Advertising Executive & Brand Strategist

CREATIVE
PROBLEM-SOLVER
DEAD SET ON
DISRUPTING
THE STATUS QUO.

81% of consumers actively tune out ads. I find that more motivating than alarming. It means the bar for doing something worth paying attention to has never been higher. That's exactly the kind of problem I've built my career around solving.

Northern California native. Boulder educated. Schooled in Miami, San Francisco, Portland, and Denver.

Steve Barry

Decades of big agency experience filtered through a startup mentality. I've worked across brands, categories, and industries, from massive global companies to rising challengers. I've had one consistent focus: making great creative that builds brands and actually moves the business.

Counselor Consulting

Borrowed from the final word Hunter S. Thompson ever typed.

Some names are chosen. Others find you.

But a counselor is also exactly what this business needs and almost never gets. Someone who's been in enough rooms to read them. Seen enough campaigns live and die to know the difference. Will tell you the honest thing when everyone else in the meeting is nodding along.

Advertising is complicated. High-stakes. Ego-driven. The briefs are fuzzy, the timelines are ambitious, and the opinions are very, very loud. Somewhere inside all that noise, you still have to make something that actually moves people and moves the needle.

A counselor guides you, supports you, and advises you. Gives you the clear read. Makes the call. Then makes the work.

Counselor Consulting. Built for the complicated stuff.

Work Together

Automotive

  • Infiniti
  • Chevrolet
  • Dodge
  • Saturn
  • Goodyear

Tech & Entertainment

  • Netflix
  • Denon
  • Visible Wireless
  • TiVo
  • EA Sports
  • Inspire Clean Energy
  • Amazon
  • Google
  • AT&T Wireless

Consumer Packaged Goods

  • Red Bull
  • Jameson Irish Whiskey
  • Noosa Yoghurt
  • Maxwell House
  • Gevalia
  • Tassimo
  • Icebreakers
  • Twizzlers
  • barkThins

Outdoor & Sporting Goods

  • Altra Running
  • Under Armour
  • Scarpa
  • GoLite
  • GT Bikes
  • Shimano
  • Merrell
  • Trust for Public Land

Tourism & Hospitality

  • Crystal Cruises
  • Manifest Escapes
  • Town of Breckenridge
  • Moab Tourism Advisory Board

Retail

  • Starbucks
  • Raley's
  1. 01Wieden + Kennedy
  2. 02Goodby, Silverstein & Partners
  3. 03Crispin Porter + Bogusky

Interested in working together?

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