak Aneurysm Flipped My Entrepreneurial Switch* WHO AM I? Three Keys to Reclaim Your Identity After a Crisis

Pacifica, California, Us

Host of The Empathy Edge podcast to shine a light on leaders, brands and teams who act with genuine compassion and find phenomenal success. Perfect for executive leaders, aspiring leaders, change makers and influencers looks to redefine successCheck out episodes or apply to be a guest at www.theempathyedge.com

Pacifica, California, Us

On a very exclusive basis, I support C-suite and brand leaders to leverage empathy so they can better connect and engage with internal or external stakeholders. I work with you at the Leadership, Culture, or Brand levels to better connect with ideal customers, tell a unique and compelling story, and articulate USEFUL mission, vision, and values to energize your employees and attract top talent.Leadership: Discover the business case for empathy and shore up your leaders' (and aspiring leaders') empathy muscle to accelerate revenue, boost performance, and harness innovation. I deliver leadership trainings, help you put together a sustainable curriculum, and advise executive teams on how to align the team on mission and message to move FASTER.Culture: Get ROI on an empathetic culture so you can engage top talent and attract even more. Plus, foster collaboration, unleash innovation, and increase engagement. With my fabulous expert partners, we can assess culture, engagement, messaging, and provide a plan to ensure your culture is perfectly poised for the new world of work. Brand: Connect and engage with your ideal audience and create an unignorable brand story and messaging that accelerates growth and dominates the market. Through our proven and efficient 6 week process, we will co-create a stand out, compelling brand story with 100% internal buy-in to fuel growth.Contact me to discuss your goals so we can put together a custom package of advisory services to help you get to success.

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

Leading With Empathy course aimed at leaders (and aspiring leaders). Learn why empathy benefits your organization and your customers, and actionable, practical ways to strengthen your empathy muscle and reap the rewards.

A Unique, Comprehensive DEI Program Focused on Systemic ChangeAs challenges permeate organizations, companies often miss the mark on developing a comprehensive plan that creates awareness, empowers employees and eradicates structural racism. It’s critical that the leadership extends beyond the boardroom and gets serious about DEI. This multi-month, multi-level program provides the data, metrics, measurements, messages and meaningful tools that create change — improving company culture, growing the bottom line. Diversity is not enough. We must strive for inclusion.

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

SheEO​ is a global community of radically generous women transforming the way we finance,support and celebrate female entrepreneurs who are creating a better world. Since launchingin 2015, 3000 women Activators in three countries have collectively loaned out $3M to support32 women-led Ventures. Our goal is to reach 1M women Activators and a $1B perpetual fundwhich will support 10,000 women-led Ventures each year for generations to come. Are you IN?

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Led branding, messaging, content and lead generation strategy for $25 million privately-held leader in Business Process Management (BPM) software. To increase ROI and efficiency, I spearheaded and implemented a new marketing operations infrastructure, including email marketing, list management, website lead tracking and Salesforce.com processes. Expanded and managed Inside Sales team and a virtual team across all demand generation activities, including website, search marketing, events, creative development, content marketing and copywriting.Company was sold to Progress Software in 2010.

Newtown Square, Pennsylvania , Us

Directed several strategic global marketing campaigns designed to increase global market awareness and revenue for this Business Intelligence leader. Responsible for managing and designing the worldwide XI Release 2 product launch campaign worth $330 million in revenue. Responsible for metrics, people, process, supporting technology, and managing vendor agencies and worldwide virtual teams. Centralized campaign operations, reduced costs and standardized new processes from the ground up during marketing transformation for the company. Collaborated with Americas, EMEA, and AsiaPac marketing and sales organizations to define requirements and regional needs. Integrated campaigns across PR, advertising, partner marketing, product marketing, and creative teams.

Newtown Square, Pennsylvania , Us

Responsible for maintaining 3x quota pipeline for approximately 50 enterprise sales reps across 5 districts in the Western Region who dleivered more than $100 million in yearly combined revenue. Created regional marketing plan and assisted in go-to-market sales strategy to generate revenue. Implemented multiple programs, including email, direct mail, events, webcasts, etc. to build sales pipeline. Chosen by the executive team to lead a worldwide launch roadshow that brought the company to over $1 billion in revenue across 80+ cities, including messaging, content, logistics and creative.

Directed lead generation, website, PR, advertising, analyst relations and partner marketing. Managed virtual team of contractors and agencies. Developed VC messaging and presentations for funding rounds. Instrumental in merger communication planning with Siterock.

Directed lead generation, PR, analyst relations, advertising and corporate communications for Taviz Enterprise Application Integration solutions, spurring revenue growth from $1.9M to over $6M. Led website overhaul of message, content and design, resulting in significant increases to traffic and leads. Managed events, sales enablement, and content marketing. Developed VC messaging and presentations for funding rounds. Company is now SmartDB.

Develop and implement company branding strategy with integrated advertising program - print, TV, radio, and outdoor. Managed $12 million ad budget and achieved over 100% increase in loan application rates in target markets. Evangelized brand across functions internally - product management, customer service, sales. Transitioned company from B2C to B2B brand to maximize revenue opportunities.

Indianapolis, Indiana, Us

Created strategic positioning and advertising plans for multiple clients, including Delphi Delco, Monster.com and Red Gold. Implemented company's first web strategy. Managed budgets in excess of $5 million annually for clients' print, TV, radio, billboard, direct mail and trade show integrated marketing efforts

New York, Us

Promoted cable distribution for four core networks - Discovery Channel, TLC, Animal Planet, and Travel Channel in Midwest Region. Designed and managed local marketing programs to increase channel distribution and subscribers among cable affiliates. Exceeded revenue goals and media co-op fulfillment goals.

Dublin 2, Ie

Designed and developed communication, process, and training plans around new systems implementations. Clients included Allstate, Walgreens, Freddie Mac, State of Indiana, Koch Industries. Implemented change management plans that included executive sponsorship, organizational design, and skills gap analysis.