Stephen Hall is the principal of Stephen Hall Creative Services; a creative consulting firm that specializes in helping advertising agencies and businesses translate brand strategies into powerful marketing communications. Steve has 25 years experience in the advertising industry creating brand-driven campaigns for clients including DuPont, Kodak, Volvo, GE, Alcatel, Comdisco, Element K, and many others.

Prior to starting his own business in 2001, Steve was VP, Creative Director for Saatchi & Saatchi, a unit of Publicis Group, one of the top 5 worldwide agency networks. His work has earned many advertising industry awards including several best-of-show ADDYs, CLIOs, ANDYs, NAMAs, NY Festival awards, and the Sawyer Award for business-to-business campaign of the year. His work has been featured in many publications including: Advertising Age, NY Times, Communication Arts, Print, and Archive.

Steve’s background is in graphic design and art direction. He holds a BA from Rochester Institute of Technology, and is currently pursuing an MA through Syracuse University. He is active in the advertising industry as a speaker, panelist and award show judge, and is President of the Rochester Advertising Federation. In addition to his many advertising and marketing interests, Steve also teaches in the Design School at RIT.