Steven Diebold

Current

Digital Brand Strategist, User Experience Designer, Certified Coach at StevenDiebold.com

Past

Brand Strategist for non-profits at Taproot Foundation
Marketing Director & Creative Director at Boardwalk Realty
Personal Branding Consultant at Invision Group

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Education

MarketingExperiments.com
USM
Institute for Coach Training

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Steven Diebold’s Summary

LEADERSHIP PROFILE
A creative/analytical hands-on brand & user experience consultant creating experiences that bring a brands story to life with extensive experience that has helped such well-known companies as Apple, NBC, TV Guide, 20th Century Fox, MGM, Sony Pictures includes:

➢ Five years as a digital brand strategist/art director/UX consultant for entrepreneurial and mid sized companies across various industries

➢ Five years as a founding principal/team leader of IT consultancy spearheading major initiatives in high-tech

➢ Five years additional experience includes writing, directing, producing, editing commercials/videos, story analysis & development and editing experience in entertainment-based businesses

> Five years as Certified Coach with strong interpersonal skills & experience working with diverse groups of people & cultures.

UNIQUE SKILLS

• Crystallizing Brand: Articulate an organization’s purpose and how it creates value in uniquely compelling messages that differentiate competitively. Execute initiatives relentlessly. Organize and execute projects.

• Understanding Markets: Develop a deep and intuitive understanding of markets and customers and how buying decisions are made. Leverage the insight into targeted messages and initiatives for results.

• Developing Strategies: Exploit strategies to leverage market positioning and develop initiatives to capture market share. Execute across different opportunities to increase footprint. Collaborate to leverage outcomes.

• Exploiting Technology: Utilize the Internet & emerging technologies to deliver messaging. Form alliances to shape product, company, and identity so that a broad brand presence is created. Integrating new technology into business initiatives

• Creative Ideation: Bootstrap resources, ideas and creative research to create a big-company presence on a shoestring budget. Synthesize disparate ideas together to create new breakthroughs.

Steven Diebold’s Specialties:

* Storytelling for traditional & emerging platforms * Ethnography/Brand Discovery * Brand Strategy/ positioning & messaging * Brand Design * Brand Architecture * Brand Visual Systems/Brand Identity * Brand Integration * Brand Implementation • Marketing/ Business coaching
* Social Networking, Social Media
• Experience Design
• Agile/ Scrum practitioner/Agilista
• Content Strategy development (Digital Film/video - Writing directing, producing, editing)
• Public speaking & Presentations

Additional Information

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Steven Diebold’s Interests:

Ideating & Developing creative projects, developing concepts to take to market, Story analysis, producing entertainment & edutainment, Brand development, visual communications, coaching, personal growth, communication, strategic planning, digital photography, Film/Theatre, international travel, gourmet cooking, skiing, archeology, anthropology, sociology, reading, playing piano, hip hop dance, classical music,

Steven Diebold’s Groups:

UPA, UX book club, LAUX meetup group, Emyth, Institute for Life Coach Training, Coachville, Golds Gym, LA Fitness, Shepard of the Hills, Studionow

UCLA Alumni
Executive Suite
On Startups - The Community For Entrepreneurs
Interaction Design Association
Inbound Marketers - For Marketing Professionals
Private Equity and Venture Capital Group
UX Professionals
Market Research
MarketingExperiments Optimization
Speakers and Panelists
ThoseinMedia
Venture Capital
Scrum Practitioners
thinkLA
Advertising Professionals
GoBigNetwork Startup Community
Brand & Communications Management
SpeakerMatch
Communication Arts
The Creative Professionals Network
Digital LA
iPhone Developers - www.iPhoneintouch.com
User Experience
Rich Media Solutions Group
Media & Entertainment Professionals
Rich Internet Applications (RIA)
User Experience Professionals Network
Venture Capital Group
LinkedWorking Los Angeles
Los Angeles Venture Association
The Brand Show
Sales and Marketing Professionals Promoting HighTech and Technology in Los Angeles and its Vicinity
Product Development and Management Association PDMA Los Angeles - Product Management
LAUX (User Experience Los Angeles)
Early Stage Marketing Bootcamp