Stephanie Duval Email & Phone Number

Geneva, Antwerp And Amsterdam

There’s no ‘one-size-fits-all’ in storytelling. To make sure your communications support your business strategy, let's translate your brand identity to a long-term storytelling strategy that will solidify your position within the community you want to connect with.

Nele Pieters and I founded our own brand consultancy in 2015. Soon after, We co-founded lifestyle businesses such as interior design media and marketing platform Roomin and direct-to-consumer furniture brand Journuit. These ventures helped us develop our proprietary Community Brand Method tohelp companies define a unique position in the market, translate this strategy to company-specific policy and integrate the company identity on all levels and across departments within the organisation.

As brand and communications consultant at Encon I helped companies translate their unique position in the market to a sustainable communication approach.

2020 - You Do You • Nominated as Management Book of the Year 2021 and BAM Marketing Book of the Year 2020A fresh new voice in inspiration for business professionals, You Do You takes competitive strategy into the 21st century. Combining insights from analytical psychology and recent sociological transformations, the writers create a compelling case for a counterintuitive approach: turning your focus inward to become a better brand for your consumer.2018 - Community Marketing • Nominated as BAM Marketing Book of the Year 2018 and for the PIM Marketing Literatuurprijs 2018Community marketing is not ‘the next thing’ after influencer- or content-marketing. Community marketing goes back to the essence. While companies traditionally do their best to convince their consumer with a message that is ‘harder, better, faster, stronger’, Stephanie Duval and Nele Pieters show that putting the consumer central starts at a much deeper level.

As editor-in-chief of lingerie trade magazine Aphrodite, I set out the magazine's long-term strategy, managed a team of freelance photographers and journalists, and coordinated in-depth content about the issues faced by the lingerie and fashion industries.

In close collaboration with the product and marketing departments at Connections, I helped the company map out ways to create compelling storytelling and distribute this content online and in print.

As a freelance fashion and design journalist, I wrote in-depth articles about new and innovative designers and companies in the design and fashion industries.

Freelance journalist for The Bulletin, Flanders Today and WAB magazine, covering topics within lifestyle, fashion, retail and hospitality.

As editor-in-chief of fashion trade magazines Label and Pure, I set out the magazines' long-term strategies, managed a team of freelance graphic designers, photographers and journalists, and coordinated in-depth content about the issues faced by the retail and fashion industries.

After more than 10 years of experience in creating online content and over five years of experience on the side of brands and organisations' marketing, I wrote a guidebook for bloggers, influencers and the marketeers who work with them. "How Blogs Work: Tips & tricks voor beginnende en ervaren bloggers" was first published by Lannoo in Dutch in September 2014, as the defining guide to take blogging to a professional level. As of August 2015 the book is at its fourth print edition.

As a freelance journalist I was closely involved in the launch of the Belgian version of L'Officiel, writing interviews and articles about fashion, beauty, culture and lifestyle for all of the Belgian issues, and regularly contributing stories to the Dutch version.

As a freelance contributor for ELLE, I published stories about fashion, beauty and culture, and launched the first monthly column about a sustainable lifestyle in the Belgian media landscape.

Master, Germanic Philology (Major American Literature), Magna Cum Laude

Master, Journalism, Cum Laude