Marie Gettel-Gilmartin, founder and principal of Fertile Ground Communications LLC, is a writer and marketing communications coach who loves to help clients communicate clearly and painlessly.Marie helps clients communicate about pressing issues and positions them as experts in their fields. Writing communications that boost employee engagement, she also coaches leaders and executives on how to strengthen communications and leadership.

Fertile Ground Communications has a corporate social responsibility statement, which states their commitment to Black Lives Matter, centering the voices of people of color, providing pro bono services, and working toward racial justice. Marie regularly writes on these issues and volunteers her time in the community. She has also committed to lifting up people of color in her business.

Marie hosts the Finding Fertile Ground podcast, a place for people from underrepresented populations to share their stories of grit, resilience, and how they found their own fertile ground in their career or life. In April 2021 Marie launched the Companies That Care podcast, interviewing business leaders who are working to create a better world for all.

She’s also mom to three wonderful boys aged 15 to 25, married to a British man she met in Japan, and lives in Portland, Oregon, USA.