Dustin Steller

What
Brand strategy & marketing
Company
Maverick360
Since
1999
Award
Emmy · Disney Channel
Home town
Kansas City
Home bases
Bali · Japan · Vietnam
States visited
47 of 50

Over 25 years helping good businesses grow, and tryin’ to be a good dude, too.

Director of Brand Strategy & Founder, Maverick360 (opens in a new tab)

In business since 1999. From Kansas City, now traveling the world full-time with my Aussie wife, Marie. Follow along » (opens in a new tab)

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

Story

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 more proud.

These days Marie and I live an interesting life on the road. We live abroad as full-time travelers (opens in a new tab), 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.

Bali, Japan, Vietnam

Dustin Steller sitting on a rocky coastline by the sea

I left Kansas City for a five-week working vacation, 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 (opens in a new tab), and the story is on YouTube (opens in a new tab).

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