Steven Morris began studying human behavior as a newspaper delivery boy. Combining his love of social sciences and art, he created a sophisticated and thriving marketing business. He believes that the best leaders are those who grow as much inside the business as outside of it.

Welcome to Making It! This weekly show explores the lives and stories of entrepreneurs as they share their unique perspectives on their success and the path to making it.

Steven Morris is a speaker and consultant and the founder of Matter Consulting. He loves helping business leaders build trusted brands that lead to future success.

“Typically what needs to happen within organizations is the leaders need to evolve. Better humans make better business leaders.”

– Steven Morris

Steven Morris is a brand and culture advisor, author, and speaker. He works with business leaders to mine, articulate, and activate their driving belief system to create organizational integrity, evolved leaders, connected cultures, and unignorable brands.

Over his 25+ years in business, he’s worked with more than 3,000 business leaders at 250+ global and regional companies, including: Samsung, Sony, Habitat for Humanity, Amazon, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, International Trademark Association, NFL, MLB, and the Port of San Diego.

His new book is entitled “The Beautiful Business” (which publishes in November of 2021 by Conscious Capitalism Press) that focuses on how businesses of all sizes can build integrity, belonging, and magnetism through their brand and cultures. His previous book is “The Evolved Brand: Why and How to Build a Brand with Soul and Humanize Your Marketing.”

Through his widely read blog (25,000+ subscribers) and as a contributing writer to Retail Observer (monthly column), Business Week, Brand Week, Conscious Company Magazine, Communication Arts, HOW Magazine, and MarketingProfs, Steve writes about the intersection of brand, culture, business, innovation, and wholehearted living.

In addition to running his expertise as a brand and culture advisor, Steven is also a frequent speaker at events including TEDx, Creative Mornings, CES, HOW Design Live Conference, Social Venture Network, American Marketing Association, and AIGA conferences.

Resources or websites mentioned in this episode:

1. Mirasee
2. Steven’s website
3. Steven’s  LinkedIn

Credits:
Guest – Steven Morris
Co-Producers – Danny Bermant & Geoff Govertsen
Supervising Producer – Cynthia Lamb
Executive producer – Danny Iny
Audio Post Supervisor: Evan Miles, Christopher Martin
Audio Post Production by Post Office Sound
Music soundscape: Chad Michael Snavely
Making our hosts sound great: Home Brew Audio

Music and SFX credits:
Track Title: The Sunniest Kids
Artist Name(s): Rhythm Scott
Writer Name: Scott Roush
Publisher Name: A SOUNDSTRIPE PRODUCTION

Track Title: Sweet Loving Waltz
Artist Name(s): Sounds Like Sander
Writer Name: S.L.J. Kalmeijer
Publisher Name: A SOUNDSTRIPE PRODUCTION

Additional music graciously supplied by Makenna Susan