Maria Ross is chief brand strategist and creator of Red Slice, a digital elixir of stories and strategies to boost your business, your brand and your brain. She advises organizations on how to craft brands that engage, inform and delight. Maria is the author of Branding Basics for Small Business and the just released humorous and heartfelt memoir Rebooting My Brain. She is a highly sought-after speaker and has appeared on MSNBC, NPR and in Entrepreneur, The LA Times, and Seattle Business. Maria lives with her husband, Paul and their Black Lab mix, Eddie, in the San Francisco Bay Area.