Michelle Gamble-Risley, Principal,
M Communications, is an award-winning author, speaker, marketing and public relations expert with over 20 years of experience in the communications field. She has worked as a publisher, executive editor, director of custom publications and director of marketing and public relations for a number of corporations. She fled the corporate world (a.k.a, the loony bin) in 2006 to launch MGR Consulting that recently merged with M Communications. She co-wrote SMASH to give women entrepreneurs and executives a down-to-earth, humorous and inspiring guide to thinking about marketing in a refreshing light. Michelle’s first book Second Bloom (www.second-bloom.com) recently won the self-help category in the National Independent Book Awards and placed in two categories of the Indie Book Awards.
Michele Smith, Principal, M Communications,
With over 10 years experience in high level marketing positions for Fortune 500 companies, Michele specializes in project management and strategic marketing plans for small businesses. As a Public Relations expert, she has contacts at every regional and national broadcast media outlet, including Harpo, the Today Show, and ABC National News. Michele is an award-winning marketing professional, writer and public speaker. As a public relations and marketing expert, Michele co-wrote SMASH because she became tired and slightly annoyed with all of the redundant questions and mistakes small businesses owners make in the marketing arena and thought by poking fun at the no-no’s out there, she could help a vast majority of the business community who are clueless.
