Spent years as a foreign correspondent based in Prague. Takes complex ideas and turns them into concise strategy.
Ann Marsh
A journalist and author, Ann writes for major media outlets, print and online, as well as corporations. The latter group has included Adobe, Cisco, Discover, Gap Co, Hewlett Packard, Symantec and Yahoo. Ann’s clear, concise prose and ability to tap emotions help engage and motivate target audiences. Her work enables companies to communicate clearly with and to galvanize stakeholders to achieve strategic objectives.
Ann’s first book, the co-authored autobiography of Kinko’s founder Paul Orfalea, Copy This! (Workman, New York City) is, in part, a saga of effective employee engagement and the quest to understand the emotional drivers behind every business transaction – the customer’s and the employee’s. Ann speaks publicly about her writing and collaborates with clients on select book projects.
Over the course of her career, Ann has helped clients design, build, write and edit communication plans, global communication vehicles, motivational campaigns for employees, video scripts, internal newsletters and a virtual collaboration space for thousands of global innovators.
A former staff writer with Forbes, Ann researched The Forbes 400 for two years and wrote both cover stories. She chronicled the market and social transformations of Eastern European societies from a home base in Prague as a freelance foreign correspondent. Her work has appeared in more than two dozen publications including Forbes, Fast Company, Business 2.O Magazine, BusinessWeek Online, Fortune Small Business, Red Herring, The Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, O, The Oprah Magazine, The Prague Post, Victoria Magazine, Salon.com and Stanford Magazine.
Ann helped write the essays that led Working Mother Magazine to select ROI Communication as a 2007 Working Mother Best Small Company, one of 25 honorees nationwide.
Ann holds a B.A. in International Relations from Stanford University. She studied at the Sorbonne and L'Institut d'Etudes Politiques (Sciences Po) in Paris.