Tom Marks

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

TOM MARKS survived 48 years in the advertising business and has lived to write about it. He’s the founder of

TMA+Peritus, one of the leading marketing, thought leadership, and corporate ethics firms in North America, and has

won the American Advertising Awards more than sixty-five times for his writing, including TV commercials, print ads, and magazine and newspaper articles. He spent many years on the professional speakers circuit and apparently survived that, too. His thought leadership workshops for Fortune 500 companies, as well as for small and medium-sized businesses, have brought him national acclaim, and his love of the original thought leaders, Socrates, his star-student, Plato, and Plato's ace student, Aristotle has made Tom a favorite among CEOs across the US who want to learn about corporate ethics and its origins.

Tom's new book, Coming of Age in Retirement: An Advertising Executive's Story of Revelation and Enlightenment, also a national bestseller, will be available September 16, 2025. Tom has won the Gold Medal for Best Nonfiction Book from the Nonfiction Writers Association, three International Impact Book Awards, the POTY Award, two Literary Titan Awards, the Reader Views Award, and two American Book Fest Awards.