Dustin Steller, smiling, seated in front of a walnut-paneled wall

Dustin
Steller

Director of Brand Strategy & Founder, Maverick360

In business since 1999. From Kansas City, now traveling the world full-time with my wife, Marie.

I help good businesses grow, and I try to be a good person while I’m at it.

In business since
1999
Disney Channel
Emmy Award
Formerly certified
StoryBrand Guide
States visited
47 of 50
Home bases
Bali, Japan, Vietnam

I started my business in 1999. Since then I’ve been a designer, a creative director and a director of marketing, and I’ve done some cool work for some cool clients. I won an Emmy for work with the Disney Channel, became a StoryBrand Certified Guide, and learned that the best marketing usually starts with listening.

I’ve also had cancer four times. It has a way of clarifying things. What matters most to me is my family: Marie, my Australian wife and partner in everything, and my two grown daughters, of whom I couldn’t be prouder.

These days Marie and I live an interesting life on the road. We live abroad as full-time travelers, and I’ve been to 47 of the 50 states. I still do the work I love through Maverick360, helping companies find their story and grow.

Clients I’ve been lucky to work with

From Hollywood studios to Main Street shops. Along the way, the marketing I’ve led has driven hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue for clients.

  • Disney Channel
  • Warner Bros. Pictures
  • DreamWorks
  • 20th Century Fox
  • Paramount Vantage
  • Nickelodeon
  • MTV
  • Sony
  • HP
  • Harley-Davidson
  • Hyatt
  • Subway
  • Kraft
  • Accord Group
  • Creative QT
  • Axcet HR Solutions
  • Solea Energy
  • Bridge Space
  • Downtown Lee’s Summit Main Street
  • Urban Pantry
  • Farrar Family Farm
  • Orion Exteriors
  • Aviara Liberty
  • Black Oak Ranch
  • ePublishing Works!
  • BrokersBloc
  • GreenWillow Communities
  • Kitsune Design Studio
  • Rise UP Publications
  • Kitty Hawk Brands
  • Just Write
  • Cynch Co

Bali, Japan, Vietnam

Dustin Steller sitting on a rocky coastline by the sea

I left Kansas City for a five-week test, and I never went back. Then came a first date in Bali with Marie, and we’ve traveled together full-time ever since, with Bali, Japan and Vietnam as home bases. Every trip since that first date is on our travel globe, and the story is on YouTube.

I left my life in Kansas City for a five-week test. It never ended.

Go ahead, push my buttons.

For the curious: an old design portfolio from my years as a designer, senior art director and creative director.