“As Director of Creative Operation for Saatchi & Saatchi and Y&R, an important part of my consideration for hiring was getting creative talent that can get up to speed, learn and understand our clients business, listen and be a part of the team. With todays fragmented media, understanding and knowing how to engage with the consumer using digital platforms is key to our success. Stephanie is always someone I considered for taking complicated brands and simplifying the message in any media platform. She listens, cares, asks smart questions and is fast.”
— Paul Schulman, Creative Operations Manager
“Stephanie is that wonderful combination of having all the experience you ever wanted and needed on a brand but still has fresh new ideas. Bring on the brand and she remembers the old campaign and how to stay away from it. Bring on something de novo and she tears through it like you can’t believe. A great mind, a reliable resource and a lovely person. Wish I could hire her full time, but she’s too good for that!”
— Bonnie Baker, VP Creative, Wunderman Health
“Stephanie is a rare talent. I’ve worked with her on many creative pitches for both new business and existing clients over several years when I was Group Creative Director at Digitas Health in Philadelphia. I could always count on her strategic sense and her capacity for fresh ways to solve problems even for the most difficult assignments. Working with her was a pleasure. Anyone in marketing would be lucky to have her on their team.”
— Lance Paull, Executive Creative Director, Klick
“Steph is smart, strategic, creative, and prolific. She has been instrumental in a number of successful campaigns at Grok. You can always be confident that you’re going to get great ideas — and plenty of them. We love working with her, and so do our clients.”
— Steve Landsberg, Co-Founder, Creative, Human Intelligence
“As a creative partner Stephanie not only comes to the table with a uniquely creative mind, she has strong strategic chops as well. As a Planner, I’ve loved partnering with her on brand positioning, and then seeing how she uses that foundation to create work that’s resonant, moving — and on strategy.”
— Debbie Silverman, SVP Brand Planning, The Evoke Group
“We hunker down, we dig in, we talk. Then Steph translates our ideas into words. Words that are simple, appealing, and ring true. No wonder our list of new biz pitches pretty much became a list of agencies’ new biz. Steph is conceptual, insightful, funny, visual, intuitive, street-smart and razor sharp. She can hit the target while everyone else is still looking around the room to figure out where it is.”
— Florence Buchanan, CD / AD / Filmmaker
“The first time I saw Steph was at a big awards show. She was sitting at a table with a huge pile of awards she’d just won. Little did I know we’d wind up freelancing together, exclusively, for about 4 years. Steph is one of the most strategic thinkers I’ve worked with. Her questions are smart and get to the heart of the solution you’ll need, fast. No matter how challenging the work was, or who it was for, we never missed a deadline. And our work always made it into the agency’s client presentation. The best part: we managed to stay good friends throughout the entire process.”
— Leslie Sweet, CD / AD
“Steph is passionate about great ideas and her enthusiasm makes her an idea factory. Then she takes those ideas and crafts them into compelling copy. She’s highly experienced, whip smart, fast, collaborative, and really cares.”
— Kristi Roberts, CD / AD
“Steph and I have worked together for...oh…almost 20 years. At Saatchi & Saatchi Healthcare and more recently as creative guru to my own company Geri Mazur Marketing. She is one of the best advertising thinkers and copywriters I have ever worked with. Period.”
— Geri Mazur, Geri Mazur Marketing