Steve is a strategic thinker with strong personal impact and a creative mind who has been leading teams with insight, clarity and vision and successfully influencing stakeholders and leaders. He has an excellent track record in designing and implementing a wide range of 360° marketing strategies, campaigns and initiatives while creating the right environment to inspire others to deliver results. His leadership skills have been drawn from an award-winning career in advertising, marketing, digital, tech and strategic consultancy in the commercial, public and not for profit sectors.He started his career in Advertising working for renowned creative agencies across different categories and clients including BMW, Unilever, Proctor & Gamble and the British Government before setting up his own Strategic Consultancy where he initiated high profile consultancy projects for the British Government including digitizing the National Health Service (NHS). Steve spread his wings and moved to Berlin where he joined Deutsche Bahn as Marketing Director, HR & Employer Branding. He built and led an award winning multidisciplinary team of 45 people from scratch covering employer branding, marketing, internal communication, digital, social media, customer experience, UX design, tech and data analytics. His vision and leadership has led to International, UK & German awards at Cannes Lions; Red Dot; Design & Art Direction (D&AD); Campaign Press; Creative Circle; British Television Advertising; New York City International Film Festival; Best of Content Marketing (BCM); Institute of Public Relations (IPR); Account Planning Group (APG) for strategy; GWA Effies for effectiveness; German Prize for online Communication; Digital Communication Award; Quality Employer Branding (QUEB), including twice Innovation of the Year, numerous awards at Trendence and HR Excellence, including Employer Branding Innovation of the Year, Tech Innovation of the Year & highest Image Climber in 20 years.
Listed skills include Change Management, Strategy, Leadership, Research, and 17 others.