Melissa Stanley-Fulkerson
Principal and founder of inspire Marketing

With a guiding passion for writing, designing, and leadership, Melissa was driven to use her strengths to help others. Graduating from University of Minnesota with a customized degree in Marketing Communications and Sociology in conjunction with the Carlson School of Business, Melissa jumped into the Twin Cities market to find her niche. With fate leading her career experiences, she worked in many multi-faceted marketing communication roles and industries: corporate, non-profit and agency settings.

Through this vast experience, Melissa’s keen ability to empathize with a customer’s needs was uncovered as she developed integrated marketing campaigns supporting brand synergy and sustaining the overall business value proposition. She proved her skills with successful, profitable, and measurable results time and time again. Melissa's breadth of market work includes finance, health care, retail, manufacturing, hospitality/food service, recruitment services, non-profit, and entrepreneurial start-up industries… Melissa’s depth of skills and her infectious team-building style are vast and rich; a true vanguard in the area of Marketing Communications in the Twin Cities.After nearly two decades honing her skills and enriching her experience, Melissa decided to focus her passion and dynamic nature founding inspire Marketing, a personalized marketing solution for business needs of any size. An active member of her community, Melissa has been a participant within several local education programs. Melissa is a member of National Retailers Federation, Direct Marketing Association, and numerous trade show organizations. Melissa makes her home in the Southwest Twin Cities Metro with her two amazing kids.