Booking Marc A. Ross
Marc A. Ross speaks to boards, executive teams, industry conferences, and global gatherings on the communications and strategic challenges facing global business in a volatile world.
→ Globalization and American Politics. What the next decade of US political fragmentation means for global business, and how executives should communicate through it.
→ US-China Commercial Relations. The present and future of the world's most consequential commercial relationship, and the communications imperatives for companies operating on both sides.
→ Corporate Communications in a Volatile World. How senior leaders build authority, equip boards, engage investors, and reach employees when the geopolitical ground keeps shifting.
→ AI, Sovereignty, and Communications. What technology executives need to communicate to regulators, investors, and the public as AI governance hardens.
→ Tariffs, Trade, and Supply Chains. The executive communications imperatives of a fractured trading system.
→ The SIGNAL Framework. How Senior Executives Read the World. A talk on the six-part discipline of executive intelligence: Sources, Inputs, Geography, Noise, Analysis, Loop. Built for boards, executive teams, and PE operating committees that need a shared methodology for reading the operating environment.
→ E-STOCK. The Discipline Behind Spreading an Idea. A talk on the six-part operating system that turns executive communications from a series of one-off engagements into a calendared, measurable program. Built for CCOs, CEOs, and founders who need their thought leadership to compound rather than spike.
→ TWIN. The Audience Segmentation Framework for Global Business Communications. A talk on the discipline of naming the audiences you have to win, influence, and neutralize. Built for executives who run communications programs across regulators, investors, employees, journalists, and pressure groups.
Venues
Marc has been a guest speaker at the Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina, the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, the University of Southern California's Marshall School of Business, Georgetown University, Johns Hopkins University, the Middlebury Institute of International Studies, the Huntsman School of Business at Utah State, the Wisconsin School of Business, and at industry conferences, government convenings, and private corporate events across the United States, Europe, and Asia.
About
Marc A. Ross is the founder and Chief Communications Strategist at Caracal Global, opinion contributor to The Hill and PR Week, and author of the forthcoming trilogy on E-STOCK, TWIN, and SIGNAL. He has appeared on Bloomberg, Bloomberg Radio, Fox Business, CGTN, and Associated Press Video, and has been interviewed on and off the record by reporters at the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Reuters, Bloomberg, the Washington Post, the Economist, Politico, the Times of London, and other leading publications across the US, UK, Europe, and Asia.
He is a former Communications Director at the Center for AI Policy and the US-China Business Council, a former adjunct professor at George Washington University, and the founder and curator of Brigadoon, a global network of founders and civic leaders that has convened since 2013.
Marc speaks on the strategic challenges facing global business at the intersection of commerce and governments, with particular depth on US-China commercial relations, AI governance, tariff policy, and the discipline of executive communications.
Formats
Keynote addresses. Forty-five to sixty minutes plus Q&A.
Panel participation. Moderation or panelist roles on topics within the listed areas of expertise.
Workshops and seminars. Half-day or full-day formats for executive teams, board offsites, or PE portfolio company gatherings, built around the E-STOCK, TWIN, and SIGNAL frameworks.
Off-the-record dinners and convenings. Smaller-group formats for senior executives navigating a specific issue or geographic theatre, often delivered under Chatham House Rule.
Podcast and broadcast appearances. Available for guest appearances on relevant business, policy, and communications podcasts and television programs.
Fee
Fees available on request. Adjusted for academic, government, and nonprofit audiences.
Brigadoon
For smaller-format gatherings of founders, civic leaders, and senior executives, Brigadoon is a separate Marc Ross venture that operates under Chatham House Rule. Since 2013, Brigadoon has hosted senior leaders at venues from Sundance Mountain Resort to private estates in Scotland. Inquiries about Brigadoon convenings can be sent to marc@caracal.global with "Brigadoon" in the subject line.
Booking
Email marc@caracal.global or call +1 202 596 5270 to discuss bringing this to your audience.