Stephen Brand is Chief Imagination Officer of OneCleveland/OneNEO and is responsible for helping subscribers think through the business and initiative development process. He is the key executive responsible for the regionalization effort beyond Cleveland and will spend much of his time covering the areas of K-12, cultural organizations and higher education application development.
He has recently been appointed a Presidential Fellow at Case Western Reserve University, where he will be teaching courses in Sages, an honor’s seminar program for freshman. He is also a business professor at the Keller Graduate School of Management.
Stephen has a special talent for working with companies and non profit organizations to determine how their core values, image and branding are prominent in all aspects of their business. Working closely with organizational leadership and those who are directly connected to the product and customer, Stephen develops plans for refining the connection amongst the customer experience, employee environment, product/service mix and public image. Some of his recent clients include: iQDigital Studios, The American Group, United Wireless, TEC (The Executive Committee), WTTW Chicago, Massachusetts Corporation for Educational Telecommunications, The Jason Foundation, The Jewish Federations of Greater Detroit, Cleveland and Canton, OH, Questacon - Canberra Australia, and Lakeland Community College.
His career has brought together his passion and expertise in creative thinking, business, branding, experiential design, interactive learning, new ventures, innovative use of media-technologies and leadership development. His consulting has taken him from working on the expansion of small start-up companies to creating major interactive museums to establishing an interactive science and branding visitor’s center for Ford Motor Company in Dearborn, MI. He was also greatly inspired by some of the most influential inventors of our time as the opening President of Inventure Place, The National Inventors Hall of Fame in Akron, OH.
In addition to his existing master’s degree from Harvard University in Interactive Technology in Education, Stephen recently received his Doctorate in Management degree from the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, OH. His dissertation research focused on innovation in business, inventors and the development of revenue driven creativity. He was the host of Enterprise Factory Radio, a show that featured guests from around the US who discussed opportunities and challenges for entrepreneurs in a wide and even surprising range of work situations.