In addition to writing award-winning books, articles, and newsletters, Marilyn is in demand as a professional speaker. A member of the National Speakers Association, she presents seminars and training workshops for associations, organizations, and corporations. She speaks about marketing, writing, publishing, and entrepreneurship. 

Through her firm, Communication Creativity Corp., Marilyn offers hourly consulting via phone and email; Onsite evaluations to help new startups or floundering veterans; plus ongoing coaching and mentoring. Her passion is to help women excel and prosper.

Marilyn has been noted and quoted in publications across the land: The Wall Street Journal, Investment Business Daily, Time Magazine, Publishers Weekly, U.S. News & World Report, The Los Angeles Times, and The New York Times have written about her and her work. Additionally, she has been featured twice on NPR's "All Things Considered," on hundreds of radio stations, and dozens of TV shows from coast to coast. Recently Marilyn was spotlighted in a lead story on CNN financial news on the Internet. 

She was bitten early by the entrepreneurial bug. At nine years old she was making and selling potholders door-to-door. By 18 she was managing a women's ready to wear store. This led to her being the first woman ever hired by the Mervyns Department Store Chain to be a night/Sunday manager. Marilyn has also owned and operated a hotel and restaurant, and previously headed her own advertising/PR agency. Since 1978 this savvy business leader has focused her energies on helping entrepreneurs realize their full potential. 

She was a founding member on the board of directors for San Diego Women in Business, served her local Rotary Club as president, and sat on the editorial advisory board for ForeWord magazine. Marilyn was a Senior Fellow of the Center for the New West, a Colorado-based think tank. Her areas of specialization: rural entrepreneurship and home-based businesses. She is currently a member of the Authors Guild, the American Society of Journalists and Authors, and the National Speakers Association.

Marilyn is listed in the 23rd edition of Who's Who in the West, Who's Who of American Women, Men and Women of Distinction, Working Press of the Nation, Who's Who in U.S. Writers, Editors & Poets, Contemporary Authors, and The International Authors and Writers Who's Who. 

Marilyn - along with a Samoyed husky named Peaches, a shepherd/husky mix called Missy (aka "Wild Child") and Teger a 20-year old feline - live in Buena Vista, a small Colorado mountain town surrounded by 14,000-foot peaks.

Marilyn Ross